€5,300 EPT San Remo Main Event Day 4 | 2009 PokerStars.com EPT San Remo

04-22-2009 15:53 UTC+3

Doubling Fitzgerald

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Before the flop, Steven Silverman opened the pot with a raise, only to see Alex Fitzgerald move all in for a total of 146,000. After just a quick second of deliberation, Silverman called, putting Fitzgerald's tournament life in jeopardy.

Showdown:
Silverman: {A-Clubs}

Fitzgerald: {8-Clubs}

Fitzgerald managed to pull a third eight out of the deck on the flop, letting him breathe a little sigh of relief. The rest of the board ran out safe, and the young pro has earned himself an early double-up here, just pipping the 300,000-chip mark.

Tags: Alex Fitzgerald Steven Silverman

04-22-2009 15:51 UTC+3

BuLent Karsli Eliminated in 31st Place (€21,700)

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Just one hand after the elimination of Fabio Mazzarello, BuLent Karsli open-raised all in for 64,000. Everyone folded to Dennis Bejedal in the small blind, who reraised to 210,000. Pierre Neuville thought about raising all in himself, but ultimately mucked his cards. And a good thing he did! For the second hand in a row, Bejedal turned over pocket kings. He was up against Karsli's {A-Diamonds}

. The board came out similar to the board of Fabio Mazzarello's elimination: {2-Hearts}

. That was no help for Karsli. He has been eliminated in 31st place, earning €21,700.

Tags: Bulent Karlsi Dennis Bejedal

04-22-2009 15:51 UTC+3

Fabio Mazzarello Eliminated in 32nd Place (€21,700)

[user75032]

We have our first victim of the day. Fabio Mazzarello looked down at {A-Hearts}

and moved in for 85,000. Action passed to Dennis Bejedal in the big blind. He peeked at his cards, saw {K-Hearts}

and made the easy call. The board completely missed Mazzarello, {2-Hearts}

. He shook Bejedal's hand before exiting the tournament area as the first elimination. 32nd place paid Mazzarello €21,700.

04-22-2009 15:50 UTC+3

Strothmann Doubles Through Eldar

[user46392]

A double up for Malte Strothmann through young Australian David Eldar. He pushed all in to a raise from Eldar, and was rather unhappy with Eldar's call, but as it turned out he coinflipped his way to a full double up to over 500,000.

Eldar: {9-Clubs}

Strothmann: {K-Spades}

Board:

04-22-2009 15:46 UTC+3

Early Action

[user46392]

Meanwhile, players are wasting absolutely no time in getting involved.

Malte Strothmann took down an early pot uncontested with a 25,000 raise. He showed {A-?}

.

Meanwhile Dennis Bejedal raised to 26,000 and got looked up by Kati Jerney in the cutoff. They saw a {J-Hearts}

flop, and Bejedal tried it on for 55,000. Jerney minimum-raised to 110,000 (she actually tried to raise to just 105,000, but was told she couldn't do that). Bejedal quietly passed.

04-22-2009 15:39 UTC+3

Just So You Know

[user46392]

When we get down to nine players, they will all move to a single table, thence to play down to the official final table of eight.

Level: 20

Blinds: 5,000/10,000

Ante: 1,000

04-22-2009 15:27 UTC+3

Shuffle Up and Deal!

[user75032]

Cards are in the air after a brief delay getting all the players in their seats and making sure the feature table was ready to go. Play was suspended last night about halfway through Level 20. That's where we pick up to start Day 4.

04-22-2009 14:34 UTC+3

Fortune and Glory

[user75032]

Spade the decks and stack the chips -- it's Day 4.

What can we tell you about Day 4 of the 2009 PokerStars.it European Poker Tour San Remo Main Event? We'll start with the obvious: 32 players remain in a field that once numbered 1,178. Croatian Dragan Galic has been atop the chip counts for each of the first three days. He's trailed today by David Eldar, Steven Silverman, and Constant Rijkenberg. We love players with easily pun-able names.

The average stack to start the day is approximately 370,000 chips, or 37 big blinds. There are ten players who will start the day with fewer than 20 big blinds. Even though some would say that math is idiotic, the math says that we will only play five or fewer levels today before we have our final eight players. They'll come back tomorrow to seek the €1,500,000 first prize.

Play will be underway at the San Remo Municipal Casino in about 30 minutes. We'll have all the action here at PokerNews live reporting; coverage of Table 1, the feature table, is also available at EPT Live. See you soon!

04-22-2009 02:54 UTC+3

Day 4 Seat Assignments

[user66118]

** Players listed in bold are the chip leaders at their respective tables

Table 1
Seat 1: Gustav Sundell - 308000
Seat 2: Massimiliano Trifoglio - 267000
Seat 3: Danilo D'Ettoris - 259000
Seat 4: Doron Tourgman - 341000
Seat 5: Constant Rijkenberg - 814000
Seat 6: Rasmus Olog Akerblom - 499000
Seat 7: Benjamin Kang - 363000
Seat 8: Matias Knaapinen - 126000

Table 2
Seat 1: Malte Strothmann - 228000
Seat 2: Dragan Galic - 1386000
Seat 3: Kalle Niemi - 160000
Seat 4: Ovidiu Mihai Balaj - 178000
Seat 5: Pietro Sibione - 369000
Seat 6: David Eldar - 829000
Seat 7: Sebastien Bidenger - 206000
Seat 8: Gianni Giaroni - 512000

Table 3
Seat 1: Giuseppe Argento - 214000
Seat 2: Luigi Abiusi - 344000
Seat 3: Eduardo Burgio - 120000
Seat 4: Julien Legros - 167000
Seat 5: Bill Reynolds - 677000
Seat 6: Stefan Raffay - 408000
Seat 7: Pietro Capriotti - 110000
Seat 8: Vedat Akdemir - 316000

Table 4
Seat 1: Pierre Neuville - 480000
Seat 2: Katalin Eszter Jerney - 203000
Seat 3: Steven Silverman - 865000
Seat 4: Fabio Mazzarello - 110000
Seat 5: BuLent Karsli - 85000
Seat 6: Alex Fitzgerald - 164000
Seat 7: Sami Kelopuro - 173000
Seat 8: Dennis Bejedal - 562000