€5,300 Main Event
Dia 2 Terminado
€5,300 Main Event
Dia 2 Terminado
It was an action-packed day in the €5,300 Main Event at the 2022 PokerStars European Poker Tour presented by Monte-Carlo Casino with over 12 hours of poker being played. Over the course of six and a half levels, the field was dwindled down from 332 players to just 85 by the time chips went into the bag.
Leading the way is none other than Niall Farrell who bagged a whopping 1,175,000, winning one of the larger hands of the tournament in the last couple of hands of the night. The Scottish poker pro already has one EPT Main Event title from back in 2015 in Malta where he took home over €530,000. There is still a long way to go, but grabbing an elusive second EPT title would not only tie him for the most ever, but would also be his largest career tournament victory.
Farrell will be joined atop the leaderboard by Ferenc Deak (1,137,000) and Ole Schemion (1,046,000) as the only players with a seven-figure chip stack. Deak spent the last two hours on the feature table where he accumulated the majority of his chips, while Schemion made an impressive comeback from less than 50,000 chips in the opening level of Day 2.
The day began with 332 players in their seats after a few late entries before registration closed. Many of the short stacks quickly hit the rail and would do so throughout the first few levels. The money bubble started to loom as dinner break approached and the action came to a screeching halt. One of the biggest stories of the day belonged to Ana Marquez who was down to just 17,000 chips on the bubble but managed to spin up a stack of 442,000 by the day's end.
Some notables to hit the rail before even getting a sniff at the money bubble included Victoria Cohen Mitchell, Dominik Nitsche, Kitty Kuo, Mustapha Kanit, Andre Akkari, and Patrick Antonius. Cohen Mitchell was looking to become the only three-time EPT winner but unfortunately, that will have to wait for another time.
Just two players off of the money, Harpreet Gill and Danny Pyke were both eliminated at the same time before the hand-for-hand process could even begin. That burst the money just moments before players went on dinner break and the short stacks quickly followed them out the door after securing a min-cash.
Another comeback story from Day 2 belonged to Gaelle Baumann who had a rollercoaster of a day. Baumann picked up a pot on the first hand of the day but just 10 minutes later, found herself down to just seven big blinds after losing a key all-in pot to Julien Martini. Baumann didn't falter though as she managed to find an above-average bag of 464,000 at the end of the day. Martini, on the other hand, wound up with just 170,000 but will be returning for Day 3.
A few notable to reach the money but will not be moving on to Day 3 include Davidi Kitai, Leo Margets, Timothy Adams, Rainer Kempe, Benjamin Spragg, and 2021 WSOP Main Event champion Koray Aldemir.
The action is slated to resume at 12 p.m. noon on Thursday, May 5 with just 85 players returning to their seats. It is expected that they will be playing another six and a half levels with a 20-minute break after every level and a half. The PokerNews live reporting team will be back on the tournament floor to bring you all of the live updates throughout the Main Event.
Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
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1 | 1 | Ana Marquez | Spain | 442,000 | 74 |
1 | 2 | Jerome Zerbib | France | 524,000 | 87 |
1 | 3 | Simone Andrian | Italy | 259,000 | 43 |
1 | 4 | Claudio Di Giacomo | Italy | 587,000 | 98 |
1 | 5 | Josip Simunic | Austria | 110,000 | 18 |
1 | 6 | Marcelo Simoes | Brazil | 664,000 | 111 |
1 | 7 | Julien Veyssiere | France | 383,000 | 64 |
1 | 8 | Nicola Grieco | Italy | 181,000 | 30 |
2 | 1 | David Lopez Llacer | Spain | 279,000 | 47 |
2 | 2 | Artem Kasidin | Switzerland | 317,000 | 53 |
2 | 3 | Enrico Mosca | Italy | 81,000 | 14 |
2 | 4 | Lucien Cohen | France | 150,000 | 25 |
2 | 5 | Julien Martini | France | 170,000 | 28 |
2 | 6 | Zhong Chen | Netherlands | 163,000 | 27 |
2 | 7 | Sylvestre Ceccaldi | France | 41,000 | 7 |
2 | 8 | Oliver Bosch | Austria | 289,000 | 48 |
3 | 1 | Erkan Soenmez | Germany | 446,000 | 74 |
3 | 2 | Nariman Yaghmai | Iran | 580,000 | 97 |
3 | 3 | Tommaso Briotti | Italy | 332,000 | 55 |
3 | 4 | Alexis Nicolai | France | 230,000 | 38 |
3 | 5 | Kamel Atoui | France | 130,000 | 22 |
3 | 6 | Stefano Ferrara | Italy | 503,000 | 84 |
3 | 7 | Franz Bracher | Switzerland | 262,000 | 44 |
3 | 8 | Stephan Salzmann | Switzerland | 192,000 | 32 |
4 | 1 | Aram Sargsyan | Armenia | 203,000 | 34 |
4 | 2 | Didrik Mantor | Norway | 312,000 | 52 |
4 | 3 | Pavel Veksler | Ukraine | 123,000 | 21 |
4 | 4 | Guillaume Diaz | France | 262,000 | 44 |
4 | 5 | Hugo Pingray | France | 540,000 | 90 |
4 | 6 | Andrea Rasulo | Italy | 192,000 | 32 |
4 | 7 | Boris Kuzmanovic | Croatia | 255,000 | 43 |
4 | 8 | Eric Sfez | France | 600,000 | 100 |
5 | 1 | Marc Foggin | United Kingdom | 460,000 | 77 |
5 | 2 | Alexandros Kolonias | Greece | 69,000 | 12 |
5 | 3 | Nicolas Julien | France | 165,000 | 28 |
5 | 4 | Vlado Banicevic | Montenegro | 725,000 | 121 |
5 | 5 | Marc Cristiani | France | 351,000 | 59 |
5 | 6 | Ferenc Deak | Hungary | 1,137,000 | 190 |
5 | 7 | Javier Gomez Zapatero | Spain | 866,000 | 144 |
5 | 8 | Huy Pham | Vietnam | 323,000 | 54 |
6 | 1 | Alejandro Romero | Spain | 265,000 | 44 |
6 | 2 | Dragos Trofimov | Moldova | 658,000 | 110 |
6 | 3 | Demosthenes Kiriopoulos | Canada | 103,000 | 17 |
6 | 4 | Christian Rotundo | Italy | 406,000 | 68 |
6 | 5 | Mehdi Chaoui | Morocco | 364,000 | 61 |
6 | 6 | Ariel Sebban | France | 388,000 | 65 |
6 | 7 | Justin Saliba | United States | 369,000 | 62 |
6 | 8 | Charles-Henri Garnero | France | 316,000 | 53 |
7 | 1 | Leonard Herrmann | Austria | 355,000 | 59 |
7 | 2 | Ole Schemion | Germany | 1,046,000 | 174 |
7 | 3 | Arnaud Mattern | France | 250,000 | 42 |
7 | 4 | Yannick Cardot | France | 193,000 | 32 |
7 | 5 | Flavien Mullet | France | 474,000 | 79 |
7 | 6 | Jussi Nevanlinna | Finland | 536,000 | 89 |
7 | 7 | Gaelle Baumann | France | 464,000 | 77 |
7 | 8 | Morten Hvam | Denmark | 465,000 | 78 |
8 | 1 | Terje Bremseth | Norway | 255,000 | 43 |
8 | 2 | Ramon Colillas | Spain | 796,000 | 133 |
8 | 3 | Sylvain Loosli | France | 205,000 | 34 |
8 | 4 | Peter Turmezey | Hungary | 212,000 | 35 |
8 | 5 | Nikolai Tulin | Russia | 564,000 | 94 |
8 | 6 | Fabien Motte | France | 809,000 | 135 |
8 | 7 | Sofia Lovgren | Sweden | 244,000 | 41 |
8 | 8 | Rintaro Kagawa | Japan | 174,000 | 29 |
9 | 2 | Mikal Blomlie | Norway | 82,000 | 14 |
9 | 3 | Niall Farrell | United Kingdom | 1,175,000 | 196 |
9 | 4 | Christophe Panetti | Switzerland | 338,000 | 56 |
9 | 5 | Danut Chisu | Romania | 535,000 | 89 |
9 | 6 | Laurent Chenet | France | 94,000 | 16 |
9 | 7 | Daniel Golder | United Kingdom | 582,000 | 97 |
9 | 8 | Jaime Cervantes | United States | 204,000 | 34 |
10 | 1 | Francky Magliocco | France | 780,000 | 130 |
10 | 2 | Inigo Naveiro Martin | Spain | 117,000 | 20 |
10 | 3 | Dylan Lambert | Switzerland | 94,000 | 16 |
10 | 4 | Jason Wheeler | United States | 511,000 | 85 |
10 | 5 | Shakhabiddin Muradov | Latvia | 157,000 | 26 |
10 | 7 | Hassan Fares | France | 162,000 | 27 |
10 | 8 | Jacques Der Megreditchian | France | 531,000 | 89 |
11 | 1 | Fausto Tantillo | Italy | 802,000 | 134 |
11 | 2 | Arthur Conan | France | 421,000 | 70 |
11 | 3 | Lucas Sfez | France | 495,000 | 83 |
11 | 4 | Shyngis Satubayev | Kazakhstan | 690,000 | 115 |
11 | 6 | Mikael Guenni | France | 115,000 | 19 |
11 | 7 | Ramzi Karam | Lebanon | 234,000 | 39 |
11 | 8 | Jonas Lauck | Germany | 339,000 | 57 |
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
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1,175,000 | 442,000 |
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1,137,000 | |
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1,046,000 | 396,000 |
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866,000 | -44,000 |
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809,000 | -11,000 |
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802,000 | 232,000 |
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796,000 | -4,000 |
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780,000 | |
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725,000 | 115,000 |
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690,000 | -50,000 |
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664,000 | 244,000 |
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658,000 | 297,000 |
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600,000 | |
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587,000 | -123,000 |
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582,000 | -123,000 |
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580,000 | -100,000 |
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564,000 | -46,000 |
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540,000 | 203,000 |
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536,000 | 91,000 |
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535,000 | 145,000 |
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531,000 | 56,000 |
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524,000 | -6,000 |
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511,000 | 3,000 |
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503,000 | 13,000 |
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495,000 | -25,000 |
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Play has concluded on Day 2 and a full recap along with entire chip counts will be posted soon.
Over on the feature table, Ferenc Deak leaped above a million in chips but he was not involved in the final all-in showdown that unfolded.
Andrew Hulme was at risk before the flop with a shorter stack and tabled the . He was well ahead of Erkan Soenmez with the
but the
board gave Soenmez trips jacks.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
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1,137,000 | 774,000 |
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780,000 | 140,000 |
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446,000 | 374,000 |
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Eliminado | |
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Eric Sfez raised and Pierre Calamusa then three-bet. Lucas Sfez four-bet jammed and his father folded while Calamusa eventually called it off to create the following coin flip.
Pierre Calamusa:
Lucas Sfez:
The flop gave Sfez trips kings and he retained his lead throughout the
turn and
river.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
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600,000 | 15,000 |
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520,000 | 390,000 |
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Eliminado | |
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Ramon Colillas and Pavel Veksler checked the flop and
turn. On the
river, Colillas bet 40,000 and Veksler reluctantly called. The
of Colillas won the pot as Veksler mucked.
One hand later, Veksler opened to 12,000 from under the gun and Fabien Motte called in the small blind. Colillas three-bet to 40,000 and forced two folds.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
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820,000 | -50,000 |
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800,000 | 350,000 |
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125,000 | 50,000 |
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The clock has been paused and each table will deal five more hands before the conclusion of the night and the bagging process will then commence.
Jussi Nevanlinna had a raise of 24,000 sitting in front of him and Ewen Trevidy shoved all in for 108,000 on his right. Nevanlinna gave it some thought and eventually made the call.
Ewen Trevidy:
Jussi Nevanlinna:
The board ran out and Nevanlinna held on with his pocket nines to eliminate Trevidy near the end of Day 2.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
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445,000 | 240,000 |
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Eliminado | |
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