€10,000 EPT Grand Final Main Event
Day 4 Completed
2009 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final
€10,000 EPT Grand Final Main Event
Day: 4
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2009 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final
Buy-in
€10,000
Prize Pool
€9,350,000
Entries
935
Level
33
Blinds
120,000 / 240,000
Ante
0
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Today's Day 4 was all about Dag Mikkelsen. He started the day in the middle of the pack and steadily worked his was up until he was the man on top at the end of the day. When the last eight players return tomorrow, Mikkelsen will start the day with 25 percent of the chips in play.
The eight survivors are:
Seat 1: Peter Traply (4,365,000)
Seat 2: Mikhail Tulchinskiy (3,220,000)
Seat 3: Eric Qu (2,880,000)
Seat 4: Pieter de Korver (2,440,000)
Seat 5: Alem Shah (1,515,000)
Seat 6: Daniel Zink (1,865,000)
Seat 7: Matthew Woodward (4,560,000)
Seat 8: Dag Mikkelsen (7,315,000)
They will return at noon tomorrow to play down until one person has all the chips and the €2,300,000 first-place prize. See you then.
Tulchinskiy released, but Mikkelsen asked for an exact count and then took what we can charitably call a flyer and put another one million chips into the pot.
Rossiter:
Mikkelsen:
There was some tittering from the gallery when Mikkelsen opened his hand, but the hand was far from a lock for Rossiter. In fact, Mikkelsen's supporters cheered loudly when the window card was the
, only to boo loudly when the dealer spread the 
and the 
as well. Mikkelsen asked for the 
on the turn (to keep things interesting) but instead got the 
-- an interesting card in its own right. Rossiter needed to dodge a six, seven or eight on the river but couldn't do it. The 
fell to make an eight-high straight for Mikkelsen.With that card, Rossiter left the feature table in ninth place, collecting €125,000. We're done for the night.
Seat 2: Mikhail Tulchinskiy (3,170,000)
Seat 3: Eric Qu (2,495,000)
Seat 4: Pieter de Korver (3,040,000)
Seat 5: Alem Shah (1,640,000)
Seat 6: Daniel Zink (1,710,000)
Seat 7: Matthew Woodward (4,870,000)
Seat 8: Dag Mikkelsen (5,510,000)
Seat 9: Chris Rossiter (1,590,000)
Naalden:
Mikkelsen:
It was a case of unfortunate timing for Naalden. He whiffed completely on a flop of
and was drawing dead by the 
turn. After playing so well for such long stretches of the tournament, Naalden is probably disappointed to barely miss the final table. His tenth-place finish was worth €125,000.
flop -- but looks can be deceptive, and all hell broke loose, resulting in Mikkelsen finding himself all in, covered by Naalden.Naalden:
for the up-and-down draw.Mikkelsen:
for a set.Turn:
, bringing Mikkelsen the full house and leaving Naalden drawing dead.River: a completely irrelevant
.Mikkelsen doubled up to around 4,000,000 with the appropriate whooping, high-fiving of his friends at the rail and so on; Naalden, meanwhile, sadly re-stacked his remaining 600,000 or so chips -- he is absolutely crippled.
A couple hands later, Mikkelsen took a big pot off of former chip leader Matt Woodward too, leaving him on 4,880,000 and our clear chip leader.