Day 4 Out
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The day began with 66 runners still in contention, everyone hoping to get themselves into a good spot to pick up the €1.25 million top prize a couple days from now. Just as was the case two nights ago, Russian Dmitry Stelmak has worked his way to the top of the overnight leader board, bagging up somewhere around 2.2 million chips. That puts him just behind Irishman Dermot Blain, and the two of them would be the chip leaders if not for the final pot of the night.
Don't look now, but EPT Snowfest champion Allan Bække is in the familiar position of chip leader once again; it's almost hard to believe. The last knockout of the night moved the Dane up to 3,483,000, and that puts him comfortably out ahead of the pack going into tomorrow's penultimate day. We probably don't have to tell you this, but going back to back in two EPT events would be equally unheard of and legendary.
Some of our other familiar faces had a bit more trouble getting things rolling today though. Joe Serock was one of the first men out, and he was followed out the door by Yury Kerzhapkin, Nick Schulman, Harrison Gimbel, Alfio Battisti, and Team PokerStars Pros Pierpaolo Fabretti and Matthias de Meulder. De Meulder's exit means that we're out of Team Pros here in San Remo, though we still have a smattering of online qualifiers and PokerStars players in the mix.
There's not much else to say about Day 4. Things happened so quickly, it was almost a blur. The final 24 will be back in the building at the later start time of 2pm tomorrow, and we'll play it out until we set a final table of eight.
Until then, buonanotte from San Remo!