Karakousis Leads €5,000 Tournament
Nível 18
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
In EPT side event news, a €5,000 No-Limit Hold'em tournament began yesterday with 187 players, but now just 16 remain in contention for the €200,900 first-place prize. The current chip leader in that tournament is Georgios Karakousis, who you may recall was runner-up at EPT London in October for £349,200. Also still in the running is Canadian World Series of Poker bracelet winner Max Greenwood with 357,000; Full Tilt Poker Ambassador Dermot Blain with 310,000; and Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree and French singer and actor Patrick Bruel.
Here's a look at the final 16:
| Rank | Player | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Georgios Karakousis | Greece | 538,000 |
| 2 | Max Greenwood | Canada | 357,000 |
| 3 | Dermot Blain* | Ireland | 310,000 |
| 4 | David Vamplew | United Kingdom | 235,000 |
| 5 | Carlos Chadha | Canada | 210,000 |
| 6 | Mike McDonald | Canada | 195,000 |
| 7 | Artem Litvinov | Russian Federation | 155,500 |
| 8 | Patrick Bruel | France | 142,000 |
| 9 | Alexander Shelukhin | Russian Federation | 117,500 |
| 10 | Liv Boeree** | United Kingdom | 114,000 |
| 11 | Ariel Adda | United Kingdom | 92,500 |
| 12 | Oleh Okhotskyi | Ukraine | 87,500 |
| 13 | Thomas Muhlocker | Austria | 81,000 |
| 14 | Yves Boschetti | Switzerland | 80,000 |
| 15 | Alexander Dovzhenko | Russian Federation | 65,000 |
| 16 | Aslan Daurov | Russian Federation | 48,000 |
*Denotes Full Tilt Poker Ambassador
**Denotes Team PokerStars Pro