Luca Pagano
Laurence Ryan made it 107,000 to play preflop, and he found action from Luca Pagano in the big blind.
The two went off to a flop of , and the action check-checked. Fourth street came the with the same non-betting action, and the dropped on the river. After watching Ryan check twice, Pagano went ahead and led out with 130,000 chips. His opponent tapped the felt in front of him, removed the chip atop his cards, and used it to slide his cards back to the dealer.
Priyan de Mel - 9th Place
Under the gun plus one, Stefan Mattsson open-raised to 88,000. Action passed all the way around the table to Priyan de Mel's big blind, and he took pause for a moment.
"You're the one who got lucky with ace-queen, right?" he asked. Mattsson nodded in affirmation with a hint of a smirk crossing his lips. With that, de Mel carefully stacked out a raise to 218,000 and slid it across the line. Mattsson didn't waste much time making the call to put a big pot up for grabs heading to the flop.
It came , and de Mel passed. Mattsson figured 201,000 was a good bet, and that's just what he made it. After just a quick five or ten seconds, de Mel announced an all in, and Mattsson beat him into the pot with a call and the covering stack.
Showdown
Mattsson:
De Mel:
Mattsson had flopped his set of threes, but de Mel was drawing live. His overcards were dead, but any old heart would do for now. "I think you're going to win this one," said Mattsson with a shake of his head.
After a long delay to build the suspense, it was time for the turn card. The dealer knocked the table and very slowly peeled a red card off the deck. It was the though, a blank that took one more out away from de Mel.
He stood to await the final board card, clearly not feeling too optimistic. The river card wasn't much of a sweat as the black paint of the was visible immediately. De Mel shook hands with the table and wished them luck tomorrow as he won't be a part of the final table festivities. He's been knocked off in 9th place, taking home more than €40,000 and setting the stage for the final eight for tomorrow.
That's it, ladies and gentlemen - we have our final table. Knocking out Priyan de Mel put Stefan Mattsson up to a very hefty stack indeed, but it is Mr. Jan Skampa who leads as we wave goodbye to Day 4 and say hello, final table.
And talking of history books, we have ourselves a couple of very notable achievements in this here final table line-up. Luca Pagano has now achieved his (lucky) 13th EPT cash, and this is his sixth EPT final table. He will no doubt be hoping to score his first ever win to obliterate any chance of anyone else topping the leader board this season. Meanwhile, Jan Skampa has become just the second player ever to make back-to-back EPT Main Event final tables after taking fourth place at Vilamoura last month.
But this looks like a pretty terrifying final table all round, and it is still anyone's game. Join us back here at noon C.E.T. tomorrow, when we will be playing right down to one glorious winner.
Seat 1: Anthony Roux (2,839,000)
Seat 2: Stefan Mattsson (3,553,000)
Seat 3: Laurence Ryan (1,338,000)
Seat 4: Gustav Ekerot (502,000)
Seat 5: Sven Eichelbaum (658,000)
Seat 6: Jan Skampa (3,985,000)
Seat 7: Eyal Avitan (2,627,000)
Seat 8: Luca Pagano (2,119,000)
, and the action check-checked. Fourth street came the 
with the same non-betting action, and the 
dropped on the river. After watching Ryan check twice, Pagano went ahead and led out with 130,000 chips. His opponent tapped the felt in front of him, removed the chip atop his cards, and used it to slide his cards back to the dealer.
though, a blank that took one more out away from de Mel.
was visible immediately. De Mel shook hands with the table and wished them luck tomorrow as he won't be a part of the final table festivities. He's been knocked off in 9th place, taking home more than €40,000 and setting the stage for the final eight for tomorrow.
