Simon Mattsson leads final 61 into Day 4 of the 2014 EPT Prague
Only 61 players out of a record-breaking field of 1,107 entries advanced to Day 4 of the Season 11 PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague and each of the remaining participants in the €5,300 Main Event has at least €14,230 locked up for their efforts. Leading the field is Simon Mattsson with 1,790,000 in chips, the Swede edged out Stephen Graner in the last few hands of the day and the American follows with 1,713,000. EPT Berlin champion and three times World Series of Poker bracelet winner Davidi Kitai of Belgium is third with 1,364,000.
Local hero Petr Jelinek, a Supernova Elite on PokerStars, claimed 1,191,000 in chips and Vanessa Selbst ran pretty good on the live stream feature table to acquire a top 10 stack in 1,007,000. One further PokerStars Team Pro remains in George Danzer (156,000) and the German adds another deep run to an impressive year that saw him winning three golden bracelets and the title of the Player of the Year at the World Series of Poker.
Other notables include Tamer Kamel (893,000), Sam Grafton (859,000), Albert Daher (777,000), Artem Metalidi (742,000), 2014 Eureka Prague Main Event champion Balazs Botond (682,000), Tatiana Barausova (372,000), 2013 EPT Prague runner-up Georgios Sotiropoulos (324,000), Andras Nemeth (203,000) and Alexander Roumeliotis (189,000).
Day 4 is scheduled to play five levels of 90 minutes each to conclude around 20:45 CET and there will be a break of 20 minutes after each level. The action resumes at 12:00 CET with blinds at 5,000-10,000 / ante 1,000 and the PokerNews team will bring you all the crucial hands on the way to crown another EPT champion on Wednesday.