2016 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final

€25,750 High Roller
Day: 1
Event Info

2016 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a4
Prize
€1,197,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€25,000
Prize Pool
€5,659,500
Entries
231
Level Info
Level
32
Blinds
125,000 / 250,000
Ante
25,000

Troyanovskiy and Lebedev Out

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

Julian Stuer shoved the river of the board {K-Clubs}{K-Diamonds}{5-Clubs}{9-Spades}{8-Hearts} against Vladimir Troyanovskiy and the latter only had 9,000 chips behind.

Troyanovskiy called it off and then tapped the table, flipping over {A-Hearts}{7-Diamonds}. Stuer had the {Q-Diamonds}{9-Clubs} and knocked out the Russian who was joined by his countryman Sergey Lebedev shortly after.

Player Chips Progress
Julian Stuer at
Julian Stuer
91,000 -14,000
Vladimir Troyanovskiy ru
Vladimir Troyanovskiy
Busted
Sergey Lebedev ru
Sergey Lebedev
Busted

Tags: Julian StuerSergey LebedevVladimir Troyanovskiy

Farrell Doubles Yaroshevsky; Bad Beats Luo

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 200 ante
Xixiang Luo
Xixiang Luo

Igor Yaroshevsky doubled up after shoving the {8-Diamonds}{4-Diamonds}{2-Clubs}{5-Spades} turn for 28,000 with the {A-Diamonds}{3-Diamonds} and Niall Farrell looked him up with the {8-Spades}{6-Spades}. The {8-Hearts} river was a blank and the Yaroshevsky doubled.

Soon after, Farrell had Xixiang Luo all in and at risk with {K-Hearts}{K-Clubs} versus {A-Clubs}{A-Spades} and binked the {K-Spades} on the river to recover the previous losses.

Player Chips Progress
Niall Farrell gb
Niall Farrell
EPT 1X Winner
240,000 27,000
Igor Yaroshevskyy ua
Igor Yaroshevskyy
90,000 39,000
Xixiang Luo cn
Xixiang Luo
Busted

Tags: Igor YaroshevskyNiall FarrellXixiang Luo

Negreanu Gets a Brutal Beat

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

The tweet by Daniel Negreanu is already out and Faraz Jaka also confirmed what happened while Philipp Gruissem was just in a hand. Negreanu check-raised a {J-}{8-}{7-} flop and got it in after the {6-} turn with pocket jacks for top set. Gruissem called with {J-}{10-} and binked a nine on the river.

Also out: Leonardo Cucchiarini, Dietrich Fast and Haralabos Voulgaris, who were all on their second bullet.

Player Chips Progress
Philipp Gruissem de
Philipp Gruissem
90,000 33,000
Daniel Negreanu ca
Daniel Negreanu
Busted
Dietrich Fast de
Dietrich Fast
Busted
Haralabos Voulgaris ca
Haralabos Voulgaris
Busted
Leonardo Cucchiarini it
Leonardo Cucchiarini
Busted

Tags: Daniel NegreanuDietrich FastFaraz JakaHaralabos VoulgarisLeonardo CucchiariniPhilipp Gruissem

Level: 9

Blinds: 600/1,200

Ante: 200

A Solid Tank by Silver

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

A few minutes into the break, one table was still waiting for the last hand to finish and Max Silver faced the shove of Yang Wang for 53,500 into a pot of more than double of that with the board reading {J-Diamonds}{7-Clubs}{5-Clubs}{10-Clubs}{5-Spades}.

"I have a bad feeling, don't think I can do it," Silver said with a pretty identical stack behind. After seven minutes into the break, he folded and Wang asked him if he had kings or aces before flashing his {9-Hearts}{9-Spades}.

Player Chips Progress
Yang Wang cn
Yang Wang
172,000 50,000
Max Silver gb
Max Silver
53,400 3,400

Tags: Max SilverYang Wang

Ledebev Doubles; Remains Short

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Dominykas Karmazinas opened to 2,400 and Oliver Price made it 6,800. Sergey Lebedev then said raise and moved all in for 6,900. The dealer was surprised for a second and the Russian once again said "raise. 6,800 ... 6,900 ... raise," with a serious expression on the face. Karmazinas folded, but Price tossed in the extra 100 chips.

Lebedev: {9-Diamonds}{9-Hearts}
Price: {10-Clubs}{9-Clubs}

The board ran out {Q-Hearts}{8-Hearts}{7-Spades}{3-Spades}{4-Diamonds} and the Russian doubled.

Player Chips Progress
Oliver Price gb
Oliver Price
100,000 100,000
Dominykas Karmazinas lt
Dominykas Karmazinas
100,000 5,000
Sergey Lebedev ru
Sergey Lebedev
18,000 -53,000

Tags: Dominykas KarmazinasOliver PriceSergey Lebedev

Some More Small Hands

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Niall Farrell forced Xiaxiang Luo to fold on the board {4-Diamonds}{3-Diamonds}{2-Clubs}{A-Clubs}{10-Diamonds} by betting 15,000 into a pot of 20,000 whereas Andrey Zaichenko played on his iPad for two minutes before folding to the shove of table neighbor John Juanda and forfeiting his raise to 2,500.

David Dayan had squeezed to 11,000 and then folded to the shove of Byron Kaverman, besides that there wasn't much action going on.

Player Chips Progress
Niall Farrell gb
Niall Farrell
EPT 1X Winner
213,000
David Dayan br
David Dayan
120,000
Byron Kaverman us
Byron Kaverman
70,000
John Juanda id
John Juanda
Poker Hall of Famer
EPT 1X Winner
60,000 10,000
Andrey Zaichenko ru
Andrey Zaichenko
30,000

Tags: Andrey ZaichenkoByron KavermanDavid DayanJohn JuandaNiall FarrellXixiang Luo