€5,300 Main Event Jour 1a | 2022 PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo

2022-05-02 15:50 UTC+2

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Sofia Lovgren	65,000 28,000	28,000
Vicente Delgado	63,000 19,000	19,000
Pasquale Di Ceglie	45,000 25,000	25,000
Gaelle Baumann	42,000 42,000	42,000
Axel Hallay	37,000 37,000	37,000
Mustapha Kanit	32,000 -7,000	-7,000
Christopher Frank	30,000 30,000	30,000
Justin Saliba	29,000 8,000	8,000

Bruno Fitoussi	29,000 29,000	29,000
Sirzat Hissou	20,000 20,000	20,000
Karolis Sereika	15,000 -13,000	-13,000
Alexandre Reard	14,000 -26,000	-26,000

Johannes Toebbe in the small blind and Leo Margets in the hijack created a pot of 21,600 to the river on which Toebbe opted to check. Margets bet 27,000 with the far superior stack and Toebbe only gave it brief consideration before he folded.

After conceding the pot, the German dropped below one third of the starting stack while Margets jumped to more than two times of what she started with.

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Leo Margets	65,000 36,000	36,000
Johannes Toebbe	9,000 9,000	9,000

Tags: Johannes Toebbe Leo Margets

2022-05-02 15:54 UTC+2

Speranza Jams Into Atoui

zedmaster84

Niveau 4 : 200/400, 400 ante

Heads-up to the flop, Gianluca Speranza bet 3,500 in the small blind and Kamel Atoui called in the hijack. "Please don't cover your stack," Speranza told his opponent who moved forward his chips for the Italian to see.

Speranza led the turn for 7,500 and earned a call to then push the river with the covering stack. Atoui mulled it over for a bit and elected to fold.

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Gianluca Speranza	71,000 71,000	71,000
Kamel Atoui	17,300 17,300	17,300

Tags: Gianluca Speranza Kamel Atoui

2022-05-02 16:00 UTC+2

Faraut Wins Flip Against Sitbon

zedmaster84

Niveau 4 : 200/400, 400 ante

Table one has received a major face lift as Emil Bise and Thi Xoa Nguyen were previously eliminated. Christopher Frank arrived as a new entry and lost a bigger portion of his stack.

Patrick Faraut and Frank then limped and Julien Sitbon raised to 3,000. Faraut pushed for 16,300 and Frank folded while Sitbon called.

Patrick Faraut:
Julien Sitbon:

The flip went to Faraut thanks to a board of and he banged his hand on the table in excitement.

Runaway chip leader on the table remains Tsugunari Toma, who has nearly five times the starting stack.

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Tsugunari Toma	140,000 50,000	50,000
Patrick Faraut	34,000 34,000	34,000
Julien Sitbon	16,300 -4,700	-4,700
Christopher Frank	11,000 -19,000	-19,000
Emil Bise	Eliminé
Thi Xoa Nguyen	Eliminé

Tags: Christopher Frank Emil Bise Julien Sitbon Patrick Faraut Thi Xoa Nguyen Tsugunari Toma

2022-05-02 16:00 UTC+2

Alt Chips Up Through Madani

zedmaster84

Niveau 4 : 200/400, 400 ante

Hossein Madani opened to 1,000 on the button and then called the three-bet to 3,700 by Dinesh Alt in the small blind. As the flop fell , Alt continued for 2,500 and Madani pondered about his next move for a while to then raise to 7,500, earning a call from Alt.

The turn was check-called by Alt for 7,000 and he then did so again for 7,800 on the river. Madani exposed the for a bluff gone wrong and Alt raked in the seizable pot with the .

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Dinesh Alt	67,000
Hossein Madani	13,500

Tags: Dinesh Alt Hossein Madani

2022-05-02 16:02 UTC+2

Kaverman Successfully Jams Into Zaskodny

zedmaster84

Niveau 4 : 200/400, 400 ante

With 6,600 in the middle to the river, Byron Kaverman checked in the cutoff and Lukas Zaskodny then bet 6,400 on the button. The check-shove by Kaverman for around 14,000 followed and Zaskodny eyeballed the stack of his opponent before eventually giving up.

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Lukas Zaskodny	30,500 17,000	17,000
Byron Kaverman	27,000 27,000	27,000

Tags: Byron Kaverman Lukas Zaskodny

2022-05-02 16:05 UTC+2

New Start pour Kamel Atoui

MattHansen

Niveau 4 : 200/400, 400 ante

James Crawley-Boevey raised to 1,100 from under the gun and Kamel Atoui called from the small blind before Ikam Benyeffou came along from the big blind. The flop was .

Atoui and Benyeffou checked before Crawley-Boevey bet 2,800. Atoui raised to 5,700 and Bennyeffou got out of the way while Crawley-Boevey tossed in the chips to call.

The turn was and Atoui jammed his last 13,000. Crawley-Boevey tossed his cards in the muck to give Atoui the pot.

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Kamel Atoui	34,000 16,700	16,700
James Crawley-Boevey	18,900 18,900	18,900
Ikam Benyeffou	6,900 6,900	6,900

Tags: Ikam Benyeffou James Crawley-Boevey Kamel Atoui

2022-05-02 16:11 UTC+2

Chips

zedmaster84

Niveau 4 : 200/400, 400 ante

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Daniel Rezaei	75,000 42,000	42,000
Javier Fernandez Alonso	64,000 19,000	19,000
John Mooney	55,000 33,000	33,000
Sylvain Loosli	48,000 48,000	48,000

Bruno Lopes	43,000 43,000	43,000
Lukas Zaskodny	40,000 26,500	26,500
Kitty Kuo	39,000 22,700	22,700
Benjamin Spragg	39,000 16,000	16,000

Marton Czuczor	35,000 35,000	35,000
Thomas Muehloecker	22,000 22,000	22,000
Juan Pardo	20,000 -2,000	-2,000
Kenny Hallaert	12,000 12,000	12,000

2022-05-02 16:17 UTC+2

Kasai Chips Up Further

zedmaster84

Niveau 4 : 200/400, 400 ante

Heads-up on the turn, Jonathan Barusta checked and then called a bet worth 4,000 by the table big stack Jun Kasai. The on the river was checked by both and Barusta tabled the for tens and deuces.

Kasai had that beat with for the superior two pair and chipped up further.

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Jun Kasai	75,000
Jonathan Barusta	34,000

Tags: Jonathan Barusta Jun Kasai

2022-05-02 16:21 UTC+2

Maltez up, Mattern Down

MattHansen

Niveau 4 : 200/400, 400 ante

With a full board of , Tim Klaversma was seen paying off Fabrice Maltez, who had committed his last 35,000 with . Klaversma was showing , which wasn't good enough to beat the three aces of Maltez.

On the very next hand, Arnaud Mattern open-shoved for 7,800 and Klaversma shoved behind with his last 9,000. The rest of the table got out of the way and action was heads up with Mattern at risk.

Arnaud Mattern:
Tim Klaversma: