Hand #8: Adrien Allain made it 300,000 with from the cutoff and he took down the blinds and antes.
Hand #9: Jimmy Guerrero received a walk in the big blind with his .
Hand #10: Action folded to Jimmy Guerrero in the small blind and he shoved all with the . Pierre Calamusa folded his big blind.
Hand #11: Everyone once again folded to Jimmy Guerrero and he raised to 250,000 with his from the button. Small blind Calamusa shoved all in for 1,465,000 with his and Guerrero folded.
Hand #12: Under the gun plus one, Umarov shoved all in for 1,310,000 with his . He took down the blinds and antes as everyone folded.
Hand #13: From middle position, Jimmy Guerrero limped in with . Oren Rosen completed his small blind with and Jan Bendik checked his . The flop came and Rosen and Bendik both checked. Guerrero bet 275,000 and both blinds released.
Hand #5: Oren Rosen pushed all in from under the gun with the , picking up the blinds and antes.
Hand #6: Jimmy Guerrero limped in with the and Adrien Allain made it 425,000 with the from the small blind. Oren Rosen folded the big blind and Guerrero let it go.
Hand #7: Oren Rosen limped the from the small blind and Jan Bendik checked his option in the big blind with the . The flop fell and after a check, Bendik bet 125,000. Rosen folded.
Hand #1: First to act, Asan Umarov found and made it 225,000. Jan Bendik defended his big blind with . The flop came and Bendik checked. Umarov made a continuation bet of 200,000 and Bendik called. The hit the turn and both players checked. The on the river saw another two checks and Bendik took down the first hand.
Hand #2: From middle position, Pierre Calamusa with the made it 200,000. Jan Bendik shoved all in for 3,140,000 from the small blind with . Calamusa quickly released.
Hand #3: In the cutoff Oren Rosen with made it 225,000. Jan Bendik folded and action folded to Jimmy Guerrero. He asked how much Rosen had, and called. "Good luck" he said.
The flop came and Guerrero checked. Rosen bet 235,000 into 560,000 and Guerrero called. The on the turn hit Guerrero and he checked again. Rosen checked behind. The completed the board and another check check saw Guerrero take it down, and grab the chip lead again.
Hand #4: First to act, Adrien Allain had just the showing and made it 250,000. Jimmy Guerrero found in the small blind and called. Pierre Calamusa over called from the big blind and the flop came . Guerrero lead out for 325,000 with his set. Calamusa folded his open ended but Allain made the call.
The on the turn saw Guerrero check. Allain checked behind. The hit the river and Guerrero bet 575,000 into the 1,460,000 pot. Allain folded just about right away.
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Jimmy Guerrero - Pierre Calamusa - Adrien Allain
Two French pros will lead the chase for a €961,800 first-place prize, each holding more chips than the four other players combined, when the final six of the 2016 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final Main Event goes off, live on delay in Monaco, at 2 p.m. today.
WPT Amneville and APT Macau champion Adrien Allain (11,815,000), and former PokerStars Supernova and cash game specialist Jimmy Guerrero (11,480,000), stand above a pack of four players all hovering around the two-million chip mark that includes Slovakian and EPT9 Player of the Year Jan Bendik, Toulouse Business School student turned poker pro Pierre Calamusa, €10 Spin & Go qualifier and the first ever EPT Main Event finalist from Kazakhstan Asan Umarov, and Israeli Oren Rosen, a SCOOP and Sunday Warm-Up title holder who won the $600 Turbo Event at 2016 PCA.
Each of these players will be guaranteed at least €170,950 in sixth-place prize money when play begins nearing the end of Level 30 with blinds at 50,000/100,000 with a 10,000 ante. However, there are some massive pay jumps leading up to the almost-seven-figure first-place prize.
EPTLive will feature a live stream with hole cards up, and PokerNews will follow along with the stream providing hand-for-hand coverage, from the call to shuffle up and deal, until a brand new EPT Grand Final champion is crowned.
It should be a day boiling over with hot poker action, so take cover, the 2016 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final Main Event final table is about to explode.
Jimmy Guerrero, a former PokerStars Supernova, is mainly a cash game player, but also has some good results in multi-table tournaments and is a France Poker Series regular.
He was enjoying his deep run in the Main Event alongside girlfriend Thi Xoa Nguyen until she busted 14th. The couple met at a cash game table in 2012 and Guerrero was impressed because Nguyen had €5,000 in front of her. He thought: "I have to know this girl!" The pair are now engaged, and will be moving to London later this year in order to focus on playing cash games - at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino, former home of EPT London.
Guerrero only has one EPT Main Event cash to date: 76th at EPT100 in Barcelona for €13,900. His biggest live result before now was for €29,990 for a 30th place in the 2012 Partouche Poker Tour Grand Final in Cannes.
Pierre Calamusa discovered poker while still a teenager. The son of a teacher, he started playing online and quickly turned home games into a significant hobby.
He made a few €50 online deposits and then manage to spin that up – in just six months – to some €20,000, a sum he used to pay his tuition fees at Toulouse Business School. However, a month after starting his studies he dropped out to focus on poker.
He’s had some dips in his career and, in 2011, lost his entire bankroll; However, a big win at the Parisian Aviation Club de France put him back in the saddle. Calamusa, a former Maison Du Bluff candidate, is now considered a rising star of the French poker scene. His live cashes include a fourth place at the FPS4 Cannes High Roller for €15,440 and 39th at the EPT12 Dublin Main Event in February for another €13,200.
Chip leader Adrien Allain says he’s feeling as if he’s “living in a dream" by making it this far in the EPT Grand Final Main event.
Originally from Breton, Allain came to Monaco last Friday with his girlfriend Laura. She’s now had to head home, but is following his progress via the EPTLive stream. His best poker friend is Paul-Francois Tedeschi who finished 25th for 26,850.
Allain grew up in Rennes, Brittany, but now lives in London. He discovered poker in 2009 by winning €190 in an online cash game during an evening with friends. From then on, he developed a passion for the game and starting playing both online and live. He honed his game while he was convalescing after hand surgery.
Allain, who turns 30 next month, already has more than $1.6 million in live tournament winnings. He won WPT Amneville in 2011 for €336,133 and APT Macau in 2009 for the equivalent of $391,580. His best EPT result to date is fourth in the €2k NL at EPT7 Sanremo.
This season, he also cashed during three EPT festivals: Dublin, Prague and Barcelona. Allain took a photo of his chip bag at the end of Day 4 and then high-fived Italian player Iacobo Brandi who had been sitting next to him: Brandi entered Day 5 with the shortest stack, 226,000 and finished 28th for €22,740.
Prior to the EPT12 Grand Final, 39-year-old Oren Rosen had amassed $50,840 in live cashes and was barely in the top 100 in Israel’s all-time money list.
However, he's now guaranteed to triple his live tournament winnings by making the final table. Three players from Israel have made it to an EPT final before now, but there has yet to be an Israeli champion. Eyal Avitan came close at EPT6 Prague, finishing second to Jan Skampa.
Rosen hails from Ramat Gan, located east of Tel Aviv. He's already picked up a trophy this season, winning the $600 Turbo Event at PCA 2016, taking $15,720 along with the silverware. Rosen's biggest results to date however have come in the online realm. He has both SCOOP & Sunday Warm-Up titles, and also made final tables in the Super Tuesday and Sunday Million.
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. Pierre Calamusa folded his big blind.
from the button. Small blind Calamusa shoved all in for 1,465,000 with his 
and Guerrero folded.
. He took down the blinds and antes as everyone folded.
. Oren Rosen completed his small blind with 
and Jan Bendik checked his 
. The flop came 
and Rosen and Bendik both checked. Guerrero bet 275,000 and both blinds released.![[user127999]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}
, picking up the blinds and antes. 
and Adrien Allain made it 425,000 with the 
from the small blind and Jan Bendik checked his option in the big blind with the 
. The flop came 
on the river saw another two checks and Bendik took down the first hand.
made it 225,000. Jan Bendik folded 
and Guerrero checked. Rosen bet 235,000 into 560,000 and Guerrero called. The 
on the turn hit Guerrero and he checked again. Rosen checked behind. The 
in the small blind and called. Pierre Calamusa over called 
from the big blind and the flop came 
hit the river and Guerrero bet 575,000 into the 1,460,000 pot. Allain folded just about right away.
