Not long after, Angelo Recchia opened for 32,000 from the hijack and was met with a three-bet to 75,000 from Justin Bonomo on the button. Both players in the blinds cleared out, Recchia four-bet to 140,000, and Bonomo made the call. When the appeared on the flop, Recchia led out for a mediocre 65,000, and after thinking for a bit, Bonomo moved all in for 220,000. Recchia made a quick call and the cards were turned up.

Recchia held an over pair while Bonomo was drawing to a double-gutted straight draw. Unfortunately for Bonomo, neither the turn nor river completed it and his Main Event run came to an end in 36th place for “16,000. From there, Atanas Kavrakov (33rd – “16,000), Sofia Lovgren (30th – “19,000), and Isaac Haxton (26th – “19,000) all hit the rail before play came to end an for the night.

Day 5 action is set to kick off at 1400 CEST (0800 EDT) on Wednesday as the final 24 players will battle down to the final table of eight. You can follow the action in the PokerNews Live Blog.

EPT Sanremo “10,000 High Roller

Day 1 of the “10,000 High Roller wrapped up on Wednesday. Seventy-four players entered, and after 10 reloads, a total field size of 84 entries was created. The prize pool stands at “823,200, and the top prize of “288,000 will go to the winner.

At the end of the night, 45 competitors remained. Brandon Barnes finished on top of the leaderboard with 211,700 in chips.

Day 1 was full of notable players, but not all of them could make it through to Day 2. Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier was one of those players to exit on the day, busting not once, but twice.

On his first elimination, Mercier lost with pocket nines to Bryn Kenney’s pocket jacks after the money went in on the turn of a ten-high board. Then on his second elimination, Mercier’s couldn’t beat the of Torsten Brinkmann, and he was eliminated.

Steve O’Dwyer was another player who busted twice on the day, while Sam Trickett, Mike “Timex” McDonald, Marc-Andre Ladouceur and Paul Berende all fired just one bullet and lost.

Of those remaining, Pier Paola Ruscalla (199,300), Justin Bonomo (190,600), Kent Roed (188,800) and Luca Pagano (188,600) all bagged up enough chips to be near the top of the leaderboard. Other notables remaining are Igor Kurganov, Kyle Julius and Govert Metaal.

Play will resume tomorrow at 1500 CET (0900 EST), so be sure to return right back here to PokerNews for all the live coverage.

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