€25,750 High Roller Day 1 | 2016 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final

05-05-2016 00:25 UTC+2

Player	Chips	Progress
Enrico Coppola	200,000	150,000
Andrey Pateychuk	200,000	55,000
Jean-Noel Thorel	180,000	70,000
Igor Kurganov	165,000	6,000
Felipe Ramos	155,000	105,000
Felix Stephensen	150,000	46,600
Zvi Stern	135,000	135,000
Andre Akkari	129,000	79,000
Alexandros Kolonias	120,000	57,000
Paul Hoefer	115,000	-13,000

Sikora Doubles Through Newey

Christian Zetzsche

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Keith Johnson wasn't called on his first shove, but now he was looked up by. The cards of the opponent were already in the muck, as the Brit had made a set of sixes with on a board of .

Jaroslaw Sikora shoved his short stack of 11,500 from the cutoff and Paul Newey reshoved from the small blind.

Sikora:
Newey:

The flop improved Sikora and he stayed ahead thanks to the turn and river.

Player	Chips	Progress
Keith Johnson	50,000	50,000
Paul Newey	26,000	-19,000
Jaroslaw Sikora	25,000	-25,000

Tags: jaroslaw Sikora Keith Johnson Paul Newey

05-05-2016 00:15 UTC+2

Gone (For Good)

Christian Zetzsche

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Of all the players below, just Ognjen Sekularac still has the choice to fork up another €25,750 because everyone else has busted on the second bullet.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ognjen Sekularac	Busted
Jack Salter	Busted
Nick Petrangelo	Busted
Martin Finger	Busted
Ibrahim Raouf	Busted

Tags: Ognjen Sekularac

Level: 10

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 200

05-05-2016 00:04 UTC+2

Daniel Negreanu, who busted earlier but bought back in, was first to act and made it 2,700 under the gun. Action folded to Ihar Soika, who won the €10,000 High Roller in EPT Barcelona back in 2014, and he tossed in 7,000 while verbalizing the three-bet was to 6,900.

"Sixty nine huh?" said Negreanu with a big smile, "Haha, I get it. That's a sex number!"

"I like Sixty-Nine haha!"

Negreanu eyed Soika's stack and said "You have a lot of money? Ah, you don't have a lot. But I still try to get it!"

Negreanu called and the flop came . Negreanu check called a bet of 6,200 before they both checked the on the turn. The completed the board and Negreanu's bet of 11,500 forced Soika to fold.

Player	Chips	Progress
Daniel Negreanu	77,000	27,000
Ihar Soika	26,700	-23,300

Tags: Daniel Negreanu Ihar Soika

05-04-2016 23:59 UTC+2

Updated Counts

Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Dan Smith	185,000	135,000
Yang Wang	184,000	12,000
Stefan Schillhabel	155,000	105,000
Christopher Frank	140,000	103,000
Mark Teltscher	100,000
Orpen Kisacikoglu	90,000	90,000
Max Silver	85,000	31,600
[Removed:17]	83,000	-45,000
Timofey Kuznetsov	50,000	-10,500

05-04-2016 23:55 UTC+2

Fedor No More

Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

Fedor Holz raised to 3,000 and Sergey Lebedev, who had just reentered not long ago, then squeezed to 8,000 from one seat over. Holz shoved for just over starting stack and Lebedev quickly called.

Holz:
Lebedev:

The board ran out and Holz exited the tournament area. He won't be coming back today or tomorrow either, as this was his second bullet.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sergey Lebedev	110,000	110,000
Fedor Holz	Busted

Tags: Fedor Holz Sergey Lebedev

05-04-2016 23:50 UTC+2

Leonzio Busts to Li

Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

After a flop of , Yingui Li shoved all in and was called by Marco Leonzio from one seat over with the . Li showed for top pair and held up thanks to the turn and river.

Player	Chips	Progress
Yingui Li	95,000	45,000
Marco Leonzio	Busted

Tags: Marco Leonzio Yingui Li

05-04-2016 23:45 UTC+2

Boeree and Dayan Split

Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

From under the gun, there was a raise to 3,500 by David Dayan and Liv Boeree on the button as well as Julian Stuer in the small blind called. On the flop, Stuer checked and subsequently folded while Dayan bet 4,500 and Boeree called.

Dayan fired a second bet worth 7,500 on the turn and was called before making it 9,500 on the river. Boeree raised to what looked like 30,000, but it didn't matter much as Dayan snap-called and both tabled ace-queen. Boeree had the , Dayan the .

Player	Chips	Progress
David Dayan	140,000	20,000
Liv Boeree	134,000	84,000

Tags: David Dayan Julian Stuer Liv Boeree

05-04-2016 23:39 UTC+2

Kenney Doubles Through Mantel

Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

Bryn Kenney opened to 2,700 and was called by Ariel Mantel in the big blind. On the flop, Mantel check-raised from 3,300 to 9,000 and Kenney called to see the appear on the turn. Mantel now fired a bet worth 11,500 and Kenney called before his opponent shoved the river.

Kenney had exactly 50,000 chips behind and was covered by 5,000 chips. After some consideration, he called with for the straight and Mantel tapped the table with his . "Nice call," he said and was left with a mere dust.

Player	Chips	Progress
Bryn Kenney	150,000	72,000
Ariel Mantel	5,000	-90,000

Tags: Ariel Mantel Bryn Kenney