€5,300 Main Event Dia 2 | 2016 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final

2016-05-02 21:02 UTC+2

Pierre Calamusa Leads The EPT Grand Final After Day 2, Randy Lew in Strong Contention

Nível 14 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante

The second day of the 2016 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final was filled with excitement, and Pierre Calamusa bagged up the overnight chip lead with 580,800 in chips.

Early on Day 2, the tournament saw Leo Margets, Gaelle Baumann, Felipe Ramos, Igor Kurganov, Salman Behbehani, and Niall Farrell hit the rail. Team PokerStars players Liv Boeree, Yaxi Zhu, Jason Mercier, Betrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Naoya Kihara, Lex Veldhuis, and Celina Lin were all knocked out on Day 2 as well, but there are still plenty of players left representing the red spade.

PokerStars team pro Vanessa Selbst had a stellar start to her day, but in the end she dropped some to finish with 206,700. EPT Deauville winner and fellow PokerStars team pro Jake Cody bagged up 150,100, while Team Online member Randy Lew and SportsStar Fatima Moreira de Melo are among the biggest remaining stacks in the tournament.

Lew chipped up consistently on Day 2 to end on 385,800, and the same could be said for Moreira de Melo. The Dutch three-time Olympic medalist bagged up 357,200, as she looks for her second main event cash this season, following a 240th-place finish in Barcelona.

The No. 3 player on poker's all-time money list, Erik Seidel, with $26.5 million in career live tournament earnings, had a very strong day. Seidel stayed under the radar for most of play on Day 2, but bagged up 368,400.

Former EPT champion Aaron Gustavson (374,400) and Davidi Kitai (113,000) are still in the hunt, along with Dimitar Danchev and other big stacks like Marcin Chmielewski (493,500), Erwann Pecheux (413,800), Albert Daher (375,100), and Matthew Davenport (349,100).

Once registration closed, the 12th EPT season's finale drew a total of 1,098 participants, creating a prize pool worth €5,325,300 that will pay the top 159 places. First prize is worth €961,800, and with 205 players remaining the money will be reached on Day 3, as another five levels are slated to be played.

Play will recommence on Tuesday at 12 p.m. noon and PokerNews.com will be right there with all the coverage.

Day 3 Seat Draw

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chips
1	1	Usman Siddique	UK	151800
1	2	Jullian Feriolo	France	96700
1	3	Kyosti Isberg	Finland	70700
1	4	Arne Coulier	Belgium	269900
1	5	Michel Dattani	Portugal	312200
1	6	Marcin Chmielewski	Poland	493500
1	7	Stephan Zesiger	Switzerland	151600
1	8	Benjamin Philipps	UK	150000

2	1	Tomas Jozonis	Lithuania	128100
2	2	Bruno Lopes	France	95400
2	3	Fabio Sperling	Germany	300100
2	4	Massimiliano Patroncini	Italy	31800
2	5	Frank Werder	Germany	60200
2	6	Alexandre Luneau	France	177400
2	7	Erik Van Hoek	Netherlands	156700
2	8	Kristen Bicknell	Canada	55100

3	1	Pierre Tilmant	Belgium	174200
3	2	Sam Chartier	Canada	283300
3	3	Laurent Polito	France	118000
3	4	Yannick Del Curto	Switzerland	157700
3	5	Vincent Gueneau	United Arab Emirates	41500
3	6	Matthew Davenport	UK	349100
3	7	Georges Hallak	Canada	87700
3	8	Marko Neumann	Germany	90100

4	1	Mikael Guenni	France	127400
4	3	Albert Daher	Lebanon	375100
4	4	Simon Deadman	UK	135000
4	5	Bertrand Guenoun	France	188400
4	6	Kenneth Hicks	USA	21200
4	7	Apostolos Bechrakis	Greece	136000
4	8	Gerard Sanches	France	156000

5	1	Thi Xoa Nguyen	France	140000
5	2	Denys Shafikov	Ukraine	158600
5	3	Philippe Wettstein	Switzerland	58600
5	4	Vlad Darie	Romania	57000
5	5	Marco De Vincenti	Italy	46500
5	6	Jinfeng Huo	China	201700
5	7	Massimo Mauri	Italy	242800
5	8	Fernando Brunca Garcia	Brazil	258600

6	1	Hani Bahna	Canada	20500
6	2	Povilas Zavistanavicius	Lithuania	113300
6	3	Markku Koplimaa	Estonia	209900
6	4	Albert Sebag	France	260000
6	5	Jimmy Guerrero	France	250000
6	6	Dominykas Karmazinas	Lithuania	284700
6	7	Marco Giulini	Italy	79400
6	8	Markus Durnegger	Austria	145200

7	1	Ilan Boujenah	France	112000
7	2	Mike Barsnick	Germany	260900
7	3	Nicholas Galtos	Australia	66900
7	4	Jason Gray	Australia	109400
7	5	Yusuke Okada	Japan	72400
7	6	David Susigan	France	351900
7	7	Natan Chauskin	Belarus	271900
7	8	Jeremy Palvini	France	320000

8	1	Andreas Vlachos	Greece	227000
8	2	Ruediger Weber	Germany	139500
8	3	[Removed:365]	Israel	26400
8	4	Emin Aghayev	Monaco	30800
8	5	Arnaud Peyroles	France	105600
8	6	Samu Riihela	Finland	113300
8	7	Fabio Cortes Gago	Spain	51000
8	8	Randy Lew	USA	385800

9	1	Stephen Chidwick	UK	223800
9	3	John Juanda	Indonesia	152400
9	4	Ivan Soshnikov	Russia	271400
9	5	Mikhail Nikolaev	Latvia	25000
9	6	Jan Bendik	Slovakia	289300
9	7	Alp Tosuncuoglu	Switzerland	61300
9	8	Clemente Malheiro Carreira	Portugal	125000

10	1	David Lascar	France	140500
10	2	Koichi Nozaki	Japan	154300
10	3	Fatima Moreira de Melo	Netherlands	357200
10	4	Herve Boulan	France	127300
10	5	Igor Pihela	Estonia	256400
10	6	Andreas Hoivold	Norway	186900
10	7	Tina Andersen	Denmark	50000
10	8	[Removed:2]	Lebanon	105800

11	1	Jack Salter	UK	198700
11	2	Fady Kamar	Lebanon	333000
11	3	Frank Romanello	UK	237100
11	4	Nikolas Menke	Germany	350300
11	5	Roman Korenev	Russia	224900
11	6	Felix Lambertz	Germany	50700
11	7	Enver Abduraimov	Germany	64800
11	8	Oren Rosen	Israel	213300

12	1	Erik Seidel	USA	368400
12	2	Vanessa Selbst	USA	206700
12	3	Oleh Cherepianyi	Ukraine	116400
12	4	Ouri Cohen	France	37700
12	5	Andres Jeckeln	Argentina	164500
12	7	Ihar Soika	Belarus	115200
12	8	Asan Umarov	Kazakhstan	211700

13	1	Dario Sammartino	Italy	220400
13	2	David Peters	USA	57800
13	3	Paolo Compagno	Switzerland	173600
13	4	Andrei Boghean	Romania	330000
13	5	Ben Fitzgerald	UK	67700
13	6	Omar Lakhdari	France	212000
13	7	Kiryl Radzivonau	Belarus	190700
13	8	Loc Tu	Canada	184400

14	1	Paul Hoefer	Germany	152300
14	2	Mael Lepage	Belgium	179200
14	4	Pierre Huter	Switzerland	200000
14	5	Joseph Prichard	UK	114300
14	6	Davide Settecasi	Italy	202500
14	7	Andjelko Andrejevic	USA	98700
14	8	Kamran Aliyev	Azerbaijan	108600

15	1	Alexios Zervos	Greece	185000
15	2	Dirk Gerritse	Netherlands	276600
15	3	Mike Watson	Canada	76400
15	4	Enzo Del Piero	UK	348000
15	5	Juan Etcheverry	Argentina	196800
15	6	Yann Pineau	France	115800
15	7	Thiago Nishijima	Brazil	251400
15	8	Knut Karnapp	Germany	82500

16	1	Ariel Celestino	Brazil	241200
16	2	Iacopo Brandi	Italy	29500
16	3	Mike Andreassen	Denmark	42700
16	4	Aleksei Platonov	Russia	108600
16	5	Alejandro Perez Torres	Spain	240900
16	6	Davidi Kitai	Belgium	113000
16	7	Freddy Darakjian	France	183000
16	8	Steven van Zadelhoff	Netherlands	210000

17	1	Tomas Chudomsky	Czech Republic	79500
17	2	Benjamin Pollak	France	37200
17	3	Andrea Rocci	Italy	339500
17	4	Ophir Nadav	Israel	99900
17	5	Antonio Rutigliano	Italy	170000
17	6	Peter Akery	UK	276800
17	7	Adrien Allain	France	347000
17	8	Willliam Arruda	Brazil	109200

18	1	Neil Strike	UK	160100
18	2	Jeremy Routier	France	144100
18	3	Nikita Nikolaev	Russia	188800
18	4	Arno del Curto	Switzerland	37300
18	5	John Gale	UK	267500
18	6	Yucel Eminoglu	Turkey	137500
18	7	Javier Zarco	Spain	36700
18	8	Pierre Calamusa	France	580200

19	1	Miguel Silva	Portugal	304100
19	2	Zoltan Szabo	Hungary	196600
19	3	Max Silver	UK	56200
19	4	Joseph Mouawad	USA	127600
19	5	Jan Bengelmann	Germany	243700
19	6	Joao Vieira	Portugal	153400
19	7	Diego Ventura	Peru	141900
19	8	Pascal Faivre	Canada	55700

20	1	Dermot Blain	Ireland	64000
20	2	Evangelos Terzoudis	Greece	227800
20	3	Ramzey Idriss	Lebanon	69600
20	4	Sebastien Lebaron	France	211900
20	5	Roman Verenko	Ukraine	326800
20	6	Nicolas Le Floch	France	78000
20	7	Bao Phu	Canada	43100
20	8	Ranno Sootla	Estonia	192000

21	1	Anders Tangen	Sweden	169100
21	2	Youssef Finianos	Lebanon	57500
21	3	Antoine Saout	France	109300
21	4	Salvatore Bonavena	Italy	100000
21	5	Paul-Francois Tedeschi	France	194900
21	6	Ivan Deyra	France	193300
21	7	Chris Dowling	Ireland	171000
21	8	Laurent Ciup	France	161100

22	1	Rintaro Kagawa	Japan	224700
22	2	Jean Koja	France	125500
22	3	Franck Kalfon	France	30700
22	4	Patricio Rojas Parra	Chile	173300
22	5	Rene Schneider	Switzerland	70500
22	6	Ariel Mantel	Argentina	209800
22	7	[Removed:119]	France	88700
22	8	Michel Abecassis	France	151100

23	1	Govert Metaal	Netherlands	346600
23	2	Tobias Reinkemeier	Germany	146200
23	3	Diego Zeiter	Switzerland	136700
23	4	Erwann Pecheux	France	413800
23	5	[Removed:37]	France	38000
23	6	Isabel Baltazar	France	87600
23	7	Maksim Kolosov	Russia	240000
23	8	Nariman Yaghmai	United Arab Emirates	335500

24	1	Mahomed Aissani	France	152900
24	2	Jonathan Abdellatif	Belgium	210000
24	3	Dimitar Danchev	Bulgaria	101300
24	4	Aaron Gustavson	USA	374400
24	5	Luigi Grisa	Switzerland	204300
24	6	Andrew Abernethy	UK	149100
24	7	Thomas Popov	Canada	65500
24	8	Gun Taljo	Sweden	146900

25	1	Nacho Barbero	Argentina	107000
25	2	Nicolino Di Carlo	Italy	105800
25	3	Jake Cody	UK	150100
25	4	Kyle Frey	USA	218700
25	5	Faraz Jaka	USA	66600
25	6	Ami Barer	Canada	160200
25	7	Nicolas Cardyn	France	87800
25	8	Andrea Cortellazzi	Italy	141000

2016-05-02 19:02 UTC+2

Seidel's Hand Holds Up

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Nível 13 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Iacopo Brandi raised under the gun and found no less than 3 callers; Andrey Bondar (cutoff), the small blind, and Erik Seidel in the big blind.

The flop came and both blinds checked to initial raiser Brandi. The Italian player checked as well and now it was Bondar doing the betting. The Russian player bet 13,500 and the small blind called. Erik Seidel check raised to 80,000 and initial raiser Brandi folded, holding his cards at one so high up, his neighbor could see he had .

Bondar now moved all in and the small blind folded. Seidel was happy to call.

Andrey Bondar:
Erik Seidel:

Seidel had flopped the nuts and needed the board not to pair to knock out his opponent. The on the turn and on the river were good for Seidel and Bondar had to make his exit.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Erik Seidel	350,000	187,000
Andrey Bondar	Eliminado

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2016-05-02 17:13 UTC+2

Roller Coaster Run Out Sends Veldhuis Home

Nível 12 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

We ran into Team PokerStars Pro Online Lex Veldhuis who had just been knocked out from the featured table. Veldhuis explained how he shoved for 16 big blinds from the cutoff, and the player in the big blind called.

Veldhuis tabled and hit the flop, as the rolled out . Veldhuis' opponent however held and after the on the turn the hit on the river and the Dutchman was knocked out.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Lex Veldhuis	Eliminado

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2016-05-02 15:31 UTC+2

Schemion Finds Aces and Doubles Up

Nível 11 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

Ole Schemion just raised to 2,500 and one player called before Vladimir Dobrovolskiy three-bet to 8,800. The action folded back to Schemion, and he gave it some thought before sliding forward most of this chips.

The second player involved folded and Dobrovolskiy moved all in, illiciting a snap-call from the German pro for 41,200 total.

Dobrovolskiy:
Schemion:

The board ran out and Schemion received a full double up, leaving Dobrovolskiy with 30,600.

Tags: Ole Schemion Vladimir Dobrovolskiy

2016-05-02 15:24 UTC+2

Antonius Knocks Out Nitsche and Soulier

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Nível 11 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

As we arrived, Patrik Antonius was already stacking all the chips and we just caught Fabrice Soulier making his exit. Justin Bonomo told us what had happened.

Antonius had raised under the gun and Dominik Nitsche had shoved with pocket sevens. Soulier then shoved over the top with pocket queens, but Antonius was waiting for them both with aces. Five blanks later and Nitsche and Soulier left for the rail while Antonius build a chip castle worth 150,000 or so.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Patrik Antonius	150,000	92,000
Fabrice Soulier	Eliminado
Dominik Nitsche	Eliminado

Tags: Justin Bonomo Fabrice Soulier Dominik Nitsche Patrik Antonius

2016-05-02 14:20 UTC+2

Felipe Ramos Eliminated

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Nível 10 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Jimmy Guerrero made it 2,300 to go from early position and Felipe Ramos three-bet to 6,900 in position. Action folded back to Guerrero and he four bet to 18,000. Ramos called.

The flop came and Guerrero continued for 11,500. Ramos tanked for a bit before announcing all in. Guerrero called as soon as he found out it was about 36,000.

Jimmy Guerrero:
Felipe Ramos:

The on the turn was anything but a blank and Guerrero shivered for a second. The on the river was a harmless card though and Ramos said his goodbyes.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Jimmy Guerrero	170,000
Felipe Ramos	Eliminado

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2016-05-02 13:36 UTC+2

A Top Secret River Battle Between Boeree and Kagawa

Nível 10 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

We just saw a board showing and with around 28,000 in the middle Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree bet 16,000 from the small blind.

Boeree awaited Rintaro Kagawa's decision - who was seated to her direct right - and ultimately de Japanese player moved all in.

Immediately Boeree let out a deep sigh, and she shook her head being faced with a decision for her tournament life.

"You hit the three?" Boeree asked.

"My English no good," Kagawa said.

"Did you hit this card?" Boeree pointed at the river.

"It's a secret," Kagawa responded, as he crossed his fingers in front of his mouth.

Boeree and the other players at the table were amused by Kagawa's colorfull explanation, but the former EPT San Remo winner stayed in the tank.

About 20 seconds later Boeree asked Kagawa, "You have a good hand?"

Once again Kagawa said, "My English no good."

"You want me to go home?" Boeree joked at Kagawa.

"Top secret" Kagawa then said, as he once again crossed his fingers in front of his mouth, and the table cracked up again.

Boeree ultimately folded, leaving herself with 27,000 chips, and Kagawa mucked his cards.

"Show please?" Boeree pleaded, "Please show one?"

"Top secret!" Kagawa said again as he pushed his cards into the, and his chances of completing his mission of winning this event just became a little better.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Rintaro Kagawa	160,000	15,000
Liv Boeree	27,000	-25,000

Tags: Liv Boeree Rintaro Kagawa

2016-05-02 11:58 UTC+2

Day 2 of the 2016 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final €5,300 Main Event Starts Now!

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EPT 12 Grand Final Main Event Winner Trophy

Day 2 of the 2016 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final €5,300 Main Event will go off at the Monte-Carlo Bay Hotel & Casino just after 12 p.m. local time in Monaco.

After two starting days drew an already record-breaking 1,067 players, 561 will start today. Although that number is likely to grow with registration still open until the start of play.

Leading them all is Lebanon's Albert Daher, who was given a few gifts, made many hands, and bet for value all day long on Day 1b, eventually bagging better than 266,000.

The only two other players to push over 200,000 also played yesterday: Frenchman Sebastien Lebaron and the UK's Kully Sidhu, who final table EPT12 Dublin this past February.

Plenty of well known superstars and poker upstarts litter the massive field with hopes of surviving through six 75-minute levels of play today. There will be a 20-minute break after every two and play should wrap close to 9 p.m. local time this evening.

EPTLive will also be broadcasting cards-up coverage of the event right through to the final on May 6, and of course, you can follow along right here on PokerNews.

Get your popcorn popping, the Day 2 of the 2016 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final €5,300 Main Event should be worth watching.

Tags: Albert Daher Kully Sidhu Sebastien Lebaron