€5,300 EPT Main Event
Dia 3 Terminado
2019 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino EPT
€5,300 EPT Main Event
Dias: 3
Event Info
Resultados Finais
Event Info
Informações do Nível
2019 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino EPT
Buy-in
€5,300
Premiação
€4,471,700
Entries
922
Nível
36
Blinds
250,000 / 500,000
Ante
500,000
Adams Takes Chip Lead into Day 4; Three Former EPT Champions Left with Chouity, Castaignon, and Michaelis
Nível 21
: 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante
Day 3 of the 2019 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino European Poker Tour €5,300 Main Event has come to an end with Timothy Adams in the lead with 2,190,000 after six levels of play. Out of 922 entries, 107 returned to the felt at noon and in the end, 30 players managed to find a bag to tag for Day 4 tomorrow here in the Monte Carlo Bay Resort & Hotel.
Adams won a tournament here in Monte Carlo earlier this week, collecting €548,030 for his first-place finish in the €25,000 Single-Day High Roller, and is looking to add a second trophy to bring back to Canada. Trailing Adams in the chip counts is 2010 EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final champion, Nicolas Chouity who bagged 2,155,000 after spending the latter part of the day on the feature table with Day 2 chip leader, Wiktor Malinowski. Malinowski will return on Day 3 with 715,000 — despite being less than what he started with, after being down to almost 100,000 during the day he’ll be happy to have recovered somewhat.
Melika Razavi finished Day 3 with 2,050,000 in her bag, the only other player to have collected more than 2 million over the day. PokerNews' Valerie Cross caught up with the Iranian beauty queen during the day to ask about her tournament. Evy Kvilhaug and Alisa Sibgatova are two other women who have made it through, but with both stacks under average they’ve got some work to do on Day 4. Twenty different nationalities are represented among the 30 remaining players, promising a multi-cultural affair in the final stages.
The dubious honor of the first to be eliminated today was the PokerStars Ambassador, Ramon Colillas who started on the feature table. Colillas found pocket jacks in the small blind and four-bet shoved his last 17 big blinds in after Patrik Antonius had raised and Mikalai Vaskaboinikau had three-bet. Vaskaboinikau was the only one to make the call with pocket aces and stayed ahead throughout the board.
The runner-up to Colillas in the PokerStars Players Championship, Julien Martini was eliminated by Nicolas Chouity after starting the day as one of the chip leaders. In a three-bet pot, the flop came nine-four-deuce and Martini called a bet of Chouity, as well as a shove when the six came on the turn. Martini held nine-seven for a pair of nines while Chouity was ahead with pocket jacks and rivered an extra jack for good measure to send Martini out.
Fatima Moreira De Melo was the last PokerStars Ambassador left in the field when she shoved from the big blind after Aladin Reskallah had limped in from the small blind. De Melo’s king-nine failed to beat the ace-king of Reskallah, and the former Dutch Gold Olympic medal winner was sent to the rail in 44th place.
With four former EPT Champions in the field, the only one to be sent packing today was Antonius. Antonius won the EPT Baden Classic in 2005 and was eliminated in the last level of the night when he ran his last 356,000 into the pocket queens of Luis Medina with ace-ten. No help of the board as the Finn was sent to the rail in 35th place. Remi Castaignon and Paul Michaelis are both still in, as is Chouity. Castaignon won EPT Deauville in 2013 and Michaelis is the most recent EPT champion when he won it in Prague in December. Castaignon bagged 680,000 and Michaelis will be returning with 1,480,000. Michaelis could be the second player ever to win two EPTs but could also be the first-ever to win it back to back.
Make sure to return tomorrow, Friday, May 3, at noon as the PokerNews live reporting team will be here to bring you all the updates as the tournament plays down to the final six players.
Day 4 Seat Draw
| Table | Seat | Players | Country | Chips | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Rustam Hajiyev | Azerbaijan | 1,045,000 | 52 |
| 1 | 2 | Wei Huang | China | 130,000 | 7 |
| 1 | 4 | Jorden Verbraeken | Belgium | 1,100,000 | 55 |
| 1 | 5 | James Romero | USA | 1,310,000 | 66 |
| 1 | 6 | Fady Kamar | Lebanon | 725,000 | 36 |
| 1 | 7 | Melika Razavi | Iran | 2,050,000 | 103 |
| 1 | 8 | Karoly Odor | Hungary | 270,000 | 14 |
| 2 | 1 | Mikalai Vaskaboinikau | Belarus | 695,000 | 35 |
| 2 | 2 | Evy Kvilhaug | Norway | 485,000 | 24 |
| 2 | 3 | Alisa Sibgatova | Russia | 450,000 | 23 |
| 2 | 4 | Ambrose Travers | UK | 520,000 | 26 |
| 2 | 5 | Bruno Volkmann | Brazil | 1,210,000 | 61 |
| 2 | 6 | Nicolas Chouity | Lebanon | 2,155,000 | 108 |
| 2 | 7 | Vlado Banicevic | Montenegro | 350,000 | 18 |
| 2 | 8 | Sam Greenwood | Canada | 550,000 | 28 |
| 3 | 1 | Christoph Vogelsang | Germany | 625,000 | 31 |
| 3 | 2 | Remi Castaignon | France | 680,000 | 34 |
| 3 | 3 | Aladin Reskallah | France | 1,600,000 | 80 |
| 3 | 4 | Nicola Grieco | Italy | 975,000 | 49 |
| 3 | 6 | Timothy Adams | Canada | 2,190,000 | 110 |
| 3 | 7 | Ryan Riess | USA | 230,000 | 12 |
| 3 | 8 | Luis Medina | Portugal | 890,000 | 45 |
| 4 | 1 | Manig Loeser | Germany | 1,635,000 | 82 |
| 4 | 2 | Conor Beresford | UK | 1,010,000 | 51 |
| 4 | 3 | Massimo Mosele | Italy | 320,000 | 16 |
| 4 | 4 | Govert Metaal | Netherlands | 790,000 | 40 |
| 4 | 5 | Jack Maskill | UK | 300,000 | 15 |
| 4 | 6 | Wiktor Malinowski | Poland | 715,000 | 36 |
| 4 | 7 | Paul Michaelis | Germany | 1,480,000 | 74 |
| 4 | 8 | Viktor Katzenberger | Hungary | 1,255,000 | 63 |
End of Day Chip Counts (Completo)
Nível 21
: 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante
| Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
|---|---|---|
|
2,190,000 | -110,000 |
|
2,155,000 | 105,000 |
|
2,050,000 | 50,000 |
|
1,635,000 | 85,000 |
|
1,600,000 | 100,000 |
|
1,480,000 | -20,000 |
|
1,310,000 | 110,000 |
|
1,255,000 | 280,000 |
|
1,210,000 | 10,000 |
|
1,100,000 | 100,000 |
|
1,045,000 | -155,000 |
|
1,010,000 | -130,000 |
|
975,000 | 9,000 |
|
890,000 | -59,000 |
|
790,000 | |
|
725,000 | -205,000 |
|
715,000 | 37,000 |
|
695,000 | -171,000 |
|
680,000 | 230,000 |
|
625,000 | -275,000 |
|
550,000 | -350,000 |
|
520,000 | -306,000 |
|
485,000 | 255,000 |
|
450,000 | |
|
350,000 | -50,000 |
Day 3 Concluded
Nível 21
: 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante
Day 3 of the 2019 EPT Monte Carlo Main Event has wrapped up with 30 players making it through to the penultimate day. All chip counts and an end-of-day recap follow shortly.
Sammartino Goes Down Against Reskallah
Nível 21
: 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante
Vlado Banicevic raised to 35,000 from middle position and Nicola Grieco called from the next seat. Dario Sammartino then moved all in for his last 508,000 and it folded to Aladin Reskallah in the big blind. Reskallah wanted confirmation of Sammartino's stack and then he moved all in himself for over 950,000.
The other players folded and Reskallah immediately opened up 
. He was flipping against the 
of Sammartino and the 
flop was rather favorable for Reskallah.
Sammartino wasn't able to catch up on the 
turn and 
river. He busted out of the tournament in 31st place.
| Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,500,000 | 510,000 |
|
|
966,000 | 120,000 |
|
|
400,000 | -165,000 |
|
Eliminado |
Razavi Snags Celestino on the River
Nível 21
: 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante
Ariel Celestino raised to 32,000 from under the gun and Melika Razavi, who had just been moved to Celestino's left, made the call. The flop came down 
and Celestino checked. Razavi bet 66,000, Celestino check-raised all in for 315,000 and Razavi called.
Ariel Celestino: 
Melika Razavi:
Celestino needed to fade the aces and jacks and did so on the 
turn. The dealer slowly burned and turned the river and revealed the to give Razavi the winner against one of the top GPI ranked players of the year.
| Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
|---|---|---|
|
|
2,000,000 | 300,000 |
|
Eliminado |
Yokosawa to the Rail
Nível 21
: 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante
In two steps, Japanese hopeful Masato Yokosawa's first EPT Main Event deep run came to an end. First, it was Govert Metaal that put him under pressure. Metaal had opened with 
and barreled a queen-high board down to the river. Yokosawa called two streets but folded the river to be left with 200,000.
Those went in shortly after with 
and Conor "1_conor_b_1" looked him up with 
. No help for Yokosawa made him the 33rd place finisher.
| Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,140,000 | 330,000 |
|
|
1,000,000 | |
|
Eliminado |
D'Anselmo Eliminated by Reskallah
Nível 21
: 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante
Nicola D'Anselmo got his last 188,000 in the middle with 
and he had to win a coin flip against the 
of Aladin Reskallah.
The board fell 
and D'Anselmo was eliminated in 34th place.
| Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
|---|---|---|
|
|
990,000 | 280,000 |
|
Eliminado | |
|
|
Eliminado |
Sibgatova Doubles Through Michaelis
Nível 21
: 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante
Alisa Sibgatova was preflop all in for 214,000 against Paul Michaelis.
Alisa Sibgatova: 
Paul Michaelis:
The 
flop and 
turn kept the Russian ahead. Michaelis pointed at the board with his finger and pulled an imaginary trigger, but to no avail. The on the river doubled Sibgatova up.
| Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,300,000 | 165,000 |
|
|
450,000 | 220,000 |
Medina Eliminates Antonius
Nível 21
: 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante
Luis Medina raised to 37,000 from the early position and Patrik Antonius shoved on the button for 356,000. The blinds quickly folded and Medina called.
Patrik Antonius: 
Luis Medina: 
The board ran out 
for Medina to hold with the pocket pair of queens to eliminate the 2005 EPT Baden Classic Champion in 35th place for €17,310.
| Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
|---|---|---|
|
|
949,000 | 396,000 |
|
Eliminado |