15 Aug 10

EPT Tallinn: Mattern and Demidov Among the Leaders

Of the 87 players who started Day 3, just 25 remain. Team PokerStars Pros Arnaud Mattern and Ivan Demidov are both still very much in contention. They ended the day in third and fifth place respectively.

After Day 3 of the €4,250 buy-in PokerStars EPT Tallinn Main Event, Serbian Perica Bukara is the man to beat among the 25 players left in the field. Two more days of play remain and at stake is a first place prize of €400,000.

The money bubble broke on Day 3 with the top 56 players receiving payouts from the €1.6 million prize pool. Among the notable in the money finishers were Italian Luca Pagano in 26th place, German Heinz Kamutzki in 28th and Belgian Pierre Neuville in 41st.

Mattern looking for second EPT win

Of the 57 players who have won the EPT title so far, none of them have managed to win a second one. French Team PokerStars Pro Arnaud Mattern who won the EPT Prauge in Season 4 will get a shot at breaking that curse in the coming days.

Besides Mattern, Ivan Demidov is another pro with a point to prove. 2008 was an amazing year for Demidov as he finished 2nd in the WSOP Main Event and 3rd in the WSOP Europe Main Event, but has not had another big cash since then. He will get another chance to prove his critics wrong with a deep run in Tallinn.

Here are the top 10 chip counts at the end of Day 3:

EPT Tallinn: Chip counts after Day 3
Rank	Name	Chips
1	Perica Bukara	1,326,000
2	Konstantin Bilyaver	1,240,000
3	Arnaud Mattern	1,144,000
4	Jonathan Weekes	872,000
5	Ivan Demidov	729,000
6	Johan Storakers	656,000
7	Carlo Federico Bordogna	554,000
8	Dmitry Vitkind	541,000
9	Kevin Stani	530,000
10	Toni Ojala	489,000

 

Level info
Level	21
Blinds	8,000/16,000
Ante	2,000
Player info
Remaining players	25 (420 total)