Day 4 Complete: Final Table All Set

Twenty-four players returned to the Casino de Barcelona and all but eight of them were eliminated. It took just 30 minutes for the first player to head for the cashier's desk, that dubious honour went to Sweden's William Thorsson. Mr Thorsson's chip stack was crippled late last night and he would have had a tough task on his hands to have progressed much further than he did.

He was joined on the rail by Dominik Nitsche, a player who finished in 62nd place in this very tournament last year but his run was brought to an end when his {q-Spades} {9-Hearts} was snapped off by Konstantin Puchkov's pocket sevens. The players were been gradually whittled down and when Luis Rufas was eliminated in tenth place, worth €50,000, remaining ten people joined up on an unofficial final table.

Each player knew that busting out in ninth place would not only prevent them from making an EPT final table, but would also cost them at least €20,000 in prize money. It looked as if Francesco Notaro was going to be the bubble boy when he moved all-in with {a-} {j-} and ran into Shander De Vries' {q-} {q-} but he actually had De Vries covered by around 300,000 chips. These went into the pot a few hands later with Notaro holding {a-Diamonds} {q-Diamonds} , which prevailed against Georgios Skotadis' {k-Clubs} {q-Spades} .

Ninety minutes into the unofficial final table, we lost our last player for the day. Frenchman Candido Gonçalves opened in the cutoff to 115,000, Jesus Cortes Lizano three-bet to 285,000 and then Gonçalves moved all in! Lizano snap-called and his opponent must have known he was in trouble.

Gonçalves : {j-Hearts} {9-Hearts}
Lizano: {k-Hearts} {k-Spades}

The board ran out {9-Spades} {7-Clubs} {8-Clubs} {q-Clubs} {k-Diamonds} and our final table of eight was set.

When the players return at noon tomorrow we will play until we crown a new champion. Until that moment comes, you will find the players in the following seats:

Seat 1: Jesus Cortes Lizano - 3,800,000
Seat 2: Kent Lundmark - 3,025,000
Seat 3: Konstantin Puchkov - 4,160,000
Seat 4: Shander De Vries - 3,120,000
Seat 5: Giuseppe Pantaleo - 5,655,000
Seat 6: Francesco Notaro - 745,000
Seat 7: Thor Stang - 1,290,000
Seat 8: Georgios Skotadis - 1,105,000

Join us from 1200 noon for all the action live from the Casino de Barcelona. Until then, take care!