The March to the Money Begins on Day 3!
Welcome back to the 2014 PokerStars.it European Poker Tour Sanremo. Today, the Casino Sanremo on the beautiful Italian Riviera will host Day 3 of the Main Event, which originally began with 556 players are created a prize pool of €2,480,872. That will be distributed to the top 79 players, and with just 115 returning to action, it shouldn't take long for the money to be reached.
Of course everyone is hungry for the €476,100 first-place prize, but no one has a better shot at it than Sweden's Lukas Berglund, who went on a tear on Day 2 to finish with 700,600, which is considerably more than the player in second chip position, Brazil's Thiago Crema De Macedo, who bagged up 482,400. Rounding out the top three is Spain's Raul Mestre with 473,300.
While those men begin the day as the biggest stacks, they'll face some stiff competition from others with decent stacks including World Poker Tour Alpha8 commentator Olivier Busquet (392,900); Season 9 PCA champ Dimitar Danchev (299,800), Day 1b chip leader David "MissOracle" Yan (283,100), Canadian Shyam Srinivasan (276,000); and World Series of Poker Bracelet winner Dominik Nitsche (258,300).
Likewise, Michael Tureniec (230,700), Giacomo Fundaro (204,600), Jorma Nuutinen (150,700), Tom Alner (135,700), Roberto Romanello (135,600), Stephen Chidwick (134,900), Nicolas Chouity (86,400), Aku Joentausta (74,400), Paul Berende (71,100), and 2011 WSOP Main Event champ Pius Heinz (102,700).
Finally, expect some top-notch action from the remaining members of Team PokerStars Pro Johnny Lodden (185,000), Mickey Petersen (164,700), Vicky Coren (162,400), Alex Kravchenko (97,500), and Victor Ramdin (56,600).
Action is set to get underway at Noon local time, which is about an hour from now. The PokerNews Live Reporting Team is on hand to capture all the action and eliminations, so stay tuned in throughout the day for all the latest and greatest from the penultimate stop of Season 10 of the European Poker Tour!
with a 10,500 bet. Busquet was the only caller and they went heads up to the turn: 
. Vlad checked to Busquet who made a bet of 26,000. Vlad now check raised to 58,000 and Busquet called.
and Vlad announced all in. This clearly wasn't what Busquet liked to see and he started pondering. "I have a very good hand" he said with a big grin on his face. "How much is it?" The dealer started counting and announced it was 126,100. "126? That's a lot" Busquet continued his monologue. "How can I fold?"
. Busquet tabled 
and the dealer started pushing a big pile of chips his way.
. The third player involved made the call and action was on Korik. He shoved all in for 69,000 and Chouity made the call. The third player folded and it was time to put the cards on their backs.
was out flopped by Korik's 
and the last jack in the deck wouldn't fall on the turn or river. Instead the 
and 
popped up and Chouity had to forfeit a large portion of his stack while the tournament gets closer and closer to the bubble.
and was desperately looking for a third five or some other hand to stay alive.
. James needed runner runner something but was drawing dead on the turn: 
. While the tournament director announced James still had a flush draw, all other players involved knew it was done. The 
blanked on the turn followed by the 
river.
. Alex Lindop had bet 67,000 — leaving himself 120,000 or so back — and Dinesh Alt raised all in for roughly 200,000 from the hijack.
. Lindop shook his head up and down and showed the 
. Some other players at the table commented that it was a tough spot to get away from, but then Johnson said that he had folded aces.
blanked on the river.
