Main Event
Dia 1b Iniciado
Main Event
Dia 1b Iniciado
After 282 players including 37 re-entries made up the Day 1a field, players are ready for the second starting flight in the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo©Casino EPT Main Event.
Yesterday is was Mark Demirdjian who emerged as the chip leader, bagging an eye-watering 350,500 chips, 200 big blinds clear of his nearest rival Nick Petrangelo who bagged 213,000.
Today, like yesterday, players will have ten 60-minute levels in which to grow their 30,000 starting stack.
Level | Small Blind | Big Blind | Big Blind Ante2 |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 100 | 100 | |
2 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
3 | 100 | 200 | 200 |
4 | 100 | 300 | 300 |
5 | 200 | 400 | 400 |
6 | 200 | 500 | 500 |
7 | 300 | 600 | 600 |
8 | 400 | 800 | 800 |
9 | 500 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
10 | 600 | 1,200 | 1,200 |
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Nível: 1
Blinds: 100/100
Ante: 0
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Beatrice Alisauskaite
|
30,000 | |
Sonny Franco | 30,000 | |
[Removed:44] | 30,000 | |
Andre Akkari | 30,000 | |
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Harry Lodge |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Ondrej Drozd |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Dermot Blain | 30,000 | |
Paul Theobald | 30,000 |
The screens currently show 170 players registered and most of the tables kicked off short-handed. Among those seated in the first level ofthe day were also former EPT champion Martin Finger, PokerStars ambassador and Platinum Pass winner Maria Konnikova, 2017 PokerStars Championship €5,300 Main Event winner Kalidou Sow and Nacho Barbero, among others.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Maria Konnikova |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
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Stefan Fabian |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Tom Hall |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Honglin Jiang |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Marius Pertea |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Martin Finger |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
||
Kalidou Sow |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Nacho Barbero |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
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Anson Tsang |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
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Said Butba |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
James Mitchell |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Stefan Jedlicka |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Two years ago at the 2016 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo©Casino EPT festival here at Le Sporting, Alexandros Kolonias recorded his best-ever score after finishing second to Alexandru Papazian in the €25,750 High Roller and claimed a payday of €805,900. Kolonias was back in his seat just now and raised it up early on to 300, picking up a single caller in the big blind.
Both checked the flop and a bet of 300 by Kolonias on the turn won the pot. Right after the hand was over, Michal Mrakes, Saar Wilf and Yehoram Houri sat down at the very same table while Julien Sitbon took a seat one table over. Mrakes comes full of confidence after yet another deep run, as the Czech finished 5th in the €1,100 National Championship last evening for a payday of €57,840.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Alexandros Kolonias |
30,500
30,500
|
30,500 |
Michal Mrakes |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Saar Wilf |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Yehoram Houri |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Julien Sitbon |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Anson Tsang took a decent chunk out of the stack of Ekrem Sanioglu and one table over, Eric Lai did the same with Said Butba.
Lai's bet of 6,000 on the river of a completed board of was called by Butba, who couldn't beat the of the Frenchman. One hand later, Lai opened to 300 and Butba three-bet to 1,100, Lai called. On the flop, Lai checked and Butba claimed back some of the losses when forcing a fold with a bet of 2,000.
Back to Tsang's table, Pierre Calamusa had sat down and was about to get his chips. The dealer checked his ticket and informed him that he was in fact one table over. "Nice playing with you," another player at the table joked while Calamusa grabbed his belongings and headed to the correct seat.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Anson Tsang |
42,000
12,000
|
12,000 |
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Eric Lai
|
42,000
42,000
|
42,000 |
Pierre Calamusa |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Said Butba |
22,000
-8,000
|
-8,000 |
Ekrem Sanioglu |
18,000
18,000
|
18,000 |
While Kalidou Sow has lost almost half of his stack early on, Mikhail Soltanov one table over managed to almost double after taking on French online qualifier Samuel Kiourktchian in a big pot. The turn showed and Soltanov bet 3,300 out of the big blind. Kiourktchian raised to 7,000 and Soltanov called.
On the turn, Soltanov once more bet, making it 3,000 to go, and Kiourktchian raised it up to 7,000. Soltanov wasted little time before moving all in and that forced an instant fold.
The table also features Beatrice Alisauskaite, Hiroyuki Noda and Gavin O'Rourke.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Mikhail Soltanov |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Hiroyuki Noda |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Gavin O'Rourke |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Kalidou Sow |
16,000
-14,000
|
-14,000 |
Bahram Chobineh raised to 300 and Ahmed Abd El Fatah three-bet to 1,100. Chobineh called and the flop came . Chobineh checked and El Fatah bet 1,500. Chobineh check-raised to 11,500 and El Fatah called.
The turn was the and Chobineh moved all in for around 19,000. El Fatah stood up with his hands on his head. Chobineh dug around in his bag and picked out a sandwich.
"I have a sandwich," he said, waggling it in the face of El Fatah, "We can share it if you like."
Whatever the intended consequence, El Fatah eventually slammed his remaining 17,000 chips in the middle and called. Chobineh turned over for two pair and was ahead of the of El Fatah.
The river was the and El Fatah was eliminated.
"You can still re-enter," reminded Chobineh helpfully, who is now sat on over double starting stack.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Bahram Chobineh | 61,000 | |
Ahmed Abd El Fatah | Eliminado |
Sebastien Garrasi doubled up in the very first hand he played and sits above two times the starting stack. Marius Toverud is on the best way there while Guy Goossens and Gianluca Speranza are also up nicely in their second attempt after running out of chips on Day 1a.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Sebastien Garrasi |
67,000
67,000
|
67,000 |
Marius Toverud |
51,000
51,000
|
51,000 |
Guy Goossens |
43,000
43,000
|
43,000 |
Gianluca Speranza |
43,000
43,000
|
43,000 |
Markus Durnegger |
35,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
Leo Margets |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Jack Sinclair |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Francois Evard |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Said El Yousfi |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
[Removed:17] |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Florian Duta |
27,000
27,000
|
27,000 |
Kalidou Sow |
20,000
4,000
|
4,000 |