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EPT Monaco Day 4: The End is Nigh
Posted by: James Carter. - Sun, 2009-05-03 14:31
Day 3 got off to a fast and furious beginning and by 11 pm they were down to 31 with Mathew Woodward leading the pack. As those 31 reconvened for day 4 of play, they were in for a mini-marathon as it would take more than 10 hours to get down to the magic number of eight.
There were no surprises at the beginning of the day as short stacked "Miami" John Cernuto was first to go, and Woodward managed to increase his lead; in total 7 fell in a little under 2 hours, and with the prizes getting bigger the players returned to their redrawn seats with added gusto. Steadily they fell, with Annette Obrestad falling in 13th place after a shocking loss. At nearly 2 million after dinner, she was looking strong, and with pocket aces she was feeling strong. Little was she to know, following a 1.3 million raise, that her aces weren't going to live up to pocket nines on a 7h, Qs, 9s, 4d, 9h – Pieter de Korver was the owner of the quods and Obrestad saw the end of her tournament.
The last to go, after a table merge was Chris Rossiter, leaving the final 8 stacks looking like this:
1. Dag Martin Mikkelsen: 7,315,000
2. Matthew Woodward: 4,560,000
3. Peter Traply: 4,365,000
4. Mikhail Tulchinskiy: 3,220,000
5. Eric Qu: 2,880,000
6. Pieter de Korver: 2,500,000
7. Daniel Zink: 1,865,000
8. Alem Shah: 1,490,000
