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

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

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chips
1	1	Usman Siddique	UK	151800
1	2	Jullian Feriolo	France	96700
1	3	Kyosti Isberg	Finland	70700
1	4	Arne Coulier	Belgium	269900
1	5	Michel Dattani	Portugal	312200
1	6	Marcin Chmielewski	Poland	493500
1	7	Stephan Zesiger	Switzerland	151600
1	8	Benjamin Philipps	UK	150000

2	1	Tomas Jozonis	Lithuania	128100
2	2	Bruno Lopes	France	95400
2	3	Fabio Sperling	Germany	300100
2	4	Massimiliano Patroncini	Italy	31800
2	5	Frank Werder	Germany	60200
2	6	Alexandre Luneau	France	177400
2	7	Erik Van Hoek	Netherlands	156700
2	8	Kristen Bicknell	Canada	55100

3	1	Pierre Tilmant	Belgium	174200
3	2	Sam Chartier	Canada	283300
3	3	Laurent Polito	France	118000
3	4	Yannick Del Curto	Switzerland	157700
3	5	Vincent Gueneau	United Arab Emirates	41500
3	6	Matthew Davenport	UK	349100
3	7	Georges Hallak	Canada	87700
3	8	Marko Neumann	Germany	90100

4	1	Mikael Guenni	France	127400
4	3	Albert Daher	Lebanon	375100
4	4	Simon Deadman	UK	135000
4	5	Bertrand Guenoun	France	188400
4	6	Kenneth Hicks	USA	21200
4	7	Apostolos Bechrakis	Greece	136000
4	8	Gerard Sanches	France	156000

5	1	Thi Xoa Nguyen	France	140000
5	2	Denys Shafikov	Ukraine	158600
5	3	Philippe Wettstein	Switzerland	58600
5	4	Vlad Darie	Romania	57000
5	5	Marco De Vincenti	Italy	46500
5	6	Jinfeng Huo	China	201700
5	7	Massimo Mauri	Italy	242800
5	8	Fernando Brunca Garcia	Brazil	258600

6	1	Hani Bahna	Canada	20500
6	2	Povilas Zavistanavicius	Lithuania	113300
6	3	Markku Koplimaa	Estonia	209900
6	4	Albert Sebag	France	260000
6	5	Jimmy Guerrero	France	250000
6	6	Dominykas Karmazinas	Lithuania	284700
6	7	Marco Giulini	Italy	79400
6	8	Markus Durnegger	Austria	145200

7	1	Ilan Boujenah	France	112000
7	2	Mike Barsnick	Germany	260900
7	3	Nicholas Galtos	Australia	66900
7	4	Jason Gray	Australia	109400
7	5	Yusuke Okada	Japan	72400
7	6	David Susigan	France	351900
7	7	Natan Chauskin	Belarus	271900
7	8	Jeremy Palvini	France	320000

8	1	Andreas Vlachos	Greece	227000
8	2	Ruediger Weber	Germany	139500
8	3	[Removed:365]	Israel	26400
8	4	Emin Aghayev	Monaco	30800
8	5	Arnaud Peyroles	France	105600
8	6	Samu Riihela	Finland	113300
8	7	Fabio Cortes Gago	Spain	51000
8	8	Randy Lew	USA	385800

9	1	Stephen Chidwick	UK	223800
9	3	John Juanda	Indonesia	152400
9	4	Ivan Soshnikov	Russia	271400
9	5	Mikhail Nikolaev	Latvia	25000
9	6	Jan Bendik	Slovakia	289300
9	7	Alp Tosuncuoglu	Switzerland	61300
9	8	Clemente Malheiro Carreira	Portugal	125000

10	1	David Lascar	France	140500
10	2	Koichi Nozaki	Japan	154300
10	3	Fatima Moreira de Melo	Netherlands	357200
10	4	Herve Boulan	France	127300
10	5	Igor Pihela	Estonia	256400
10	6	Andreas Hoivold	Norway	186900
10	7	Tina Andersen	Denmark	50000
10	8	[Removed:2]	Lebanon	105800

11	1	Jack Salter	UK	198700
11	2	Fady Kamar	Lebanon	333000
11	3	Frank Romanello	UK	237100
11	4	Nikolas Menke	Germany	350300
11	5	Roman Korenev	Russia	224900
11	6	Felix Lambertz	Germany	50700
11	7	Enver Abduraimov	Germany	64800
11	8	Oren Rosen	Israel	213300

12	1	Erik Seidel	USA	368400
12	2	Vanessa Selbst	USA	206700
12	3	Oleh Cherepianyi	Ukraine	116400
12	4	Ouri Cohen	France	37700
12	5	Andres Jeckeln	Argentina	164500
12	7	Ihar Soika	Belarus	115200
12	8	Asan Umarov	Kazakhstan	211700

13	1	Dario Sammartino	Italy	220400
13	2	David Peters	USA	57800
13	3	Paolo Compagno	Switzerland	173600
13	4	Andrei Boghean	Romania	330000
13	5	Ben Fitzgerald	UK	67700
13	6	Omar Lakhdari	France	212000
13	7	Kiryl Radzivonau	Belarus	190700
13	8	Loc Tu	Canada	184400

14	1	Paul Hoefer	Germany	152300
14	2	Mael Lepage	Belgium	179200
14	4	Pierre Huter	Switzerland	200000
14	5	Joseph Prichard	UK	114300
14	6	Davide Settecasi	Italy	202500
14	7	Andjelko Andrejevic	USA	98700
14	8	Kamran Aliyev	Azerbaijan	108600

15	1	Alexios Zervos	Greece	185000
15	2	Dirk Gerritse	Netherlands	276600
15	3	Mike Watson	Canada	76400
15	4	Enzo Del Piero	UK	348000
15	5	Juan Etcheverry	Argentina	196800
15	6	Yann Pineau	France	115800
15	7	Thiago Nishijima	Brazil	251400
15	8	Knut Karnapp	Germany	82500

16	1	Ariel Celestino	Brazil	241200
16	2	Iacopo Brandi	Italy	29500
16	3	Mike Andreassen	Denmark	42700
16	4	Aleksei Platonov	Russia	108600
16	5	Alejandro Perez Torres	Spain	240900
16	6	Davidi Kitai	Belgium	113000
16	7	Freddy Darakjian	France	183000
16	8	Steven van Zadelhoff	Netherlands	210000

17	1	Tomas Chudomsky	Czech Republic	79500
17	2	Benjamin Pollak	France	37200
17	3	Andrea Rocci	Italy	339500
17	4	Ophir Nadav	Israel	99900
17	5	Antonio Rutigliano	Italy	170000
17	6	Peter Akery	UK	276800
17	7	Adrien Allain	France	347000
17	8	Willliam Arruda	Brazil	109200

18	1	Neil Strike	UK	160100
18	2	Jeremy Routier	France	144100
18	3	Nikita Nikolaev	Russia	188800
18	4	Arno del Curto	Switzerland	37300
18	5	John Gale	UK	267500
18	6	Yucel Eminoglu	Turkey	137500
18	7	Javier Zarco	Spain	36700
18	8	Pierre Calamusa	France	580200

19	1	Miguel Silva	Portugal	304100
19	2	Zoltan Szabo	Hungary	196600
19	3	Max Silver	UK	56200
19	4	Joseph Mouawad	USA	127600
19	5	Jan Bengelmann	Germany	243700
19	6	Joao Vieira	Portugal	153400
19	7	Diego Ventura	Peru	141900
19	8	Pascal Faivre	Canada	55700

20	1	Dermot Blain	Ireland	64000
20	2	Evangelos Terzoudis	Greece	227800
20	3	Ramzey Idriss	Lebanon	69600
20	4	Sebastien Lebaron	France	211900
20	5	Roman Verenko	Ukraine	326800
20	6	Nicolas Le Floch	France	78000
20	7	Bao Phu	Canada	43100
20	8	Ranno Sootla	Estonia	192000

21	1	Anders Tangen	Sweden	169100
21	2	Youssef Finianos	Lebanon	57500
21	3	Antoine Saout	France	109300
21	4	Salvatore Bonavena	Italy	100000
21	5	Paul-Francois Tedeschi	France	194900
21	6	Ivan Deyra	France	193300
21	7	Chris Dowling	Ireland	171000
21	8	Laurent Ciup	France	161100

22	1	Rintaro Kagawa	Japan	224700
22	2	Jean Koja	France	125500
22	3	Franck Kalfon	France	30700
22	4	Patricio Rojas Parra	Chile	173300
22	5	Rene Schneider	Switzerland	70500
22	6	Ariel Mantel	Argentina	209800
22	7	[Removed:119]	France	88700
22	8	Michel Abecassis	France	151100

23	1	Govert Metaal	Netherlands	346600
23	2	Tobias Reinkemeier	Germany	146200
23	3	Diego Zeiter	Switzerland	136700
23	4	Erwann Pecheux	France	413800
23	5	[Removed:37]	France	38000
23	6	Isabel Baltazar	France	87600
23	7	Maksim Kolosov	Russia	240000
23	8	Nariman Yaghmai	United Arab Emirates	335500

24	1	Mahomed Aissani	France	152900
24	2	Jonathan Abdellatif	Belgium	210000
24	3	Dimitar Danchev	Bulgaria	101300
24	4	Aaron Gustavson	USA	374400
24	5	Luigi Grisa	Switzerland	204300
24	6	Andrew Abernethy	UK	149100
24	7	Thomas Popov	Canada	65500
24	8	Gun Taljo	Sweden	146900

25	1	Nacho Barbero	Argentina	107000
25	2	Nicolino Di Carlo	Italy	105800
25	3	Jake Cody	UK	150100
25	4	Kyle Frey	USA	218700
25	5	Faraz Jaka	USA	66600
25	6	Ami Barer	Canada	160200
25	7	Nicolas Cardyn	France	87800
25	8	Andrea Cortellazzi	Italy	141000