Anatoly Korochenskiy raised to 40,000 under the gun and Dimitar Danchev called in the big blind.
The flop came 2♦8♥4♥ and Korochenski continued for 45,000. Danchev called and the A♠ fell on the turn.
Korochenskiy then moved all in and Danchev called for his last 150,000. Korochenskiy showed K♦J♦, while Danchev was ahead with A♣5♣.
The river was the J♠ and Danchev doubled up, leaving Korochenskiy on a short stack.
At the same time at another table, Byron Kaverman raised to 285,000 as Clement Michaud used a time bank before reshoving from the cutoff. The table folded back to Kaverman in the hijack who also used a time bank before tossing in his last 5,000.
Byron Kaverman: A♥10♠
Clement Michaud: 8♣8♠
The 10♥5♣10♠ flop gave Kaverman trip tens, while the A♠ turn improved him to a full house and left Michaud drawing dead going to the A♦ river as Kaverman doubled.
Of the 1,747 entries that the €5,300 PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Paris Main Event attracted, just 57 will make an appearance at Le Palais des Congrès today at noon local time for Day 4. Two of them have a chance to achieve something extraordinary, as both Grigorii Rodin and Peter Jorgne are looking to make consecutive EPT final tables, although each in a different way.
Jorgne's stack lands him in the ninth position on the leaderboard, which is topped by Panagiotis Mavritsakis. The Greek player, who is playing in his very first EPT, bagged 2,930,000 chips on Day 3, over 30 big blinds more than his nearest competitor Eric Afriat, who will start with 2,300,000. EPT Barcelona 2013 champion Tom Middleton, meanwhile, rounds out the top three with a stack of 2,190,000 chips.
Start of Day 4 Top Ten Chip Counts
Place
Player
Country
Chip Count
Big Blinds
1
Panagiotis Mavritsakis
Greece
2,930,000
147
2
Eric Afriat
Canada
2,300,000
115
3
Tom Middleton
United Kingdom
2,190,000
110
4
Lorenzo Arduini
Italy
2,050,000
103
5
Mathias Siljander
Finland
1,750,000
88
6
David Kaufmann
Germany
1,645,000
82
7
Sindre Hansen
Norway
1,590,000
80
8
Hans Erlandsson
Sweden
1,550,000
78
9
Peter Jorgne
Sweden
1,475,000
74
10
Florian Duta
Romania
1,305,000
65
Other notable names who made it to Day 4 include EPT Champions Anton Wigg (1,250,000) and Dimitar Danchev (285,000), high-stakes regulars Lewis Spencer (1,015,000), Aleksejs Ponakovs (975,000), and Byron Kaverman (290,000), British poker legend Barny Boatman (635,000), and aptly-named online crusher and former streamer Bryan Paris (505,000).
Bryan Paris
All 57 players have already secured a €19,850 piece of the €8,385,600 prize pool and only two more eliminations are needed before that will be bumped up to € 22,900. All eyes will be on the monstrous € 1,287,800 first-place prize, however, although the road to victory is still long.
Remaining Payouts
Place
Prize
Place
Prize
1
€ 1,287,800
12-13
€ 76,300
2
€ 804,750
14-15
€ 63,550
3
€ 574,850
16-17
€ 53,000
4
€ 442,150
18-20
€ 46,050
5
€ 340,100
21-23
€ 40,000
6
€ 261,650
24-27
€ 34,800
7
€ 201,250
28-31
€ 30,250
8
€ 154,800
32-39
€ 26,350
9
€ 119,100
40-55
€ 22,900
10-11
€ 91,550
56-57
€ 19,850
When play resumes in Level 22, blinds will be at 10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 big blind ante. The Main Event is scheduled to play five 90-minute levels on Day 4, after which 45 minutes of Level 27 will be played before the day ends. A 20-minute break will be held after every level, with the break after Level 25 being extended to 65 minutes to allow the players to have dinner.
Stay tuned to PokerNews to find out who makes it through to the penultimate day of the EPT Paris Main Event, and check out PokerStars'Twitch and YouTube channels for cards-up coverage of the feature table.
