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PokerStars EPT Prague – Day 4 Report
Posted by: Jo Martin - Sun, 2011-12-11 11:21
The goal of the surviving field on day 4 of the
EPT Prague Main Event was to play down to the final table and that goal was indeed reached. Martin Finger will lead the survivors into the final battle. He managed to amass 5.8 million chips. Nicolas Levi had an excellent day as well: he finished second with a stack of 5.69 million chips.
31 players bellied up to the tables at the beginning of the day. Sharon Volfer was the first one to bite the dust. There were two team PokerStars pros in the field at that point, but one of them, Juan Manuel Pastor busted immediately after Volfer in 30th place, leaving Jude Ainsworth to carry the PokerStars banner. Ainsworth too met his tournament end in 14th place, at the hands of Patrick Renkers. The main culprit for the busting of the last
PokerStars pro was Andreas Wiese though. Wiese was the one who got him started on the slippery slope of elimination, by bullying him around and eventually forcing him to fold a hand in which he had quite a few chips shoved into the middle.
Renkers then swooped in on the very next hand and completed the job: the money went into the middle on a flop of 6,5,4. Renkers tabled pocket 10s and Ainsworth has A,6o. No help came for Ainsworth on the turn or the river and he was eliminated.
Mike McDonald didn’t make it as far. He fell in 27th. Jason Gray faded away in 19th, and Chris Moorman followed them to the rail in 15th.
Renkers may have held the chip lead at the beginning of the day, but when the action was called, he wasn’t among the survivors either. He was the final table bubble-boy, the last one to be eliminated on day 4.
In his last hand, Renkers’ pocket Qs fell to Finger’s A,K, which proceeded to make quad Aces on the river.
