Danchev Leads Final 21; Sabat Makes Top-40 Finish For Third Year In A Row
The 2013 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event continued on Friday as the remaining 59 entrants of a 987-player field returned for four more levels of action. After six hours of play, that field had been whittled down to the final 21. Leading the pack is Dimitar Danchev, who bagged up the chip lead with 4,080,000.
Danchev hit a heater late in the day, as evidenced by one of the last hands before bagging and tagging.
Another player who chipped up here on Day 4 was Owen Crowe, who eliminated Team PokerStars Pro Eugene Katchalov along the way. It happened when Katchalov open-shipped all in for his last roughly 305,000 from the button and Crowe, who was recently moved to Katchalov's table, flatted from the small blind. The big blind folded and the hands were tabled.
Katchalov: 
Crowe: 
Katchalov was in dire straits and it got even worse when Crowe flopped a full house. The 
flop left Katchlov looking for running sixes to stay alive. The 
turned and sealed Katchlov's fate in 29th place for $47,000. The meaningless 
completed the board and Crowe was able to drag in a pot that boosted his stack to about 2.48 million.
In addition, Ryan Fair fared well on Day 4 starting in Level 20. It was there the 2010 SCOOP Main Event champion opened under the gun for 22,000 received calls from four other players, which meant it was five-handed action to the 
flop.
Two checks put action on Fair, who bet 65,000. Michael Malm folded, Darren Elias, who won the 2012 WCOOP $10,300 High Roller event, called from the button, and both blinds got out of the way, making it heads-up action to the 
turn. This time Fair check-called a bet of 66,000, and then checked the 
river. Elias moved all in and Fair called off holding 
for queens full. Elias then showed 
and watched some chips sent over to a tough opponent.
In the next level, Fair doubled through Elias again on a 
flop with about 70,000 in the pot. Elias had just bet 28,000 only to have Fair raise to 103,000. "All in," Elias said to put his opponent at risk.
"Call," Fair snapped to commit his stack of 499,000. Elias then flipped 
, but it was no good as Fair held 
. The 
turn left Elias drawing dead, and after the 
was put out on the river for good measure, Fair was pushed the massive pot.
Unfortunately not everyone did so well on Day 4. Among those who fell were two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winners Scott Clements (55th - $32,000) and Greg Mueller (40th - $39,000); circuit regular Andy Philachack (53rd - $32,000); recent WCOOP Main Event runner-up Ryan "TheCart3r" Carter (52nd - $32,000); Team PokerStars Pro Jake Cody (47th - $32,000); PokerStars Team Online's Tatiana Barausova (46th - $32,000); Day 2 chip leader and $10 qualifier Nicolas Godoy (42nd - $32,000); and 2001 WSOP Main Event champ Carlos Mortensen (36th – $39,000).
While many notables fell, a few managed to punch their ticket to the penultimate day including 2012 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo? Casino EPT Grand Final champion Mohsin Charania; recent World Poker Tour Montreal champ Jonathan Roy; poker pro and noted commentator Olivier Busquet; one of the Mizrachi Brothers, Robert Mizrachi; and feared Europeans Yann Dion, Manig Loeser and Mikal Blomlie, just to name a few.
It’s also worth noting that Eddy Sabat is among the top 21, giving him a top-40 finish for the third year in a row—he took 30th in 2001 for $66,000 and 40th last year for $41,000. Will this be the year Sabat finally breaks through? If it is, he’ll have his work cut out for himself as he will begin Day 5 with a below-average stack of 714,000.
Day 5 is scheduled to kick off at 12:00 p.m. EST on Saturday when the final 21 players will play down to the final table of eight. Join us then as the PokerNews Live Reporting Team brings you all the action from the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island in the Bahamas.