Day 4 started with 3 players with more than a million chips each: Ramzi Jelassi, Chris Brammer and Sotorious Koutoupas. Brammer didn't make it, but both Jelassi (1,975,000 - 3rd place) and Koutoupas (1,450,000 - 8th) pressed on and made it through the day with healthy stacks.
The Day 1 and Day 2 chip leader Iosif Beskrovnyy also made it through the day, but he only has 390,000 chips left - about 1/3 of the average stack - so he will need to double up quickly during Day 5 to have a chance of making the final table. The most well-known face among the remaining players is the Norwegian poker pro Johnny Lodden with 763,000. It would be amazing to see him on the final table!
Now, the 2012 EPT Prague Main Event is down to 21 players, all of whom are guaranteed €25,000 each. Ben Warrington will lead the way into Day 5 with 2,618,000 chips, and he is closely followed by David Boyaciyan with 2,469,000 chips. It will be interesting to see if these two will manage to keep a cool head when the final table, where some serious cash is up for grabs, is so close.
Day 5 seat draws:
Table 1
1. Dany Parlafes, Romania, 810,000
2. Diego Gomez Gonzalez, Spain, 1,433,000
3. Aleh Plauski, Belarus, PokerStars qualifier, 1,450,000
4. Johnny Lodden, Norway, Team PokerStars Pro, 763,000
5. Sotirios Koutoupas, Greece, PokerStars qualifier, 1,450,000
6. Iosif Beskrovnyy, Russia, 390,000
7. Ben Warrington, UK, PokerStars player, 2,618,000
8. Marco Leonzio, Italy, 416,000
Table 2
2. Jose Manuel Nadal Sordo, Mexico, PokerStars qualifier, 1,109,000
3. Jeff Sarwer, Canada, 1,233,000
4. Andreas Berggren, Sweden, PokerStars player, 1,619,000
6. David Boyaciyan, Netherlands, Live Satellite, 2,469,000
7. Ramzi Jelassi, Sweden, 1,975,000
8. Jorma Nuutinen, Finland, PokerStars qualifier, 463,000
Table 3
1. Mikhail Petrov, Russia, 1,034,000
2. Mariusz Klosinski, Poland, 1,524,000
4. Roberto Romanello, UK, 341,000
5. Sergey Kuzminskiy, Russia, PokerStars qualifier, 1,166,000
6. Mark Herm, USA, PokerStars player, 612,000
7. Mads Amot, Norway, PokerStars player, 1,250,000
8. Sergio Aido Espina, Spain, PokerStars player, 1,792,000