We've already lost two of the three Team PokerStars Pro Online players today as Christian Favale just got knocked out as well. Favale was all in on the flop against Marko Neumann in a showdown that ran out as following.
The flop showed when "All in and a call," was announced, and Neumann was in the lead.
Neumann:
Favale:
The board ran out , and Favale hit the rail in 34th place while Neumann raked in a big pot.
Team PokerStars Pro Online Mickey Petersen has been knocked out in 35th place after losing a coin flip against Artur Koren. Koren raised before the flop and Petersen moved all in with his short stack holding , according to PokerStars SportStar Fatima Moreira de Melo.
Koren made the call with and the board brought no help for the former winner of EPT Copenhagen.
Yann Pineau raised to 25,000 from the cutoff and found calls from Fadhil Farag on the button, Marco Caza in the small blind, and Sergio Aido in the big blind.
The flop came down and the two blinds checked back to Pineau. He continued for 28,000 and Farag moved all in over the top for 79,000 total. Caza and Aido folded, sending Pineau into the tank. After about a minute, he slid forward a call.
Pineau:
Farag:
Farag was in the lead with top pair of queens and stayed that way through the on the turn and the on the river. Farag scored the double and now has about 180,000 to his name.
The action was folded to Francis Foord-Brown who moved all in from the hijack for 147,000 and Jonas Lauck made the call from the button. Gino Gabriel tanked for a bit from the small blind but eventually he, and the big blind, folded their cards.
Fiord-Brown:
Lauck:
The board ran out and Foord-Brown was eliminated in 36th place just a few hands after the start of the day.
Picking up with the action on the secondary feature table, Team PokerStars Pro Online Marc-Andre Ladouceur was all in and at risk holding against Joao Vieira's .
The board ran out , keeping Ladouceur's pocket aces out in front. With this win he now has about 860,000 to his name. Vieira, who started the day as second in chips, has now fallen to 730,000.
Welcome back to our coverage of the 2014 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 London £4,250 Main Event. Just 36 of the 675 original entrants remain in the hunt for the title of EPT champion and £499,700 in first-place prize money. Jakub Mroczek holds a significant lead heading into Day 4 with a chip stack of 1.79 million.
The next largest stack in the room belongs to Joao Vieira, who bagged up 1.151 million heading into Day 4. Rounding out the top three is the only other player over one million in chips, Artur Koren, with 1.126 million.
While these three players headline the chip counts, Team PokerStars also had a fine showing on Day 3 with five Team PokerStars Pros advancing to the fourth day of play. Those to return to the felt include Jake Cody (794,000), PokerStars Team Online members Marc-Andre Ladouceur (408,000) and Christian Favale (363,000), PokerStars SportStar Fatima Moreira de Melo (279,000), Liv Boeree (156,000), and Mickey Petersen (143,000).
Other familiar names returning include EPT Season 8 London Main Event champion Benny Spindler (911,000), Sergio Aido (758,00), Simon Deadman (614,000), and EPT Season 6 Berlin Main Event winner Kevin MacPhee (598,000).
Play kicks off at 12 p.m. local time. As always, be sure to stay tuned to PokerNews for all of the latest updates from the tournament felt.