If you've been following along with the EPT Live broadcast, you're no doubt fully engaged in this stretch run of Day 4. True poker fans have to appreciate the ability to see a full day of poker from start to finish without all the flashy editing and overkill editing that we're used to seeing on major television networks. If you've wondered what kind of preparation and effort goes into producing a day-long live poker telecast, check out Gloria's tour of the EPT Live studio:
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Alexander Dovzhenko raised to 50,000 to open the pot, and Vitaly Tolokonnikov moved all in for 475,000. When the action came back to Dovzhenko, he thought it over for just a minute before putting in the call, Tolokonnikov's tournament life now at risk.
There were a few grumbles from the spectators as both players showed down the same hand, Dovzhenko's to Tolokonnikov's . The flop brought and the promise of a chop as both players take their money back plus a few thousand extra.
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Torsten Tent
We pick up a heads-up confrontation on a flop that showed . Action was on Torsten Tent, and he led out with a bet of 70,000. His lone opponent, Alexander Dovzhenko, put in the call to see the turn card bring the . Tent began stacking chips again, and he stuck out another healthy bet of 220,000. After a quick pause, Dovzhenko announced, "All in," and Tent immediately called for his own tournament life!
Showdown
Tent:
Dovzhenko:
Dovzhenko had flopped bottom set, but the turn card gave Tent the nuts for the time being with the Broadway straight. He would need to dodge a board pair to stay alive, and the that filled out the board was a safe card for him. That earns him a monster double up to 1,428,000, leapfrogging over Dovzhenko who has fallen to 1,289,000 now.
Shamus
The nine-handed feature table continues
After that flurry of action earlier, we've seen play tighten up considerably over the last half-hour, with few hands reaching a flop, and those that have generally ending with a single post-flop continuation bet.
Both Vadim Markushevski and Maxim Lykov continue to sit atop the leaderboard with about 2 million, while Michael Meyburg and Lucasz Plichta are still the short stacks, each hovering around 300,000.
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Ad Schaap opened the pot with an early-position raise to 50,000. A few seats over, Max Lykov three-bet it up to 115,000, and the table folded back around to the original raiser. After a shrug of the shoulders, Schaap moved all in for just over 500,000, and Lykov opted to let his hand go, sending a nice chip-up to the Dutchman.
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The clock has been paused while the remaining nine players take ten. We'll be back shortly for what could be the final level of the evening.
Maxim Lykov -- 1.871 million
Vadim Markushevski -- 1.726 million
Torsten Tent -- 1.56 million
Alexander Dovzhenko -- 1.277 million
Adrian Schaap -- 634,000
Arthur Simonyan -- 620,000
Vitaly Tolokonnikov -- 620,000
Lucasz Plichta -- 387,000
Michael Meyburg -- 256,000