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Level: 22
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 2,000
2010 PokerStars.net EPT Vienna
Main Event
Day: 4
Event Info
2010 PokerStars.net EPT Vienna
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€2,935,000
Total Entries
587
Level
32
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 587
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Our remaining 21 have headed out into the sunshine to fill their lungs with air or cigarette smoke, depending.
Back shortly.
A step in the wrong direction for Surinder Sunar followed: it folded round to him in the small blind, and with just new short-stack Anestis Pantazidis in the big blind, he decided to pile on the pressure with whatever was at hand. That turned out to be 
. Pantazidis took the plunge with 
, spiked a Jack to seal the deal and doubled to 330k while Sunar dropped to 394k.
Up on the TV table, Surinder Sunar moved in on a 
flop and was called by Giacomo Maisto.
Maisto: for two pair
Sunar: 
for a better two pair
A third eight dropped on the turn to seal the deal, and both players are now on around 500,000, though one is going up while the other is going down.
It was a blind versus blind situation when Ramin Hajiyev shoved his remaining stack across that famous white line and declared that he was all-in. He had 122,000 and the Big Blind belonged to Tonio Röder who had a stack of 379,000 and he made the call.
Hajiyev: 
Röder: 
Hajiyev got to his feet and Röder stayed seated. The Dealer delivered a flop of 
. "Club!" Shouted Hajiyev. The Dealer flipped over the turn 
. "Yes! No Heart!" Shouted Hajiyev - Röder was expressionless. The river was the 
. "Yes!" Shouted Hajiyev and slapped his hands together.
This is Hajiyev's first ever live event. Maybe he should try to play a few more?
Hajiyev ~ 244,000
Röder ~ 257,000
Two near-identical hands on the two non-feature tables - though both of them ultimately came to nothing.
On Table 3, Konstantinos Nanos opened to 40,000 from the button, and Luca Cainelli pushed from the small blind for 264,000. There ensued some long staring down from Nanos, but eventually he folded.
Meanwhile over on the next table, Martin Hruby opened for 35,000 on the button, and Morten Erlandsen shoved from the small blind for around 350,000. Hruby folded the same as Nanos, and Erlandsen took the pot.
In just 20 minutes Antonio Buonanno has gone from comfortable, to as good as out, to back with a shot, to a 400k stack with an aggressive edge. Possibly he just feels immortal and like pushing at his table, chip leader to his left or no chip leader to his left. Just now he took down a pot on a 
flop with a bet of 65k into both blinds who'd called his preflop 35k but went no further. The big blind was in fact Nanos, who gave the table a couple of gentle taps before folding as if to signify that Buonanno's stack was now worth paying some respect.
Andreas Wiese isn't getting to see too many flops at the moment. After that initial confrontation against Hruby, he still had a very reasonable stack and gave preflop raising another go when it folded round to him on the small blind. Big blind Jose Severino looked at the 40k, inspected his own stack, and raised to 125k. This was enough to take another small pot from Wiese who still has over 750k and has proven over three long days that he's not always easy to push around.
It has been a fantastic year for the diminutive Romanian Mihai Manole, winning over $500,000 in tournament earnings alone. Unfortunately, he will not be able to repeat his final table performance in EPT Barcelona in Season 6 when he finished in 4th place. Chip Leader Konstantinos Nanos has extinguished that dream on this fabulous morning in Vienna.
Nanos opened the action from the hijack seat with a raise of 36,000. Luca Cainelli folded in the cut-off and Manole shoved his stack across the line from the Button. The blinds folded and Nanos asked the Dealer for a count - it was 256,000 on Nanos. Nanos, confident as ever throughout this tournament, made the call.
Nanos: 
Manole: 
Board: 
Manole eliminated in 22nd Place and Nanos adds another 256,000 to his already impressive chip stack.
Nima Ahary got his last in from the cutoff with and found a call from Kirill Zapletin in the big blind holding .
Board: 
And another one bites the dust.
