Stephen Song Leads Final Six in EPT Barcelona Main Event

The plan in the beginning of Day 6 of the 2024 PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona Foremost Occasion was to play all the way down to the ultimate six gamers, and for some time it regarded like which may not occur till a flurry of dramatic eliminations within the ultimate stage of the night time received the sphere all the way down to that magic quantity.

After they return on Sunday, it would once more be Stephen Track holding the chip lead as he’ll convey 15,150,000 into play.

Simply behind Track is the unimaginable story of PokerStars qualifier Marius-Catalin Pertea of Romania, who initially received into the match by way of a $55 on-line satellite tv for pc earlier than firing a second bullet, brings 14,575,000 chips to the ultimate desk.

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American David Coleman is the one different participant with over ten million chips, sitting third with 10,425,000.

Rania Nasreddine grew to become the ninth participant to make back-to-back EPT Foremost Occasion Ultimate Tables because the 2024 EPT Monte Carlo Foremost Occasion third-place finisher will come again Sunday in fourth place with 8,300,000.

The lawyer from Tulsa, Oklahoma, did not mince phrases when requested if she thought a return journey to an EPT ultimate desk so quickly was attainable.

“Zero probability. Like no, zero probability. (I referred to as) my Mother, I used to be like ‘Hey Mother, I’m on Day 5’ and she or he’s like ‘okay,’ and I’m like ‘Mother, you don’t perceive, these are very exhausting tournaments with superb gamers from world wide.’ You hope to money, that’s the purpose, can I money one other one? The thought of working deep in two of those in the middle of a number of years okay, nice dream. However back-to-back? Insane.”

The Day’s Motion

The opening stage of the day noticed the demise of the 2 remaining Dutch gamers because the shortest stack coming into the day, Govert Metaal was first to go, adopted quickly after by countryman Jelle Moene in fifteenth.

The second stage noticed three extra eliminations with Jose Barbosa in 14th, earlier than Daniel Myers in thirteenth after dropping a giant hand to Alexandre Fournier. Myers tried to make the “biggest comeback in PokerStars historical past”, spinning 20% of a giant blind as much as three large blinds earlier than he lastly succumbed to an unlucky river card.

Earlier than the extent was carried out, Sriharsha Doddapaneni was then ousted from the characteristic desk in twelfth place.

The next stage noticed the ultimate two eliminations wanted to get the sphere to the unofficial ultimate desk of 9 as Yurii Zabrodotskyi was eradicated simply minutes after the break by the hands of Boris Kuzmanovic who grew to become the primary participant to hit the ten million chip mark.

Shortly after that, Harry Lodge was the unlucky participant to bubble the unofficial ultimate desk, doing so in horrible trend as a 94% favourite on the flop.

As soon as play resumed, the eliminations slowed, with all 9 remaining gamers making it by way of the brand new stage to dinner break, however not earlier than Track regained the chip lead thanks partly to a pair of wins over Kuzmanovic.

Following dinner, with a €50,000+ pay soar in view and stacks between Track’s 51 large blinds on the high and Andrew Hulme’s 15 on the backside, play continued to be comfortable with gamers not desirous to bust, and nobody did. The truth is, for a second straight stage there wasn’t a single all in and name.

That lastly modified instantly in Degree 33 as on the primary hand again from break, Pertea scored an enormous double by way of Kovalski to take the lead, leaving Kovalski with crumbs.

Kovalski’s quest for a second official EPT Barcelona ultimate desk in three years ended shortly after, as he was eradicated in ninth place by Nasreddine.

That elimination ‘unkinked the knot within the hose’ because the PokerStars TV commentators had mentioned would occur, with Nasreddine offering the following elimination shortly after, as she felted Jianwei Lin in eighth place by going runner-runner to make Broadway in a really dramatic hand.

Alexandre Fournier was the day’s ultimate bustout by the hands of Coleman, ending the day with 31:01 remaining in Degree 33.

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