70 Players Return for Day 4 of the 2017 PokerStars Championship Barcelona Main Event
At 12 p.m. noon local time, Day 4 of the 2017 PokerStars Championship Barcelona �5,300 Main Event will get underway at the annex of Casino Barcelona and 70 hopefuls remain out of a field of 1,682 entries, each eying the trophy and first-place payout of �1,410,000 that comes along with it. All players have �18,190 locked up so far and the action will recommence in level 21 with blinds of 8,000/16,000 and a running ante of 2,000.
Leading the field of survivors is Australia's Benjamin Richardson with 2,804,000 followed by Japan's Tsugunari Toma (2,448,000) while Scott Wellenbach from Canada makes for an international top three with 2,032,000. Other big stacks include Aleksandr Gofman (1,915,000), Patrick Leonard (1,785,000), Nadia Wanzi (1,657,000), Brian Kaufman Esposito (1,465,000), Albert Daher (1,382,000), Usman Siddique (1,296,000), Igor Dubinskyy (942,000) Alex DiFelice (865,000).
Raffaele Sorrentino knows exactly how it feels to lift the PokerStars Championship trophy after emerging victorious in Monte Carlo earlier this year and will return with an above-average stack of 955,000 while PokerStars Team Pro Andre Akkari advanced to Day 4 with 566,000.
Day 4 Blind Structure
| Level | Duration | Small Blind | Big Blind | Ante |
| 21 | 90 min | 8,000 | 16,000 | 2,000 |
| 22 | 90 min | 10,000 | 20,000 | 3,000 |
| 23 | 90 min | 12,000 | 24,000 | 4,000 |
| 24 | 90 min | 15,000 | 30,000 | 5,000 |
| 25 | 90 min | 20,000 | 40,000 | 5,000 |
| 26 | 90 min | 25,000 | 50,000 | 5,000 |
A total of six levels of 90 minutes each are scheduled for today, and depending on the progress of the tournament, the action will stop at either 24 or 16 players. You can find out right here on PokerNews, as we will provide all the action from the floor.