EPT London Main Event 2013 - Kozlov in the Lead, 45 Remain

The field of the European Poker Tour (EPT) London Main Event reached the in the money finishes on Day 3 of the tournament. In the lead is ANZPT II Melbourne champion Martin Kozlov.

On Day 3 of the EPT London £5,250 Main Event, 106 players returned to the tables with Tudor Purice in the lead behind 628,200 in chips. Several major names of the industry accompanied him, including November Nine member Mark Newhouse and online MTT regular Robin Ylitalo, to highlight just the top ten of the participants.

Players reached the 87 paying finishes in the course of the day; Steven Lewzey became the bubble boy, when he moved all-in on the 9 9 6 flop with A T against two opponents. The flush failed to come and Kuljinder Sidhu took the pot with pocket aces.

Gaelle Baumann followed in 87th position, Fabian Quoss in 85th, Theo Jorgensen in 81st, Henrique Pinho in 79th, Steven Silverman in 76th, Kenny Hallaert in 75th, Mike Watson in 67th, Chris Brammer in 63rd, Dan Smith in 61st, David Vamplew in 57th, Max Altergott in 56th, Jan Bendik in 55th and Mark Newhouse in 54th.

Newhouse was eliminated on Level 18 (1,000/3,000/6,000), when he shoved his remaining 271,000 in chips from the Button with A-9 after a raising war. His opponent, Ludovic Geilich was happy to call with pocket aces and his hand held out.

Eventually, 45 players qualified to Day 4 with ANZPT II Melbourne champion Martin Kozlov in the lead (1,351,000). It will be played down to only two tables today.

The chip counts after Day 3 are as follows:

Martin Kozlov – 1,351,000
Ludovic Geilich – 1,219,000
David Yan – 1,046,000
Tudor Purice – 825,000
Robin Ylitalo – 716,000
Kuljinder Sidhu – 605,000
Jeffrey Rossiter – 601,000
Steven Warburton – 599,000
Javier Etayo – 559,000
Ole Nergard – 550,000
Carla Sabini – 478,000
Andy Moseley – 475,000
Ruben Velasco – 473,000
Georgios Karakousis – 457,000
Kent Roed – 441,000
Senh Ung – 400,000
Sebastian Mueller – 396,000
Stefan Vagner – 374,000
Jan Sjavik – 361,000
Candido Goncalves – 357,000
Steven Watts – 355,000
Gino Gabriel – 352,000
Shannon Shorr – 341,000
Ryan Yu – 340,000
Christoph Weckmann – 331,000
Salman Behbehani – 329,000
Leon Louis – 324,000
Nicky Katz – 311,000
Timothy Adams – 271,000
Wai Kin Yong – 267,000
David Ulliott – 250,000
Nicolau Villa–Lobos – 244,000
Leo McClean – 227,000
Neophytos Neophytou – 226,000
Sebastian Blom – 216,000
Thomas Muhlocker – 207,000
Paul Berende – 193,000
Yngve Steen – 190,000
Jamil Kanji – 176,000
Kitty Kuo – 162,000
Taneli Salonen – 150,000
Joel Nordqvist – 131,000
Joey Lovelady – 125,000
Daniel Weinman – 107,000
Dimitrios Farmakoulis – 91,000

The prizes are below:

1st: £560,980
2nd: £349,200
3rd: £249,850
4th: £193,340
5th: £152,320
6th: £119,225
7th: £88,175
8th: £60,640
9th: £47,750
10-11th: £39,225
12-13th: £32,810
14-15th: £28,710
16-17th: £25,780
18-20th: £22,850
21-23rd: £19,920
24-27th: £17,285
28-31st: £14,940
32-39th: £13,180
40-55th: £11th:425
56-71st: £10th:255
72-87th: £9,080