The 2012 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final

Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info

The 2012 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
qq
Prize
€1,350,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€10,000
Entries
665
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000

Main Event

Day 3 Started

The EPT Grand Final Day 3 Seat Draw

TableSeatNameChips
11Bruno Launais121,200
12Pius Heinz70,600
13Aubin Cazals45,400
14Tristan Clemencon198,700
15Rodrigo Dos Santos Caprioli226,000
16Dimitar Danchev92,700
17Kut Fu Chow152,400
18David Sands281,800
    
21Tibor Nagygyorgy214,400
22Daniel Gomez291,800
23Ignat Liviu138,700
24Gaelle Baumann120,000
25Leon Viellevoije35,900
26Ziv Caspi55,600
27Chanracy Khun91,000
28Vasili Firsau185,300
    
31Oleksandr Vaserfirer20,700
32Andoni Larrabe Sánchez147,700
33Patrick Renkers92,700
34Hamad Almannai185,600
35Christopher Brammer267,400
36Roberto Menache216,800
37Erich Kollmann56,100
38Basil Yaiche126,400
    
41Pavel Gonchakov95,700
42Michael Telker200,000
43Andrew Badecker279,200
44Lucille Cailly157,800
45Mikhail Petrov69,700
46Maria Ho44,400
47Mikhail Korotkikh261,300
48Sandra Naujoks127,700
    
71Geert-Jan Potijk324,600
72Jonathan Karamalikis158,100
73Dragan Kostic72,000
74Javier Gil Candelas32,300
75Marco Leonzio93,000
76Georges Dib124,200
77Max Martinez456,300
78Ben Vinson200,800
    
81Tudor Grangure293,900
82Samantha Cohen149,700
83Clayton Mozdzen238,800
84Andrey Danilyuk54,500
85Sergey Baburin81,300
86Bryan Piccioli187,000
87Philippe Narboni33,900
88Juan Gonzalez Venzano115,200
    
91Andrey Demidov62,200
92Bernard Guigon82,900
93Carlos Sanchez Vegas107,700
94Amit Makhija215,900
95Vadzim Kursevich317,800
96Nicolas Chouity138,600
97Alessio Isaia173,600
98Rumen Nanev43,300
    
101Faraz Jaka140,100
102Maroun Jazzar26,400
103Reza Mostafavi Tabatabaei110,000
104Justin Bonomo221,900
105John Andress301,200
106Nacho Barbero185,000
107Leo Margets69,500
108Salvatore Bianco86,900
    
141Ramon Romero54,900
142Mohsin Charania413,500
144Ilkin Amirov126,000
145Jan Petersen215,500
146Franck Blanc83,900
147Andrew Pantling193,200
148Vito Lonigro154,200
    
151Guillaume Darcourt274,800
152Andres Artinano149,100
153Emin Aghayev124,300
155Elliot Smith188,600
156[Removed:247]223,200
157Angel Guillen63,100
158Ilan Boujenah83,000
    
161Christopher Hunichen200,200
162Frank Koopmann276,400
163[Removed:119]82,000
164Martin Finger125,200
165Adam Levy156,700
166Marc Zaicik46,100
168Vadzim Markushevski249,800
    
171Alain Goldberg90,700
172Oleg Larichev31,100
173Paul Testud67,400
174Dominykas Karmazinas238,700
175Giuseppe Pantaleo294,400
176Ibrahim Ghassan104,400
177Michael Dietrich193,500
178Daniele Guidetti142,800
    
221Erik Seidel362,200
222Richard Toth205,800
223Oleh Okhotskyi67,200
224Noah Boeken185,200
226Pierre Neuville82,500
227Jesse Martin104,500
228Philip Parsons140,900
    
232Jason Wheeler75,000
233Johnny Lodden46,200
234Ibrahim Ghassan138,200
235Adrian Schaap227,200
236Rasmus Vogt102,200
237Dmitry Grishin175,100
238Lawrie Inman303,500
    
241Stephen Chidwick99,600
243Marcel Luske48,200
244Maksim Kolosov166,700
245Martin Vallo136,800
246Yury Gulyy77,300
247Sergio Castelluccio211,600
248Santiago Nadal267,400
    
251Annette Obrestad130,600
252Joel Bez45,600
253Igor Sharaskin73,500
254Pratyush Buddiga164,500
255Malte Moennig98,400
256Bruno Fitoussi245,500
257Anatoly Gurtovoy339,100
258Andrea Benelli199,800
    
261Griffin Benger284,100
262Rupert Elder196,600
263Matthias De Meulder156,700
264Andrey Kuznetsov35,800
265Fady Kamar69,700
266Ghosn Fadi128,800
267Dan Abouaf234,500
268Clyde Tjauw Foe98,000

It's Money Bubble Day at the EPT Grand Final

Max Martinez - the current chip leader
Max Martinez - the current chip leader

Good morning and welcome to the very best coverage of the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino European Poker Tour Grand Final. We are Pokernews and this is Day 3; the money bubble day.

There are 130 players left from an original cast of 665 and 96 of them are going to receive at least €15,000 for their troubles. But everyone will have had least one thought about what they would do if they won the first prize of €1,500,000.

Team PokerStars Pro Max Martinez had a barn-storming finish to Day 2 yesterday when he used his special powers to turn 65,000 into 456,300 chips. Mohsin Charania received the bulk of his chips as a gift from Nick Yunis and Erik Seidel…well he is Erik Seidel. Charania and Seidel starting on 413,500 and 362,200 respectively and all three of them are in with a great chance of going deep in this competition.

Joining Martinez in the hunt for a pay day are fellow Team PokerStars Pros Richard Toth, Nacho Barbero, Matthias De Meulder, Sandra Naujoks, Pius Heinz, Angel Guillen, Marcel Luske and Johnny Lodden. Also keep your eye out for the Griffin "Flush_Entity" Benger (284,100), David "Doc" Sands (281,800), Andrew Badecker (279,200), Chris Brammer (267,400) and the recent €100,000 Super High Roller winner Justin Bonomo (221,900).

The action starts at 12:00 (CET) so go on, brush your teeth and settle down in front of the laptop because it is going to be a great day of poker.

Level: 15

Blinds: 1,500/3,000

Ante: 400

Shuffle Up and Deal!

Level 15 : 1,500/3,000, 400 ante

The cards are in the air for Day 3 where we will play down to 24-players with a dinner break at the end of Level 19. For any interested players the tables will break as follows: 26, 25 & then 17.

Obrestad Under Immediate Pressure

Anatoly Gurtovoy raised to 7,600 in the cutoff and Annette Obrestad defended her small blind. The flop was {6-Diamonds} {5-Spades} {2-Diamonds} and the action went very quickly. Obrestad checked, Gurtovoy bet 15,000 and Obrestad called. On the turn we saw the {4-Clubs} and again it was a quick tempo as Obrestad tapped the felt before Gurtovoy immediately bet 30,000. For the first time,Obrestad slowed the pace right down, and pondered her decision before calling. Finally we saw the {J-Clubs} and it was a case of dejavu. Obrestad quickly tapped the felt and Gurtovoy immediately announced, "all-in". If Obrestad called and was wrong - she was out. She thought for a very long time before eventually folding her hand.

Player Chips Progress
Anatoly Gurtovoy
Anatoly Gurtovoy
396,000 56,900
Annette Obrestad no
Annette Obrestad
76,600 -54,000

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Martinez PIcking Up Right Where He Left Off

Team PokerStars Pro Max Martinez finished as the chip leader last night and has picked up right where he left off today. He just busted Javier Gil Candelas to add some more chips to his mountainous stack and increase his chip lead.

From under the gun, Martinez raised to 6,000 before action folded to Candelas on the button. He reraised all in for 25,800. The blinds folded before Martinez made a quick called. He held the {A-Spades}{A-Clubs} and was crushing all hopes Candelas had with the {A-Hearts}{10-Hearts}.

The flop, turn and river ran out {J-Diamonds}{6-Diamonds}{5-Diamonds}{3-Hearts}{5-Clubs} and Candelas was eliminated.

Player Chips Progress
Max Martinez it
Max Martinez
485,000 28,700
Javier Gil Candelas
Javier Gil Candelas
Busted

Tags: Javier Gil CandelasMax Martinez

Karmazinas Doubles Up Larichev

Dominykas Karmazinas raised to 6,000 in early position and Oleg Larichev moved all-in from the big blind. Karmazinas called and the pair went to showdown with Larichev at risk of elimination.

Larichev{K-Hearts} {J-Hearts}
Karmazinas{K-Clubs} {Q-Diamonds}

So Larichev was dominated, but the position would soon change on the flop.

Flop: {K-Diamonds} {J-Spades} {9-Spades}

Larichev took the lead and it stayed that way as the {9-Clubs} turn and {8-Hearts} river changed nothing.

Player Chips Progress
Dominykas Karmazinas lt
Dominykas Karmazinas
207,700 -31,000
Oleg Larichev ru
Oleg Larichev
64,000 32,900

Tags: Oleg LarichevDominykas Karmazinas

A Double Here, a Double There

  • Dominykas Karmazinas has jumped to near the top of the leader board after he doubled through Giuseppe Pantaleo. It was a cooler in a battle of the blinds, with the latter six-bet shoving with ace-king. Karmazinas snapped with aces and took down the biggest pot of the tournament so far.
  • Meanwhile, Lucille Cailly has doubled up through Andrew Badecker after she also found aces. Badecker had jacks and is now one of the short stacks.
Player Chips Progress
Dominykas Karmazinas lt
Dominykas Karmazinas
420,000 212,300
Lucille Cailly fr
Lucille Cailly
300,000 142,200
Andrew Badecker us
Andrew Badecker
110,000 -169,200
Giuseppe Pantaleo de
Giuseppe Pantaleo
75,000 -219,400

Tags: Dominykas KarmazinasLucille CaillyGiuseppe Pantaleo