40 Hopefuls Battle for �602,400 on Day 4
Welcome to Day 4 of the 2015 PokerStars.com EPT Season 12 Malta�5,300 Main Event! The field of 651 runners has been decimated to just 40 players, al eyeing that first place prize of �602,400.
Max Silver was the last player to get eliminated on Day 3 yesterday, cashing for �11,840. The remaining 40 hopefuls are guaranteed �11,840 at this point, but the next jump is straight away as 39th place will take home �13,730.
Jaroslaw Sikora from Poland stands in best position with a stack of 1,457,000 (146 big blinds). Alexander Ivarsson (1,306,000), Faraz Jaka (1,200,000), Niall Farrell (1,160,000) and Sam Greenwood (1,160,000) also all poses stacks worth more than a million/100 big blinds.
Austrian high roller Thomas Muehloecker (135,000), Dutch EPT regular Paul Berende (108,000) and Italian Antonio Mitrotta (103,000) are the shortest of the pack.
The plan for today is to play down to 16 players or play 5 levels, whichever comes faster. The levels will be 90 minutes long, and after each level a break of 20 minutes is scheduled. The last break, the one after level 23, will be 30 minutes.
Play starts at noon, so in about 90 minutes from now. You can again follow all the action right here on PokerNews.com, with updates from the first flop till the last river. Also available for your railing pleasure is coverage of the �10,000 High Roller event. After the big fields in the �25,000 High Roller and �10,000 one-day event, we expect nothing less for this traditional 3-day high roller. Seven players won seats for this event in last night��s �500 Super satellite. Amongst the winners were Team PokerStars Pro Andre Akkari, EPT Copenhagen champion Anton Wigg, EPT Deauville winner Remi Castaignon and EPT Barcelona High Roller winner Jonathan Currle. Jean Montury, who won last season��s EPT Malta champion, narrowly missed out, finishing eighth for �3,560. You can follow coverage of that event right here, which starts at 12:30.