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EPT San Remo Main Event – Day 4 Report
Posted by: Jo Martin - Wed, 2012-10-10 07:48
66 players returned to the tables on the 4th day of the EPT’s San Remo Main Event. The goal for the day was a clear one: to play down to the last 24. After about five levels of action, the objective was indeed accomplished as Jason Tompkins emerged with the chip lead, having built a stack of 2,423,000 chips.
Tompkins had a good day from the beginning, but his big payday came during the 22nd level of the
poker tournament when he doubled up at Amerigo Santoro’s expense.
Tompkins was in the cut-off and his opponent was in the small blind. The chips went into the middle on the turn of a board of 8,5,4,3, as Tompkins had pocket 8s for the set and Santoro had an A,2 for the straight. Things weren’t particularly bright for Tompkins, but the 3 on the river paired the board, offering him a boat and the pot.
Start of the day chip leader Inge Forsmo was among the survivors as well. Matt Salsberg, Michael Benvenuti, Artem Litvinov, Yevgeniy Timoshenko and Ludovic Lacay made it to the top 24 too.
While there are indeed plenty of pros in the final 24, scores of them hit the rail on Day 4: David Vamplew was one of the victims. He busted out in 62nd place, picking up €12k for his efforts. He was followed to the rail by Mike Watson (59th place) and Erion Islamay, the chip leader of the first day 1 flight. Morten Mortensen bit the dust as well.
Shaun Deeb was forced to head to the rail in 48th place, picking up a €14k reward, after his K,Q lost a classic coin-flip against Artem Metalidi’s pocket 7s.
The €10k High Roller event saw 74 players belly up to the tables. 10 players decided to take advantage of the re-buy option, so in the end, the prize-pool hit the €823.2k mark. Brandon Barnes finished with the biggest stack as the field whittled down to 45.
