Welcome to Day 2 of the 2022 PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo €1,100 FPS Main Event
The return of the 2022 PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) presented by Monte-Carlo Casino® to the Monte-Carlo Sporting complex on the French Riviera has seen a record number for one of its marquee events right at the start of the series. At least 1,918 entries have emerged in the €1,100 FPS Main Event and they have created a prize pool of €1,842,240.
All four starting days played down to the top 15 percent and once each of the bubble burst, the remaining survivors bagged and tagged their chips. A total of 287 hopefuls advanced from the Day 1 carnage and they will be back in the Salle des Etoiles as of noon local time on Saturday, April 30. 2022. All of them are in the money and the payout information will be announced once the players are back in their seats.
Returning blinds in level 16 will be 2,000-5,000 with a big blind ante of 5,000 and 13 minutes are left in the level, which resumes where the fastest starting day concluded in the previous two days. As of Day 2 and until the end of the tournament, the level duration increases to 60 minutes each. Only one player has a seven-figure stack to his name and that happens to be Brazil's Lucas Serafini, who will return with 1,101,000 in chips.
His nearest follower is Romania's Marius Gicovanu (852,000), followed by Eugenio Peralta (726,000), and Day 1a chip leader Alexander Tkatschew (650,000). Also in the overnight top ten is WSOP Europe bracelet winner Renat Bohdanov, who made it through with a very healthy stack of 623,000. After reaching the final table of the €10,200 Mystery Bounty Event, Imad Derwiche also succeeded in his next tournament and bagged up 560,000.
The red spade is represented by several ambassadors on Day 2 including Alejandro "Papo MC" Lococo (249,000), Benjamin "Spraggy" Spragg (245,000), and Steve Enriquez (65,000). The trio is joined by a host of well-known poker pros such as Tsugunari Toma, Bryan Paris, Tomas Jozonis, Justin Saliba, Gianluca Speranza, Luigi Shehadeh, and Ana Marquez to name all but a few.
Day 2 is scheduled to play upon completion of level 22 at approximately 7 pm local time. Another two tournament days will follow thereafter to whittle down a record-breaking field for the FPS in Monte-Carlo all the way to a winner.
Stay tuned to find out who advances one more day right here on PokerNews as the live reporting team will be on the floor from start to finish.
flop left Enriquez drawing slim. The 
and 
completed the board and Enriquez was eliminated by his fellow Spaniard.
prevailed on a board of 
. That pot pushed the American well above the average while Palvini can now take advantage of the sunny weather at the French Riviera.
, Thi Xoa Nguyen leveled herself into calling all-in when facing the push by Jaime Cervantes and flashed her 
for the top pair. However, she ran smack dab into the 
for the flopped nuts and was sent to the payout desk.
and the suited overcards missed for Cervantes to score the next knockout.
to give Bruneteaux a turned straight and keep his tournament life alive against the PokerStars Ambassador.
, but he ran into the 
turn on which Shehadeh checked and subsequently called a bet worth 70,000 by Lukash.
fell on the river and Shehadeh moved all-in for around 170,000 to pick up a snap-call by Lukash. Shehadeh turned over the 
for the nut flush but Lukash had the best of it with 
board to send Mateos to the rail. He jumped out of his seat in celebration to tell the good news to his partner on the rail. Biggest stack on the table is another Spanish player in Javier Gomez Zapatero.
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