Main Event Day 1b | The 2012 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final

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Day 1b Completed

04-26-2012 21:27 UTC+2

Day 1b Done and Dusted

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Donnie Peters

Level 8 : 300/600, 75 ante

Day 1b of the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino European Poker Tour Grand Final is in the books after the second and last starting flight ran through their first eight levels of the tournament. Another 394 players were in action today to bring the grand total of this year's field size to 665. Ending the day with the most chips in the room was Nicolas Yunis with 191,700 in chips.

Plenty of notable players were in the mix on Day 1b including those representing Team PokerStars Pro. Ana Marquez, Fatima Moreira De Melo, Humberto Brenes, Pius Heinz, Marcel Luske and Jason Mercier all had successful days on the felt. On the flip side of the coin, Lex Veldhuis, Victoria Coren, Jonathan Duhamel and Eugene Katchalov were all eliminated on the day.

Other well known faces bagging up a good amount of chips were Tom Marchese, Stephen Chidwick, Erik Seidel, Annette Obrestad and Maria Ho.

With first place set at a whopping €1.5 million, it's going to be one heck of a ride from here on out. Day 2 will commence at 1200 CET tomorrow and PokerNews will be back in action firing away the updates as the players fire in their chips. Be sure to join us then.

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04-26-2012 21:24 UTC+2

EPT Grand Final: Day 2 Seat Draw

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Table	Seat	Name	Chips
1	1	Hafiz Khan	71.500
1	2	Thomas Wahlroos	24.300
1	3	Nicola Bordignon	41.400
1	4	Tony Gregg	34.700
1	5	Nick Yunis	191.700
1	6	Michel Carvin	59.800
1	7	Manuel Bevand	16.300
1	8	Victor Ramdin	7.000

1	9	Vadzim Markushevski	49.500
2	1	Andrew Badecker	83.800
2	2	Beatrice Sitbon	17.100
2	3	Aneris Adomkevicius	46.100
2	4	Aage Ravn	57.200
2	5	Barry Greenstein	71.100
2	6	Christophe Benzimra	25.000
2	7	Claus Bek Nielsen	37.700
2	8	Lawrie Inman	100.800
2	9	Casey Kastle	10.600

3	1	Martin Wendt	53.600
3	2	Suat Uyanik	33.200
3	3	Craig McCorkell	8.500
3	4	Ole Schemion	64.400
3	5	Patrick Renkers	23.700
3	6	Thibaud Genegou	16.900
3	7	Nils Svensson	76.800
3	8	Levon Bouchikian	45.400
3	9	Andrew Pantling	91.500

4	1	Jose Manuel Nadal	69.800
4	2	Andrey Gulyy	59.100
4	3	Philippe Narboni	16.200
4	4	Ricky Tang	23.200
4	5	Andrey Bondar	29.900
4	6	Mats Gavatin	48.100
4	7	Santiago Nadal Sordo	85.600
4	8	Alessio Isaia	139.600
4	9	Stephane Albertini	38.000

5	1	Ermo Kosk	10.600
5	2	Ivan Kudriavtcev	186.200
5	3	Daniel Studer	50.100
5	4	Vito Lonigro	31.900
5	5	Phillippe Rouas	17.800
5	6	Jeffrey Gross	26.800
5	7	Nathan Schoo	65.100
5	8	Emin Aghayev	82.500
5	9	Mick Graydon	40.500

6	1	Daniel Di Pasquale	65.400
6	2	Stephen Reynolds	78.200
6	3	Fioroni Aroldo	11.500
6	4	Vojtech Ruzicka	43.400
6	5	Marc Colomé	34.800
6	6	Andrea Benelli	53.200
6	7	Xavier Detournel	25.800
6	8	Lothar Meier	19.100
6	9	Vladimir Geshkenbein	103.900

7	1	Bryn Kenney	30.600
7	2	Bruno Launais	77.500
7	3	Edward Teems	59.700
7	4	Tom Marchese	112.000
7	5	Sergiy Baranov	23.700
7	6	Clayton Mozdzen	40.700
7	7	Marat Begenov	10.500
7	8	Olivier Douce	48.600
7	9	Kevin MacPhee	16.800

8	1	Mikhail Korotkikh	61.300
8	2	Marc-Andre Ladouceur	101.300
8	3	Adrian Veghinas	84.600
8	4	Dieter Albrecht	42.100
8	5	Cristea Ionut	52.100
8	6	Alain Daien	24.200
8	7	Andrei Stoenescu	17.700
8	8	Evgeny Taranyuk	11.200
8	9	George Danzer	31.200

9	1	Ignat Liviu	36.700
9	2	Rade Jovanovski	16.000
9	3	Sandor Demjan	43.000
9	4	Sorel Mizzi	61.600
9	5	Oleh Okhotskyi	74.000
9	6	Steve O'Dwyer	101.600
9	7	Alexey Sudarikov	22.800
9	8	Ziv Caspi	27.600
9	9	Mikalai Pobal	51.800

10	1	Zoltan Szabo	35.400
10	2	Fowzi Baroukh	28.600
10	3	Lucien Cohen	21.900
10	4	Mickael Tribert	45.600
10	5	Alain Goldberg	74.700
10	6	Vanessa Selbst	54.900
10	7	Yulius Sepman	16.000
10	8	Aubin Cazals	93.500
10	9	Ville Wahlbeck	61.700

11	1	Kenny Hicks	40.000
11	2	Giuseppe Pantaleo	19.600
11	3	Marco Leonzio	58.800
11	4	[Removed:146]	24.300
11	5	David Peters	67.400
11	6	Toby Lewis	12.500
11	7	Scott Seiver	99.800
11	8	Clyde Tjauw Foe	82.600
11	9	Javier Garcia	48.000

12	1	Idris Ambraisse	125.000
12	2	Ariel Mantel	48.200
12	3	John Eames	157.200
12	4	Geert-Jan Potijk	116.000
12	5	Martin Schleich	59.300
12	6	John O'Shea	39.900
12	7	Yury Kerzhapkin	23.600
12	8	Johnny Lodden	12.600
12	9	Tudor Grangure	30.400

13	1	Benoit Albiges	43.400
13	2	Rumen Nanev	51.300
13	3	Jeffrey Hakim	25.900
13	4	George Lind	35.900
13	5	Vanessa Rousso	17.000
13	6	Sam Trickett	65.800
13	7	Nacho Barbero	105.400
13	8	Juan Gonzalez Venzano	85.500
13	9	Griffin Benger	10.600

14	1	Daniele Guidetti	42.300
14	2	Gaelle Baumann	35.400
14	3	Francis-Nicolas Bouchard	26.200
14	4	Mike Carter	12.400
14	5	Basil Yaiche	54.300
14	6	Ramon Romero Lanz	63.300
14	7	Jesse Martin	93.500
14	8	Seamus Cahill	78.900
14	9	Samuel Chartier	18.400

15	1	Bruno Fitoussi	14.000
15	2	Jonathan Villeneuve	58.500
15	3	Jean-Noel Thorel	100.400
15	4	Yannick Del Curto	30.400
15	5	Ognjen Sekularac	47.900
15	6	Igor Malyshkov	20.200
15	7	JP Kelly	83.700
15	8	Sinel Anton	69.100
15	9	Nicolas Chouity	38.700

16	1	Jason Somerville	13.200
16	2	Dimitar Danchev	67.000
16	3	Roman Romanovsky	58.300
16	4	Andrey Zaichenko	42.000
16	5	Mikhail Petrov	19.550
16	6	Dragan Kostic	34.400
16	7	Michael Kolkowicz	93.600
16	8	Justin Bonomo	79.000
16	9	Vincenzo Andrea	26.400

17	1	Matthias De Meulder	23.900
17	2	Leon Viellevoije	30.900
17	3	Kyle Julius	16.600
17	4	Phil Ivey	72.000
17	5	Anton Ionel	7.200
17	6	Sebastian Veghinas	48.600
17	7	Martial Blangenwitsch	60.000
17	8	Andrey Demidov	104.400
17	9	Maksim Kolosov	40.700

18	1	Marc Zaicik	35.800
18	2	Timofey Kuznetsov	99.700
18	3	Humberto Brenes	77.700
18	4	Carlos Sanchez Vegas	53.600
18	5	Kut Fu Chow	27.600
18	6	Daniel Negreanu	22.400
18	7	Marcel Luske	63.200
18	8	Maxim Panyak	6.700
18	9	Elliot Smith	45.700

19	1	Vladislav Varlashin	20.700
19	2	Maria Ho	55.500
19	3	Adham Beainy	47.000
19	5	Maroun Jazzar	25.300
19	6	Walid Bou-Habib	85.700
19	7	Ben Warrington	104.800
19	8	Dermot Blain	66.000
19	9	Marco Falanga	34.300

20	1	Keven Stammen	46.800
20	2	Dmitry Grishin	81.300
20	3	Jose Carlos Garcia	12.100
20	4	Paul Testud	28.900
20	5	Spencer Hudson	57.900
20	6	Bolivar Palacios	65.600
20	7	Giacomo Maisto	23.200
20	8	Kunimaro Kojo	36.900
20	9	Dario Minieri	94.700

21	1	Yann Brosolo	18.200
21	2	Chanracy Khun	43.700
21	3	Andrey Kuznetsov	33.900
21	4	Zachary Clark	24.100
21	5	Michael Telker	60.900
21	6	Ole [Removed:332]	80.500
21	7	Patrick Sacrispeyre	8.500
21	8	Jason Mercier	52.200
21	9	Mickey Petersen	98.800

22	1	Joackim Fissenko	24.000
22	2	Flavius Puica	54.400
22	3	Pavel Gonchakov	67.200
22	4	Christopher Hunichen	32.200
22	5	Annette Obrestad	82.400
22	6	Anatoly Gurtovoy	118.100
22	7	Joe Cada	17.000
22	8	Vincent Verdickt	4.700
22	9	Liv Boeree	44.900

23	1	Amit Makhija	32.000
23	2	Yury Gulyy	26.500
23	3	Joao Nunes	14.000
23	4	Sergey Baburin	21.400
23	5	Fabrice Soulier	73.300
23	6	Jonathan Karamalikis	89.600
23	7	Andrey Danilyuk	60.000
23	8	Terje Augdal	49.500
23	9	Jude Ainsworth	41.000

24	1	Malte Moennig	136.900
24	2	Rasmus Vogt	25.000
24	3	Marcus Hellner	17.800
24	4	William Thorson	31.000
24	5	Marius Pospiech	12.500
24	6	Cengiz Ulusu	114.300
24	7	Alexander Venovski	48.500
24	8	Isaac Baron	40.100
24	9	Pratyush Buddiga	69.900

25	1	Javier Gil Candelas	10.800
25	2	Rodrigo Dos Santos Caprioli	36.800
25	3	Martin Kabrhel	167.800
25	4	Richard Toth	52.900
25	5	Samir Moukawem	24.000
25	6	Bryan Piccioli	60.900
25	7	Oleksandr Vaserfirer	43.200
25	8	Robert Sova	17.400
25	9	Martin Finger	85.900

26	1	Ilan Boujenah	117.000
26	2	Noah Boeken	83.900
26	3	Erik Cajelais	45.300
26	4	Raphael Kroll	27.100
26	5	Chris Oliver	58.900
26	6	Darko Stojanovic	13.300
26	7	Tibor Nagygyorgy	19.900
26	8	Konstantin Tolokno	39.600
26	9	Andrey Pateychuk	67.800

27	1	Thomas Muhlocker	40.200
27	2	Mathew Frankland	81.500
27	3	Frank Koopmann	113.900
27	4	Andrea Dato	30.700
27	6	Ben Vinson	65.500
27	7	Pierre Neuville	51.100
27	8	Janos Molnar	16.700
27	9	Chris Moneymaker	24.000

28	1	Klimashin Nikolaevich	80.400
28	2	Habib Esses	12.600
28	3	Matt Perrins	95.100
28	4	Chao Fei Wang	44.700
28	5	Adria Balaguer	18.700
28	6	Fady Kamar	62.300
28	7	Martins Adeniya	24.900
28	8	Vadzim Kursevich	53.300
28	9	Anders Berg	31.800

29	1	Jason Wheeler	112.900
29	2	Erich Kollmann	12.300
29	3	Martin Staszko	26.600
29	4	Juha Lauttamus	35.700
29	5	Vladimir Troyanovski	86.700
29	6	Michael Watson	45.800
29	7	Mikhail Semin	59.000
29	8	Roberto Menache	68.200
29	9	Emile Petit	21.000

30	1	Andres Artinano	125.200
30	2	Jamie Rosen	9.100
30	3	Damien Rony	49.900
30	4	Paul Vas Nunes	21.700
30	5	Imad Derwiche	27.400
30	6	Vasili Firsau	87.300
30	7	Jonathan [Removed:250]	33.700
30	8	Adam Levy	66.800
30	9	Oleg Larichev	41.300

31	1	Thomas Dolezal	54.700
31	2	Kristian Lunardi	20.200
31	3	Lucille Cailly	63.500
31	4	Jonathan Ben Soussan	99.000
31	5	Paul Berende	82.100
31	6	Rupert Elder	36.100
31	7	Andrew Dean	14.300
31	8	Simeon Naydenov	28.200
31	9	Tony Viklund	46.000

32	1	Christopher Brammer	67.500
32	2	Igor Sharaskin	47.300
32	3	Ghosn Fadi	30.400
32	4	Mikhail Ustinov	58.000
32	5	David Vamplew	15.500
32	6	Franck Blanc	160.800
32	7	Dorde Jovanovic	40.000
32	8	Pedro Pellicer	21.400
32	9	Ana Marquez	85.200

33	1	Nikolay Losev	59.500
33	2	Michele D'Aniello	71.500
33	3	Michael Dietrich	88.600
33	4	Vadim Vadimovich Belov	22.100
33	5	Dan Shak	33.200
33	6	Jean-Philippe Piquette	15.110
33	7	[Removed:247]	41.200
33	8	Omar Jadaa	27.200
33	9	Stephen Chidwick	49.000

34	1	Tobias Reinkemeier	35.625
34	2	Eric Qu	51.600
34	3	Riu Cao	90.600
34	4	Jan Petersen	61.200
34	5	Daniel Gomez	41.800
34	6	Chady Merhej	75.300
34	7	Yngve Andersen	20.200
34	8	Giulio Mascolo	10.210
34	9	Tauras Narmontas	27.600

35	1	Salman Behbehani	41.400
35	2	Shane Sigsbee	52.300
35	3	Carlos Mironiuk	75.700
35	4	Philip Gurian	19.300
35	5	Samantha Cohen	93.500
35	6	Jorge Galino Lopez	5.100
35	7	Torsten Brinkmann	24.200
35	8	Emanoil Savin	60.700
35	9	Robert Shields	32.900

36	1	Oleksii Kovalchuk	65.600
36	2	Adrian Schaap	76.400
36	3	Erik Seidel	56.500
36	4	Hamad Almannai	91.400
36	5	Joao Ribeiro	29.600
36	6	Alexander Uskov	36.000
36	7	Talal Shakerchi	45.100
36	8	Viktor Ivanov	13.800
36	9	Amichai Tzvi Barer	22.900

37	1	Anton Thorarinsson	22.100
37	2	Bruno Lopes	57.600
37	3	William Reynolds	29.900
37	4	Jeffrey Rossiter	39.600
37	5	Pius Heinz	87.100
37	6	Thomas Gabriel	68.500
37	7	Tristan Clemencon	121.100
37	8	Marvin Rettenmaier	45.400
37	9	David Sonelin	12.200

38	1	Faraz Jaka	42.900
38	2	Salvatore Bianco	71.600
38	3	Martin Vallo	88.600
38	4	Kevin Vandersmissen	29.700
38	5	Michael Winkels	16.100
38	6	Angel Guillen	60.200
38	7	Viacheslav Goryachev	51.100
38	8	Ilkin Amirov	36.000
38	9	Toni Judet	22.500

39	1	John Andress	41.900
39	2	Marco Della Tommasina	60.200
39	3	Chris Moorman	19.100
39	4	Jorge Carlos Delgado	73.800
39	5	Joris Springael	11.600
39	6	Guillaume Darcourt	49.500
39	7	David Sands	160.300
39	8	Thomas Mjeldheim	34.600
39	9	Liutauras Armanavicius	25.500

40	1	Freddy Deeb	114.600
40	2	Ibrahim Ghassan	20.900
40	3	Daniel Reijmer	32.100
40	4	Antonino Venneri	15.000
40	5	Joel Bez	45.000
40	6	Georges Ghossan	53.500
40	7	Ondrej Vinklarek	83.200
40	8	Fatima Moreira de Melo	61.500
40	9	Philipp Gruissem	24.600

41	1	Isabelle Mercier	23.900
41	2	Jonathan Turner	40.200
41	3	Noshrevan Gadelia	1.000
41	4	Cristiano Guerra	31.400
41	5	Kenny Hallaert	61.300
41	6	Dan Abouaf	89.100
41	7	Alessandro De Michele	49.800
41	8	Jesus Esteve	75.200
41	9	Alain Roy	16.400

42	1	Anatoly Chen	26.200
42	2	Eduardo Borio Carlini	21.300
42	3	Philip Parsons	67.300
42	4	Georges Dib	96.300
42	5	Dori Yacoub	14.100
42	6	Oleg Bychkov	82.600
42	7	Sandra Naujoks	37.100
42	8	Leo Margets	55.100
42	9	Borge Dypvik	46.200

43	1	Dominykas Karmazinas	81.600
43	2	Bernard Guigon	57.300
43	3	Joep van den Bijgaart	13.400
43	4	Mohsin Charania	68.300
43	5	Reza Mostafavi Tabatabaei	110.900
43	6	Mathieu Clavet	30.100
43	7	Jose Angel Latorre	46.800
43	8	Jesus Cortes	23.500
43	9	Freddy Darakjian	39.900

44	1	Robert-Andrei Pescaru	27.600
44	2	Andoni Larrabe Sánchez	181.300
44	3	Max Martinez	63.400
44	4	Jason Gray	34.600
44	5	Melanie Weisner	15.900
44	6	Sergio Castelluccio	83.100
44	7	Sergey Kishnev	50.600
44	8	JC Alvarado	43.000
44	9	Antoine Saout	22.300

04-26-2012 21:22 UTC+2

End of Day 1b Chip Counts (full)

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Player	Chips	Progress
Nick Yunis	191,700
Ivan Kudriavtcev	186,200
Andoni Larrabe	181,300 87,300	87,300
Franck Blanc	160,800 30,800	30,800
Alessio Isaia	139,600 69,600	69,600
Andres Artinano	125,200
Idris Ambraisse	125,000
Anatoly Gurtovoy	118,100 84,100	84,100
Ilan Boujenah	117,000 13,000	13,000
Geert-Jan Potijk	116,000
Cengiz Ulusu	114,300
Tom Marchese	112,000 13,000	13,000
Nacho Barbero	105,400 35,400	35,400

Vladimir Geshkenbein	103,900 6,100	6,100

Lawrie Inman	100,800
Jean-Noel Thorel	100,400 20,400	20,400
Timofey Kuznetsov	99,700
Matt Perrins	95,100 73,100	73,100
Dario Minieri	94,700 27,700	27,700
Michael Kolkowicz	93,600
Aubin Cazals	93,500
Samantha Cohen	93,500
Jesse Martin	93,500
Andrew Pantling	91,500
Hamad Almannai	91,400

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04-26-2012 21:20 UTC+2

Fabrice Soulier Doubles Through Kastle

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Level 8 : 300/600, 75 ante

Fabrice Soulier and Casey Kastle have just butted heads and it is Kastle who has ended up sore. Soulier held {A-Diamonds} {Q-Spades} and Kastle held {K-Spades} {K-Clubs} , all of the money went into the middle pre flop and the board delivered Soulier an ace.

Tags: Casey Kastle Fabrice Soulier

04-26-2012 21:14 UTC+2

Three More Hands

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Donnie Peters

Level 8 : 300/600, 75 ante

The tournament staff has just announced that each table will play three more hands before bagging and tagging for the night.

04-26-2012 21:04 UTC+2

Timely Double for Geshkenbein

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Max Martinez was the early chip leader and stayed at a healthy level all day until he ran into Vladimir Geshkenbein moments ago.

All the chips went in pre flop for a six-figure flip.

Geshkenbein: {a-Clubs} {k-Spades}
Martinez: {9-Hearts} {9-Diamonds}

The board ran {10-Clubs} {7-Spades} {3-Clubs} {a-Diamonds} {10-Diamonds} to favour Geshkenbein. The Team PokerStars Pro is hanging on now.

Player	Chips	Progress
Vladimir Geshkenbein	110,000 50,000	50,000

Max Martinez	14,000 61,000	61,000

04-26-2012 20:46 UTC+2

I Need A Hero, Just Don't Make it Fernadez

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A bit of Team PokerStars Pro on Pro action occurred that only left one survivor.

The cameras were around the table and by the time we got there we knew that the battle was between Dario Minieri and Leo Fernadez. The two had made it to the river of a {6-Diamonds} {5-Hearts} {4-Hearts} {5-Clubs} {4-Diamonds} and around 15,000 was in the middle.

Minieri set his Argentine opponent in for his remaining 19,000. Fernandez tanked and hero-called with {a-Clubs} {10-Diamonds} but lost out to Minieri's full house with {a-Diamonds} {5-Diamonds} .

Player	Chips	Progress
Dario Minieri	67,000 3,000	3,000
Leo Fernadez	Busted

Tags: Dario Minieri Leo Fernadez

04-26-2012 20:39 UTC+2

Teltscher Races Away

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Mark Teltscher's tournament has come to and end at the hands of Annette Obrestad.

She opened from mid position and snap called when Teltscher shoved from the cut-off.

Teltscher: {k-Hearts} {q-Clubs}
Obrestad: {j-Diamonds} {j-Clubs}

The board ran {9-Clubs} {j-Hearts} {8-Clubs} {9-Diamonds} {4-Spades} .

It was over by the turn and the Brit knew that and got out of his seat and left in silence without waiting for the river.

Player	Chips	Progress
Annette Obrestad	94,000 10,000	10,000
Mark Teltscher	Busted

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04-26-2012 20:37 UTC+2

Molson Doubles Through Spada

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Donnie Peters

Will Molson just doubled up through Carmine Spada. Molson was all in preflop with the lesser {Q-} {J-} to Spada's {A-} {K-} for 9,100. Molson was able to hit a jack on the turn to win the hand and double back to about 20,000 in chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Will Molson	20,000 15,000	15,000

Tags: Will Molson Carmine Spada