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EPT Barcelona Main Event – Day 4 Report
Posted by: James Carter. - Fri, 2012-08-24 08:15
The objective for Day 4 of the EPT’s Barcelona Main Event was pretty clear: the 61 returning players wouldn’t call it the day until they played down to the final 24. It took them a little over three levels to get there, but they did meet the objective. When the action was called, Samuel Rodriguez was the one sitting behind the largest stack of chips.
The day began with the usual pressure being brought to bear against the short-stacks. PokerStars’ Matthias De Meulder was one of these short stacks and he was the first one to put his
poker tournament life onto the line, after he’d picked up an A,Qo. Felix Kretchmann made the call and tables a pair of 3s. The flop fell 6,K,10, giving De Meulder a straight draw, but the K on the turn and the 8 on the river sealed his fate.
After the ice was broken, the field began to gradually thin. The trickle soon turned to a flow and players like Zimnan Ziyard and Andrey Zaichenko all bit the dust well before the final 24 was even approached.
At one point in the event, Jonathan Karamalikis, one of the last few ‘name’ pros left in the field, found himself in the lead. In fact, he was the first player who managed to shoot past the 2 million chip mark. The hand which gave him the boost was one in which his pocket Ks went up against Kretchmann’s A,Qo. The pot took Karamalikis’ stack to 2.65 million chips.
Kretchmann didn’t hang around long after the hit: he busted out a few hands later, picking up €20k for his efforts.
Leo Margets was eliminated around kid-day too, together with Ilan Boujenah. Online poker daredevil Ilari Sahamies on the other hand made it past the hurdle without problems. John Juanda and Antonin Duda survived as well.
Karamalikis finished the day second in chips.
