Action folded to Roger Tondeur in the cutoff seat and he raised to 250. In the big blind, Team PokerStars Pro Victor Ramdin reraised to 600. Tondeur made the call and the flop came down . Ramdin bet 725 and Tondeur called.
The landed on fourth street and Ramdin bet 1,700. Again, Tondeur called and then the river completed the board with the . Ramdin fired another bet worth 2,700 and Tondeur called.
From under the gun, Yann Dion raised to 300. Team PokerStars Pro Lex Veldhuis made the call from the next seat and Michel Carvin called from the button, creating a three-way pot to the flop.
The flop came down and Dion fired a continuation bet of 475. Veldhuis folded and Carvin made the call. That brought the players to the turn and Dion continued for 775. Carvin gave it up and Dion won the pot.
With 1,300 chips in the middle on the final board of , Team PokerStars Pro fired 1,000 after Carlos Sanchez Vegas checked. After a minute, Vegas called and Guillen tabled the for two pair. Vegas mucked and Guillen won the pot.
Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier checked the flop to Arno Del Curto. Del Curto bet 300 and Mercier made the call.
The turn added the to the board and both players checked to see the land on the river. With a 10-high straight on board, Mercier bet 1,550. Del Curto folded and Mercier won the pot.
Welcome back to Monaco for Day 1b of the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino European Poker Tour Grand Final. Yesterday we welcomed 271 players, today that number will a lot, lot more.
Some of the marquee names appearing are TeamPokers Stars Pros Viktor Blom, Daniel Negreanu, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, and Lex Veldhuis. Boris Becker and Fatima Moreira de Melo will be here representing Team PokerStars SportStar, and they’ll have to mix it up with the likes of Justin “Super high-roller champion” Bonomo, Gus Hansen, and last season’s champion Ivan Freitez.
Play is due to begin at 12pm CET but we expect play to start a little due to the expected large number of runners. The plan is the same as yesterday: eight one-hour levels that will take us to a finish time somewhere between 9-9.30pm. Join us back here soon for a packed day full of poker action.