Main event
Day 4 Completed
Main event
Day 4 Completed
And after several long hours including a six hours stretch between 11th and 10th place busting we've finally finished for the day.
After four days without anyone truly taking charge of the chip leader, Theo Jorgensen has taken full control with a whopping 2.7 million chips, double anyone else's stack.
The WSOP-E bracelet winner commands a pretty impressive table featuring former EPT winner Arnaud Mattern, wily Swedes Per Linde and Jimmy Ostensson as well as several other Frenchman all hoping to take home the title.
The final table is not tomorrow, it is on Saturday, the same day that the high roller event starts. As such, the Pokernews Live Reporting Team is lucky enough to go on a two day break, but we'll be back for the final to bring this tournament to it's exciting conclusion!
The final table will be as follows:
Seat 1: Mickael Guenni -- 538,000
Seat 2: Theo Jorgensen -- 2,693,000
Seat 3: Antoine Amourette -- 489,000
Seat 4: Per Linde -- 584,000
Seat 5: Jimmy Ostensson -- 436,000
Seat 6: Nourredine Aïtaleb -- 810,000
Seat 7: Fabrice Touil -- 1,183,000
Seat 8: Arnaud Mattern -- 678,000
See you Saturday!
It's a good payday for the young player, but it's not a Final Eight one. Despite having a big stack (a million or so at the start of the hand) it all got in preflop in a snowball of reraising vs. Theo Jorgensen.
Boujenah made it 45k to go, and Jorgensen in the cutoff reraised to 145k. Back to Boujenah who clearly wasn't in the mood to be pushed around by the one chip monster at the table. He thought for a moment and announced, "500,000." "Well, might as well be all in then," said Jorgensen, and Boujenah called.
Jorgensen:
Boujenah:
The board came and play is officially over for the night.
Theo Jorgensen has gradually pulled away as the definite chip leader now, he's up to 1,500,000 and the only player with any 25k chips, which he isn't giving up.
Meanwhile Mickael Guenni, Antoine Amourette are slowly being grinded down, as is Jimmy Ostensson. All three are on about 500,000 which is only is about 25 big blinds at the moment.
Nourredine Aittaleb, now better off chipwise than he's been the whole tournament, just limped for 20k and Theo Jorgensen checked in the big blind. They both checked the flop, but Jorgensen's 45k bet on the turn was enough to take the pot.
I've personally seen him come over the top all-in three times in the last 90 minutes, and no one has wanted to take him on despite his being the shortest stack. His most recent victim - button raiser Fabrice Touil, who seems to be enjoying wielding his much larger stack in the last 30 mins. This time, however, he let his 45k initial bet go to Guenni who stacked them up flopless.
Although only eight of these guys will make the televised WPT final, all nine finalists have been presented with a silver souvenir disc of some sort (I think it would count as a card protector) in a little blue furry case. It looks like they've all come in second in the Poker Olympics.
Arnaud Mattern opened to 48,000 and took the blinds.
Then Jimmy Ostensson opened to 48,000 and then took the blinds.
Finally, Per Linde opened to 48,000 - he took the blinds.
It's a cagey opening, no-one wants to be the final table bubble.
Seat 1: Mickael Guenni - 310,000
Seat 2: Ilan Boujenah - 1,240,000
Seat 3: Theo Jorgensen - 1,415,000
Seat 4: Antoine Amourette - 660,000
Seat 5: Per Linde - 721,000
Seat 6: Jimmy Ostensson - 536,000
Seat 7: Nourredine Aittaleb - 510,000
Seat 8: Fabrice Touil - 1,250,000
Seat 9: Arnaud Mattern - 830,000
Level: 22
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 3,000