Main Event
Day 4 Completed
Main Event
Day 4 Completed
And that is that, the final table is set for tomorrow with Per Linde dominating the final table by a good amount. The Swedes have three players on the final with Nikolas Liakos and former EPT runner-up Michael Tureniec joining Linde on the final table. Joining them on the table are Italian Andrea Dalle Molle, Englishman John Eames, American PokerStars qualifier Kevin Iacofano, Finn Juha Helppi and the only Danish hope, Mudassar Khan.
Seat 1: Andrea Dalle Molle - 417,000
Seat 2: Per Linde - 4,980,000
Seat 3: Nikolas Liakos - 1,493,000
Seat 4: Mudassar Khan - 823,000
Seat 5: Kevin Iacofano - 1,844,000
Seat 6: John Eames - 1,060,000
Seat 7: Michael Tureniec - 1,310,000
Seat 8: Juha Helppi - 1470,000
Can Per Linde convert his huge chip lead in an EPT title? Could one of the other Swedes stop them? Will English supporters start singing "Shoes off if you love John Eames," then thusly remove said footwear?
All these questions will be answered tomorrow from midday as EPT Copenhagen culminates with our final day of action.
Join us then!
It folded round to small blind Joel Nordkvist, who shoved for 10bb. John Eames in the big blind looked uncomfortable but made the call with . Nordkvist showed , forced by his stack to gamble. Still, live is live, until the flop brings the pair of kings: . Nordkvist picked up a straight draw with the turn, but the river sealed his fate and sent him home just shy of Day 5 here in Copenhagen.
Per Linde opened to 65,000 preflop but quickly folded when Mudassar Khan moved all-in for 700,000.
Per Linde picks another good spot for a preflop three-bet, making it 180k over the top of Kevin Iacofano's initial 65k. There was no delay from Iacofano - he threw his hand away immediately, as if to say, "Next!"
First hand back and Sweden has taken a very small hit.
Nikolas Liakos raised and Kevin Iacofano called behind to see a flop. Liakos checked, Iacofano bet, and that was the end of it.
Level: 24
Blinds: 15,000/30,000
Ante: 3,000
We are still nine-handed, and players are taking 15 minutes to regroup.
Right as the break commenced, Juha Helppi doubled through in a dramatic hand which saw button Joel Nordkvist finally stop believing the rarely-looked-up Finn and get it all-in preflop.
Nordkvist raised to 52k on the button, big blind Helppi three-betting to 154k. In a flash, Nordkvist had four-bet the shorter stacked' Helppi all in and he'd called.
Helppi:
Nordkvist:
The board: . 1.4 million to Helppi, and a break for them all
Three-bets are like buses, but this latest one turned into a four-bet.
Per Linde opened to 52,000 in the hijack and Kevin Iacofano made it 125,000 from the small blind. But back to Linde, who made it 275,000, and Iacofano decided he didn't want to mess with the chip monster and folded.