€5,300 Main Event
Jour 4 a débuté
€5,300 Main Event
Jour 4 a débuté
Day 4 of the 2016 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final €5,300 Main Event will kick off at 12 p.m. local time in Monaco today with 74 players looking to ladder up and contend for one of poker's most prestigious titles.
The money bubble burst on Day 3, meaning no one will leave empty handed today, but all eyes are surely fixed on the big cash up top, including the €961,800 first-place prize.
The current chip leader is Poland's Marcin Chmielewski, one of only three players who are up and over the one-million chip mark, including Natan Chauskin and Roman Korenev.
Going wire-to-wire from here will be no easy task, however, with Italian High Roller Dario Sammartino (902,000), Brazilian World Series of Poker bracelet winner Thiago Nishijima (848,000), 2014 France Player of the Year Erwann Pecheux (818,000), Team PokerStars SportStar Fatima Moreira de Melo (807,000), 2009 November Niner Antoine Saout (626,000), and Team PokerStars Pros Vanessa Selbst (616,000), and Randy Lew (455,000) among those within striking distance.
The plan is to play another five 90-minute levels and the PokerNews Live Reporting team will be on hand for them all.
Stay tuned right here as the chase for the 2016 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final Main Event title moves into overdrive.
Day 4 Seat Draw
Table | Seat | Name | Country | Chips |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1 | Paolo Compagno | Switzerland | 241000 |
1 | 2 | Iacopo Brandi | Italy | 436000 |
1 | 3 | Antonio Rutigliano | Italy | 110000 |
1 | 4 | Benjamin Pollak | France | 486000 |
1 | 5 | Kristen Bicknell | Canada | 195000 |
1 | 6 | Diego Zeiter | Switzerland | 183000 |
1 | 7 | Thiago Nishijima | Brazil | 840000 |
1 | 8 | Gun Taljo | Sweden | 388000 |
2 | 1 | Sebastien Lebaron | France | 99000 |
2 | 2 | Oren Rosen | Israel | 525000 |
2 | 4 | Fatima Moreira de Melo | Netherlands | 807000 |
2 | 5 | Neil Strike | UK | 156200 |
2 | 6 | Thi Xoa Nguyen | France | 670000 |
2 | 7 | Roman Korenev | Russia | 1091000 |
2 | 8 | Erwann Pecheux | France | 818000 |
3 | 1 | Kyle Frey | USA | 495000 |
3 | 2 | Pascal Faivre | Canada | 105000 |
3 | 3 | Loc Tu | Canada | 330000 |
3 | 4 | Ihar Soika | Belarus | 258000 |
3 | 5 | Marco De Vincenti | Italy | 134000 |
3 | 6 | Alexios Zervos | Greece | 700000 |
3 | 7 | Vanessa Selbst | USA | 618000 |
3 | 8 | Andrei Boghean | Romania | 476000 |
4 | 1 | Fabio Sperling | Germany | 800000 |
4 | 2 | Samu Riihela | Finland | 30000 |
4 | 3 | Jan Bendik | Slovakia | 576000 |
4 | 4 | Nikolas Menke | Germany | 85000 |
4 | 5 | Mohamed Aissani | France | 926000 |
4 | 6 | Erik Van Hoek | Netherlands | 376000 |
4 | 8 | Georges Hallak | Canada | 169000 |
5 | 1 | Juan Etcheverry | Argentina | 489000 |
5 | 2 | Ariel Celestino | Brazil | 311000 |
5 | 3 | Chris Dowling | Ireland | 493000 |
5 | 4 | Ruediger Weber | Germany | 137000 |
5 | 5 | Antoine Saout | France | 626000 |
5 | 6 | Tomas Jozonis | Lithuania | 233000 |
5 | 7 | Apostolos Bechrakis | Greece | 492000 |
5 | 8 | Hani Bahna | Canada | 285000 |
6 | 2 | Andjelko Andrejevic | USA | 181000 |
6 | 3 | Natan Chauskin | Belarus | 1107000 |
6 | 4 | Dario Sammartino | Italy | 902000 |
6 | 5 | Albert Daher | Lebanon | 566000 |
6 | 6 | Omar Lakhdari | France | 230000 |
6 | 7 | Jimmy Guerrero | France | 750000 |
6 | 8 | Michel Abecassis | France | 151000 |
7 | 1 | Marcin Chmielewski | Poland | 1314000 |
7 | 2 | Asan Umarov | Kazakhstan | 301000 |
7 | 3 | Rintaro Kagawa | Japan | 580000 |
7 | 4 | Randy Lew | USA | 455000 |
7 | 5 | Andrea Rocci | Italy | 388000 |
7 | 6 | Nicolas Cardyn | France | 131000 |
7 | 8 | Oleh Cherepianyi | Ukraine | 234000 |
8 | 1 | Markus Durnegger | Austria | 226000 |
8 | 2 | Pierre Tilmant | Belgium | 271000 |
8 | 3 | Pierre Calamusa | France | 580000 |
8 | 4 | Koichi Nozaki | Japan | 383000 |
8 | 5 | Joseph Mouawad | USA | 205000 |
8 | 6 | Paul-Francois Tedeschi | France | 661000 |
8 | 7 | Ivan Soshnikov | Russia | 372000 |
8 | 8 | Aaron Gustavson | USA | 458000 |
9 | 1 | Benjamin Philipps | UK | 376000 |
9 | 3 | Fady Kamar | Lebanon | 103000 |
9 | 4 | Albert Sebag | France | 159000 |
9 | 5 | Nacho Barbero | Argentina | 461000 |
9 | 6 | Evangelos Terzoudis | Greece | 985000 |
9 | 7 | Jan Bengelmann | Germany | 667000 |
9 | 8 | Kiryl Radzivonau | Belarus | 331000 |
10 | 1 | Youssef Finianos | Lebanon | 112000 |
10 | 2 | Jason Gray | Australia | 287000 |
10 | 3 | Matthew Davenport | UK | 617000 |
10 | 4 | Adrien Allain | France | 810000 |
10 | 5 | Enver Abduraimov | Germany | 235000 |
10 | 6 | Joao Vieira | Portugal | 313000 |
10 | 8 | Govert Metaal | Netherlands | 704000 |
Niveau: 20
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 1,000
On one of the first hands of the day Erwann Pecheux raised and Sebastien Lebaron moved all in from his direct left. Lebaron was all in for just shy of 100,000 and Pecheux made the call.
Pecheux:
Lebaron:
The board ran out and Pecheux raked in the pot.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Erwann Pecheux |
920,000
102,000
|
102,000 |
Sebastien Lebaron | Eliminé |
Kyle Frey made it 24,000 under the gun and Marco De Vincenti called from the cutoff. Andrei Boghean defended his big blind and they went three-handed to an flop.
Boghean and Frey checked before De Vincenti led for 30,000. Only Boghean called and they both checked the turn. The river came the and they got it all in with De Vincenti at risk holding the two pair.
The turn was a better card for Boghean, however, as his made a straight. As the pot was shipped Boghean's way, De Vincenti hit the rail.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Andrei Boghean |
610,000
134,000
|
134,000 |
Marco De Vincenti | Eliminé |
Antonio Rutigliano just moved all in for exactly 100,000 chips and the action folded to Brazilian WSOP bracelet winner Thiago Nishijima. Nishijima - seated in the big blind - thought for quite some time but ultimately he made the call.
Nishijima:
Rutigliano:
The board ran out and Rutigliano shook his head as he was headed for the payout desk.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Thiago Nishijima |
950,000
110,000
|
110,000 |
Antonio Rutigliano | Eliminé |
Chris Dowling made it 22,000 and Ruediger Weber pushed in for a little over 150,000.
Antoine Saout woke up with a cold call on the button behind him, and after the blinds and Dowling folded, the hands were revealed.
Saout:
Weber:
Saout was well ahead, holding on the flop, before Weber hit the three outer on the turn. The river changed nothing and Weber doubled through.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Antoine Saout |
490,000
-136,000
|
-136,000 |
Ruediger Weber |
330,000
193,000
|
193,000 |
PokerStars Spin & Go Qualifier Erik van Hoek traveled from the Netherlands to find himself on Day 3 of the EPT Grand Final. Van Hoek just raised under the gun and Nikolas Menke moved all in from the big blind for 96,000, and Van Hoek called right away.
Van Hoek:
Menke:
The board ran out and Van Hoek's aces held up. The Dutchman is one of the six remaining Spin & Go qualifiers out of the 120 that won their way to Monte Carlo.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Erik Van Hoek |
290,000
-86,000
|
-86,000 |
Nikolas Menke | Eliminé |
Albert Sebag just found himself all in and at risk and he was up against Fady Kamar.
Sebag:
Kamar:
The board ran out and Sebag was sent to the rail.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Fady Kamar |
305,000
202,000
|
202,000 |
Albert Sebag | Eliminé |
Juan Etcheverry bet 123,000 into a pot of 150,000 on a board to the turn, heads up with Ariel Celestino.
Celestino called and Etcheverry shoved in on the river, putting Celestino at risk.
Celestino called off with the having made two pair on the river. All Etcheverry could show was the ace-high, and after doubling up Celestino, he now has less than 15 big blinds.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Ariel Celestino |
705,000
394,000
|
394,000 |
Juan Etcheverry |
135,000
-354,000
|
-354,000 |