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PokerStars NAPT – Day 4 report
Posted by: Randy Williams - Wed, 2010-02-24 21:20
24 players returned to the tables of the Venetian for the 4th day of the
PokerStars North American Poker Tour’s Main event. The goal was obviously to play down to the final 8 players, setting up the official final table.
Sam Stein came into the day second in chips, but he had a plan and he stuck to it. He played aggressively and the chances he took paid off: when the final table was set, he was the player holding the largest stack and thus he secured the best odds for day 5.
The 24 players returning for day 4 wasted no time. They were at each others’ throats right out of the gate and the first level claimed no fewer then 3 tournament lives: those of Michael de Gilio, Christina Lindley and Jonathan Aguiar.
Eric Blair, the previous day’s chip leader didn’t have an auspicious start at all. He began with 4 million chips and before he knew it, he was down to 1.68 million.
Stein on the other hand, had no such problems. The local
NL Holdem player dominated the poker tournament. He got involved in many hands, and he kept up the pressure. At one point during the day, he was up to 9 million chips. It was then he began to take shots at the short-stacks to try to bully them out. All he achieved though was to chip up some of the guys and to bring them back from the edge of extinction. As a result of those moves, his stack soon whittled down to 6.1 million, but even that was well enough to give him the final table chip lead.
The final table bubble boy was Kyle Zartman, who busted in 9th place to set the official 8-handed day 5 field.
Tom Fuller will start the final table second in chips, followed closely by David Paredes. Yunus Jamal isn’t far behind either, and Tom Marchese has a relatively solid stack too. Eric Blair and Daniel Clemente are quite short stacked, but the official short-stack is John Cernuto with 1.3 million chips.
With the $827,000 first prize on the line, these 8 players shall convene on Day 5 to duke it out for all the marbles.
