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2008 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final - Monte Carlo
PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Grand Final
Day: 1b
Event Info
2008 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final - Monte Carlo
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$15,764
Prize Pool
$13,393,124
Total Entries
842
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 842
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and it was checked around. The turn was the 
. The blinds checked, Moneymaker tossed out one red 500 chip, the MP player called and the blinds folded. The river was the 
. Moneymaker checked, and as his opponent checked behind and flipped over 
, a clearly frustrated Moneymaker slammed the table with his fist, a "Dammit!" escaping his lips as he turned up 
for the nut boat. "That was probably my double-up hand" muttered Moneymaker as he dragged the small pot. He's short-stacked at the moment, sitting on 4,200 in chips.
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With the board reading
Wernick fired a 3,000 chip bet into a pot that was already worth over 8,000. His opponent went into the tank and so Wernick decided to fire some verbal ammunition. "You've you a big hand that you just can't lay down hey?"...."You still don't believe me?"...."Mickey Wernick never lies"....Wernick may have been trying to extract a call from his opponent, but he eventually laid down his hand, as Wernick flashed
. "You had A-Q? That's a good fold..." quipped Wernick.Wernick continues on his merry way and now has over 23,000 chips.
Mike "Timex" McDonald - 26,000
Dario Minieri - 22,500
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier - 21,000
Vanessa Rousso - 7,600
Chad Brown - 10,500
Level: 2
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
We did some investigative reporting and found out from tournament director Steve Frezer that the change was not intentional. Traditionally, the 5,000 chips used by the EPT are brown, so when Frezer was asked to retrieve the "new" chips from storage and found a brand-new and unused set of white 5,000 chips, he assumed he'd found what he was looking for. He later found out that the set he was supposed to retrieve was an updated version of the brown chips, which were stowed away in the opposite corner of the room.
According to Frezer, the plan to correct the problem is actually quite simple: when the Day 1a and b fields merge tomorrow afternoon for Day 2, the white chips will be taken out of play and replaced with the new brown ones.
