The Latin Armada was whittled down in the EPT Paris Main Event, and now all eyes are on a single player: Eduardo Silva. The Brazilian is the last Latin American representative in the race among the 49 survivors, although his situation is not ideal: he bagged 300.000 chips, one of the shortest stacks heading into Day 4.
Silva will face a real battle to stay alive when action resumes this Thursday at 12 at the Palais des Congres, with blinds at 10.000/15.000 and big blind ante of 15.000. For now, the player from Minas Gerais has already secured a minimum cash of €19.800, but everyone still in the competition dreams of the first prize of €1.148.600.
After starting the tournament with almost double the average stack, the Brazilian fought until he was left with only 11 BB. Resilient, he knew how to wait for the right moment to double his stack and stay alive in the fight for the first prize.
With blinds of 6.000/12.000/12.000, the UTG player opened with a min-raise and Eduardo defended from the big blind. The flop was A-7-6, and the player from Minas Gerais checked and called the two BB bet. On the turn 5, Eduardo checked again, only to call, with 5-6, the all-in of his opponent, who held K-Q.
With two pair against a bluff, Eduardo found his opponent with no chances and confirmed the victory in the hand.
A Portuguese player, chip leader with style at EPT Paris
Jorge Abreu took the lead in a big way. In a key hand against César García, the Portuguese player was hiding quads of fours when his opponent called him with a flush. With that huge pot, he closed the day at the top with 2.250.000 chips.
He is closely followed by Pawel Wojciechowski (2.180.000) and Hugo De La Fouchardiere (2.040.000), who was on the brink of elimination early in the day, but managed a couple of miraculous double-ups to get back in the game and break into the top 3.
Meanwhile, with 1.875.000 chips, Jessica Teusl occupies fourth place in the count and remains firm in her goal of becoming the fourth woman to win an EPT title, and the first in more than a decade. During Day 3, the Austrian eliminated several players, including Day 1A chip leader Thomas Cazayous, by hitting an ace on the flop against his kings.
The day was tough for Latin American players, with four eliminated: Raif El Arigie , Edgard Moreau , Luis Sequeira y Rolando Carrera
