Main Event Day 4 | 2011 PokerStars.com EPT Loutraki

11-19-2011 19:50 UTC+2

Chip Counts (Full)

Player	Chips	Progress
Zimnan Ziyard	1,947,000 187,000	187,000

John Taramas	1,650,000 410,000	410,000
Hauke Heseding	1,345,000 36,000	36,000
Mario Puccini	1,276,000 326,000	326,000
Florian Schleps	1,201,000 491,000	491,000
Pierre Mothes	789,000 119,000	119,000
David Elyashar	663,000 587,000	587,000
Charalampos Kapernopoulos	539,000 88,000	88,000
Georgios Grigoropoulos	358,000 179,000	179,000
Sergey Serafimov	201,000 169,000	169,000
Andras Kovacs	172,000 83,000	83,000

11-19-2011 19:53 UTC+2

Georgios Grigoropoulos Eliminated in 11th Place (€14,800)

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Georgios Grigoropoulos moved all in from UTG for just under 300,000, Hauke Heseding in the next seat called and everyone else folded.

Grigoropoylos: {10-Hearts} {10-Spades}
Heseding: {Q-Spades} {Q-Clubs}

The board was {2-Hearts} {6-Spades} {J-Spades} {2-Clubs} {A-Spades} and Heseding is right up there with the chip leaders now.

Player	Chips	Progress
Hauke Heseding	1,650,000 305,000	305,000
Georgios Grigoropoulos	Busted

Tags: Georgios Grigoropoylos Hauke Heseding

11-19-2011 20:19 UTC+2

Que Sera Sera: Sergey Serafimov Eliminated in 10th Place (€20,100)

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Sergey Serafimov had raised to 50,000 preflop with not too much behind and Ioannis Taramas was tanking in the big blind. Finally he moved all in and Serafimov quickly called.

Serafimov: {A-Hearts} {6-Hearts}
Taramas: {A-Clubs} {4-Clubs}

Serafimov was slightly ahead but the chop looked reasonably likely, however the board came {9-Spades} {4-Spades} {8-Clubs} {10-Spades} {9-Diamonds} and Taramas made two pair. We're down to just one table and we'll need one more player to be eliminated before play is over for the night.

Player	Chips	Progress
John Taramas	1,850,000 200,000	200,000
Sergey Serafimov	Busted

Tags: Ioannis Taramas Sergey Serafimov

11-19-2011 20:37 UTC+2

Unofficial Final Table (full)

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Seat 1: Ioannis Taramas - 1,750,000
Seat 2: Charalampos Kapernopoulos - 735,000
Seat 3: Pierre Mothes - 1,060,000
Seat 4: Hauke Heseding - 1,515,000
Seat 5: Florian Schleps - 810,000
Seat 6: David Elyashar - 500,000
Seat 7: Mario Puccini - 1,110,000
Seat 8: Andras Kovacs - 255,000
Seat 9: Zimnan Ziyard - 2,220,000

Player	Chips	Progress
Zimnan Ziyard	2,220,000 273,000	273,000

John Taramas	1,750,000 100,000	100,000
Hauke Heseding	1,515,000 135,000	135,000
Mario Puccini	1,110,000 166,000	166,000
Pierre Mothes	1,060,000 271,000	271,000
Florian Schleps	810,000 391,000	391,000
Charalampos Kapernopoulos	735,000 196,000	196,000
David Elyashar	500,000 163,000	163,000
Andras Kovacs	255,000 83,000	83,000

11-19-2011 20:51 UTC+2

David Elyashar Eliminated in 9th Place (€20,100)

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It didn't take to long for someone to make a move.

Hauke Heseding had raised to 50,000 before David Elyashar raised all in for 454,000 and Zimnan Ziyard made the call while Heseding folded.

Elyashar: {A-Spades} {J-Clubs}
Ziyard: {9-Diamonds} {9-Clubs}

The flop was {6-Hearts} {7-Hearts} {8-Hearts} which was more helpful to our chip leader and the {4-Diamonds} turn left Elyashar needing an ace or a jack to stay alive but the river was the {2-Clubs} - the ultimate blank and we have our final table set with Brit Zimnan Ziyard the massive chip leader.

Player	Chips	Progress
Zimnan Ziyard	2,771,000 551,000	551,000

David Elyashar	Busted

Tags: Christopher Lastiwka David Elyashar Ioannis Papathanasioy

11-19-2011 20:56 UTC+2

End of Day 4: 'Invader' Zim Takes Control Going Into the Final

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And with that, the final table has been set:

Seat 1: Ioannis Taramas - 1,755,000

Seat 2: Charalampos Kapernopoulos - 749,000

Seat 3: Pierre Mothes - 1,073,000

Seat 4: Hauke Heseding - 1,660,000

Seat 5: Florian Schleps - 850,000

Seat 6: Mario Puccini - 1,077,000

Seat 7: Andras Kovacs - 210,000

Seat 8: Zimnan Ziyard - 2,771,000

Zimnan Ziyard will be going into the final as the big chip leader. The Brit took a big chip lead after knocking out former EPT San Remo champion Rupert Elder with just two tables left when he held {Q-Hearts} {Q-Diamonds} against Elder's {K-Hearts} {J-Hearts} - a queen on the turn making Ziyard a full house in a pot worth 1.4 million chips and Elder left in 13th place.

We also lost former Snowfest finalist Koen De Visscher and PokerStars Team Pro Toni Judet who made it as far as Day 4 but couldn't get any further.

Flamboyant Ioannis Taramas currently sits in second place ahead of German Hauke Heseding, the latter continuing a recent good run having chopped the Sunday Million on PokerStars about a month ago. Fellow Greek Charalampos Kapernopoulos spent much of the day as the chip leader, but went on a late downswing in the last couple of levels, just managing to limp on the final table.

Apart from short stack Andras Kovacs, everyone else has a reasonable amount of chips, so it'll certainly be all to play for tomorrow from 12pm!

Who will become the newest EPT champion? Tune into PokerNews tomorrow to find out!

11-19-2011 21:07 UTC+2

Final Counts (full)

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Player	Chips	Progress
Zimnan Ziyard	2,771,000

John Taramas	1,755,000 5,000	5,000
Hauke Heseding	1,660,000 145,000	145,000
Mario Puccini	1,077,000 33,000	33,000
Pierre Mothes	1,073,000 13,000	13,000
Florian Schleps	850,000 40,000	40,000
Charalampos Kapernopoulos	749,000 14,000	14,000
Andras Kovacs	210,000 45,000	45,000

Main Event

Day 4 Completed