Main Event
Day 4 Started
2011 European Poker Tour Grand Final Madrid
Main Event
Day: 4
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2011 European Poker Tour Grand Final Madrid
Buy-in
€10,000
Prize Pool
€6,860,000
Entries
686
Level
31
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
Welcome to Day 4 of the EPT Grand Final!
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It's the penultimate day of action here at the EPT and we have just 24 players remaining. Eugene Yanayt is still the chip leader ahead of Torsten Brinkmann and Simon Higgins, with Juan Maceiras (one of four remaining Team PokerStars Pros) just behind.
Today's schedule is simple, we'll be playing down to our final table of eight players, however long that may take. There are not more than a couple of short stacks so unlike the last two days where action has been very fast, we're expecting things to go much slower and steadier.
Play begins at 12pm (CET).
| Seat | Name | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| Table 1 | |||
| 1 | Shiraz Soltaninassab | Belgium | 475,000 |
| 2 | Alex Gomes | Brazil | 655,000 |
| 3 | Victor Ramdin | USA | 489,000 |
| 4 | Andrey Danilyuk | Russia | 806,000 |
| 5 | Ivan Freitez | Venezuela | 1,279,000 |
| 6 | Juan Maceiras | Spain | 1,308,000 |
| 7 | Gerardo Godinez | Mexico | 1,009,000 |
| 8 | Pedro Pellicer | Spain | 1,216,000 |
| Table 2 | |||
| 1 | Domantas Klimciauskas | Lithuania | 1,198,000 |
| 2 | Hugo Lemaire | France | 292,000 |
| 3 | Tamas Lendvai | Hungary | 787,000 |
| 4 | Simon Higgins | UK | 1,705,000 |
| 5 | Raemon Sluiter | Netherlands | 703,000 |
| 6 | Andrew Li | USA | 704,000 |
| 7 | Alessandro Limblici | Italy | 554,000 |
| 8 | Dag Palovic | Slovakia | 244,000 |
| Table 3 | |||
| 1 | Georges Yazbeck | Lebanon | 692,000 |
| 2 | Torsten Brinkmann | Germany | 1,959,000 |
| 3 | Ankush Mandavia | USA | 910,000 |
| 4 | Ole Kristian [Removed:332] | Norway | 105,000 |
| 5 | Jose Nadal | Mexico | 510,000 |
| 6 | Eugene Yanayt | USA | 2,374,000 |
| 7 | Litterio Pirrotta | Italy | 648,000 |
| 8 | Thomas Pettersson | Sweden | 246,000 |
The Path the Victor-y
Sarah Grant talks to Victor Ramdin on his way into Day 4.
Level: 21
Blinds: 8,000/16,000
Ante: 2,000
The Hottest Rail in Poker
Level 21
: 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante
Tennis player Raemon Sluiter is coming into Day 4 with a solid attitude, and one of the hottest rail birds ever, PokerStars Team Sports Star Fatima Moreira de Melo. Sarah Grant scooped them both before play got underway.
Cultural Differences Leave Li 600k Short
Level 21
: 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante
Apologies to Andrew Li, who spent the night with 104,000 but came back today with the 704,000 he actually finished with. Something about 1 and 7 being rather similar without that cross thingy over here - we need to work on our bilingual bag-reading skills.
Gard Up
Level 21
: 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante
Ole Kristian [Removed:332] has doubled up, a pretty impressive feat considering he was all in preflop with 
against Jose Nadal's 
and the flop then came 
. Somehow the board bricked, coming 
and 
and the Norwegian youngster has survived for now.
Pettersson Doubles Through Yazbeck
Level 21
: 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante
Thomas Pettersson pushed all for his last 200,000 or so from midposition and Georges Yazbeck made a quick call in the next seat along, the cutoff, button and blinds all folded.
Pettersson: 
Yazbeck: 
The flop came 
and it looked pretty much done and dusted but the 
on the turn was the best card in the deck for Yazbeck, now he had a gutshot and a flush draw. The came on the river and Yazbeck fistpumped only to suddenly be in agony when he realised Pettersson had now had a full house.
It's a topsy-turvy game.
Level: 22
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 2,000
Ole Kristian [Removed:332] Eliminated in 24th (€40,000)
Level 22
: 10,000/20,000, 2,000 ante
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The Day 1 chip leader Ole Kristian [Removed:332] dropped from the giddy heights to the felt-touching lows of chip rankings yesterday in one of the most dramatic hands of the tournament, but seemingly unfazed continued to play in the same calmly aggressive style which had given him his lead in the first place.
His Day 4 was very short - picking up 
and getting his 200,000 in preflop vs. Jose Nadal's 
. The queens held on the 
board.