The Penultimate Day Awaits
Day 5 of 2017 PokerStars Championship presented by Monte-Carlo Casino® Main Event gets underway at 12 am, another day full of poker awaits.
Sixteen players remain in the Main Event, all guaranteed €25,700 at this point, on the verge of making a lot more as €500,800 awaits the winner. That won't happen today, though, as the plan is to play down to 6 players.
When play resumes, 41 minutes remain in level 23 (12,000/24,000 with 4,000 ante). PokerNews will be on the floor from the start until the end. Here's the line up at start of play:
| Table | Seat | Name | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Sergio Aido | Spain | 693,000 |
| 1 | 2 | Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier | France | 653,000 |
| 1 | 3 | Marius-Catalin Pertea | Romania | 1110,000 |
| 1 | 4 | Diego Zeiter | Switzerland | 1,848,000 |
| 1 | 5 | Alexandru Papazian | Romania | 1,759,000 |
| 1 | 6 | Maxim Panyak | Russia | 1,082,000 |
| 1 | 7 | Andrey Bondar | Russia | 1,283,000 |
| 1 | 8 | Dmytro Shuvanov | Ukraine | 887,000 |
| 2 | 1 | Stefan Schillhabel | Germany | 354,000 |
| 2 | 2 | Moritz Dietrich | Germany | 451,000 |
| 2 | 3 | Andreas Klatt | Germany | 1,059,000 |
| 2 | 4 | Douglas Ferreira Souza | Brazil | 536,000 |
| 2 | 5 | Davidi Kitai | Belgium | 1,536,000 |
| 2 | 6 | Raffaele Sorrentino | Italy | 1,622,000 |
| 2 | 7 | Michael Kolkowicz | France | 2,983,000 |
| 2 | 8 | Romain Nardin | France | 3,956,000 |
| Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
|---|---|---|
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3,956,000 | |
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2,983,000 | |
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1,848,000 | |
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1,759,000 | |
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1,622,000 | |
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1,536,000 | |
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1,283,000 | |
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1,110,000 | |
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1,082,000 | |
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1,059,000 | |
|
887,000 | |
|
695,000 | |
|
653,000 | |
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536,000 | |
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451,000 | |
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354,000 | |
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and Schillhabel busted.
, but Andreas Klatt had him beat with 
. The board ran out 
, keeping the kings best. Klatt could hardly have dreamed up a better start to this Day 5, as he's now over 2 million chips after picking up overpairs for two knockouts.
flop was still safe for Aido. The 
did Sergio in and he exited in 14th place. He still has time to enter the €25,750 High Roller event, registration remains open for another level.
, and the river was a 
. Sorrentino checked and saw his opponent bet 540,000. Sorrentino went into the tank for a couple of minutes, and Kolkowicz called a clock.
, as requested by Kitai's girlfriend on the rail. The 
for the missed draw, the pot went to Klatt who showed