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EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final – Day 4 report
Posted by: James Carter. - Sun, 2010-05-02 12:23
The final table of the
EPT’s Monte Carlo Grand final is set, and Nicholas Chouity is the man looking to kick off the final table action from the position of the chip leader. Nicholas Eyster of the US started day 4 with the most chips, but by the time the action was called (as the field shrunk to 8) Lebanon’s Nicholas Chouity had around 40% of all chips in play in his possession. That meant a 10,280,000 stack for him.
As the action kicked off on Day 4, the short-stacks found themselves faced with the perpetual dilemma of the short-stack: to shove or not to shove. On account of the diminutive size of his stack, the choice was a rather easy one for Paul Berende. He got all his chips into the middle on a less than impressive Q,6o to be called by Claudiu Saizu who had A,Qo in the pocket. The A which fell on the flop sent Berende packing.
Shortly after Berende finished his
poker tournament, Manuel Bevand,
PokerStars’s Martin Hruby and David Sesso filed to the rail as well.
Claudiu Saizu may have drawn first blood on Day 4, but he didn’t really pick up that many chips on it, so he was soon in trouble. He dropped a large pot to Emanuele Rugini and the situation became pressing for the Romanian. Rugini eventually revisited the issue to deliver the coup de grace.
Ramzi Jelassi became a short stack as well, and before he knew it, he was all-in too, having pinned his poker tournament hopes on a Qd, 10d he’d picked up. Jean Francis Talbot was quick to call him with Ad, Kd. A 10 looked like a life-line for Jelassi on the flop, but the A on the river quickly severed it and he too was done.
Nick Schulman staked his tournament life on an Ad, 9d he’d picked up, only to be called by Andrew Chen who had pocket 10s. The board landed a bunch of bricks and Schulman was bounced too.
Jean Francis Talbot followed Schulman to the rail in 17th. Sami Kelopuro was hit badly by eventual chip leader Nicholas Chouity. He dropped about half his stack to the Lebanese, then dropped the rest too, going out with blazing guns in 12th place.
Craig McCorkell finished as the final table bubble boy, busting out in 9th place.
