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PokerStars EPT Warsaw – Day 4: final table set
Posted by: James Carter. - Mon, 2009-10-26 05:32
Day 4 of the 2009 PokerStars
EPT Warsaw Main Event saw the field play right down to the final table. Day 5’s action will start with Oleksandr Vaserfirer in the chip lead, and with PokerStars Team Pro member Luca Pagano still very much alive.
Vaserfirer had managed to amass a stack of 1.8 million chips. Pagano will have 984,000 at his disposal at the final table, as short-stacks Alexander Klimashin and Anatoly Gurtoyov will have only 266,000 and 332,000 respectively.
24 players returned to the tables of the Casinos Poland in the Hyatt Hotel, each and every one of them in the money. Some of the bigger names still in action were Vitaly Lunkin, Anthony Lellouche and Shaun Deeb, unfortunately none of these guys would make it past the early stages of day 4.
The previous day’s chip leader, Jeff Sarwer had a bad day 4 too. He dropped almost all his chips early in the day, when his pocket 8s fell to Oleksandr Vaserfirer’s A,K, which managed to catch an A on a board of A,7,2,10,7.
From that point on, things took a sudden southward turn for the ex chess champion. His elimination came at the hands of the same Vaserfirer. Hanging on to a short stack, Sarwer decided to shove it all in holding an A,K.
Vaserfirer made the call with pocket Qs and the coin-flip was on. The board landed A,10,6 on the flop, which game Sarwer a glimmer of hope. The 10 on the turn was ok for him but the Q on the river sealed his fate in 10th place.
In order for the official final table to be set, another player needed to be bounced. Alexander Debus became the final table
bubble boy of the PokerStars EPT Warsaw after the players were reseated to a 9-handed unofficial final table. Debus ran into Luca Pagano’s pocket Qs for the bust. The elimination gave the Italian enough ammo to lock up the provisional second place going into the final table action. Pagano had started Day 4 on one of the shorter stacks but he bounced back in a remarkable manner to etch his name onto the list of contenders once again.
