Tournament in American Ledyard enters its final phase

Series Tournament Organizers Foxwoods Poker Classic in Ledyard faced with a problem that is not typical for today's poker tournaments - a small number of tournament participants. Three hundred people is not the figure that the tournament management expected to see. It is possible that the reason for this was the fact that most professionals took a break before World Poker Tour Championshipwhich starts on April 19. Due to the small number of participants, the organizers had to in a hurry to reshape the competitive scheme. In particular, 18 people were originally supposed to sit at the final table, but only 6 players will take part in the final.

However, back to the events of the fourth game day. Recall that after three days of the competition, the leading five were as follows:

1. Allen bari - 814,500 chips

2. Eddie ting - 672,500 chips

3. Raj Patel - 670,000 chips

4. Paul Snead - 595,000 chips

5. Joe simmons - 485,500 chips

Today's competition day was held on a two-level system. The first task for the 33 athletes who made it to the current stage of the competition was to qualify for the 18 strongest who, after a short break, were seated at two playing tables, where 9 more players will be eliminated. Among the first losers of today's competition were:

33. Daniel Woolson + $22'610

32. Phil bodey + $22'610

31. Chris McCormack + $22'610

30. Paul Snead + $22'610

29. Jim petrillo + $22'610

28. Alex kamberis + $22'610

27. Jim silva + $24'225

26. Eddie gravalese + $24'225

25. Eddie ting + $24'225

24. Paul darden + $25'840

23. Jim Martin + $25'840

22. Kenny chanthamala + $25'840

21. Brock parker + $27'455

20. Eddie sabat + $27'455

19. Rich meli + $27'455

The remaining 18 participants were seated at two gaming tables. The first table was dominated by Erik seidel... With 2,472,000 chip counts, he not only surpassed the players on his table, but also became the leader of the fourth game day. Adam katz the second-table player was also able to step over the 2 million chip count mark - 2,190,000. Last year's tournament winner Raj Patel Throughout the tournament, he showed a consistently good game, after three days of the tournament he was in 3rd place, and it seemed that nothing could prevent him from being in tomorrow's final, but today Ray's luck clearly changed. With each round played, the American's stack steadily decreased - as a result Raj Patel content with only 11th place.

List of players who took places from 18th to 10th:

18. Michael Santoro + $29'070

17. Matt brady + $29'070

16. Ben zamani + $29'070

15. John Spadavecchia + $30'865

14. Joe simmons + $30'865

13. Chris dombrowski + $30'865

12. Randy spain + $33'915

11. Raj Patel + $33'915

10. Steve weinstein + $33'915

The remaining 9 players will continue to fight tomorrow:

1 Erik seidel - 2,472,000 Chips

2 Adam katz - 2,190,000 chips

3 Ted forrest - 1,682,000 Chips

4 Andrew Barta - 1,433,000 Chips

5 Robert richardson - 719,000 chips

6 Frank cieri - 577,000 chips

7 Allen bari - 530,000 chips

8 Nat Kuey - 525,000 chips

9 Michael farris - 312,000 chips