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When the day began, players remained and the money line was set at Due to a double elimination with one player falling at two separate tables during hand-for-hand play, Adam Levy was the bubble boy in 98th place. Day 4 will commence at PM local time here in Monaco.

The plan is to whittle the field down to the final table of eight, so however long that takes, PokerNews will be here. Be sure to stay tuned to the action and we'll see you tomorrow. Tags: Geert-Jan Potijk. The tournament directors have shown some discretion to all involved and have said that play will conclude at the end of this level roughly 15 minutes even if we don't lose two more players. Sergio Castelluccio raised to 36, in the small blind and Ben Vinson called in the big blind.

The flop was and Vinson took the pot with an uncontested 42, bet. Sergio Castelluccio raised to 32, in the cutoff, Georges Dib called in the small blind as did Amit Makhija in the big blind. The flop was and the action checked to Castelluccio who bet 35, Back to Dib and he check-raised to a clean , Makhija was in one hell of a funk as he tanked for a long while before eventually making the call. Castelluccio folded and that was the end of the action.

Both the and was checked through and both players split the pot holding ace-nine. Der Flop ging auf mit [3][q][6] rainbow , es wurde zu Baron gecheckt, der 3. Baron foldete, aber der BB machte einen schnellen Call.

Nach einer weiteren [3] am Turn checkte Marius hinterher, am River fiel die dritte [3]. George Danzer hatte noch George spielte auch das [a] am Turn an, bekam erneut den Call, am River fiel ein [j]. George setzte noch einmal ganz klein, hatte damit nur noch 4. Gegen [a][j] war dann nichts zu holen.

Lothar Meier konnte seine letzten Philipp Gruissem hat die Wende nicht geschafft. Marvin Rettenmaier hat einige Chips abgegeben. Noch Aus erster Position kam ein raise auf 1. Vladimir Geshkenbein — Marius verdoppelte mit Pocketsixes gegen Pocketnines auf So kann es weitergehen. Wird geladen. Polito, though, is clearly no slouch. His string of results are almost all in the five figures even from smaller buy-in tournaments, suggesting he is the kind of player who goes deep consistently.

He set about his poker silently but efficiently today, and now he has the reward. You can see from the list above that many of the biggest names decided to go for broke early — an attempt to build a stack to make a charge at the title. But going for broke can often take you precisely there, and that meant LuckyChewy Lichtenberger , Duhamel the former world champion and ElkY ElkY never really got close to threatening to take it down.

Tobias Reinkemeier, yet another High Roller cash. Polito continued to get the maximum out of his big hands when the field was reduced to two. The main event continues , so you too should continue to follow that. And then join us and the High Rollers in Sanremo in a few weeks when we will do it all again. With two final tables to play to a close tonight, there were all kinds of permutations for intriguing mini-battles to develop. We were looking forward to seeing John Juanda clash with Ilari Sahamies in a live versus online skirmish to please the purists from both environments, for example.

The problem is that poker is run through by variance and there are no guarantees of anything. A pretty grim hand accounted for Juanda against Samuel Rodriguez early on, before Juanda had got anywhere near clashing with Sahamies.

Tobias Reinkemeier, busted in third. Reinkemeier then bust in third leaving Bilokur heads up against Laurent Polito.

Alex Bilokur, heads up. That moved us back to the main event final table for the hope of a real humdinger. With two Finns in the last four of that tournament, there is the potential for a really good heads up battle between countrymen. Joni Jouhkimainen, bossing. Ilari Sahamies: Drinking plans.

People come to Barcelona mainly for the sun, sand, tapas and Gaudi. But I reckon a heads up, high stakes poker duel between two drunken Finns would top all that. Everything has been done so why not use a new technology? Why not use touch screen? These days everyone is used to using it with iPhones and iPads. Jorg Hysek jr. Being designers rather than outright watchmakers allowed HD3 a perfect segue way into this new frontier of technology. HD3 began a three-year period of research and design keeping a focus on keeping the watch as a functional, stylish timepiece which allowed for personalisation.

The Slyde watch was successfully launched last year. Slyde by HD3. The watch has personalised faces that can slide obviously upon two axis and can be customised by downloadable HD3 software with different designs and images, just as the EPT champions Slyde watches have been.

So, apart from EPT winners, what kind of people usually buy a Slyde watch? Rick Dacey is a staff writer for the PokerStars Blog. That it might come on home soil only added to the spirit of Fiesta. Samuel Rodriguez was second in chips at the start today and a nation held its breath. Things had started brilliantly. Rodriguez, dressed in the blood red colours of the national soccer team, sat in this cauldron of heat and noise trying to stay focused.

The Spanish press, who before this week had never heard of Rodriguez, were daring to believe. Rodriguez did win them, and certainly looked better, knocking out John Juanda. In the heat of the tournament room all the players look a little pasty, but Rodriguez was now riding the horns of momentum. How far would it take him? He was not prepared to nail his colours to the mast, even if they were his own colours of la Rojigualda.

His reasons for caution were well judged. Just not here. Lebanon, Belarus and even neighbouring Portugal each have winners. Not Spain, which has hosted at least one leg of the tour in each of its nine seasons.

In all 15 Spaniards have reached a final table since Season 4 and the drought is starting to look conspicuous. Rodriguez looked down at another hand and found pocket eights.

The young Finn Joni Jouhkimainen took it to a flop with jack-seven of spades, where two more spades gave him a flush draw. Crucially a third eight gave Rodriguez a set. The Finn got his chips in, Rodriguez snap called and was in clover until the river when Jouhkimainen spiked a spade. It was not so much a turning point for Rodriguez than the end of the road. In the next hand he played, immediately following the demise of Sinel Anton, Jouhkimainen would deliver the coup de grace.

The duo faced off, Rodriguez flopping two pairs while Jouhkimainen found a straight draw. A spade on turn gave the Finn 14 outs, with straight and flush draws.

The flush hit, crushing Rodriguez. Spain, which had provided ten per cent of the field, would have to wait a little longer for its first champion. But for the Spanish poker community he believes there are reasons to be optimistic. Stanislav Labutkin chatted to a friend on the rail, and ElkY was in some kind of correspondence on his smart phone.

But in terms of table chatter, this was like a movie scripted by Beckett and directed by Jarman. Silence followed silence followed a pause and more silence. Nevertheless, the poker was intriguing as it always is in these things. The very thin of the action: the High Roller final table.

Context: Reconvening over night with 12 players remaining, the high rollers were all in the money but not yet at the final table. But following the quick-fire eliminations of Gurgen Melkonyan, Andrew Lichtenberger and Jonathan Duhamel, the last nine were crammed around the pseudo final table in one corner of the tournament room.

At the start of the round, there was about three minutes remaining of level 19, where blinds were 6,, 2, ante. Hand 1: Tobias Reinkemeier on the button Alex Bilokur got the action started, raising to 26, from mid-position.

Jean-Noel Thorel in a red hat called from the hijack, which took the action round to Carlos Mora in the small blind. He three bet to 76, and only Bilokur called. The flop came 4 2 6 and Mora bet , Bilokur asked for a red triangle indicating he was all in and Mora folded. At around this time Philipp Gruissem, Fernando Brito, Igor Kurganov and Justin Bonomo appeared to have a chat about something or other, which seemed fine with all of the high rollers.

It was fair enough: they were leaning on the back of his seat. Available for IOS and Android. More About The Author. Dec 30, in Uncategorized. PokerStars Blog quiz of the year Dec 10, in Uncategorized.

Dec 7, in Uncategorized. Introducing the ultimate poker festival: Blowout Series. Sep 12, in Uncategorized. Next Story. Dumont has a slight lead with Dumont and Jiang begin heads-up play. Jozonis and Jiang look on. All over for Jozonis. Toms Jozonis with a lot on his mind.

Hongin Jiang. David Peters leaves the Main Event in fourth place. Honglin Jiang: Up top. Krisztian Gyorgyi: Flipping out. Krisztian Gyorgyi sees the four on the flop.

Krisztian Gyorgyi: One final farewell. Patrik Antonius: Gets them in. Patrik Antonius says goodbye. Nicolas Dumont: Still out in front. Patrik Antonius: Gets there. Honglin Jiang: Takes a stand against the leader. Tomas Jozonis: Returning to the top -ish. Nicolas Dumont: Taking a stranglehold.

Patrik Antonius: In trouble. Javier Fernandez: Last shove. Javier Fernandez: Adios. Just what David Peters needed. Javier Fernandez: Left short. Krisztian Gyorgyi: Staying alive. Filippo Filardo: Platinum Pass winner.