Main Event Day 2 | The 2012 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final

04-27-2012 15:41 UTC+1

Player	Chips	Progress
Alessio Isaia	210,000 20,000	20,000
Jason Wheeler	190,000 77,100	77,100
Andrew Badecker	160,000 42,000	42,000
Bruno Fitoussi	150,000 9,000	9,000
Ilan Boujenah	95,000 22,000	22,000
Phil Ivey	20,000 2,500	2,500

Move Along Now, You've no Busines Here

Player	Chips	Progress
Juha Lauttamus	Busted
Idris Ambraisse	Busted
Shane Sigsbee	Busted
Benoit Albiges	Busted
Bolivar Palacios	Busted

Emanoil Savin	Busted
Sergiy Baranov	Busted
Paul Vas Nunes	Busted
Toni Judet	Busted
Viktor Ivanov	Busted
Robert Shields	Busted
Mike Carter	Busted
Xavier Detournel	Busted
Andrey Kuznetsov	Busted
Martial Blangenwitsch	Busted
Mats Gavatin	Busted
Oleksii Kovalchuk	Busted
Cengiz Ulusu	Busted
Andrey Bondar	Busted
Marc Colomé	Busted
Jose Angel Latorre	Busted
Yury Gulyy	Busted
Roman Romanovsky	Busted
Thomas Mjeldheim	Busted
Yannick Del Curto	Busted

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04-27-2012 16:02 UTC+1

Sands In Front

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Donnie Peters

David "Doc" Sands is now over 300,000 in chips thanks to a nice little river card that gave him the winning hand against Jose Nadal.

We picked up the action on the {10-Clubs} {8-Clubs} {2-Hearts} {4-Hearts} board as Sands fired a bet of 9,400. Nadal made the call and the river card produced the {Q-Spades} . Sands bet 14,700 and Nadal snap-called. Sands tabled the {Q-Clubs} {6-Spades} for a rivered pair of queens and Nadal mucked his hand.

Sands is now up to 330,000 while Nadal was left with a face that said, "What the heck just happened to me?"

Player	Chips	Progress
David Sands	330,000 90,000	90,000
Jose Manuel Nadal	36,000 33,800	33,800

Tags: Jose Nadal David Sands

04-27-2012 16:06 UTC+1

Pellicer Picks One Up

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Donnie Peters

From under the gun, John Andress raised to 3,500. Maria Ho made the call from the hijack seat and then Pedro Pellicer three-bet to 12,500 from the button. Everyone folded and Pellicer picked up the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
John Andress	87,000 13,000	13,000
Pedro Pellicer	83,000 61,600	61,600
Maria Ho	65,000 29,000	29,000

Tags: Pedro Pellicer John Andress Maria Ho

04-27-2012 16:07 UTC+1

Updated Chip Counts

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Donnie Peters

Player	Chips	Progress
Nacho Barbero	125,000 62,000	62,000

Adam Levy	110,000 30,000	30,000

David Peters	40,000 27,400	27,400
Zachary Clark	Busted

04-27-2012 16:08 UTC+1

Evil De Meulder And Mattern Take On The Media

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Level 12 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Christophe De Meulder and Arnaud Mattern were among the Team PokerStars Pros that took on the media yesterday. Click through this link to find out why De Meudler's gone to the top of the PokerStars Blog's hit list.

04-27-2012 16:20 UTC+1

Geshkenbein Gone

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EPT Snowfest champion Vladimir Geshkenbein is out after a three-way pre flop all-in encounter.

There was a late position raise before Guillaume Darcourt shoved from the button and Geshkenbein re-shoved from the blinds. The original raiser called both all-ins with his {q-Clubs} {q-Hearts} , ahead of both opponents' hands and he also had them both covered.

Darcourt tabled {5-Clubs} {5-Spades} and Geshkenbein opened {a-} {q-} .

The board ran out {7-Spades} {k-Spades} {5-Spades} {8-Diamonds} {6-Clubs} to make the Frenchman a set of fives for a triple up. The third player took the side pot as Geshkenbein was eliminated.

Player	Chips	Progress
Guillaume Darcourt	122,000 72,500	72,500
Vladimir Geshkenbein	Busted

Tags: Guillaume Darcourt Vladimir Geshkenbein

04-27-2012 16:26 UTC+1

Assorted Chips

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Player	Chips	Progress
David Sands	350,000 20,000	20,000
Franck Blanc	270,000 109,200	109,200
Johnny Lodden	260,000 70,000	70,000

Mikhail Korotkikh	235,000 173,700	173,700
Anatoly Gurtovoy	220,000 101,900	101,900
Vasili Firsau	210,000 210,000	210,000
Stephen Chidwick	180,000 131,000	131,000
Pius Heinz	175,000 57,000	57,000

Dieter Albrecht	170,000 25,000	25,000
Bryan Piccioli	170,000 7,000	7,000
Erik Seidel	150,000

Ignat Liviu	140,000 20,000	20,000
Jorge Carlos Delgado	140,000 66,200	66,200
Dario Minieri	135,000 50,000	50,000
Sandra Naujoks	80,000 42,900	42,900

Liv Boeree	68,000 23,100	23,100

Griffin Benger	60,000 5,000	5,000
Isabelle Mercier	20,000 50,000	50,000

04-27-2012 16:30 UTC+1

We Feel For You, But What Can We Do?

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Player	Chips	Progress
Chris Oliver	Busted
Hafiz Khan	Busted
Stephane Albertini	Busted
Mikhail Semin	Busted
Kunimaro Kojo	Busted
Nathan Schoo	Busted
Vladislav Varlashin	Busted
Jeffrey Hakim	Busted
Omar Jadaa	Busted
Janos Molnar	Busted
Carlos Mironiuk	Busted
Torsten Brinkmann	Busted
Marcus Hellner	Busted
Seamus Cahill	Busted
Oleg Bychkov	Busted
Riu Cao	Busted
Martin Kabrhel	Busted
Tobias Reinkemeier	Busted
Freddy Deeb	Busted
Andrew Dean	Busted
Chady Merhej	Busted
Ben Warrington	Busted
JP Kelly	Busted
Zachary Clark	Busted
Matt Perrins	Busted

04-27-2012 16:34 UTC+1

Chip Leader Pot: Mohsin Charania v Nick Yunis

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Mohsin Charania and Nick Yunis have just clashed in the biggest pot of the tournament, so far, and the end result was a new chip leader!

Ben Vinson raised to 3,500 in first position, Mohsin Charania three-bet to 8,000 a few seats to his left, Nick Yunis four-bet to 18,000, Vinson stepped aside, Charania five-bet to 31,000 and Yunis had a decision to make. Charania had 189,000 behind and Yunis moved what looked like a little over 100k into the middle. Before you knew it all of the chips were in and we had a huge showdown.