Day 4 of the 2016 PokerStars European Poker Tour Dublin €5,300 Main Event was nothing less than an Emerald Isle massacre, as the field was cut down from 45 to 16 within three 90-minute levels.
The competitors played a fourth level, but no one else went broke and the final 16 will return to the Royal Dublin Society on Friday at 12 p.m. local time to play for seats in the six-handed final.
Among those who were on the wrong end of the early bloodletting were PokerStars Team Online's Jaime Staples, Team PokerStars Pro Luca Pagano, former World Series of Poker November Niners Pierre Neuville, James Akenhead, and Antoine Saout, and EPT main event winners Dominik Panka and Anton Wigg.