Main Event
Day 4 Started
Main Event
Day 4 Started
Welcome back to PokerNews' coverage of the 2015 partypoker World Poker Tour UK Main Event where at 12:00 GMT, 18 players return to their seats at Dusk Till Dawn and will play for as long as it takes to reach the official six-handed final table.
Chi Zhang is the man to catch going into the penultimate day and he's the only player to start with more than 2 million chips. While he does have a sizeable chip lead, Zhang reaching the final table is far from a forgone conclusion because there are some very talented poker players among the 18 returnees.
The likes of Craig McCorkell, Iaron Lightbourne, Ben Vinson and Mitchel Johnson are all more than capable of walking away with the title, plus anyone who has progressed this far in such a prestigious event has got here on merit and would be a worthy a champion.
Here's how the final two tables line up:
Table | Seat | Player | Chips |
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25 | 1 | Robert Davies | 1,132,000 |
2 | Breixo Gonzalez | 632,000 | |
3 | Adam Daniel | 329,000 | |
4 | Russell Betts | 575,000 | |
5 | Philip Hepburn | 971,000 | |
6 | Dominic Cullen | 425,000 | |
7 | Iaron Lightbourne | 771,000 | |
8 | Craig McCorkell | 863,000 | |
9 | Lukas Dimsa | 513,000 | |
26 | 1 | Ben Vinson | 157,000 |
2 | Fuad Serhan | 351,000 | |
3 | Chi Zhang | 2,023,000 | |
4 | Fraser Bellamy | 896,000 | |
5 | Billy Chattaway | 491,000 | |
6 | Andrew Hulme | 492,000 | |
7 | Andrew Seden | 1,061,000 | |
8 | Joseph Townsend | 1,256,000 | |
9 | Mitchell Johnson | 263,000 |
There are only a few minutes left of Level 21 before the blinds increase to 8,000/16,000/2,000a
Level: 21
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 2,000
Iaron Lightbourne has started Day 4 as he means to go on, five-betting Craig McCorkell all-in.
Dominic Cullen opened from early position to 25,000 and Lightbourne, who was still stacking his chips, three-bet to 66,000 from the next seat across. Next to act as Craig McCorkell and he four-bet to 156,000. The action passed back to Cullen who folded. Thirty or so seconds later, Lightbourne moved all-in and McCorkell folded, showing a king and Lightbourne returned the favour showing .
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Iaron Lightbourne
|
920,000 | 149,000 |
Craig McCorkell | 700,000 | -163,000 |
Dominic Cullen | 400,000 | -25,000 |
Level: 22
Blinds: 8,000/16,000
Ante: 2,000
Ben Vinson started the day as the shortest of the 18 stacks, something he is trying his utmost to rectify. The last two hands that have been raised before him, Vinson has three-bet all-in. Once he showed and he mucked the second. He's now added more than 100,000 chips to his stack in the early stages of Day 4.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Ben Vinson | 265,000 | 108,000 |
Andrew Seden opened to 32,000 from early position and was called by Fraser Bellamy from the big blind. Bellamy check-called a 30,000 bet on the [JcJsc] flop before both players checked down the turn and river, Bellamy winning the pot with his .
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Andrew Seden | 910,000 | -151,000 |
Fraser Bellamy | 750,000 | -146,000 |
Lukas Dimsa opened the action with a 34,000 raise from his seat under the gun off . Breixo Gonzalez called, before Lightbourne three-bet to 108,000 from the small blind. Dimsa called and Gonzalez folded.
Both players checked the flop only for Lightbourne to move all-in on the turn, prompting a quick fold from Dimsa.
Everyone folded around to Fraser Bellamy in the hijack and he raised the minimum, making it 32,000 to go. In the cutoff was Billy Chattaway, he three-bet to 85,000 which folded out the button and blinds.
Bellamy sat pondering his options, but after a scratch of the side of his head, and a rub of his nose, he sent his cards back to the dealer and Chattaway won the pot.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Fraser Bellamy | 725,000 | -25,000 |
Billy Chattaway | 560,000 | 69,000 |
From early position, Craig McCorkell raised to 35,000 and found callers in Robert Davies and Russell Betts on the button. Dominic Cullen spoiled the party by moving all-in for 400,000 from the big blind, a bet that folded out all of the active players.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Robert Davies | 1,060,000 | -260,000 |
Craig McCorkell | 600,000 | -100,000 |
Russell Betts | 470,000 | -105,000 |
Dominic Cullen | 450,000 | 50,000 |