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EPT Copenhagen – Day 4 report
Posted by: Jo Martin - Sun, 2010-02-21 20:33
The 4th day of the EPT’s Copenhagen Main Event saw three tablefuls of players return to the ballroom of the Radisson Hotel. The goal for the day was for these 3 tables to whittle down to one before the final whistle, but achieving that goal proved to be more than illusive.
9 handed play proved to be a stage impossible to leave behind for the remaining survivors, so the organizers decided to call it the day anyway, leaving 9 players to return on Day 5, instead of the 8 official final table participants.
Roberto Romanello began the day with the chip lead. Fully recovered from the digestive problems he’d struggled against for most of the previous day, he began to bleed chips away, right until he hit a timely double up. That move provided him with a thrust that carried him right into day 5 albeit only on an average stack.
Nicolo Calia a regular
EPT participant was the first one to leave the poker tournament. Kristijonas Andrulis followed him to the rail shortly.
Peter Eastgate, the
WSOP’s 2009 Main Event champion and the best hope of the local crowd, had played extremely well through the previous few days of the poker tournament. Day 4 though was not his day. He was bounced during the very first blinds level after Damien Fouquet crippled him on a perfect hand match-up, in which his straight got licked by Fouquet’s boat. Jesper Petersen then moved in for the kill.
Ricky Fohrenbach was eliminated by Andrew Teng at the end of a coin-flip. Steven Vollers, Chris Dombrowski and Andrei Vlasenko were eliminated next in this order. Fouquet got his chips into the middle on pocket Ks against Morten Guldhammer’s 10,J. Lady Luck would side with the underdog this time though and as his Ks went up in flames, Fouquet headed to the payout queue.
Magnus Hansen took care of Andrew Teng next, and as Mads Wissing and Paul Szyszko were eliminated too, the remainder of the field was moved to a single table.
Despite the fact that the day had started off with a whirlwind of eliminations, the end of it was about as serene as it could be. No player would be eliminated for 2 and a half hours, so the decision to call it the day anyway was made.
