The action folded to Ramin Hajiyev in the small blind, and the man from Azerbaijan moved all in only to get called right away by [Removed:2] in the big blind. Hajiyev was all in for around 300,000 chips, and the showdown went as follows.
Hajiyev:
Maksoud:
The board ran out and Hajiyev was the first player to get knocked out on the final day of this event.
After 21 levels of 60 minutes each, the record-breaking field of 231 entries in the 2016 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final €25,750 High Roller has been whittled down to the last 12 hopefuls and 2015 November Niner Zvi Stern leads the survivors with 1.638 million. All remaining players have €92,250 locked up for their efforts, but all eyes are set on the first-place payout of €1.197 million.
British poker pro Max Silver follows in second with 1.342 million and Alexandros "mexican222" Kolonias (1.338 million), Papazian (1.231 million), Ivan Deyra (1.16 million), and Rafael Da Silva Moraes (1.026 million) also bagged up with seven-figure chip counts for the final day of the event. Papazian finished runner up to Charlie Carrel one year ago in this very tournament and aims to do one spot better this time around.
The other finalists include [Removed:2] (907,000), three times World Poker Tour champion Anthony Zinno (816,000), Saar Wilf (509,000) and Thomas Miller (383,000) as well as Ramin Hajiyev (366,000) are the two short stacks upon restart.
Day 3 Seat Assignments
Table
Seat
Name
Country
Chips
1
1
Anthony Zinno
USA
816,000
1
2
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1
3
Imad Derwiche
France
840,000
1
4
Zvi Stern
Israel
1,638,000
1
5
Ramin Hajiyev
Azerbaijan
366,000
1
6
--empty--
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1
7
[Removed:2]
Lebanon
907,000
1
8
Alexandru Papazian
Romania
1,231,000
2
1
Saar Wilf
Israel
509,000
2
2
Thomas Miller
USA
383,000
2
3
Max Silver
UK
1,342,000
2
4
Alexandros Kolonias
Greece
1,338,000
2
5
Rafael Da Silva Moraes
Brazil
1,026,000
2
6
Ivan Deyra
France
1,160,000
2
7
--empty--
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2
8
--empty--
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Play resumes at 12.30 p.m. local time with Level 22 and blinds of 12,000/24,000/3,000 and the PokerNews live reporting team will be on hand until the last river card is dealt. Make sure to tune back in regularly to find out who will lift the trophy and secure their spot in the history books of the most prestigious live event series in Europe.