Andre Akkari raised to 55,000 from under the gun, Patrik Antonius three-bet from the cutoff, Akkari four-bet to 455,000, leaving himself with 520,000 behind. Antonius shoved and Akkari called.
Andre Akkari:
Patrik Antonius:
Like yesterday against Ole Schemion, the Team PokerStars Pro needed to spike another two-outer if he was to survive. It wasn't in the cards this time as the board ran out to send Akkari home.
After finishing 5th at last year's PokerStars Championship Barcelona, Akkari now finished in 15th place and received €35,500.
Dan Abouaf open-shoved 595,000 from middle position, a shove of nearly 24 big blinds, and Saleh called in the big blind with 590,000 total.
Dan Abouaf:
Sadri Saleh:
Abouaf went from three to four outs on the flop but neither the turn nor river was the queen he needed. Abouaf was left with just 5,000, half a small blind, literally a chip and a chair.
The next hand, Abouaf got his final chip in with and Andre Akkari isolated with to get it heads-up. The flop was to pair up Abouaf, but after the turn and river Akkari's best hand preflop was best at showdown.
Abouaf was the first player out on Day 5 and received €31,700.
No fewer than three former EPT champions are still in the hunt to become a two-time EPT winner: Adrian Mateos, Patrik Antonius and Davidi Kitai. Mateos could even accomplish a rarer feat, as he won this very same event back in 2015. However, the biggest stack going into the penultimate day belongs to Tomas Jozonis. A set-fueled day on Day 4 vaulted Jozonis to the top of the leaderboard, where he sits alone with 4,075,000.
Jozonis is far from winning it outright, as he has to navigate his way through a stacked table containing the likes of Ole Schemion (2,630,000), the aforementioned Antonius (1,505,000) and Mateos (1,495,000), as well as Team PokerStars Pro Andre Akkari (960,000). Davor Lanini (900,000), Sadri Saleh (610,000) and Dan Abouaf (595,000) are the short stacks at the table.
The improbable run of qualifier Krisztian Gyorgyi is still going on, as the Hungarian sits in 5th place with 1,770,000. Gyorgyi has no previously recorded live cashes and qualified for this event for just €5 on PokerStars. Gyorgyi will take place at the other table and has to deal with the likes of Javier Fernandez (2,120,000), Honglin Jiang (1,890,000), David Peters (1,675,000), Stefan Huber (975,000), Kitai (825,00), Josip Simunic (690,000) and Nicolas Dumont (500,000).
There's a little over 5 minutes remaining in level 22 with blinds of 10,000/20,000 and a big blind ante of 20,000. Levels will be 90 minutes each for the remainder of the tournament and play will continue until 6 players are left, who will then return on Friday, May 4, to play for the title and the first place prize of €712,000.