Andy Black lost 8K in prop bets to Roland de Wolfe. He's now among the chipleaders and sits on an 80K stack. He was moved to Erica Schoenberg's table and is looking to become the second player past the 100K mark today. Andy Black took third at the Aussie Millions and is looking to make another final table in a major event.
There seems to be a lot of players knocking over their drinking glasses. Every half hour or so, you can hear the shrill sounds of a glass shattering in the distance. Here in Monte Carlo, players are given Evian water and Pellegrino to drink with fancy long stemmed glasses. They look nice, but are fragile to the touch. Since there are so many spectators, media, staff, and players roaming around the tables... it's inevitable that someone bump into the small tables with the bottles and glasses. The result... one of the staff sweeping up the shattered glass.
A total prize pool of 6,626,400 euros (more than $8.8 million) and a top prize of 1,825,010 euros (more than $2.4 million). Full Prize Pool and Payouts are listed under the heading in the right hand column.
Chad Brown is the chipleader with 118K after he busted Gus Hansen. On a flop of , Hansen moved all in with . One opponent called with . And Chad Brown jammed with . Brown had the best redraw with a gutshot and a flush draw. The turn was the and the river was . Hansen and the other guy headed to the rail as Chad Brown stacked up all the chips.