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

09-08-2009 10:40 UTC+3

Day 4 Draw

donpeters

Table 1
Seat 1: Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier - 520,000
Seat 2: Carter Phillips - 338,000
Seat 3: Mihai Manole - 641,000
Seat 4: Oleksandr Vaserfirer - 258,000
Seat 5: Patrick Bueno - 1,467,000
Seat 6: Julien Nuijten - 329,000
Seat 7: Toni Ville Ojala - 323,000
Seat 8: Jens Kyllonen - 371,000

Table 2
Seat 1: Michael Greco - 169,000
Seat 2: Asa Smith - 340,000
Seat 3: Marc Goodwin - 1,545,000
Seat 4: Santiago Terrazas Ambite - 595,000
Seat 5: Joram Voelklein - 728,000
Seat 6: David Robinson - 365,000
Seat 7: Jose Alberto Carreres - 257,000
Seat 8: Matt Lapossie - 1,664,000

Table 3
Seat 1: Mike "Timex" McDonald - 475,000
Seat 2: Adam Markovits - 503,000
Seat 3: Ari Kolpanitzki - 616,000
Seat 4: Georgios Kapalas - 1,724,000
Seat 5: Cornel Andrew Cimpan - 156,000
Seat 6: Jan Boubli - 516,000
Seat 7: (empty)
Seat 8: Roland de Wolfe - 475,000

09-08-2009 13:08 UTC+3

Day 4 Kicking Off in 20 Minutes

[user46392]

Good afternoon and welcome back to the Casino Barcelona, where 23 players remain rather than the expected 24 after Samer Rahman and Pontus Kers managed to bust out at almost exactly the same time last night.

Young Greek Georgios Kapalas leads, closely tailed by youthful Canadian Matt Lapossie, well-dressed Englishman Marc Goodwin and French veteran Patrick Bueno. After that... Well, actually, those are the only four of our runners who really have above-average stacks -- it's pretty top-heavy at the moment, but we'll see what happens as the day progresses.

Play is due to start at 12.30 local time, join us back here then.

09-08-2009 13:41 UTC+3

No Signs of Life Yet

[user46392]

Actually, that's not true, there's a lot of milling about and various media presence, etc -- but as yet, there is no hint of play starting. We'll keep you posted.

09-08-2009 13:58 UTC+3

Check Out PokerStars.tv!

[user46392]

EPT Live is up and running, even though the tournament isn't so far.

Check it out here.

Level: 20

Blinds: 6,000/12,000

Ante: 1,000

09-08-2009 13:59 UTC+3

And They're Off!

[user46392]

Play is officially underway, with one hour and five minutes left of the 6,000/12,000/1,000 level.

09-08-2009 14:05 UTC+3

Life Is Bueno At The Feature Table

[user76023]

Mihai Manole raises to 32,000 from late position and Patrick Bueno reraises to 96,000 to take the pot.

Bueno takes the second pot as well with a bet on the turn of a {A-?}

board against Jens Kyllonen.

09-08-2009 14:10 UTC+3

Nuijten Gets His Chips In First

[user76023]

Julien Nuijten raises to 30,000 from the button and Toni Ojala reraises to 90,000 from the small blind. Without hesitation the last Dutch player in the tournament moved all-in putting the decision back on Ojala.

Both had about equal stacks but Ojala let it go, leaving himself with about 200,000 left to Nuijten's 405,000.

09-08-2009 14:22 UTC+3

Lapossie Active Early

donpeters

Matt Lapossie has been one of the more active players throughout the entire tournament. He hasn't let down today and has been involved in the first three hands at his table.

On the first hand, Lapossie opened with a raise to 26,000. Santiago Terrazas Ambite called on the button and David Robinson called in the big blind. The three players took a flop of {9-Clubs}

. Robinson checked and Lapossie stayed on the gas with a bet of 42,000. Ambite flatted before Robinson ducked out of the way.

The turn brought the {8-Clubs}

and Lapossie bet 73,000. Ambite raised to 183,000 which prompted Lapossie to question, "You really flop a set on the first hand?" After another moment, he would fold and give Ambite the pot.

On the next hand, Lapossie opened again to 26,000, from under the gun this time. Marc Goodwin called from middle position, Joram Voelklein called on the button and David Robinson called from the small blind. The flop came down {10-Clubs}

and everyone checked.

The turn brought the {K-Clubs}

and Action checked to Voelklein. He fired 51,000. Robinson folded and Lapossie called. Goodwin came along as well.

The river was the {8-Diamonds}

and action checked to Voelklein again. He fired a hefty bet of 130,000. Lapossie called and then Goodwin called. Lapossie tabled {3-Clubs}

, Goodwin showed {A-Spades}

and Voelklein mucked. Goodwin would scoop the pot.

On the next hand, Jose Alberto Carreres raised to 32,000 from the small blind in an attempt to attack Matt Lapossie's big blind. Lapossie reraised enough to put Carreres all in and Carreres folded.

Tags: David Robinson Joram Voelklein Jose Alberto Carreres Marc Goodwin Matt Lapossie Santiago Terrazas Ambite

09-08-2009 14:30 UTC+3

Adam Markovits Busto in 23rd Place (€26,000)

[user46392]

Mike "Timex" McDonald raised to 29,000 and Adam Markovits called; they saw a {7-Hearts}

flop.

Timex bet out 45,000, and Markovits attempted to less-than-minimum raise. He was put right and was directed to put 90,000 in the middle. TImex, however, now announced all in, and after a few minutes of unhappy consideration, Markovits folded.

A few hands later, and Markovits got involved again, this time seeing a {9-Hearts}

flop with chip leader Georgios Kapalas. Markovits checked and Kapalas bet, and now a possibly steaming Markovits check-raised all in. Call. On their backs.

Markovits: {A-Spades}

for top pair
Kapalas: {8-Clubs}

for second pair and a flush draw

Turn: {4-Spades}

River:

Thus we lose our first casualty of the day.