Main Event
Dia 4 Iniciado
Main Event
Dia 4 Iniciado
Three days are in the books and three remain in PokerStars Championship presented by Monte-Carlo Casino® €5,300 Main Event.
A starting field of 727 runners has been reduced to just 45, so the tournament is well into the money with the current payout being €15,420. However, everyone has their eyes on the €500,800 top prize, and a number of top players remain in contention.
Stefan Schillhabel, Davidi Kitai, Sergio Aido, and French tournament legend Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier are all in the top 10 in chips. However, everyone's looking up at Frenchman Michael Kolkowicz, who has 1,445,000 as blinds and antes head to 5,000/10,000/1,000.
Day 4 of the event will see the players grind their way through five more levels, each lasting 90 minutes. When they wrap things up at Level 23, they'll be playing 12,000/24,000/4,000. There will be 20-minute breaks between each level. Stay tuned here on PokerNews as we bring you all of the live updates throughout the day.
Day 4 Seat Draw
Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1 | Diego Vilela | Brazil | 358,000 |
1 | 3 | Moritz Dietrich | Germany | 821,000 |
1 | 4 | Raffaele Sorrentino | Italy | 197,000 |
1 | 5 | Diego Zeiter | Switzerland | 476,000 |
1 | 6 | Remi Castaignon | France | 142,000 |
1 | 7 | Vicente Delgado | Spain | 501,000 |
1 | 8 | Peyman Luth | Germany | 533,000 |
2 | 1 | Lukasz Kubicki | Poland | 315,000 |
2 | 2 | Marius-Catalin Pertea | Romania | 860,000 |
2 | 3 | Sergio Aido | Spain | 719,000 |
2 | 4 | Sergei Petrushevskii | Russia | 541,000 |
2 | 5 | Hossein Ensan | Germany | 718,000 |
2 | 6 | Arne Coulier | Belgium | 394,000 |
2 | 7 | Jeffrey Hakim | Lebanon | 511,000 |
2 | 8 | Maxim Panyak | Russia | 921,000 |
3 | 1 | Dan Smith | United States | 99,000 |
3 | 2 | Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier | France | 766,000 |
3 | 3 | Sebastian Malec | Poland | 509,000 |
3 | 5 | Paul Testud | France | 100,000 |
3 | 6 | Alexandru Papazian | Romania | 670,000 |
3 | 7 | Marius Gierse | Germany | 383,000 |
3 | 8 | Dmytro Shuvanov | Ukraine | 604,000 |
4 | 1 | Lee Hon Cheong | Hong Kong | 637,000 |
4 | 2 | Michael Kolkowicz | France | 1,445,000 |
4 | 4 | Stefan Schillhabel | Germany | 1,380,000 |
4 | 5 | Shijirbaatar Sanjaasuren | Mongolia | 145,000 |
4 | 6 | Paul-Francois Tedeschi | France | 560,000 |
4 | 7 | Krisztian Fejerdi | Hungary | 130,000 |
4 | 8 | Douglas Ferreira Souza | Brazil | 428,000 |
5 | 1 | Andrey Bondar | Russia | 180,000 |
5 | 2 | Jerome Brion | France | 406,000 |
5 | 3 | Chebli Chebli | Lebanon | 291,000 |
5 | 4 | Stefan Huber | Switzerland | 235,000 |
5 | 5 | Manig Loeser | Germany | 350,000 |
5 | 6 | Gianluca Speranza | Italy | 347,000 |
5 | 7 | Jan Bendik | Slovakia | 223,000 |
5 | 8 | Diego Ventura | Peru | 371,000 |
6 | 1 | Philipp Kober | Austria | 149,000 |
6 | 2 | Davidi Kitai | Belgium | 1,087,000 |
6 | 3 | Romain Nardin | France | 577,000 |
6 | 4 | Karim Souaid | France | 510,000 |
6 | 5 | Luiz Duarte | Brazil | 204,000 |
6 | 6 | Andreas Klatt | Germany | 254,000 |
6 | 7 | Shakhabiddin Muradov | Latvia | 170,000 |
6 | 8 | [Removed:43] | France | 477,000 |
Nível: 19
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 1,000
The button will begin in Seat 1, and Day 4 is a go.
In one of the first hands of the day, Dan Smith got his stack in with the and Alexandru Papazian looked him up with . The board ran out and Smith's flopped straight scored him a double.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Alexandru Papazian
|
557,000 | -113,000 |
Dan Smith
|
204,000 | 105,000 |
Chebli Chebli from Lebanon was the first casualty of the day. He lost the majority of his chips doubling Stefan Hubet with tens all in against jacks. The remainder of his chips, about 5 big blinds, he lost with up against . 44 players remain.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Chebli Chebli | Eliminado |
Raffaele Sorrentino opened in middle position and got two callers in the blinds. The flop came , and the small blind led for 36,000. Big blind Diego Vilela called, and Sorrentino immediately shoved when it was on him. It was 154,000 total. The small blind quickly folded, but Vilela called after some thought.
Vilela:
Sorrentino:
The turn was a and the river a , giving Sorrentino double.
At a nearby table, Davidi Kitai opened for 25,000 and Karim Souaid flatted on the button. Big blind Andreas Klatt shoved all in for about 250,000, and Souaid called after Kitai mucked.
Souaid:
Klatt:
The flop brought something for both: . Souaid now needed another heart. Two red cards fell, but both were diamonds on the turn and river, giving Klatt the pot.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Andreas Klatt | 538,000 | 284,000 |
Raffaele Sorrentino | 410,000 | 213,000 |
Karim Souaid | 310,000 | -200,000 |
Diego Vilela | 183,000 | -175,000 |
Shakhabiddin Muradov shoved all in for 160,000 at his table and received a call from Karim Souaid, who looked to have come into the pot for a raise in front of him.
Muradov:
Souaid:
Souaid was already one flip down but this one would go in his favor: , giving him aces up.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Karim Souaid | 465,000 | 155,000 |
Shakhabiddin Muradov | Eliminado |
We found Remi Castaignon snap-calling his stack off in a battle of blinds against Vicente Delgado.
Delgado:
Castaignon:
Castaignon faded the ace as the board ran out . His neighbor shipped over 230,000.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Remi Castaignon
|
468,000 | 326,000 |
Vicente Delgado | 380,000 | -121,000 |
Sergei Petrushevskii was first to act and opened to 22,000. His neighbor, Hossein Ensan, three-bet to 39,000. This got rid of all the other players but Petrushevskii called.
Petrushevskii carefully tapped the table once the flop hit. Ensan bet 39,000 and Petrushevskii called.
Both players checked the on the turn before the completed the board. Petrushevskii checked for the third time. Ensan grabbed a 5,000-chip from a tower of blues and moved the rest forward: a 95,000 bet.
Petrushevskii thought about it for a bit before he tossed in a chip to call. Ensan showed for the flush, Petrushevskii mucked quietly.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Hossein Ensan
|
865,000 | 147,000 |
Sergei Petrushevskii | 345,000 | -196,000 |