Atanas Pavlov raised to 40,000 from under the gun before Clement Kerrien three-bet all in for 365,000 from the next seat over. Pavlov spent three time banks before eventually flicking in the call.
Clement Kerrien: Q♦J♦
Atanas Pavlov: K♣Q♣
Kerrien was in bad shape, but the 8♣J♥5♥ saw him pair his jack to take the lead. The 6♦3♠ runout was of no help to Pavlov, who had to transfer half his stack to Kerrien as a result.
Leo Worthing-Leese opened to 40,000 first to act with the K♦9♦. It folded all the way to Jose Plaza in the small blind, who glanced down at A♣K♥ and three-bet to 110,000 to win the pot uncontested.
Plaza then opened to 40,000 on the button with the K♣6♣. Eliot Hudon in the small blind squeezed to 570,000 and left a single chip behind to force out Plaza.
Of the 1,747 entries that the €5,300 PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Paris Main Event attracted, just 57 will make an appearance at Le Palais des Congrès today at noon local time for Day 4. Two of them have a chance to achieve something extraordinary, as both Grigorii Rodin and Peter Jorgne are looking to make consecutive EPT final tables, although each in a different way.
Jorgne's stack lands him in the ninth position on the leaderboard, which is topped by Panagiotis Mavritsakis. The Greek player, who is playing in his very first EPT, bagged 2,930,000 chips on Day 3, over 30 big blinds more than his nearest competitor Eric Afriat, who will start with 2,300,000. EPT Barcelona 2013 champion Tom Middleton, meanwhile, rounds out the top three with a stack of 2,190,000 chips.
Start of Day 4 Top Ten Chip Counts
Place
Player
Country
Chip Count
Big Blinds
1
Panagiotis Mavritsakis
Greece
2,930,000
147
2
Eric Afriat
Canada
2,300,000
115
3
Tom Middleton
United Kingdom
2,190,000
110
4
Lorenzo Arduini
Italy
2,050,000
103
5
Mathias Siljander
Finland
1,750,000
88
6
David Kaufmann
Germany
1,645,000
82
7
Sindre Hansen
Norway
1,590,000
80
8
Hans Erlandsson
Sweden
1,550,000
78
9
Peter Jorgne
Sweden
1,475,000
74
10
Florian Duta
Romania
1,305,000
65
Other notable names who made it to Day 4 include EPT Champions Anton Wigg (1,250,000) and Dimitar Danchev (285,000), high-stakes regulars Lewis Spencer (1,015,000), Aleksejs Ponakovs (975,000), and Byron Kaverman (290,000), British poker legend Barny Boatman (635,000), and aptly-named online crusher and former streamer Bryan Paris (505,000).
All 57 players have already secured a €19,850 piece of the €8,385,600 prize pool and only two more eliminations are needed before that will be bumped up to € 22,900. All eyes will be on the monstrous € 1,287,800 first-place prize, however, although the road to victory is still long.
Remaining Payouts
Place
Prize
Place
Prize
1
€ 1,287,800
12-13
€ 76,300
2
€ 804,750
14-15
€ 63,550
3
€ 574,850
16-17
€ 53,000
4
€ 442,150
18-20
€ 46,050
5
€ 340,100
21-23
€ 40,000
6
€ 261,650
24-27
€ 34,800
7
€ 201,250
28-31
€ 30,250
8
€ 154,800
32-39
€ 26,350
9
€ 119,100
40-55
€ 22,900
10-11
€ 91,550
56-57
€ 19,850
When play resumes in Level 22, blinds will be at 10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 big blind ante. The Main Event is scheduled to play five 90-minute levels on Day 4, after which 45 minutes of Level 27 will be played before the day ends. A 20-minute break will be held after every level, with the break after Level 25 being extended to 65 minutes to allow the players to have dinner.
Stay tuned to PokerNews to find out who makes it through to the penultimate day of the EPT Paris Main Event, and check out PokerStars'Twitch and YouTube channels for cards-up coverage of the feature table.