Players Ready for the 2018 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo©Casino EPT Main Event Day 1b
After 282 players including 37 re-entries made up the Day 1a field, players are ready for the second starting flight in the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo©Casino EPT Main Event.
Yesterday is was Mark Demirdjian who emerged as the chip leader, bagging an eye-watering 350,500 chips, 200 big blinds clear of his nearest rival Nick Petrangelo who bagged 213,000.
Today, like yesterday, players will have ten 60-minute levels in which to grow their 30,000 starting stack.
| Level | Small Blind | Big Blind | Big Blind Ante2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 100 | 100 | |
| 2 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| 3 | 100 | 200 | 200 |
| 4 | 100 | 300 | 300 |
| 5 | 200 | 400 | 400 |
| 6 | 200 | 500 | 500 |
| 7 | 300 | 600 | 600 |
| 8 | 400 | 800 | 800 |
| 9 | 500 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
| 10 | 600 | 1,200 | 1,200 |
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for top pair on the 
flop only for his opponent to turn a straight with 
when a six appeared. Sow has not re-entered yet, and the same also applies for Jason Wheeler.
. Boghean continued for 3,000 and was called, before running fours brought bets of 8,600 and the shove of Boghean. Petruzzelli called it down with the 
for straight draw and the inferior full house on the river, bowing out to the pocket kings of Boghean.
, Jan Bendik checked to Walter Treccarichi who bet 3,600. Bendik check-called to see the river 
appear and once again checked. Treccarichi settled on a bet of 6,500 which the 2016 champion paid off after some hesitation.
and an angered Bendik flung 
open into the muck.
, on which Andrey Andreev moved all in for his last 3,200 in the cutoff. The button and small blind called, Ondrej Drozd in the big blind folded, as did Andreas Freund.
turn and the 
river were checked and Mrakes showed 
, which Andreev had beat with 
. Neither of the other two players could beat that with 
respectively, and Andreev more than tripled up while Mrakes was ousted for the second and final time.
. The board ran out 
and Dumont hot a full house to dispatch Bedell.
flop, Barbero check-called a bet of 1,700 and the duo checked the 
. Barbero had the 
for aces and jacks, and that sent Sow packing for good here in Monaco.
, Boghean had checked and was the only player to call a bet of Mitchell, creating a pot of around 25,000 to the 
for a flush.
, but lost out to the 
