€8,300 EPT Barcelona Main Event Day 4 | 2009 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona

09-08-2009 21:42 UTC+2

Break Time

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Just five minutes this time, because everyone would like to get down to final table asap and then hit the town...

09-08-2009 21:44 UTC+2

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Level: 25

Blinds: 20,000/40,000

Ante: 4,000

09-08-2009 21:57 UTC+2

Terrazas Gets His Chips In; Gets Them Back Out Again

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Our official short stack Santiago Terrazas shoved for his last 351,000 and got looked up by Georgios Kapalas. The air in the room coalesced into an enormous lump of tension as we teetered on the brink of an official final table.

Terrazas: {A-Spades}

Kapalas:

Board:

Terrazas doubles to 798,000, and we play on.

09-08-2009 22:05 UTC+2

Lapossie Takes One From Ambite

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Donnie Peters

Santiago Terrazas Ambite raised to 144,000 and Matt Lapossie called. The flop came down {K-Hearts}

and Ambite checked. Lapossie seized the opportunity and fired 148,000. His bet prompted a fold from Ambite and Lapossie scooped the pot.

Tags: Matt Lapossie Santiago Terrazas Ambite

09-08-2009 22:23 UTC+2

Kapalas Still Here

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Reduced from our start-of-day chip leader to a mere 10-big-blinds short stack, Georgios Kapalas open-shoved. There were no takers though, and he picked up some much-needed blinds and antes.

Tags: Georgios Kapalas

09-08-2009 22:26 UTC+2

Phillips Bluffs His Way Back to the Top

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Donnie Peters

Carter Phillips slipped to second place on the leaderboard and opened to 95,000. Matt Lapossie called in the next seat and then action got over to Marc Goodwin. Goodwin put in a three-bet to 325,000. Phillips four-bet to 620,000 and Lapossie quickly folded. Goodwin made the call and the pot sat at 1.431 million.

The flop came down {Q-Diamonds}

. Phillips checked over to his opponent. Goodwin checked behind.

The turn brought the {A-Hearts}

and things got interesting. Phillips fired 700,000 and sent Goodwin into the tank. Goodwin counted out the chips for a call, but didn't put them in the pot just yet. About a minute went by and then out of nowhere Santiago Terrazas Ambite called the clock on Goodwin.

Stunned and visibly irritated, Goodwin looked at Ambite and said, "Good luck to you, sir." A few moments later, he mucked {A-?}

face up. Phillips rolled over eight high with {8-Clubs}

for a massive bluff and scooped the pot. Just like that, Phillips is back on top.

Tags: Santiago Terrazas Ambite

09-08-2009 22:34 UTC+2

Even Phillips Has a Hand Sometimes

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The two most aggressive players at the table, Carter Phillips and Matt Lapossie, clashed minorly -- they saw a {10-Diamonds}

flop and Phillips bet out 115,000. Lapossie folded -- and Phillips showed him a rather unexpected {A-Clubs}

.

Tags: Carter Phillips Matt Lapossie

09-08-2009 22:36 UTC+2

Ojala Wakes Up

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Matt Lapossie surprised no-one by raising, but this time Toni Ojala pushed all in for 629,000. Lapossie eyed up the reraise and appeared briefly to consider calling, but in the end he laid it down.

We are still nine-handed...

Tags: Matt Lapossie Toni Ojala

09-08-2009 22:44 UTC+2