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EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final – Day 4 report
Posted by: James Carter. - Sun, 2009-05-03 14:31
Day 4 of the EPT’s Monte Carlo Grand Final saw the final table reached and the situation atop the leaderboard somewhat “normalized”. This is after all a European event and having an American atop the provisional leader board at the end of Day 3 wasn’t something the large contingent of Europeans was going to put up with for long.
Sure enough, Matthew Woodward of the USA got dethroned on Day 4, though he didn’t slip back far in the ranks, finishing in second behind Norway’s Dag Martin Mikkelsen who built up a massive lead, amassing 7,315,000 chips.
31 players took their seats at the EPT’s Grand Final’s tables on Day 4, hell-bent on working that number down to the final eight. As the money bubble had burst the previous day, there was nothing to stop the 31 survivors from jumping all over each other as soon as the whistle blew. The first casualty of the day was Miami John Cernuto, who had barely made it to day 4 to begin with. He got sent to the rail by Mikkelsen.
Matthew Woodward, the previous day’s chip leader, wasn’t wasting any time in attempting to extend his lead either. He bullied the short stacks around for a while and successfully fattened his stack. In little over an hour and a half, the field was thinned down to 24.
The surprise elimination of the day was that of Ludovic Lacay. Having started the day in second place in the provisional chip count, the Frenchman couldn’t really string anything together. His final move of the day came on a Q,Jo which got called by Johannes Strassmann’s A,K. The flop gave Strassmann a pair of Ks and even though he hit a pair of Js on the turn, Lacay busted out in 21st.
Annette Obrestad, who had a rollercoaster of a day, took a bad beat to have her pocket rockets cracked and to head to the rail in 13th place,
Marc Naalden fell in 10th place, followed by Chris Rossiter in 9 who became the final table bubble boy this way.
Mikkelsen, responsible for his elimination too, cemented his chip lead this way. Hungary’s Peter Traply finished in 3rd behind Woodward.
