On the feature table Pasi Sormunen, in the small blind, checked raised Niall Farrell to 59,000 on a board of and Farrell made the call. The turn was the and Sormunen bet out for 59,000. Farrell called and we saw a river of . Sormunen bet 106,000 and was snapped off by Farrell who showed Sormunen was at it with [as 3].
Sergei Chantcev opened for 20,000, got a call from Glib Kovtunov, and from the big blind Mikalai Pobal moved all in for his last 71,000. Chantcev folded after some thought but Kovtunov called. Pobal had the and was racing against the of Kovtunov. The race was over on the flop however and the board ran out . With that, Pobal became the day's first elimination.
Meanwhile, WSOP Octo-Niner Russell Thomas was eliminated on the second hand of the day in 78th place.
Portugal’s Joao Viera is leading the EPT 10 Barcelona €1,500 event with 100,400 in chips – in fact, he’s the only player among the 46 left who is over the 100k mark. Also still in: Randal Flowers, Aku Joentausta, Alex Dovzhenko, Jan-Peter Jachtmann, Omaha Player of the Year Miltiadis Kyriakides, EPT Prague champion Salvatore Bonavena, Casey Kastle, Jeffrey Hakim and Antti Karkkainen. There were 124 entries in to the event, generating a €180,420 prize pool. The winner will get € 45,400.
French pro Alain Roy is leading the EPT 10 Barcelona €2k event with just three players left. Also still in: Team PokerStars Pro Jonathan Duhamel and Hungarian whizz kid Marton Czuczor. EPT regular Roy, 47, who hails from Monpellier and won the 2008 Partouche final for €1 million in 2008, has a huge lead over the other two with 2,610,000. There were 363 entries in to the event, generating a €704,220 prize pool. The winner will get €136,600.
Although some (if not all) of the three remaining players are likely to be playing today’s €10k EPT High Roller event, they have scheduled play out the €2k at 2pm. A bunch of big names made the money including EPT champions Frederik Jensen (Madrid), Nicolas Chouity (EPT Grand Final) and Alex Bilokur (PCA High Roller), Norwegian poker legend Thor Hansen, Marc-Andre Ladouceur, Yury Gulyy, Ismael Bojang, Kristijonas Andrulis, Philippe Ktorza, Ayaz Manji, Simon Ravnsbaek and Vladimir Troyanovskiy.
The chip counts are:
Alain Roy, France 2,610,000
Marton Czuczor, Hungary 915,000
Jonathan Duhamel, Canada, Team PokerStars Pro 815,000
Welcome back to the European Poker Tour Season 10 Barcelona Main Event. What started with 1,234 players is down to the final 79, each looking to push deeper into the money and ideally secure a spot at the second largest EPT Main Event ever held on European soil. The man best positioned to do just that is the chip leader, 26-year-old Tom Middleton from Leeds, UK, known as Middy to his friends and “hitthehole” online . He already has live tournament winnings totaling nearly $1 million and will add to that today.
While Middleton is the only player over a million in chips, there are quite a few players nipping at his heels including Kevin Vandersmissen (970,000), Niall Farrell (912,000), Thomas Butzhammer (827,000) and Andreas Christoforou (825,000). Others returning for Day 4 action are Kimmo Kurko (581,000), Team PokerStars Pro Christophe De Meulder (334,000), Kent Lundmark (Season 7 Barcelona champion), Dimitar Danchev (Season 9 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure champion), and Mikalai Pobal (Season 9 Barcelona champion), making it possible that we could see the first-ever two-time EPT Main Event champion.
Lundmark will bring a stack of 501,000 into Day 4 while Danchev will be at 376,000 in chips. Defending champion Pobal, however, has quite the uphill battle on Day 4 as he will return with merely 71,000 in chips.
Action will kick off at noon CET, which is a little less than an hour from now. Join us then as we bring you all the action and eliminations from the tournament floor here at the Casino Barcelona. In the meantime, check out PokerNews' WAG Diaries with newlyweds Vanessa and Miranda Selbst: