€10,600 Main Event
Dia 1a Iniciado
2014 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final
€10,600 Main Event
Dias: 1a
Event Info
Resultado Final
Event Info
Informações sobre o nível
2014 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final
Buy-in
€10,000
Prize Pool
€6,500,000
Entradas
650
Nível
35
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
40,000
Welcome to the 2014 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino EPT Grand Final Main Event at the Beautiful Salles des Etoiles room at Le Sporting
Ten years of the European Poker Tour is about to draw to a close. It all began back in 2004 at Barcelona when Spain’s Alexander Stevic won the €1,000 buy-in event for €80,000. The tour has since gone from strength to strength and is now established as the biggest, richest most prestigious poker tour on the planet creating 41 millionaires with the Main Event buy-in now €10,000.
Just six days ago, Season 10 saw the wait for a two-time winner finally end as Victoria Coren Mitchell made history by winning the EPT Sanremo Main Event for €476,100 to go with her win at EPT London in Season 3. She will be playing this event to see if she can make it three.
Steve O'Dwyer was the winner here last year, beating a field of 531 and conquering arguably the toughest final table recorded in EPT history to take home €1,224,000. He will be back to defend his title.
Some of the biggest names in world poker are here to compete for the title including Team PokerStars Pros Daniel Negreanu, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Liv Boeree, Barry Greenstein and Jason Mercier.
Others notables to look out for are Scott Seiver, Dominik Panka and PokerStars Team Online players Mickey Petersen, Isaac Haxton and Marc-Andre Ladouceur .
The race to be crowned EPT Player of the year began at this season’s first event in Barcelona and it is Ole Schemion who now holds an unassailable lead with 1,086.33 points He is set to stretch his lead as he is currently competing at the final table of the Super High Roller. Thomas Muhlocker is second on 822.45 and Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst is third on 803.87. All three of them will be competing in the Main Event.
Many players have won a satellite into the main event including last season’s Super High Roller winner Max Altergott, who won his package in a special 25,000 FPP VIP Bash. French veteran Jean-Noel Thorel won his seat on PokerStars.fr. UKIPT London High Roller winner Marc Daubach, Russian Artem Litvinov and Italian pro Luca Moschitta also won main event seats on PokerStars.
Five players, including EPT Prague champion Roberto Romanello, won seats in the €2k Grand Final Hybrid satellite held during EPT Sanremo, while six players qualified via live satellites held in casinos around Europe including the Aviation Club in Paris, Kings Casino in Rozvadov, Concord Club Casinos in Austria and Casino Valencia.
The action kicks off at Noon local time as the hopeful players begin with a stack of 30,000 chips with blinds starting at 50 /100. Stay with us over the next seven days of exciting poker to see who can be the next person to write themselves into the EPT history books as ten years of the European Poker Tour comes to an end. The PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be on hand throughout to bring you all the drama and stories as well as the latest chip counts and videos.
Nível: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
So, Who is Here?
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First Card Off the Deck
Nível 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
As the tournament director announced “Shuffle up and deal.” there were 140 entrants on the board with numbers expected to steadily climb throughout the day. It will be a long day with eight 75 minute levels to play and a 75 minute dinner break meaning play will come to a close around midnight.
One of the players who have just added to that number is Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst who arrived to take the seat to the left of Max Silver, a PokerStars player from the UK.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
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Update on the FPS Main Event and High Roller
Nível 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
According to PokerStars, UKIPT London finalist Jack Salter is leading the last remaining 52 players in the €1,100 FPS Monaco Main Event with 968,000. Salter, 27, has some €450,000 in live tournament winnings including victory in a A$5,000 Aussie Millions side event in February and third place in the £1,100 UKIPT London Main Event in October. Salter won his seat to FPS Monaco in a €10+R 3x Turbo a month ago. He travels the international poker circuit with his brother Louis who bought in to FPS Monaco but failed to make Day 2.
*Check out PokerNews' in-depth feature on Salter by clicking here.
FPS Monaco was the €1,100 debut event of the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino EPT Grand Final. There were 837 entries creating a €811,890 prize pool. The winner will receive €150,00 and the coveted FPS trophy; 111 players are being paid.
Also still in is 2013 French-Canadian PCA finalist Yann Dion. Dion, who has live tournament winnings of more than $850,000, was chip leader at the end of Day 1 and has 565,00 going in to Day 3. Russian player Roman Korenev, who was 8th at EPT9 Berlin and third in last year’s EPT Deauville High Roller, is also thriving with 630,000. UKIPT Edinburgh champion Nicolau Villa-Lobos, currently #3 in Brazil, is through with 581,000. He has more than $1 million in live tournament winnings and was runner-up in the WSOP-E High Roller event in Enghien last October for €450,000.
Other EPT regulars still in contention for the €150k first prize are Niall Farrell, who won the FTOPS Main Event last week, Spanish pro Oscar Blanco, PCA finalist and Estonian #1 Madis Muur, PokerStars Team Online’s Gabriel Nassif, French TV producer Alexandre Amiel, EPT Madrid runner-up Fraser MacIntyre, EPT Berlin runner-up Andrew Chen and Team PokerStars Pro Alex Kravchenko. PCA champion Dimitar Danchev bubbled the event in 112th place.
A total of 179 players won their seats for FPS Monaco and 24 are still in.
Big Names Dominate Day 2 of FPS High Roller
A whole bunch of big names are still in the €2k FPS High Roller which started yesterday with 306 players and is now down to 69 players. The current chip leader is Chinese player Chaofei Wang with 546,500 in chips. EPT serial qualifier Calvin Anderson is currently in third place with 376,500, while Mustapha Kanit is currently sixth with 308,500. EPT Prague winner Roberto Romanello is seventh with 296,000 and fellow Prague champion Martin Finger, who won the EPT London Super High Roller in October for £821,000, is ninth with 284,000.
Also still in is Louis Salter, whose brother Jack is leading Day 3 of the FPS Monaco Main Event. There were 306 runners in the €2K FPS High Roller creating a €593,640 prize pool with €119,000 for the winner and 39 players paid. Among the other 69 players still in contention are EPT Prague runner-up David Boyaciyan, EPT London finalist Leo McClean, Team PokerStars Pros Julien Brecard, Barry Greenstein and Christophe De Meulder, EPT Vilamoura winner Toby Lewis, Paul Berende, EPT London winner Benny Spindler, Griffin Benger, EPT Snowfest runner-up Russell Carson and EPT Barcelona Super High Roller champion Vitaly Lunkin.
*Updates courtesy of PokerStars.
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Nível 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
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Nível 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
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Early Cooler
Nível 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
Not a great start for El Amir Ziad Chehab from Lebanon who has been reduced to just 1,600 chips from a starting stack of 30,000 inside half an hour.
We didn’t catch the action but the final board read 
and his opponent in the 8 seat had his cards 
in front of him for the flopped straight.
Chehab’s cards were in the muck and he will need a run of luck if his tournament is not to finish disappointingly early.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
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More Arrivals
Nível 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
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