Welcome to Day 4 of PokerStars Championship Monte Carlo €5,300 Main Event
Three days are in the books and three remain in PokerStars Championship presented by Monte-Carlo Casino® €5,300 Main Event.
A starting field of 727 runners has been reduced to just 45, so the tournament is well into the money with the current payout being €15,420. However, everyone has their eyes on the €500,800 top prize, and a number of top players remain in contention.
Stefan Schillhabel, Davidi Kitai, Sergio Aido, and French tournament legend Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier are all in the top 10 in chips. However, everyone's looking up at Frenchman Michael Kolkowicz, who has 1,445,000 as blinds and antes head to 5,000/10,000/1,000.
Day 4 of the event will see the players grind their way through five more levels, each lasting 90 minutes. When they wrap things up at Level 23, they'll be playing 12,000/24,000/4,000. There will be 20-minute breaks between each level. Stay tuned here on PokerNews as we bring you all of the live updates throughout the day.
Day 4 Seat Draw
| Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Diego Vilela | Brazil | 358,000 |
| 1 | 3 | Moritz Dietrich | Germany | 821,000 |
| 1 | 4 | Raffaele Sorrentino | Italy | 197,000 |
| 1 | 5 | Diego Zeiter | Switzerland | 476,000 |
| 1 | 6 | Remi Castaignon | France | 142,000 |
| 1 | 7 | Vicente Delgado | Spain | 501,000 |
| 1 | 8 | Peyman Luth | Germany | 533,000 |
| 2 | 1 | Lukasz Kubicki | Poland | 315,000 |
| 2 | 2 | Marius-Catalin Pertea | Romania | 860,000 |
| 2 | 3 | Sergio Aido | Spain | 719,000 |
| 2 | 4 | Sergei Petrushevskii | Russia | 541,000 |
| 2 | 5 | Hossein Ensan | Germany | 718,000 |
| 2 | 6 | Arne Coulier | Belgium | 394,000 |
| 2 | 7 | Jeffrey Hakim | Lebanon | 511,000 |
| 2 | 8 | Maxim Panyak | Russia | 921,000 |
| 3 | 1 | Dan Smith | United States | 99,000 |
| 3 | 2 | Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier | France | 766,000 |
| 3 | 3 | Sebastian Malec | Poland | 509,000 |
| 3 | 5 | Paul Testud | France | 100,000 |
| 3 | 6 | Alexandru Papazian | Romania | 670,000 |
| 3 | 7 | Marius Gierse | Germany | 383,000 |
| 3 | 8 | Dmytro Shuvanov | Ukraine | 604,000 |
| 4 | 1 | Lee Hon Cheong | Hong Kong | 637,000 |
| 4 | 2 | Michael Kolkowicz | France | 1,445,000 |
| 4 | 4 | Stefan Schillhabel | Germany | 1,380,000 |
| 4 | 5 | Shijirbaatar Sanjaasuren | Mongolia | 145,000 |
| 4 | 6 | Paul-Francois Tedeschi | France | 560,000 |
| 4 | 7 | Krisztian Fejerdi | Hungary | 130,000 |
| 4 | 8 | Douglas Ferreira Souza | Brazil | 428,000 |
| 5 | 1 | Andrey Bondar | Russia | 180,000 |
| 5 | 2 | Jerome Brion | France | 406,000 |
| 5 | 3 | Chebli Chebli | Lebanon | 291,000 |
| 5 | 4 | Stefan Huber | Switzerland | 235,000 |
| 5 | 5 | Manig Loeser | Germany | 350,000 |
| 5 | 6 | Gianluca Speranza | Italy | 347,000 |
| 5 | 7 | Jan Bendik | Slovakia | 223,000 |
| 5 | 8 | Diego Ventura | Peru | 371,000 |
| 6 | 1 | Philipp Kober | Austria | 149,000 |
| 6 | 2 | Davidi Kitai | Belgium | 1,087,000 |
| 6 | 3 | Romain Nardin | France | 577,000 |
| 6 | 4 | Karim Souaid | France | 510,000 |
| 6 | 5 | Luiz Duarte | Brazil | 204,000 |
| 6 | 6 | Andreas Klatt | Germany | 254,000 |
| 6 | 7 | Shakhabiddin Muradov | Latvia | 170,000 |
| 6 | 8 | [Removed:43] | France | 477,000 |
flop hit. Ensan bet 39,000 and Petrushevskii called.
on the turn before the 
completed the board. Petrushevskii checked for the third time. Ensan grabbed a 5,000-chip from a tower of blues and moved the rest forward: a 95,000 bet.
for the flush, Petrushevskii mucked quietly.
giving Nardin two pair and a strong lead in the hand.
.
on the river, however, was a blank and Souaid and Nardin shook hands. Down to 40 players now in the Main Event.
flop. Although Brion had found a three-outer, Bendik could still win with a spade or a queen. None appeared on the turn or river though, and he said something in his native tongue before shaking his conqueror's hand and heading to payouts.
against Paul Testud's 
. The flop was dead for both, but a king on the turn left Smith felted.
flop. Once the 
hit the turn, Ensan got up as he was drawing dead. The 
on the river was there just to make things official.
flop gave Malec some hope for a chop, but the former EPT winner saw an 
close off some of the cards he needed. The 
flop was grim for Ventura, pairing Dietrich. The 
missed the all-in player, and he's first to go after the redraw.
, not doing much for Delgado just yet. The [10] on the turn did give Delgado four clean outs for the win. The 
