Main Event
Day 4 Started
2010 PokerStars.net EPT Vienna
Main Event
Day: 4
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 PokerStars.net EPT Vienna
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€2,935,000
Entries
587
Level
32
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
0
Penultimate Day on the Brink of Starting
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Good morning and wilkommen back to Vienna where we are down to our final three tables in this EPT Main Event.
Chip leader as we go into the day is online qualifier Konstantinos Nanos - last year's EPT Berlin bubble boy, incidentally - who is already looking at his biggest ever live cash.
Just five big blinds behind him though is yesterday's chip leader, Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu. Negreanu will certainly be thinking about the top spot here - if he goes all the way in this and takes down the €700,000 first prize, he will reclaim his former place at the top of the all-time money list.
Still also in the running are Team PokerStars Pros Martin Hruby and Toni Judet. Play is due to resume at noon, or in around 40 minutes' time, so get out in the park and enjoy the wintry sunshine until then.
Seat Draw
Table 1
Seat 1: Andreas Wiese - 1,047,000
Seat 2: Jose Severino - 523,000
Seat 3: Martin Hruby - 1,403,000
Seat 4: Morten Erlandsen - 370,000
Seat 5: Nima Ahary - 332,000
Seat 6: Toni Judet - 958,000
Seat 7: Bruno Launais - 540,000
Seat 8: Kirill Zapletin - 460,000
Table 2
Seat 1: Fabrizio Gonzalez - 169,000
Seat 2: Daniel Negreanu - 1,954,000
Seat 3: [Removed:40] - 1,558,000
Seat 4: Surinder Sunar - 170,000
Seat 5: Anestis Pantazidis - 339,000
Seat 6: Giacomo Maisto - 623,000
Seat 7: Michael Eiler - 1,299,000
Seat 8: Jacques Zaicik - 372,000
Table 3
Seat 1: Luca Cainelli - 366,000
Seat 2: Mihai Manole - 279,000
Seat 3: Balazs Botond - 760,000
Seat 4: Antonio Buonanno - 818,000
Seat 5: Ramin Hajiyev - 322,000
Seat 6: Tonio Röder - 491,000
Seat 7: Matthias Lotze - 402,000
Seat 8: Konstantinos Nanos - 2,007,000
Level: 20
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 1,000
Day 4 Dealers Have Shuffled Up and Dealt
Lets get this part started.
Who Needs Board Cards?
The end of the 6k/12k level is playing out (with no break before the next one) with very few cards visible to anyone other than the players themselves. This doesn't make the preflop action boring - far from it - instead the stacks are such that players can get in a good number of raises before one of them caves or pushes and so there is some real excitement for the rail around the two outer tables.
An example of just such a pot, taken with preflop aggression, was that won by Martin Hruby from button Andreas Wiese. Wiese made the standard raise at the moment, 27k, on the button, and Hruby raised him to 57k. Back to Wiese, who fourbet 132k. Hruby took a little longer to mull over this raise, but made the same decision he'd made last time: to repop him. This bet of 227k finally saw Wiese give up his hand and one of the Day One chip leaders has started the day well.
Level: 21
Blinds: 8,000/16,000
Ante: 2,000
Buonanno Crippled by Botond
Antonio Buonanno started the day in 8th place in the chip count so I assume he was full of optimism for what might be a good day 4 for the Italian. Unfortunately, his dreams of EPT glory have been dealt a huge blow early in Day 4, this is how it happened.
Balazs Botond made it 26,000 to play from early position and Buonanno made the call to his direct left. Everybody folded leaving the two of them to see a flop of 
. Botond made a continuation bet of 27,000 and Buonanno made the three-bet to 95,000 and Botond made the call.
The turn was the 
and Botond checked. Buonanno declared that he was all-in and Botond instantly called. Buonanno had 
for a flopped set and Boton had 
for the turned straight.
Botond's chip stacks has now risen to ~ 1,500,000 and Buonanno has a meagre 34,000
A Horrible Start for Ahary
Nima Ahary started the day with 332,000 chips but has so far been bleeding them away over at table one without even seeing any flops. The first person to take advantage of Ahary's aggressive approach was Jose Severino. Severino opened in early position for 30,000 and Ahary made the three-bet to 75,000. The action folded around to Severino and he moved all-in prompting a fold from Ahary.
The next person to cause problems for Ahary was Bruno Launais. Ahary opened from middle position to 35,000 and Launais made the three-bet to 81,000 causing Ahary to have to fold again.
Ahary ~ 186,000
Buonanno Back From Brink
The famous saying about chips and chairs (you only need one of each to win a poker tournament) seems to be illustrated by Antonio Buonanno's rise from the dead. His microstack became 70k when his 
spiked against 
(the board an amusing 
). His table wasn't laughing, however, when he doubled up again shortly thereafter against the very hand which had just kept him alive - the of Konstantinos Nanos. His 
held as the board came 
and he now has over 150k.