The third official day of action at the European Poker Tour Barcelona Main Event has concluded, and a competitor pool of 141 poker pros was reduced to just 24 players. All of the remaining players have their eyes firmly planted on the first-place prize, which awards 850,000 Euro. The current chip leader is Bartolome Gomila Romero, who holds just over 2.5 million chips.
Jeff Hakim was in the unfortunate position of getting knocked out in 121st place, one spot shy of the coveted money bubble. Hakim took a terrible bad beat when his A-J offsuit failed to improve on the board and lost to Mario Adinolfi’s 8-4 offsuit, all thanks to an 8 on the flop.
The action increased to a furious pace with the money bubble busted, and Dimitry Gromov, Ronald Lee, Tobias Reinkemeier, Mickey Petersen and Benny Spindler hit the rail rather early. Boris Becker of professional tennis fame made a respectable run in the event as a whole, earning 8,000 Euro for his 97th place finish.
A number of other big name pros made their way to the cashout cage shortly thereafter, including Andre Akkari, Alex Kravchenko, Victor Ramdin, Juan Manuel Pastor, Rino Mathis and Vanessa Selbst, all of Team PokerStars. Eugene Katchalov, another member of Team PokerStars, fared a lot better and will start off Day 4 with almost 1.5 million chips.
Romero earned his massive stack largely by winning an all-in showdown against Jose Angle Latorre Marina and Simon Charette, both of whom were eliminated as a result. K-K was enough to dominate K-Q offsuit and 8-8.
Day 4 will see the final 24 players reduced to an 8-handed final table. Even the first player to receive elimination on Day 4 will receive 20,000 Euro.
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