Break Time
The players have just gone on a 15-minute break, which should be the last one of the day as we only need to lose one more player before we pack up and head out of the casino.
The players have just gone on a 15-minute break, which should be the last one of the day as we only need to lose one more player before we pack up and head out of the casino.
Sami Kelopuro opened to 45,000 from under the gun and everyone folded to the lone British player in this event, Stuart Fox on the bubble. Fox checked out the size of Kelopuro's stack and announced he was all in for 532,000 in total. This did the trick as both blinds folded and Kelopuro followed suit.
Ronny Kaiser has just won another pot and to extend his chip lead over the rest of the field. He started off by raising to 40,000 under the gun and found callers in the shape of Stuart Fxx on the button and Sami Kelopuro in the big blind.
The flop was met with a check from Kelopuro, a continuation bet of 62,000 from Kaiser and two folds from his opponents.
Poland's Grzegorz Cichocki has passed the two million chip mark after winning a massive pot at the expense of Arvi Vainionkulma.
Cichocki raised to 40,000 in middle position and when the action folded around to Vainionkulma on the button he three-bet to 105,000. Cichocki quickly called and it was heads up to the flop. Both players checked the flop and the dealer put out the on the turn. Cichocki bet 130,000 and after a brief pause, Vainionkulma made the call.
The river was the and the Pole fired again, doubling his bet from the previous round, making it 260,000 to call. Vainionkulma did make the call but mucked when he saw the of his opponent.
Sami Kelopuro opened up the action with a raise from the cut-off for 45,000 and Johan Van Til defended his big blind. The flop was and Van Till open shoved for 83,000 and Kelopuro made the call.
Kelopuro | |
Van Til |
Van Til was in trouble and he was finally eliminated after the board ran out with a and on the turn and river.
That left us with the final eight players who would form our final table.
Day four of the European Poker Tour Tallinn has come to a close and the chip leader is still Swiss pro Ronny Kaiser with 2,394,000 chips.
When the day started, eight hours ago, there were 24 players remaining from the original starting field of 282. The chip leader, Ronny Kaiser, started the day in exactly the same manner as he ended day three - by sucking out on opponents with huge stacks. His victim this time was Michael Graydon and the price was half a million chips and a 24th place finish for Graydon after his pocket kings were cracked by Kaiser's ace-king when he turned a straight on a board. That pushed Kaiser up to around 1,800,000 in chips and put almost one million between him and second place Grzegorz Cichocki.
The seat draw had rather uncannily matched Kaiser and Cichocki together and they clashed a lot in the early levels with Kaiser winning the majority of the pots. Before you knew it Kaiser was up over 2,000,000 and EPT Tallinn was starting to feel like a one horse race. But as we all know poker is a topsy-turvy ride and Grzegorz Cichocki kept his composure eventually finishing a hairs breadth away from Kaiser with 2,059,000 chips.
Here is the final chip counts and seat draw for the final table, which starts at 12.00 Estonian time.
Table | Seat | Name | Chips |
---|---|---|---|
Table 1 | 1 | Grzegorz Cichocki | 2,059,000 |
2 | Raigo Aasmaa | 904,000 | |
3 | Jani Sointula | 769,000 | |
4 | Stuart Fox | 514,000 | |
5 | Arvi Vainionkulma | 258,000 | |
6 | Sami Kelopuro | 1,325,000 | |
7 | Erlend Melsom | 326,000 | |
8 | Ronny Kaiser | 2,394,000 | |