Day 4 of the €10,350 Main Event at World Series of Poker Europe started with 47 players and Simone Andrian will lead the final six players into Wednesday's livestreamed finale. Shaun Deeb, who returned with a healthy stack after spinning it up from just two big blinds on Day 3, failed to make the cut for Day 4 and the chase for €1.3 million.
Andrian has the chip lead — and a big one — with over 40% of the chips in play and 168 big blinds. He's followed in the distance by Estonia's Urmo Velvelt and Poland's Mariusz Golinski with 78 and 68 big blinds, respectively. Ran Ilani has 32 big blinds, David Hochheim has 23, and Italian online pro Enrico Camosci has 18 bets for the final day.
Deeb dips
The original field of 768 worked its way down to 47 after busting the money bubble on Day 3. Among them was Deeb, who spun it up from less than two big blinds to the 12th highest stack to end the evening. There was no such luck on the fourth day, however, as Deeb lost a big chunk to Gerald Karlic before he bowed out on a missed straight draw a short time later.
Other unlucky returnees in the early going included David Dongwoo Ko and Monika Zurkowicz, the last woman left standing in the field. Daniel Rezaei used a strong Day 3 to finish in 21st place before Day 3 chip leader Rachid El Yaacoubi bowed out before the last two tables.
Three-time bracelet winner Anson Tsang couldn't make it a fourth after his day ended in 10th place on the final table bubble. From there, players grinded it out to the final six with Fabian Gumz leaving in ninth, Luka Bojovic in eighth, and Robin Berggren in seventh.
Meet the final table
Velvelt sits down in the first seat with just over $142K in earnings and a top live score of $54K (€49K) from a third-place finish in the €1,100 Main Event at Kings of Tallinn's Summer Showdown in July of 2023. The Estonian also has an online score for $214K from a fourth-place run in the $5,000 Six Max during WSOP Online in 2020.
The second seat features Israel's Ilani with over $600K in recorded earnings in WSOP tournaments. His high score was a runner-up finish in the $800 Deepstack at the 2021 WSOP for $166K. Ilani has also cashed in the WSOP Main Event three times — 2015 (350th), 2021 (151st), and 2024 (469th).
Chip leader Andrian is in the third seat with over 40% of the chips and he is one of two previous bracelet winners in the group. Andrian's bracelet win came in 2021 when he won the €1,650 Six Max for over €158K.
Camosci is in the fourth seat and the short stack, but don't count the online crusher out. The Italian is coming off a strong final table finish in the €50K Diamond High Roller last week and several other high rollers throughout 2024. He won a bracelet in the $2,100 Bounty Championship during WSOP Online in 2020.
The fifth seat is held by Germany's Hochheim, who has just over $47K in earnings on The Hendon Mob. Hochheim's best score came a decade ago with a final table finish in a €1,100 NLH event at EPT Barcelona.
Rounding out the final six in the sixth seat is Golinski of Poland. Golinski has just $31K in Hendon Mob earnings, most of which came from an event at WPT National Brussels in 2016.
The final six will return at 2 pm local time in Level 28 with blinds at 100K/200K/200K to be raised in 90-minute intervals. They will play down to a winner live on the WSOP YouTube channel from King's Casino in the Czech Republic.
WSOPE Main Event final table seat draw
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Urmo Velvelt | Estonia | 15,600,000 |
| 2 | Ran Ilani | Israel | 6,425,000 |
| 3 | Simone Andrian | Italy | 33,500,000 |
| 4 | Enrico Camosci | Italy | 3,675,000 |
| 5 | David Hochheim | Germany | 4,525,000 |
| 6 | Mariusz Golinski | Poland | 13,525,000 |
