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The fourth day of action at the European Poker Tour Barcelona poker tournament, sponsored by PokerStars.com and hosted at the Gran Casino, solidified a final table of eight players, with Tomeu Gomila emerging as the player to beat. Gomila is a force to reckoned with, holding nearly 7 million chips compared to the 4.55 million currently owned by second-place contender Saar Wilf.

A total of 24 players started Day 4, and it only took around a half hour for Xavier Carruggi and Benjamin Juhasz to receive their final payouts in 23rd and 24th place, respectively. Six other players got their exit tickets within the next hour and a quarter, with Miikka Anttonen chief among them when his Q-Q was sent to the rail by Isabel Baltazar’s J-J.

Martin Schleich also used Q-Q to knock out Evgeny Zaytsev on the relative weakness of his A-K offsuit, shortly before Eugene Katchalov delivered a similar fate to Javier Contreras. It wasn’t long before Matthias De Meulder, Marton Czuczor, Massimilano Martinez and Marcos Fernandez hit the rail as well.

Soon after, the final nine players moved on to a single table, though the official “final table” would only include eight. The pace of play slowed considerably as the remaining competitors vied to avoid losing on the bubble. It was Jose Miguel Esteban who finally broke down and pushed all-in against Martin Schleich. A-10 and a garbage board weren’t enough to save Esteban from Schleich’s A-J suited.

The final table is listed according to their chip counts below:

1. Tomeu Gomila – 6,985,000
2. Saar Wilf – 4,555,000
3. Raul Mestre – 4,260,000
4. Isabel Baltazar – 2,270,000
5. Martin Schleich – 2,260,000
6. Dragan Kostic – 2,155,000
7. Juan Manuel Perez – 1,090,000
8. Eugene Katchalov – 690,000