2008 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final - Monte Carlo

PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Grand Final
Day: 4
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Event Info

2008 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final - Monte Carlo

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a♥5♥
Prize
$3,198,500
Event Info
Buy-in
$15,764
Prize Pool
$13,393,124
Entries
842
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
10,000
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2008 PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Grand Final - Day 4

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Are you a Rebel Spirit?
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Bonjour, garçons et filles! We're back at the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort for Day 4 of the PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo, where things are starting to get interesting. Day 3 brought the demise of 85 more players, 44 of whom walked away with no money. The other
41 scored paydays ranging from $27,000 - $60,000, which means that the 39 remaining players are guaranteed to take home at least $60K.

Professional poker player and former magician Antonio Esfandiari turned 121,400 chips into well over 1.1 million yesterday and enters Day 4 leading his closest opponent (Robin Keston of the UK) by almost 300,000. Fellow pros Johnny Lodden and Henrik Gwinner join Esfandiari and Keston in the top ten to start the day, with 623,000 and 487,000 respectively.

Play resumes this afternoon at 1:00 p.m. local time (7:00 a.m. EST) and will continue until a final table is decided. Check back then for more live updates, chip counts, photos and videos direct from the tournament floor.

Day 4 Seat Assignments

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(Table 1)
Seat 1: Glen Chorny, Canada - 344000
Seat 2: Andreas Fluri, Switzerland - 61000
Seat 3: Amit Makhija, USA - 269500
Seat 4: Anthony Chatelain, Sweden - 83500
Seat 5: Alexander Morozov, Russia - 133000
Seat 6: Miara David, Unknown - 249500
Seat 7: Raymond Rahme, South Africa - 133000
Seat 8: Johnny Lodden, Norway - 623000

(Table 2)
Seat 1: Eric Liu, USA - 398000
Seat 2: Benjamin Sprengers, USA - 127000
Seat 3: Tomas Brolin, Sweden - 74000
Seat 4: Claudio Pagano, Italy - 291000
Seat 5: Rami Boukai, USA - 425000
Seat 6: David Shade Kruger, USA - 486500
Seat 7: Stig Top Rasmussen, Denmark - 373000
Seat 8: Antonio Esfandiari, USA - 1198000

(Table 3)
Seat 1: Oyvind Riisem, Norway - 340000
Seat 2: Robin Keston, UK - 916000
Seat 3: Denes Kalo, Hungary - 642000
Seat 4: Gerasimos Deres, Sweden - 494500
Seat 5: Stefan Geim, Germany - 58000
Seat 6: Henrik Gwinner, Denmark - 487000
Seat 7: Peter Traply, Hungary - 300500
Seat 8: Isaac Baron, USA - 236500

(Table 4)
Seat 1: Joe Hachem, Australia - 214500
Seat 2: Noah Siegel, USA - 388500
Seat 3: Walid Bou Habib, Lebanon - 127500
Seat 4: Valeriy Ilikyan, Russia - 295000
Seat 5: Andrew Luetchford, UK - 116000
Seat 6: Mostafa Belkhayate, Morocco - 523000
Seat 7: Maxime Villemure, Canada - 600000
Seat 8: Pablo Ubierna, Spain - 316000

(Table 5)
Seat 1: Luca Pagano, Italy - 279500
Seat 2: Jonathan Dwek, Canada - 282000
Seat 3: Thomas Boekhoff, Germany - 465000
Seat 4: Freddy Deeb, USA - 140500
Seat 5: Michael Martin, USA - 141500
Seat 6: Vincent Secher, France - 92500
Seat 7: Anders Berg, Norway - 124000

Level: 18

Blinds: 3,000/6,000

Ante: 600

Players Takng Their Seats

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The remaining 39 players are taking their seats and play will be underway momentarily. We will be playing the final 40 minutes of Level 18 with the blinds at 3000/6000 with a 600 chip ante. The average chip stack is 323,000.

For the first time this tournament, the feature table will be in use. This made for TV table is situated on an elevated stage at the front of the tournament area and will have TV crews watching closely to film all of the action. At the start of play this table will feature the likes of Luca Pagano, Freddy Deeb and Anders Berg.

Deeb Bests Dwek

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On a flop of {9-Hearts}{7-Spades}{3-Diamonds}, both Freddy Deeb and Jonathan Dwek checked. The turn was the {J-Clubs}. Dwek led out for 20,000 and got a call. The river was the {4-Hearts}. Dwek checked, Deeb bet 40,000 and Dwek called. Deeb showed K-J and took it down with top pair.

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Hachem Doubles Early

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One time....
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2005 WSOP Main Event Champ Joe Hachem has just doubled up through Mostafa Belkhayate of Morocco. Belkhayate opened with a big raise from middle position holding pocket jacks and when the action folded around to Hachem on the button, he moved in over the top for a total of 185,000. Mostafa made the call prompting Hachem to turn over his hand - pocket queens.

The board ran out {9-Diamonds}{4-Diamonds}{8-Clubs}{2-Spades}{9-Spades} and a relieved Hachem raked in the 370,000 pot - not a bad way to start the day!

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T6Anthony Aggressive Early

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Anthony Chatelain has been aggressively pushing his short stack early on today. He has been all in on several occasions but yet to be called, recently showing the table pocket jacks as he accumulates much valued blinds and antes to put him back up over 100,000 chips.

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Esfandiari Weaves More Magic

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Antonio Esfandiari raised the action up to 17,000 from early position and Tomas Brolin came over the top for the rest of his chips. It was 68,000 to Esfandiari, which represented such a small portion of his stack that he made a pretty easy call with {A-Diamonds}{Q-Spades}. Brolin flipped {A-Clubs}{K-Diamonds} and was looking in good shape for a double up.

However a queen in the door on a flop of {Q-Diamonds}{4-Hearts}{3-Clubs} gave "The Magician" the lead and Brolin was left needing one of three kings to survive. The turn was the {4-Diamonds} and river {5-Clubs} and Tomas Brolin was eliminated from the tournament, as Esfandiari's stack continues to swell.

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