Action folded to chip-leading Jack Sinclair in the small blind. He moved all in for 4,500,000 effective in Yulian Bogdanov's stack. Bogdanov made the call fairly quickly.
Yulian Bogdanov:
Jack Sinclair:
It was Sinclair who was dominated, looking for a ten to score the knockout. Bogdanov saw the safe flop. The turn was a dagger, though, when the hit, flipping the script and leaving Bogdanov drawing to his three outs. The landed on the river to seal the deal and send Bogdanov home.
With 9 players remaining, the tournament director has stopped play and given players bags for the night. Action will pick back up tomorrow with the final table coverage. A full recap of today's action and updated chip counts will be posted shortly.
After nearly 12 hours of play, the final table has been reached and the stage is set. A total of 85 players started the third day of the €1,100 Eureka Main Event here at the 2022 PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague inside of the Hilton Prague, but only nine remain in their quest for the €496,760 first-place prize.
The record-breaking attendance for this event resulted in a prize pool of €3,856,320. The final nine have already locked up at least €45,390 and return tomorrow looking for more.
Several players are hot on Sinclair's heels, and they each made plenty of impressive plays to get where they are. Chip leader entering the day was Quentin Guivarch (8,775,000). His stack fell short several times, but always bounced back when he needed to, winning when way behind and by making trips against top-two pair.
Speaking of resilience, Leonardo Romeo (22,000,000) had his share of tests throughout the day. After building a big stack, he had to overcome both a two-outer and a one-outer to lose two massive pots, yet battled back each time to end the day in second place going into tomorrow. He was also responsible for ending PokerStars AmbassadorAlejandro Lococo's day by picking off a bluff to send him home.
Action will pick up Monday, December 12 at 12 p.m. local time in Level 35 with blinds of 200,000/400,000/400,000.
PokerNews will of course be right there to bring you all of the action as this one closes out on Monday, so tune in then to follow this one to its exciting conclusion and see if Sinclair can find a first-place finish.