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WPT Grand Prix de Paris – Day 4 Report
Posted by: Jo Martin - Wed, 2013-10-30 07:51
On Tuesday, the 4th day of the WPT’s Grand Prix de Paris went into the books. 24 players showed up at the beginning of the day to play down to the final table, which is exactly what they did. Start of the day chip leader Vasili Firsau took a massive lead heading into the final stretch of the
poker tournament: he finished with 2.89 million chips to his name. To illustrate how big an advantage he managed to accrue: Christina Lindley finished second in chips, with 880k.
A total of 6 players remained in contention at the end of the day. Mohsin Charania was among those who successfully made their way to the final table. Elliott Smith and Kimmo Kurko will be among those retuning on Day 5 too.
Interestingly, as the day began, the money-bubble was still a hurdle to overcome. David Hu was the first victim of the day. He was followed to the rail by Eldos Davlet and by Jonnie Sonelin, Sonelin, the bubble-boy, was bounced by Jason Koon on a rather classic A,Qo vs A,Ko match-up. Koon then headed to the rail himself after his Kd, Qd fell to Firsau’s A,Qo on a board full of bricks. At least ge didn’t go home empty-handed: he pocketed $27.1k for his efforts.
Victor Chopeaux then got unlucky enough to pick up pocket Ks in a hand in which Firsau had pocket rockets. Chopeaux was bounced in 9th place.
Matt Salsberg was among those who fell too, together with Ali Mekhtoub and Bernard Guigon who became the final table bubble-boy. Guigon got his last chips into the middle with an A,Qo against Christina Langley’s A,Ko, and he failed to catch anything.
Vile Mattila, Byron Kaverman, Kara Scott, Micah Rashkin and Marvin Rettenmaier were all among the day 4 victims as well.
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