In the first hand of the day, Patrick Caveriviere open shoved under the gun for exactly 100,000. Two positions down Benjamin Richardson reshoved for 180,000 total from the hijack. Action folded to Jasper Wetemans on the button who thought about it long and hard. He asked for the exact chip counts and glanced over to the stacks behind him.
"Tough spot" he said with a smile.
He eventually passed on the opportunity to knock out two players at once, and both blinds folded as well.
Patrick Caveriviere:
Benjamin Richardson:
The board ran out and Richardson knocked out his opponent. Wetemans was happy, he claimed to have had a pair and would have been out flopped.
In a little less than an hour the fourth day of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Barcelona Main Event, the biggest EPT ever, will kick off. There are another five 90-minute levels on the schedule, and again no dinner break today.
EPT Vienna champion Oleksii Khoroshenin leads with over 1.7 million, good for 170 big blinds. Thore Nordboe starts out as the short stack with just 56,000 or almost 6 big blinds.
PokerStars Team Pro Johnny Lodden was the last player to get eliminated late last night and so 110 players remain; all guaranteed €13,475, all eyeing that €1,420,500 first place prize.
Sit back and relax, and make yourself ready for another day of live coverage of the biggest EPT Main Event in history.