Michael Graydon is our first casualty of the day, his executioner? Ronny Kaiser of course.
Kaiser opened from the cutoff and Graydon three-bet from the small blind to around 100,000. Kaiser tanked for a minute before putting Graydon all in and the Irishman snap-called.
Graydon:
Kaiser:
Graydon was around a 70% favourite to double up and he was still in great shape as the flop came down . But when you are in a hand against a player who is running hotter than the sun anything can and will happen so Graydon should not have been surprised when the showed its ugly face on the turn to improve Kaiser to an unbeatable straight. The inconsequential landed on the river and with that we lost our first player.
The top two players in the chip counts are seated next to each other and it is Cichocki who has position on the chip leader. Yesterday Cichocki amassed a huge chip advantage by constantly applying pressure with the three and four bet so it was interesting to note the first hand of the day.
Kaiser raised to 12,000 on the button and Cichocki three-bet from the small blind to 26,000 and after the big blind moved out of way Kaiser made the call.
Flop:
Cichocki bet 33,000 and Kaiser laid down the hand.
Welcome to the Swissotel here in the Estonian capital Tallinn.
It is Day Four of the European Poker Tour Season Eight kick-starter and we have 24 players left and today they will be aiming for that final table berth. Leading those 24 is Swiss pro Ronny Kaiser who already has a final table chip stack of 1,194,000 after winning a huge cooler late on Day Three against Liutauras Armanavicius. Hot on his heels is Polish Pro Grzegorz Cichocki who was the chip leader for the large majority of yesterdays play. Cichocki will have direct position on Kaiser when we start todays play so that should throw up some interesting spots.
There are four PokerStars Qualifiers in the hunt for a final table berth: Michael Graydon (455,000), Stuart Fox (115,000), Oleg Epp (111,000) and Petri Vuolle (89,500). Vuolle qualified for just €2 and has never played a live tournament before!
There is also some local interest with Raigo Aasmaa and Lauri Meidla both still in field. Other people to keep a watchful eye on are Praz Bansi, Johan van Til and Jeff Sarwer.
All of the action will be brought to you right here at 12.00 Estonian time so don't miss it.
. But when you are in a hand against a player who is running hotter than the sun anything can and will happen so Graydon should not have been surprised when the 
showed its ugly face on the turn to improve Kaiser to an unbeatable straight. The inconsequential 
landed on the river and with that we lost our first player.![[user169505]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}
