2010 EPT Snowfest Main Event Day 4 | 2010 PokerStars.net EPT Snowfest

03-25-2010 15:22 UTC+2

Husiaux Pushing, So Is His Wife

[user46392]

First hand and Johannes Strassmann opened for 32,000. Betrand Husiaux, one of our short stacks, shoved for 234,000, and after a just a moment Strassmann folded.

By the by, although most of our runners will be playing to win today, Mr. Husiaux will probably not be too disappointed if he doesn't make it all the way. It turns out that his wife is very heavily pregnant and due to deliver at any moment - he only played this tournament because he'd qualified online and thought he'd bust out before now. Either way, looks like he's going to bea winner by the end of the week...

03-25-2010 15:17 UTC+2

And We're Off!

[user46392]

There's only about four minutes left of this level, though, so we get to push the button again very shortly.

Level: 20

Blinds: 6,000/12,000

Ante: 1,000

03-25-2010 15:11 UTC+2

Any Minute Now

[user46392]

Players are at the tables and are stacking up their chips; we should be getting underway shortly.

But don't just take our word for it! You can watch the whole thing live on EPT Live for today and tomorrow. Hurrah for modern technology!

03-25-2010 14:34 UTC+2

May Day 4 Be With You

[user46392]

Good afternoon and welcome back to the now frankly unseasonably warm and sunny town of Saalbach-Hinterglemm. While outside the Snowfest is turning into something of a Sunfest, indoors things are getting very serious indeed as the last 24 players return today to battle it out for the eight coveted spots at tomorrow's final table.

Chip daddy by a mile or more right now is Allan Baekke. After an extraordinary run yesterday, the culmination of which was finding aces against Paul Valkenburg's pocket kings to send the Dutchman to the rail, Baekke is now in possession of 2,687,000 - that's around double the stack of his nearest rival and around a sixth of the chips in play.

Nevertheless there are some very dangerous names lurking a little lower down the chip counts. Maxim Lykov, [Removed:197], Jim "Mr_BigQueso" Collopy and Team PokerStars Pros Johannes Strassmann and Richard Toth are all still in the running and all will be keeping their respective eyes on the €445,000 prize up for first place.

Play should be getting underway in around half an hour and it promises to be a very interesting day. Don't be straying away from this page...

03-25-2010 14:20 UTC+2

Seating Assignments

[user66118]

Table 1
Seat 1: [Removed:197] (546000)
Seat 2: Allan Baekke (2687000)
Seat 3: Johannes Holstege (683000)
Seat 4: Cyril Naim (380000)
Seat 5: Lee Gaines (594000)
Seat 6: Huub Verdonschot (769000)
Seat 7: Jonathan Schroer (685000)
Seat 8: Alain Medesan (166000)

Table 2
Seat 1: Max Lykov (1205000)
Seat 2: Russell Carson (495000)
Seat 3: Brent Wheeler (1361000)
Seat 4: Richard Toth (414000)
Seat 5: Lukas Baumann (615000)
Seat 6: Jim Collopy (758000)
Seat 7: Bernhard Perner (279000)
Seat 8: David Wintersberger (229000)

Table 3
Seat 1: Marcel Koller (752000)
Seat 2: Alexander Debus (908000)
Seat 3: Johannes Strassmann (1001000)
Seat 4: Daniel Van Kalkeren (281000)
Seat 5: Luca Cainelli (542000)
Seat 6: Florian Döhnert (602000)
Seat 7: Bertrand Husiaux (235000)
Seat 8: Robert Haigh (435000)