EPT Deauville: Eugene Katchalov, second in chips at the start of the Day 4

The 137 survivors of the Day 2 of the Main Event of the European Poker Tour were back at the casino Barrière of Deauville. The stake of the day was to qualify for the Day 4, and also to finish in the ITM, reserved for 95 players. The Day 3 was marked by the qualification of 41 players, after 6 levels of 90 minutes. Ekrem Sanioglu was the chipleader of the day, with a stack of 1,300,000 chips, for an average of 496,000 chips. He is followed closely by Eugene Katchalov who has slightly les than 2 million chips. Norbert Szecsi and Sotirios Koutoupas occupy also a more or less comfortable position, with stacks of more than 1 million, 1,184,000 and 1,129,000 chips. The top 10 of the chipcount is completed by Tatu Maenpaa (926,000), Anthony Lerust (837,000), Andrew Sweeney (775,000), Dimitri Holdeew (774,000), Alexander Goulder (696,000) and Konstantin Tolokno (684,000).

Among the survivors of the day, we still find about ten French representatives, following the example of Anthony « LaPlume » Lerust Florian Ribouchon, Zimnan Ziyard, Jeffrey Hakim, Jean-Yves Malherbe, Mouss Amaouche, Sébastien Lapeyre and Alexandre Amiel. The next round of this poker tournament will be held without Jan Heitmann, Pierre Neuville, Alex Kravchenko, Stephen Chidwick as well as Tobias Wagner. The Day 4 guarantees a minimum price of 12,080. Concerning the winner of this poker event, a price of 614,000 is reserved for him, while the runner-up will content himself with 379,500.