Main Event
Day 1b Started
The 2012 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final
Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
The 2012 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final
Buy-in
€10,000
Entries
665
Level
33
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000
PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino European Poker Tour Grand Final, Day 1b
Welcome back to Monaco for Day 1b of the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino European Poker Tour Grand Final. Yesterday we welcomed 271 players, today that number will a lot, lot more.
Some of the marquee names appearing are TeamPokers Stars Pros Viktor Blom, Daniel Negreanu, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, and Lex Veldhuis. Boris Becker and Fatima Moreira de Melo will be here representing Team PokerStars SportStar, and they’ll have to mix it up with the likes of Justin “Super high-roller champion” Bonomo, Gus Hansen, and last season’s champion Ivan Freitez.
Play is due to begin at 12pm CET but we expect play to start a little due to the expected large number of runners. The plan is the same as yesterday: eight one-hour levels that will take us to a finish time somewhere between 9-9.30pm. Join us back here soon for a packed day full of poker action.
Team Pros Already Registered
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 |
The Rules of Day 1b
We are going to play eight levels of 60-minutes without a dinner break. Here is the timetable.
| Time | Level | SB | BB | Ante |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:15 - 13:15 | 1 | 50 | 100 | - |
| 13:15 - 14:15 | 2 | 75 | 150 | - |
| 14:15 - 14:35 | Break | |||
| 14:35 - 15:35 | 3 | 100 | 200 | - |
| 15:35 - 16:35 | 4 | 100 | 200 | 25 |
| 16:35 - 16:55 | Break | |||
| 16:55 - 17:55 | 5 | 150 | 300 | 25 |
| 17:55 - 18:55 | 6 | 200 | 400 | 50 |
| 18:55 - 19:25 | Break | |||
| 19:25 - 20:25 | 7 | 250 | 500 | 50 |
| 20:25 - 21:25 | 8 | 300 | 600 | 75 |
Level: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
Shuffle Up and Deal
Level 2
: 75/150, 0 ante
The room is packed and cards are in the air. Hold on to your seats.
Interesting Tables
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
We took a gander around the room and found these interesting table draws involving two, three or four well known players. Take a look.
- Kevin MacPhee, Jason Mercier, Joe Ebanks
- Angel Guillen, Liv Boeree
- Athanasios Polychronopoulos, David Williams
- Andrey Zaichenko, Fatima Moreira de Melo
- Richard Lyndaker, Jonathan Duhamel
- Boris Becker, Jeff Rossiter
- Anton Ionel, George Lind III
- Lex Veldhuis, Yann Dion, Martin Finger, Todd Terry
- Stephen Chidwick, Juan Manuel Pastor, Annette Obrestad, Olivier Busquet
- Tom Marchese, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier
- Marcel Luske, Dominik NItsche
- MIke Watson, Erik Seidel, Victor Ramdin
- Sandor Demjan, Sorel Mizzi
- Shaun Deeb, Rudy Blondeau
- Isaac Baron, Patrick Renkers
- Salvatore Bonavena, Joel Dodds
- Matt Jarvis, Justin Bonomo
Mercier Fires with Straight On Board
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier checked the 
flop to Arno Del Curto. Del Curto bet 300 and Mercier made the call.
The turn added the 
to the board and both players checked to see the 
land on the river. With a 10-high straight on board, Mercier bet 1,550. Del Curto folded and Mercier won the pot.
Two Pair for Guillen
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
With 1,300 chips in the middle on the final board of 
, Team PokerStars Pro fired 1,000 after Carlos Sanchez Vegas checked. After a minute, Vegas called and Guillen tabled the 
for two pair. Vegas mucked and Guillen won the pot.
Dion Keeps Betting
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
From under the gun, Yann Dion raised to 300. Team PokerStars Pro Lex Veldhuis made the call from the next seat and Michel Carvin called from the button, creating a three-way pot to the flop.
The flop came down 
and Dion fired a continuation bet of 475. Veldhuis folded and Carvin made the call. That brought the players to the 
turn and Dion continued for 775. Carvin gave it up and Dion won the pot.