The Race to the Final Table is On
Welcome back to the penultimate day of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Main Event. Today's aim for the players is a simple one: make the final table.
Antonin Duda heads into the day as chip leader with 3,476,000. He won two big pots in eliminating Nir Levy in 28th and Alexander Ivarsson in 24th to get there. Levy was unlucky to have his tens beaten by Duda's sixes but Ivarsson was boss of his own destiny, bluffing off his stack to Duda on the last hand of the night.
There was a redraw in the last level of yesterday when the field reached 24 players so there was no need for another one overnight. It can be seen below and play will start with the same feature table. Our two remaining former champions - Dominik Panka and Robin Ylitalo - continue to be sat alongside each other and both have work to do with below average stacks. It's actually Panka's 24th birthday today so here's hoping he suffers no bad beats along the way.
The plan for today is to play to a minimum of eight players remaining but will continue on to six players remaining if less than five levels have been played. Cards will be in the air at noon CET so join the PokerNews reporting team back here then.