Main Event | 2010 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final - Monte Carlo

04-30-2010 15:01 UTC+1

And We're Back!

We imagine that someone replaced the hamster that runs the power supply here, which seemed to have died earlier. But whatever it is they've done behind the scenes, it looks as though EPT Live is back up, so we expect that play will resume fairly soon. Although having said that, there are no finalists in sight yet. Watch this space.

04-30-2010 14:53 UTC+1

Still Delayed

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EPT Live is still in the process on of being fixed. We have 27 minutes remaining of this level.

04-30-2010 14:19 UTC+1

Technical Difficulties

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As you may have noticed, EPT Live just went down. LOL TV-aments, in the parlance. Players are therefore taking a short break while the TV gurus get it all up and running again.

04-30-2010 14:17 UTC+1

Herve's Adventures Of All-in

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Herve Costa, after a couple of hours, finally played a hand by moving all-in preflop.

Aleh Plauski made the call from a couple of seats down.

Plauski: {A-?}

Costa:

Board:

Costa doubles up to about 1.2 million in chips and the French crowd go wild.

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04-30-2010 14:11 UTC+1

Chouity Continues Dominance

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Dominykas Karmazinas raised to 225,000 but then Nicolas Chouity 3-bet to 475,000 and everyone folded very quickly.

Chouity's stack casts a very long shadow over this table.

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04-30-2010 13:59 UTC+1

Karmazinas Feels the Fours of Chouity's Stack

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Dominykas Karmazinas made it 225,000 from the button and Nicolas Chouity called in the big blind.

They saw a {2-Hearts}

flop and Chouity bet out 325,000. Karmazinas smiled and folded, and Chouity showed him pocket fours.

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04-30-2010 13:46 UTC+1

Short Stacks Get Shorter

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It folded around to Andrew Chen on the button who raised to 1.2 million, enough to cover both Herve Costa and Roger Hairabedian in the blinds. They both folded, and are now dangerously short, COsta with nine big blinds and Hairabedian with just six.

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04-30-2010 13:46 UTC+1

Karmazinas Doubles Through Chouity

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Dominykas Karmazinas raised preflop and Chouity 3-bet to 525,000. The action came back to Karmazinas who instantly pushed all-in confidently.

Chouity called the extra 1.4 million or so and the Lithuanian was all-in for his tournament life.

Karmazinas: {A-Diamonds}

Chouity:

Board:

Karmazinas doubled up to 4 million and moved into second place. Chouity still has 13 million though.

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04-30-2010 13:40 UTC+1

Where Are All the Chips?

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Almost two thirds of them are in the possession of Nicolas Chouity. Really, this is quite extraordinary.

Nicolas Chouity - 14,845,000
Andrew Chen - 2,870,000
Josef "Pepe" Klinger - 2,515,000
Dominykas Karmazinas - 1,960,000
Aleh Plauski - 1,420,000
Herve Costa - 1,090,000
Roger Hairabedian - 790,000

04-30-2010 13:36 UTC+1

Hairabedian Bluffs

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Roger Hairabedian pushed his tiny eight-big-blind stack towards the line...

...but he folded and laughed instead, and once everyone had folded, chip monster Nicolas Chouity got a walk.

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