Day 3 Wrap Up

After 9 hours play here on Day 3 of the D4 Events European Deepstack Dublin 2013 we have our final table set. Just missing out on making it into the money yesterday 48 players returned for a 1pm start with 45 lucky players making some return on their investment while 3 unlucky people were going to miss out, Florian Herve Bulliard was the player to bubble the money when he was eventually knocked out by final tabilist Matthieu Duran when his AJ couldn't get there against JJ.

There was rush of quick exits once the money bubble burst and it looked at one stage like we could blaze through the field and have a quick finish to the day but once we got down to 18 things looked up for a bit, monitoring the coverage from the live stream we didn't really get a chance to see the chipleader going into tomorrow Jimmy De Barros play very much but when we changed from the feature table to the secondary he always seemed to be involved in pots and just added & added chips to his stack, 18 players down to 12 we ended up taking a 1 hour dinner break when play recommenced we had two quick eliminations in Kurt Klarin & Steve Toisul meant that we were only 1 player away from completing play for the tonight. Alas it wasn't to be because we had a couple of different spots when the short stacks got it all in with the worst of it but a couple suckouts later play would continue until Bridget Chaney was the eventual final table bubble, KJ no good against AQ of Declan Connelly setting the final table but in the midst of that hand another hand was playing out on the feature table between Raf De Wever & Gaeten Lheureux, flop 6c9h10s De Wever check called a 300,000 bet turn 5h went check/check river card 9d is were all the chips went into the middle, De Wever moving all in for 716,000 sending his opponent into the tank for a pretty big dwell before finally cutting the chips out of his stack and sliding them in, shown 7c8c for the flopped straight Lheurexu flashed a 10 before mucking his hand.

Raf De Wever & Marc MacDonell as far as I know are the first person two people to make two European Deepstack final tables, De Wever finishing 2nd in Slovenia in 2011 & now this one impressive, not forgetting to mention Day 1 chip leader Marc MacDonnell who came back today on a stack of 350,000 second hand into play he got QQ in vs AA and binked the Queen to stay in the tournie and give him a big double up and at one stage taking the lead today, couple of dips on the feature table he always seemed to remain calm and not panic much to his credit,  final tabling this event back in 2008 finishing 7th. Correction to the list of two who have made final tables Dara O Kearney won in 2008 & in 2010 came 9th.

Jimmy De Barros will be the tournament chipleader heading into the final days,

Jimmy De Barros - 6,365,000

Final Table Line Up & Chipcounts -

Seat 1 - David Jansen - 1,127,000

Seat 2 - Roland Gradert - 3,145,000

Seat 3 - Declan Connelly - 3,500,000

Seat 4 - Pat Smyth - 1,082,000

Seat 5 - Jimmy De Barros - 6,365,000

Seat 6 - Marc MacDonnell - 1,566,000

Seat 7 - Raf De Wever - 2,282,000

Seat 8 - Matthieu Duran - 1,476,000

Seat 9 - Gaeten Lheureux - 2,125,000

Blog was a little light on updates as we switched to coverage on the live stream but it was a fun change to try out something different. Play will recommence tomorrow at 1pm big shout out to Tom Kitt for coming in today and doing some commentary on the live stream, until tomorrow folks catch you all on the flipside...

Finishing positions so far -

10th - Bridget Chaney - €3,500

11th - Kurt Klarin - €3,500

12th - Steve Toisul - €3,500

13th - Noel O Brien - €2,800

14th - Keith Brennan - €2,800

15th - Andrew Sweeney - €2,800

16th - Andre Dos Santos - €2,145

17th - Michael Farrelly - €2,145

18th - David O Kelly - €2,145

19th - Guillaume Jordan - €1,525

20th - Conor Phelan -  €1,525

21st -  Tobias Weber - €1,525

22nd - Bo Nielsen -  €1,525

23rd - Kevi Killeen - €1,525

24th - Simon Lindell - €1,525

25th - Damian Quinlivan - €1,525

26th - Jay O Toole -  €1,525

27th - Karl Kennedy - €1,525

28th - John Stokes - €1,200

29th - Niall Henderson - €1,200

30th - Remi Bollinger - €1,200

31st - Gerrard Harraghy - €1,200

32nd - Morten Kristoffersen - €1,200

33rd - Franco Munafo - €1,200

34th - Patrik Bemek - €1,200

35th - Jamie Dale - €1,200

36th - John Keown - €1,200

37th - Yves Rolland - €950

38th - Mark Schrier - €950

39th - Ruairi Park - €950

40th - Johannes Van De Pol - €950

41st - Olivier Rouiller - €950

42nd - Arnaud Demange - €950

43rd - Marcus Hennemann - €950

44th - Robin Van Lochem - €950

45th - Alex Flackigel €950


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