Taylor Paur Takes Big Chip Lead Into Day 4 of THE MARATHON
After six levels of 100 minutes each, 60 players have made it through to Day 4 of Event #24: $2,620 THE MARATHON No-Limit Hold’em. The five-day tournament trudges on, as it shed another sizable portion of the 246 players that started the day. When chips were bagged for the night, it was WSOP bracelet winner Taylor Paur who dominated his tables during the later levels. Paur bagged 2,958,000 in chips, which makes him the chipleader by a wide margin.
Trailing him by almost 100 big blinds is Anton Morgenstern with 1,775,000 and Mark Sleet with 1,550,000. Closing out the top five are Hiep Doan and Jonas Mackoff with 1,442,000 and 1,356,000 in chips, respectively.
There is no shortage of notable players to follow for Day 4 though as players like Michael Addamo (1,096,000), Matt Affleck (884,000), Julien Sitbon (868,000), WSOP Main Event Champions Martin Jacobson (811,000) and Scotty Nguyen (483,000), 888poker ambassador Chris Moorman (445,000), Stoyan Obreshkov (769,000), Cate Hall (574,000) and Martin Staszko (516,000) all made it through to the penultimate day.
Unfortunately, not everyone managed to bag their chips at the end of the day. Even though money was already locked up, some of the players that would have hoped to cash more in the end included Sam Cohen, JP Kelly, Marvin Rettenmaier, Govert Metaal, Kristen Bicknell, Pierre Merlin, David Peters, Andre Akkari, Jesse Sylvia, Ryan Riess, and Chance Kornuth.
The 60 remaining players will return at noon local time on Thursday, June 14, to play seven 100-minute levels. There will be a 15-minute break after each level with a 60-minute dinner after the fourth level. When the players return, they will play with a small blind of 6,000, big blind of 12,000 and a running ante of 2,000.
Make sure to come back to the PokerNews updates as the live reporting team will be there from the starting line to see who will make a deep run!
flop, Paur led out for 38,000 and only Abdellatif made the call. The turn was a 
and Abdellatif called once more, this time for 180,000.
river, Paur fired a sizable 350,000 but Abdellatif quickly called. Paur tabled 
for the nut flush and Abdellatif mucked his hand. With the pot, Paur has heaps with 2,700,000, making him one of the biggest stacks in the room.
on the turn to the 
on the river. Champlin bet 150,000 and after some careful consideration, Dopson called. Champlin tabled 
for two pair, queens and treys, which was good enough to win the pot as Dobson showed 
for the lower two pair.
flop. Mackoff check-called Peretz's continuation bet for 51,000.
fell on the river and Mackoff check again and after a long time in the tank, Peretz bet 108,000. Mackoff called once more.
. It was enough to make Peretz send his hand into the muck.
on the river. No help for Zarlenga, Sitbon said he had Zarlenga covered but Zarlenga wanted a count. 
to give Wisdom a flush draw on the flop but luckily for Gavin, he bricked the turn and the river to double her up.
when he saw 
in Sarda's hand for the straight.
for a full house, saying "You were drawing dead on the turn."
, Peter Rosenblum from the big blind bet 20,000 and Jesse Sylvia made the call. A 
river. 
, but was dominated by the 
