2008 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final - Monte Carlo

End of Day 1a Chip Counts

Stephen Kjaerstad 111200
Chris Min Lee 96050
Johnny Lodden 88425
Mostafa Belkhayate 88275
Driman Connor 87675
Shaun Deeb 84375
Thomas Boekhoff 83350
Shane Reihill 82150
Nils Christian Paulsen 80825
Beniamino Speroni 80525
Gilbert Abela 78875
Peter Wolfgang Roche 78425
Pierliuigi Tiziani 77225
Claudio Stefano Rinaldi 74475
Noah Siegel 73725
Tommi Horkko 73150
Sasha Rosewood 72125
Woody Deck 70800
Terris Preston 70125
Morten Lokken 68700
Maxime Villemure 68000
Juris Bonders 67800
Valeriy Ilikyan 67450
Kenny Hallaert 67000
Clayton Maguire 66800
Domenico Tinnirello 58100
Sebastian Zink 58050
Andreas Torbergsen 56600
Enrico Mognaga 56325
Dan Glimne 54725
Sorel Mizzi 52550
Alexander Uskov 52550
Nordine Bouya 51400
Thomas Fougeron 50300
Jean-Pierre Gleize 49100
Jan Heitmann 48900
Mel Judah 47450
Eduards Kudrjavcevs 46650
Stuart Michel Fox 46600
Aliaksandr Dzianisau 46550
Marcel Luske 46375
Andre Santos 46000
Travis Klein 45975
Trond Erik Eidsvig 44525
Christoffer Stahle 44225
Thomas Bichon 44050
Luca Pagano 43750
Eric Liu 43600
Derek Vandamme 43400
Nicolas Levi 43250
Ronny Alex 42550
Patrick Sacrispeyre 42125
Andreas Fluri 41875
Anthony Chatelain 41225
Peter Traply 41000
Rahal Samir 40575
Kirill Rabtsov 38875
Andreas Sarling 38625
Josh Arieh 38500
Nikolaus Panopoulus 37800
Jonathan Dwek 37600
Richard Fohrenbach 37500
Stefan Gerim 37475
Cecilia Borg 36575
Joshua Gould 35550
Jason Mercier 35375
Fabrizio Baldassari 35275
Freddy Deeb 35175
Benjamin Locatelli 35100
Christoph Niesert 34900
Ian Prevost 34875
Fadi Kamar 34550
Thomas Wahlroos 34500
Giovanni Bigoni 33775
Tomas Brolin 33175
Pawel Chmiel 33175
Karl Gal 33075
Humberto Brenes 32700
Jeremy Wray 32525
Raymond Rahme 32225
Joakim Osth 31675
Dominik Stopka 31675
Ryan Fisler 31600
Gualter Santos 31550
Ryan Daut 31425
Anna Wroblewski 31325
Teodori Saverio 31150
Thomas Richter 31050
Carl Olson 30775
Fowzi Baroukh 30325
Stefanie Bergener 29825
Pier Paulo Ruscalla 29450
Ross Boatman 29000
Csaba Toth 28400
Pierre Xavier Lenoir 28300
Josef Klinger 28150
Jan Olav Sjavik 27500
Martin Rask 27225
Stephen Devlin 27100
Simone Coppari 26375
Gino Alacqua 26275
Thierry Van Der Berg 25975
Peter Feldman 25725
Robin Keston 25425
Eric Scalisi 25200
Kari Somer 24825
Mark Bech 24775
Michel Abecassis 24550
Gianni Mocchi 24450
Paul Maddern 24400
Steven Van Zadelhoff 23875
Alexander Argoe 22575
William Edler 22250
Nadir Jorephani 21850
Pablo Ubierna 21825
Alec Torelli 21325
Anthony Gregg 21275
Edward Lawson 20000
Osman Mustanoglu 19650
Vladimir Kochelaevskly 18525
Christer Bjorin 18250
Noah Boeken 18250
Samuel Chartier 17700
Matthew Kurtz 17550
Adam Levy 17500
Ricardo Sousa 17175
Sandra Edlund 17075
Pierre Baronville 17025
Daniele Masini 16775
Adam Sword 16775
Dominick Raynis 16725
Tommy Pavlicek 16075
Halldor Mar Sverrisson 15975
Carl Johan Ericson 15850
Dorrance-Bowman 15500
Andy Greekfish 15425
Luis Merino 15425
Tommy Dender 15225
Alexander Morozov 15050
Severin Walser 14950
Guillaume De La Gorce 14875
Max Tobias Persson 14700
Scott Sitron 14450
Eliahu Ilan Elezra 14400
Christian Togsverd 14250
Patrik Antonius 14000
Mario Puccini 13950
Benjamin Kang 12600
Richard Nadler 11775
Iliodoros Kamatakis 10900
Owen Crowe 10475
Andreas Hagen 10275
Rahal Kalil 10200
Mike Bartholomew 10075
Nathan Doudney 10000
Miguel Magan Tier 9800
Asbjorn Lunde 9775
Stephane Michel Sage 9650
Ken Justin 8800
Konstantin Bucherl 8750
Mikhail Ustinov 8475
Josef Kollarits 7450
Gordon Vayo 7325
Jared Hubbard 7225
Johan Van Til 7125
Francois Tardieu 7075
Anders Henriksson 6700
Barry Greenstein 5825
Martin Wendt 5575
Christophe Perraud 5325
Ditspong Pinpramot 4750

Day 1a Concludes

Play on Day 1a of the 2008 PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Grand Final has come to a conclusion with 180 players surviving the day. Connor Driman, Mostafa Belkhayate, Shaun Deeb, and Johnny Lodden ended the day amongst the chip leaders. We’ll have a complete list of chip counts as soon as they become available to us.

Please join us again tomorrow from 1:00 p.m. local time (GMT +1) for live coverage of Day 1b from the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort here in Monte Carlo, Monaco.

Five More Hands

It's that time of night -- the tournament clock has been paused with 9:47 to go in our half-level and all media and spectators have been kicked out of the room while the last few hands are dealt. As is procedure on the EPT, five more hands will be played at each table before the players bag and tag their chips.

Fossilman

Fossilman Hits the Rail

Greg Raymer had the misfortune to run into Sorel Mizzi's aces and just hit the rail. Mizzi has been running well today and is closing in on 50K in chips.

Recent Eliminations

As the blinds increase and the day draws to a conclusion, many of the players are dropping from the field including the likes of Erick Lindgren, Michael "Sticky" Guttman, Greg Raymer, and Isabelle Mercier. 189 players now remain.

Eli Elezra, all smiles earlier in the day

Elezra Working the Short Stack

"I'm still surviving, honey!" Eli Elezra quipped to me as I made my umpteenth pass of his table. "I learned from Barry!" he said with a laugh, referring to his equally short-stacked tablemate and fellow "Big Game" player Barry Greenstein, who managed a small smile.

Both players are hanging on with about 8,000 apiece.

Players Return from Break