Aaron Gustavson’s captures lead after Day 4 at ME Poker Stars European Poker Tour

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Main Event Poker Stars European Poker Tour takes places in London these days. There is a small review of Day 4

Aaron Gustavson finished Day 4 as a tournament leader. At the beginning of the day there were 24 players including World Series of Poker champion Peter Eastgate and ex-champion WSOPE Annete Oberstad. Surprisingly neither Eastgate, nor Oberstad could climb on the top of Texam Holdem tournament. And tomorrow Aaron Gustavson will have to prove his skills in the final game at the table.

But in the beginning of Day 4 Gustavson was not in the centre of attention. Martin Gudvangen has started the game by beating Philip Byers in a con-flip. Martin Gudvangen was unstoppable and Theo Tran could not resist him. Tran had A-K but it was not enough to overcome Gudvangen pair of jacks. And Tran had to go home early.

Obrestad tried to return back on the top of Texas Holdem. But fortune did not play on her side that evening. Firstly Annete relied on A-T. But Eastgate collected jacks and ex-champion lost a big amount of chips. Then the last hope of Annete was K-Q but Ivo Donev held A-K and Oberstad had to leave the table.

The member of November Nine Kevin Schaffel has all reasons to blame his luck. Dominic Cullen outclassed Schaffel beating his deuces by 7-7. No doubt Schaffel will be hoping to have his revenge in next few weeks at the final table of WSOP.

Michael Berry started Day 4 really well. He proved his skills during Day 3 and acquired reputation of an aggressive player and dangerous opponent in Texas Holdem tournaments. He was a free-roll winner at PokerStars and Daily Mirror. But this self-confident amateur could not stand pressure of other players during Day 4. The opponents forced him to be all-in with 3-3 and Berry lost to Gustavson who had jacks. Thereby Gustavson became new chip-leader and eliminated Berry . But Berry still earned £19 000 and it is not a bad result for sure. Berry commented his defeat saying just one word “stupid” and seemed to be extremely dissapointed.

Hyperaggressive German player Benny Spindler did a great job raising his stake. But it came to nothing when he lost a battle to the winner of Irish Open Marty Smith. Marty Smith could not benefit from this success and finished only 10 th . He was all-in with ace from big blind against small blind of Raymond Wu (7-7).

Last players at the table had equal chances to be kicked out. Nine hand game was extremely dangerous for Eastgate, Cullen, Senniger, Bennani and Vivek Rajkumar. All of them could easily loose everything. But the affair came to the head when Cullen outclassed Rajkumar. Last Britt lucky A-Q was higher than World Poker Tour ex-champion K-J. Elimination of Rajkumar set final standings.

Here you can see final standings based on stack size:

1. Aaron Gustavson – 7 140 000
2. Peter Eastgate – 3 535 000
3. Martin Gudvangen – 3 510 000
4. Nikolai Senninger – 2 175 000
5. Dominic Cullen – 2 105 000
6. Raymond Wu – 1 535 000
7. Rui Milhomens – 1 100 000
8. Karim Bennani – 845 000

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