Main Event
Day 4 Started
Main Event
Day 4 Started
Good morning and welcome back to the Radisson Blu Scandinavia, where our final 24 are about to set off down the road to the serious money.
Yesterday we lost a plethora of big names including Johnny Lodden, JP Kelly and Martin Jacobson. However, as we head to the business end of the tournament, you might recognise more than a few of the field.
Chip leader Per Linde is a familiar face on the EPT circuit - his best performance until now was 13th place at San Remo last year. Just behind him is the last Team PokerStars Pro standing, Florian Langmann. The friendly German now represents possibly the most talkative player in this unusually subdued and polite field. Joel Nordkvist is still going strong in third place, and Day 3 chip leader Michael Tureniec is just behind him in fourth place. By a curious twist of fate, our top five stacks will all be at the same table at the start of the day, so we could well see a possible tournament-crushing monster stack emerge during the first few levels.
Also still in with a shot, albeit on more modest chips, are John Eames, Surinder Sunar, and Juha Helppi bringing up the rear. Play resumes at noon, in around half an hour. Stay glued to your screens.
Table 30
Seat 1: Mikhail Lakhitov 155,000
Seat 2: Charles Mclntyre 232,000
Seat 3: Mudassar Khan 265,000
Seat 4: Nikolas Liakos 653,000
Seat 5: Surinder Sunar 149,000
Seat 6: Kevin Iacofano 685,000
Seat 7: Andrea Dalle Molle 228,000
Seat 8: Simen Johannessen 211,000
Table 31
Seat 1: Joel Nordkvist 1,236,000
Seat 2: Jens Lauridsen 594,000
Seat 3: Florian Langmann 1,304,000
Seat 4: Michael Tureniec 1,089,000
Seat 5: Per Linde 1,622,000
Seat 6: Simon Hanninger 216,000
Seat 7: Ivan Freitez 1,024,000
Seat 8: Jan Sørensen 499,000
Table 32
Seat 1: Helge Rahbek 512,000
Seat 2: Dmitry Vitkind 244,000
Seat 3: Johnny Jensen 223,000
Seat 4: John Eames 570,000
Seat 5: Daniel Johansson 389,000
Seat 6: Juha Helppi 142,000
Seat 7: Pernille Ravn 352,000
Seat 8: Lars Krogh 813,000
Level: 19
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 1,000
Some of the medium stacks are looking enviously at the chip leaders' table compared to their own meagre surroundings. This table will be the first feature table in around an hour and three quarters.
Level: 20
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 1,000
Juha Helppi pushed all-in for 135,000 from the button, Pernille Ravn flat-called with around 200,000 back in the small blind but suddenly Lars Krogh reshoved the big blind and Ravn looked disgusted before making an agonised fold.
Helppi seemed happy enough that now despite turning over he had a chance to triple up against Krogh's .
"You folded an ace, yes?" Helppi asked Ravn. She nodded.
The board came and Helppi's two pair trebled his stack to over 400,000. Krogh drops to 675,000
John Eames opened to 26,000 from early position but EPT Tallinn finalist Dmitry Vitkind pushed all-in from the big blind, Eames gave it a dwell of about 30 seconds before releasing his hand.
Lone female survivor Pernille Ravn, having wielded her short stack like a mallet yesterday, getting more respect than Aretha Franklin until finally doubling through, has been eliminated.
It was a quick process - she picked up and moved in over the top of under the gun raiser Juha Helppi. Helppi held , called, and hit a flop for overkill.
Russian Dmitry Vitkind fell with the same hand as Ravn about two minutes later. Johnny Jensen had raised under-the-gun to 28k (more similarities) and been called by the button. Vitkind in the big blind moved all in, and Jensen called after a heartbeat's pause.
Vitkind:
Jensen:
There was no danger to Jensen as the board came out . "Yes!" he exclaimed, while someone on the rail made a banging noise in his honour. He rises to 450k and seems happy about it.