Welcome to Day 4 of 2018 EPT Prague €5,300 Main Event
Forty-four remain and 16 of them will survive. It's time for Day 4 of 2018 PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague.
Two Day 1s and two more days have been played at Hilton Prague. The starting stack of 30,000 now represents just a couple of big blinds, and 44 competitors have emerged from the field of 1,174, competing for a first-place prize of over €1 million.
Foremost among them in terms of chip count is Konstantin Farber, who has 2 million as the tournament prepares to head to 8,000/16,000/16,000. The Day 3 leader will be joined near the top of the counts by Evangelos Bechrakis, Andrija Robovic and Parker Talbot.
The last name may be of most note to poker fans around the world, especially the nearly 100,000 who follow Talbot's online tournament exploits on Twitch.
While those players are in the best position to advance to Day 5, accomplished players like Liviu Ignat, Tobias Peters, Andrey Pateychuk, Anton Wigg and Henrik Hecklen also remain in contention, so it's sure to be a contentious day here on Day 4.
Play will begin at the aforementioned 16,000 level with eight-handed tables and 90-minute levels, starting at noon local time here in the Czech capital. Breaks will be given after every level and play will continue until the last 16 bag up for the final two days of the event. A 30-second timer will be in use, with players getting replenished stashes of six time banks.
Stay with us at PokerNews as the final EPT event of the year continues to wind down.
, Kreft checked, Metter bet 45,000 which Rogacki called. Kreft now decided to shove for 199,000 in total. Mette also shoved for 340,000 in total and Rogacki snap-called,
to give Mette two pair and have Kreft drawing dead. Rogacki needed an ace, six or four to have the higher two pair and eliminate both Mette and Kreft.
for Mette to hold on to his lead and double up through Rogacki and take Kreft's last chips.
. Bechrakis fired 250,000 and Grochulski called. On the 
turn, Bechrakis used a time bank then slid 500,000 in. Grochulski took his turn to use time extensions — two of them — then called. On the 
river, Bechrakis quickly jammed for 635,000 and Grochulski used another extension then called.
and it Grochulski winged his cards to the muck. The dealer retrieved them and turned over 
and Hecklen bet 45,000. Luo called and both players checked the 
and Teh tabled 
for Talbot to turn the pair of aces and improve to two pair to eliminate the Day 1B chip leader in 25th place for €28,130.
and Bechrakis continued for 105,000. Zeiter made it 350,000 and Luo shoved all in for around 1.1 million. Bechrakis mucked and Zeiter called right away, turning over 
though, and Zeiter had him slightly covered.
