WSOPE 2013 - Main Event Final Table Formulates

The six-handed Final Table of the World Series of Poker Europe 2013 Main Event has been formulated; Adrian Mateos is in the lead.

Adrian Mateos

Day 4 of the WSOPE 2013 €10,450 Main Event saw 24 players return with Spanish Adrian Mateos as chipleader, sitting behind a stack of 1,066,000. Play started on Level 18 (1,000/4,000/8,000) and Mateos delivered the first eliminations quickly: Ludovic Lacay and Jordan Cristos were out. Alain Bauer, Roman Romanovsky, Hans Martin Vogt, and Mark Teltscher followed, the latter shoving with J J against Jeremy Ausmus’ A K and the latter getting a full house on the board.

Nevertheless, Ausmus followed soon: he check-called Mateos’ all-in on the 3 5 J T 3 board. Mateos had J J for a full house and Ausmus was out, leaving his opponent with over 2 million in chips. lavien Guenan, Ariel Celestino, Ognjen Sekularac and Adam Jerney were also eliminated.

The unofficial final table was formed when Fabrice Soulier’s pocket fours cracked Romain Kazarian’s nines. Before that, however, Dominik Nitsche won a pot of around 2 million in chips, eliminating Ivan Tikhov in 11th place; he 5-bet all-in for around 900,000 and Tikhov called, tabling Q Q. Nitsche held A A and the board came neutral.

Moved to a single table, Daniel Steinberg shoved with pocket threes and Soulier called with K-Qs. The latter’s hand improved to top two pair and Steinberg was out in 9th. He was followed by Shannon Shorr, who moved all-in preflop, holding K K and getting cooled by Mateos’ A A. The Spanish player finished what he began at the beginning of the day by shoving on the T J A 2 5 board. Andrei Konopelko tanked and then called all-in to see Mateos’ A 2 for two pair; Konopelko held J 9.

Thursday is off for the finalists and the six of them return on Friday to decide the fate of the championship title.

The Final Table seat draw is as follows:

Seat 1: Benny Spindler – 1,748,000
Seat 2: Fabrice Soulier – 1,871,000
Seat 3: Dominik Nitsche – 2,354,000
Seat 4: Adrian Mateos – 3,781,000
Seat 5: Ravi Raghavan – 898,000
Seat 6: Jerome Huge – 637,000

Prizes:

1st: €1,000,000
2nd: €610,000
3rd: €400,000
4th: €251,000
5th: €176,000
6th: €126,000