Ori Miller opened to 23,000 from middle position and his neighbor Ilkin Amirov in the hijack made the call (with 241,000 behind). The cutoff folded but Ivan Demidov on the button squeezed to 60,000 with 296,000 behind. Both blinds folded and action was back on Miller. He thought about it for a bit, asked how much Demidov had behind approximately, and then moved in.
Amirov folded right away and Demidov instantly shrugged. "I could have folded if I hadn't three-bet 3 times in a row" he said as he moved a couple of chips over the line to call.
Ivan Demidov:
Ori Miller:
Demidov would never see those 36 big blinds again as he came up short improving: .
Demidov out in 66th place, good for €13,720. With Demidov's departure, there now are no longer PokerStars Team Pro's active in the tournament.
Former WSOP Main Event runner up Ivan Demidov has managed to double up right off the bat, and the hand went as follows.
Demidov called a raise from Iliodoros Kamatakis from the big blind, and the flop brought out . Demidov checked to Kamatakis who bet, and the Russian player check-raised all in for 129,000.
Kamatakis made the call, creating the following showdown.
Demidov:
Kamatakis:
The board ran out , and Demidov found a double up.
Clyde Tjauw Foe was the shortest stack going into Day 4, and he's been the first player to get knocked out.
Enio Bozzano opened for 22,000 from early position and action folded to Clyde Tjauw Foe in late position. "It's you! My tight friend!" Tjauw Foe said before he moved in for 79,000. The action folded to Bozzano who instantly called.
Enio Bozzano:
Clyde Tjauw Foe:
The board ran out and Tjauw Foe tapped the table before making his exit. "Good game Clyde" his country man Foeke Deinum said.
Day 4 of the 2015 PokerStars EPT Season 12 Prague €5,300 Main Event starts at 12 am (in 1 hour and 45 minutes) with 67 players still in contention for the title. The plan is to play down to 16 players or the end of level 24, whichever comes faster according to the structure sheet (.PDF). The first of five 90-minute levels will be 5,000/10,000 with a 1,000 ante.
Leading the field is Abbas Moradi with 1,384,000 in chips. There's a total of 6 players with a million in chips or more; Preben Stokkan (1,175,000), Hossein Ensan (1,127,000), Vlado Banicevic (1,096,000), Samuel Vousden (1,010,000) and Ori Miller (1,000,000).
On the bottom of the list of chip counts we find Dutch EPT regular Clyde Tjauw Foe. In the last level of the night he found himself all in with a set versus an open ended on the turn, and he couldn't fade the 10 for the pot worth almost a million. Tjauw Foe starts the day with just 79,000, 8 big blinds.
Russian Ivan Demidov is the sole PokerStars Team Pro left in the field after both Matthias De Meulder and Johnny Lodden got eliminated on Day 3 yesterday. Demidov brings 154,000 to the table at noon, so he got his work cut out for him as well.
PokerNews.com will be with you the entire way, from the first flop till the last river. Also, don't forget it's the start of the €10,000 High Roller today - a tournament we'll be covering as well.