Daniel Chutrov Leads the Way After Day 3 of the OlyBet Kings of Tallinn Main Event
Daniel Chutrov heads into Day 4 of the 2018 OlyBet Kings of Tallinn €1,100 Main Event in the chip lead with 638,000 in chips. The Bulgarian is shooting for his second big win after previously shipping the 2015 Unibet Open Glasgow Main Event for ￡43,000.
The day began with 60 hopefuls competing for the €62,000 top prize or at least the minimum cash paid to the top 31 players. The first blind level witnessed a slew of eliminations before the action slowed down during the second blind level.
The money bubble was reached near the end of the fourth blind level of the day after Maksim Petrov was eliminated in 32nd place when his pocket jacks were unable to outflip his opponents ace-king.
A break took place shortly after, and it only took 30 minutes for the field to be further trimmed from 31 to 24 players with each player cashing for €2,110 including Team OlyBet Pro Raigo Aasmaa.
In addition to Chutrov, two other players finished the day with more than 600,000 in chips including Lithuania's Arunas Garunkstis (second - 626,000) and Team OlyBet Pro Dmitrijs Meless (third - 623,000).
Garunkstis began the day with a big stack and extended it by the end while Meless started the day with 132,000 and zoomed up in the standings consistently throughout the day.
After the day was over, Meless shared with PokerNews that his day started very strongly after he doubled up against a highly aggressive player with pocket jacks against pocket nines.
He further explained that he was moved to a softer table where he chipped up further by three-bet bluffing and didn't have to go all-in once. He moved to a third table before the bubble and he shared that a "green light" went off and he was raising just about every pot to chip up further.
Near the end the day, he took out two short stacks to bag a third-place stack into Day 4. The Latvian feels good about the rest of the tournament even though he understands that anything can change at any time.
"Everything changes every minute," shared Meless. "But, I have a very good feeling about the rest of the tournament."
Also having a good day was Arto Antero Lehtonen ending the day with 514,000 in chips and Day 2 chip leader and Finnish poker legend Juha Helppi bagging a fifth-place stack of 474,000.
The action resumes tomorrow at 12 p.m. local time and play until the field is reduced from 24 players to 9 players. Blinds will resume at 5,000/10,000 with an ante of 1,000 for the remaining 30 minutes left on the clock when the day ended.
As was the case the past three days, the PokerNews live reporting team will be back on the floor to provide complete coverage tomorrow and beyond until a winner is declared.