2016 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final

€5,300 Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info

2016 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
1010
Prize
€961,800
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€5,325,300
Entries
1,098
Level Info
Level
34
Blinds
125,000 / 250,000
Ante
50,000

Bicknell and Patroncini Shove

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

Alexandre Luneau opened to 7,000 and then got out of the way when Kristen Bicknell shoved from two seats over. Soon after, Bruno "Kool Shen" Lopes raised to 7,000 from the button and the next short stack on the table shoved. It was Massimiliano Patroncini and Lopes checked his own stack again carefully before letting go.

Player Chips Progress
Kristen Bicknell ca
Kristen Bicknell
62,000 6,900
Massimiliano Patroncini it
Massimiliano Patroncini
40,000 8,200

Tags: Alexandre LuneauBruno LopesKristen BicknellMassimiliano Patroncini

Shorty Doubles Through

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

Albert Daher made it 6,500 and got one caller before the player second from the bottom of the chip counts coming in, one Kenneth Hicks, shipped it in for his last 20,000.

Daher called, but the flat caller folded. Daher had the {a-Diamonds}{3-Hearts} versus Hicks' {6-Clubs}{6-Spades} and the sixes held on a {5-Spades}{9-Spades}{7-Clubs}{8-Diamonds}{k-Hearts} run out to give Hicks the double.

Player Chips Progress
Albert Daher lb
Albert Daher
355,000 -20,100
Kenneth Hicks us
Kenneth Hicks
47,000 25,800

Tags: Albert DaherKenneth Hicks

Gago Gone

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

Fabio Cortes Gago got his stack in with ace-nine and was called by Arnaud Peyroles with the superior ace-king according to Randy Lew, who was still stacking the chips after arriving a few minutes late. The board provided no surprise and Gago was gone.

Player Chips Progress
Arnaud Peyroles fr
Arnaud Peyroles
140,000 34,400
Fabio Cortes Gago es
Fabio Cortes Gago
Busted

Tags: Arnaud PeyrolesFabio Cortes GagoRandy Lew

A Chop Turned Awry Gives Aghayev a Double Up

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

Emin Aghayev just moved all in for his last 29,600 and Fabio Cortes Gago made the call to create the following showdown.

Aghayev: {A-Diamonds}{J-Spades}
Gago: {A-Clubs}{J-Diamonds}

The board ran out {K-Spades}{2-Spades}{7-Spades}{8-Hearts}{4-Spades} and Aghayev was stunned that he managed to pull off a double up after seeing the hand of his opponent. Gago was left in agony as he's now one of the shortest stacks in the room.

Player Chips Progress
Emin Aghayev mc
Emin Aghayev
60,000 29,200
Fabio Cortes Gago es
Fabio Cortes Gago
18,000 -33,000

Tags: Emin AghayevFabio Cortes Gago

Level: 15

Blinds: 1,500/3,000

Ante: 400

The Stars Align For Day 3 of the The 2016 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final

Entrance - Sporting Monte Carlo
Entrance - Sporting Monte Carlo

The 2016 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final €5,300 Main Event continues in opulent Monaco today, with Day 3 beginning just after 12 p.m. local time.

France's Pierre Calamusa leads a field of 196 players coming in, with the 160th-place money bubble in clear sight. Poland's Marcin Chmielewski, and former France Player of the Year Erwann Pecheux are closely in tow.

Team PokerStars Pros Online Randy "nanonoko" Lew, Vanessa Selbst, Jake Cody, Team PokerStars SportsStar Fatima Moreira de Melo and the legendary Erik Seidel all have healthy stacks. Plus, previous EPT winners Aaron Gustavson, John Juanda, Mike Watson, Salvatore Bonavena, Dimitar Danchev, Joseph Mouawad and Davidi Kitai also remain in the hunt.

A minimum cash is worth €8,890, but all eyes will surely be on the €961,800 first-place prize, as they go into the money and beyond on yet another perfect day on the French Riviera.

The levels increase to 90 minutes today and they are sure to be filled with tons of poker action. Of course, The PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be on hand from the call to shuffle up and deal until the survivors bag and tag, so just sit back and enjoy our coverage of Day 3 of the 2016 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final €5,300 Main Event.

Day 3 Seat Draw

TableSeatPlayerCountryChips
11Usman SiddiqueUK151800
12Jullian FerioloFrance96700
13Kyosti IsbergFinland70700
14Arne CoulierBelgium269900
15Michel DattaniPortugal312200
16Marcin ChmielewskiPoland493500
17Stephan ZesigerSwitzerland151600
18Benjamin PhilippsUK150000
     
21Tomas JozonisLithuania128100
22Bruno LopesFrance95400
23Fabio SperlingGermany300100
24Massimiliano PatronciniItaly31800
25Frank WerderGermany60200
26Alexandre LuneauFrance177400
27Erik Van HoekNetherlands156700
28Kristen BicknellCanada55100
     
31Pierre TilmantBelgium174200
32Sam ChartierCanada283300
33Laurent PolitoFrance118000
34Yannick Del CurtoSwitzerland157700
35Vincent GueneauUnited Arab Emirates41500
36Matthew DavenportUK349100
37Georges HallakCanada87700
38Marko NeumannGermany90100
     
41Mikael GuenniFrance127400
43Albert DaherLebanon375100
44Simon DeadmanUK135000
45Bertrand GuenounFrance188400
46Kenneth HicksUSA21200
47Apostolos BechrakisGreece136000
48Gerard SanchesFrance156000
     
51Thi Xoa NguyenFrance140000
52Denys ShafikovUkraine158600
53Philippe WettsteinSwitzerland58600
54Vlad DarieRomania57000
55Marco De VincentiItaly46500
56Jinfeng HuoChina201700
57Massimo MauriItaly242800
58Fernando Brunca GarciaBrazil258600
     
61Hani BahnaCanada20500
62Povilas ZavistanaviciusLithuania113300
63Markku KoplimaaEstonia209900
64Albert SebagFrance260000
65Jimmy GuerreroFrance250000
66Dominykas KarmazinasLithuania284700
67Marco GiuliniItaly79400
68Markus DurneggerAustria145200
     
71Ilan BoujenahFrance112000
72Mike BarsnickGermany260900
73Nicholas GaltosAustralia66900
74Jason GrayAustralia109400
75Yusuke OkadaJapan72400
76David SusiganFrance351900
77Natan ChauskinBelarus271900
78Jeremy PalviniFrance320000
     
81Andreas VlachosGreece227000
82Ruediger WeberGermany139500
83[Removed:365]Israel26400
84Emin AghayevMonaco30800
85Arnaud PeyrolesFrance105600
86Samu RiihelaFinland113300
87Fabio Cortes GagoSpain51000
88Randy LewUSA385800
     
91Stephen ChidwickUK223800
93John JuandaIndonesia152400
94Ivan SoshnikovRussia271400
95Mikhail NikolaevLatvia25000
96Jan BendikSlovakia289300
97Alp TosuncuogluSwitzerland61300
98Clemente Malheiro CarreiraPortugal125000
     
101David LascarFrance140500
102Koichi NozakiJapan154300
103Fatima Moreira de MeloNetherlands357200
104Herve BoulanFrance127300
105Igor PihelaEstonia256400
106Andreas HoivoldNorway186900
107Tina AndersenDenmark50000
108[Removed:2]Lebanon105800
     
111Jack SalterUK198700
112Fady KamarLebanon333000
113Frank RomanelloUK237100
114Nikolas MenkeGermany350300
115Roman KorenevRussia224900
116Felix LambertzGermany50700
117Enver AbduraimovGermany64800
118Oren RosenIsrael213300
     
121Erik SeidelUSA368400
122Vanessa SelbstUSA206700
123Oleh CherepianyiUkraine116400
124Ouri CohenFrance37700
125Andres JeckelnArgentina164500
127Ihar SoikaBelarus115200
128Asan UmarovKazakhstan211700
     
131Dario SammartinoItaly220400
132David PetersUSA57800
133Paolo CompagnoSwitzerland173600
134Andrei BogheanRomania330000
135Ben FitzgeraldUK67700
136Omar LakhdariFrance212000
137Kiryl RadzivonauBelarus190700
138Loc TuCanada184400
     
141Paul HoeferGermany152300
142Mael LepageBelgium179200
144Pierre HuterSwitzerland200000
145Joseph PrichardUK114300
146Davide SettecasiItaly202500
147Andjelko AndrejevicUSA98700
148Kamran AliyevAzerbaijan108600
     
151Alexios ZervosGreece185000
152Dirk GerritseNetherlands276600
153Mike WatsonCanada76400
154Enzo Del PieroUK348000
155Juan EtcheverryArgentina196800
156Yann PineauFrance115800
157Thiago NishijimaBrazil251400
158Knut KarnappGermany82500
     
161Ariel CelestinoBrazil241200
162Iacopo BrandiItaly29500
163Mike AndreassenDenmark42700
164Aleksei PlatonovRussia108600
165Alejandro Perez TorresSpain240900
166Davidi KitaiBelgium113000
167Freddy DarakjianFrance183000
168Steven van ZadelhoffNetherlands210000
     
171Tomas ChudomskyCzech Republic79500
172Benjamin PollakFrance37200
173Andrea RocciItaly339500
174Ophir NadavIsrael99900
175Antonio RutiglianoItaly170000
176Peter AkeryUK276800
177Adrien AllainFrance347000
178Willliam ArrudaBrazil109200
     
181Neil StrikeUK160100
182Jeremy RoutierFrance144100
183Nikita NikolaevRussia188800
184Arno del CurtoSwitzerland37300
185John GaleUK267500
186Yucel EminogluTurkey137500
187Javier ZarcoSpain36700
188Pierre CalamusaFrance580200
     
191Miguel SilvaPortugal304100
192Zoltan SzaboHungary196600
193Max SilverUK56200
194Joseph MouawadUSA127600
195Jan BengelmannGermany243700
196Joao VieiraPortugal153400
197Diego VenturaPeru141900
198Pascal FaivreCanada55700
     
201Dermot BlainIreland64000
202Evangelos TerzoudisGreece227800
203Ramzey IdrissLebanon69600
204Sebastien LebaronFrance211900
205Roman VerenkoUkraine326800
206Nicolas Le FlochFrance78000
207Bao PhuCanada43100
208Ranno SootlaEstonia192000
     
211Anders TangenSweden169100
212Youssef FinianosLebanon57500
213Antoine SaoutFrance109300
214Salvatore BonavenaItaly100000
215Paul-Francois TedeschiFrance194900
216Ivan DeyraFrance193300
217Chris DowlingIreland171000
218Laurent CiupFrance161100
     
221Rintaro KagawaJapan224700
222Jean KojaFrance125500
223Franck KalfonFrance30700
224Patricio Rojas ParraChile173300
225Rene SchneiderSwitzerland70500
226Ariel MantelArgentina209800
227[Removed:119]France88700
228Michel AbecassisFrance151100
     
231Govert MetaalNetherlands346600
232Tobias ReinkemeierGermany146200
233Diego ZeiterSwitzerland136700
234Erwann PecheuxFrance413800
235[Removed:37]France38000
236Isabel BaltazarFrance87600
237Maksim KolosovRussia240000
238Nariman YaghmaiUnited Arab Emirates335500
     
241Mahomed AissaniFrance152900
242Jonathan AbdellatifBelgium210000
243Dimitar DanchevBulgaria101300
244Aaron GustavsonUSA374400
245Luigi GrisaSwitzerland204300
246Andrew AbernethyUK149100
247Thomas PopovCanada65500
248Gun TaljoSweden146900
     
251Nacho BarberoArgentina107000
252Nicolino Di CarloItaly105800
253Jake CodyUK150100
254Kyle FreyUSA218700
255Faraz JakaUSA66600
256Ami BarerCanada160200
257Nicolas CardynFrance87800
258Andrea CortellazziItaly141000

Tags: Aaron GustavsonDavidi KitaiDimitar DanchevErik SeidelErwann PecheuxFatima Moreira De MeloJake CodyJohn JuandaJoseph MouawadMarcin ChmielewskiMax SilverMichael WatsonPierre CalamusaRandy LewSalvatore BonavenaTome MoreiraVanessa Selbst

€5,300 Main Event

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