Main Event Day 4 | 2010 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final - Monte Carlo

04-29-2010 10:47 UTC+1

Day 4 Seat Draw

Table 1
Seat 1: Craig McCorkell (1498000)
Seat 2: Dominykas Karmazinas (866000)
Seat 3: Matt Perrins (2618000)
Seat 4: Herve Costa (1105000)
Seat 5: Josef Klinger (622000)
Seat 6: Kevin Eyster (2768000)
Seat 7: Aleh Plauski (1139000)
Seat 8: Domenico Iannone (713000)

Table 2
Seat 1: Claudiu Saizu (1220000)
Seat 2: [Removed:146] (758000)
Seat 3: Emanuele Rugini (575000)
Seat 4: Ramzi Jelassi (590000)
Seat 5: Jean Francois Talbot (2427000)
Seat 6: Sami Kelopuro (1094000)
Seat 7: Nicolas Chouity (2037000)
Seat 8: Paul Berende (148000)

Table 3
Seat 1: David Sesso (850000)
Seat 2: Nick Schulman (578000)
Seat 3: Laurent Olive (1035000)
Seat 4: Manuel Bevand (490000)
Seat 5: Roger Hairabedian (675000)
Seat 6: Salvatore Bonavena (610000)
Seat 7: Andrew Chen (387000)
Seat 8: Martin Hruby (720000)

04-29-2010 10:53 UTC+1

Day 4 Dawns

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Good morning and welcome back to sunny Monte Carlo where our starting field of 848 has been reduced to 24. Young Kevin Eyster went on an enormous rush yesterday and seemed to be thoroughly enjoying his enormo-stack status, and indeed he is chip leader going into the penultimate day. Still in the field, though, are Sami Kelopuro, Ramzi Jelassi and Team PokerStars Pro Martin Hruby. If things continue along yesterday's vein, today should be very interesting indeed.

Don't forget you can watch all of this from the comfort of your own computer at EPT Live. Play will resume in just a few minutes, and we will keep on going until we have a final table of eight. Watch this space...

Tags: Kevin Eyster

Level: 23

Blinds: 12,000/24,000

Ante: 2,000

04-29-2010 11:25 UTC+1

What a Difference a Day Makes, 24 Little Players...

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Some littler than others. Shuffle up and deal.

04-29-2010 11:28 UTC+1

Chen Draws First Blood

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First hand and up on the feature table short-stacked Andrew Chen opened for 52,000. No-one fancied taking him on, and he picked up the blinds and antes to significantly boost his stack.

Tags: Andrew Chen

04-29-2010 11:31 UTC+1

Paul Berende Eliminated In 24th Place (€50,000)

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A short stacked Paul Berende did not take long in moving all-in preflop with Claudiu Saizu making the call behind him as the blinds folded out of the way.

Berende: {Q-Hearts}

Saizu:

Board:

No luck for the Dutchman who also went deep in San Remo and goes out here in 24th place

Tags: Claudiu Saizu Paul Berende

04-29-2010 11:32 UTC+1

Manuel Bevand Eliminated in 23rd Place (€50,000)

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It folded around Laurent Olive on the button, who raised to 64,000, and Manuel Bevand in the small blind promptly shoved. Olive, the only player at the feature table with over a million in chips, quickly called.

Bevand: {7-Hearts}

Olive:

Board:

With that, the Frenchman is sent home with €50,000 as consolation. Olive moves up to over 1.5 million.

Tags: Laurent Olive Manuel Bevand

04-29-2010 11:47 UTC+1

Squeezed Olive

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Nick Schulman opened from UTG but Laurent Olive reraised to 140,000 behind him. Roger Hairabedian tanked before moving all-in for about 600,000 or so.

Schulman folded but Olive debated for a minute before electing to make the call for a third of his stack.

Olive: {Q-Hearts}

Hairabedian: {K-Spades}

The

suddenly put Olive in with a shout, but a {4-Clubs}

turn and

put paid to his hopes of eliminating his compatriot. Hairabedian is up to 1,350,000 and is now the chip leader on the feature table.

Tags: Laurent Olive Roger Hairabedian

04-29-2010 11:58 UTC+1

Small Pot for Kelopuro

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It folded around to Jean Francois Talbot in the small blind, who raised to 60,000. Big blind Sami Kelopuro called. Interesting.

However, they both checked the {6-Diamonds}