€10,000 EPT Grand Final Main Event | 2009 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final

05-03-2009 13:59 UTC+3

Hand #2 - Peter Traply

[user75032]

Action folds to Peter Traply. He opens the pot for 185,000 and wins the blinds and the antes.

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05-03-2009 13:58 UTC+3

Hand #1 - Traply

[user46392]

It folds to small blind Peter Traply who makes it 240,000; Tulchinskiy doesn't fancy it and Traply takes the first pot of the day.

05-03-2009 13:56 UTC+3

Shuffle Up and Deal!

[user75032]

Cards are in the air.

05-03-2009 13:44 UTC+3

Soon... So Soon...

[user46392]

Players are beginning to take their seats, and the slow TV introductions should be coming shortly.

05-03-2009 12:59 UTC+3

And so we have come to the final day -- and the final table -- of the 2009 PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Monte Carlo Grand Final. Five grueling days of poker have produced eight finalists from seven different countries. They are:

Seat 1: Peter Traply - Hungary (4,365,000)
Seat 2: Mikhail Tulchinskiy - Russia (3,220,000)
Seat 3: Eric Qu - France (2,880,000)
Seat 4: Pieter de Korver - Netherlands (2,440,000)
Seat 5: Alem Shah - Germany (1,515,000)
Seat 6: Daniel Zink - Germany (1,865,000)
Seat 7: Matthew Woodward - USA (4,560,000)
Seat 8: Dag Mikkelsen - Norway (7,315,000)

Mikkelsen starts with the chip lead after making a strong run at the end of Day 4 by knocking out Marc Naalden in 10th place and Chris Rossiter in 9th place. But really, it's anyone's game. Mikkelsen's chip lead is not nearly insurmountable.

There are 21 minutes left in Level 28, 40,000 / 80,000 / 5,0000, when we get underway. That was scheduled for noon (five minutes from now) but any old hand will tell you that television tables never, ever start even close to on time. Just stay tuned and we'll see what happens.