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04-30-2018 20:10 UTC+2

David Peters Claims Chip Lead on Day 2 of PokerStars and Monte-Carlo©Casino EPT Main Event

Yori Epskamp

Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

David Peters at the top of the counts after Day 2

One of the best in all of tournament poker made his mark on Day 2 of the 2018 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo©Casino €5,300 EPT Main Event: David Peters. Peters, number 15 on the all-time money list with over $20 million in lifetime winnings, vaulted himself to the top of the leaderboard in a day that lasted just over three levels of 90 minutes.

With 120 players left, play was suspended one table shy of the bubble. For 111 players, a share of the €3,768,450 prize pool is up for grabs, with a mincash worth €9,400. The winner, crowned on Friday, May 4, will receive the first place prize of €712,000 and can call himself the 2018 EPT Monte-Carlo champion.

Peters soared to the overall chip lead in a big hand against Lucas "Bit2Easy" Reeves during the twilight portion of the day. Holding ace-eight in a four-bet pot, Peters flopped an eight and rivered an ace for aces up. The American overbet shoved on the river and Reeves called it off for his tournament life with ace-king. Reeves was eliminated and Peters scooped up a 500k pot to vault himself to the top spot.

Another top stack belongs to last year's Day 2 chipleader, Nick Petrangelo. Petrangelo amassed 463,000 in chips to make himself a prime contender for a deep run. Last year, Petrangelo's Day 2 chip lead ended up in a relatively disappointing 82nd place, and he's looking to improve on that performance this year. Other notables that bagged big include Ali Reza Fatehi (435,500), Ole Schemion (285,000), Sam Greenwood (246,000), Team PokerStars Online Randy "nanonoko" Lew (231,500), Team PokerStars Pro Andre Akkari (227,000) and 2015 EPT Monte Carlo champion Adrian Mateos (181,000).

PokerStars and Monte-Carlo©Casino EPT Main Event Day 2 Chip Counts

Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count
1	David Peters	United States	603,500
2	Maxim Panyak	Russia	494,500
3	Nicolas Dumont	France	483,000
4	Said Butba	Russia	475,000
5	Nick Petrangelo	United States	463,000
6	[Removed:432]	France	452,000
7	Dan Abouaf	France	440,500
8	Ali Reza Fatehi	Iran	435,500
9	Boutros Naim	Lebanon	430,000
10	Eric Qu	France	403,500

The room was buzzing with excitement at the start of the day as all players played a flipout tournament to try and win the free $30,000 Platinum Pass that awaited the lucky winner. After winning three flipouts in a row, a loud cheer erupted from the Salle des Etoiles as Paul-Francois Tedeschi grabbed the Pass to punch himself a free ticket to the Bahamas and the PokerStars Players Championship next year.

Paul Tedeschi — Paul-Francois Tedeschi wins the Platinum Pass

After the buzz died down, players started Day 2 and late registration was closed. 777 entries were made into the Main Event, consisting of 594 unique players, 201 reentries and 2 no-shows. A late shower that tried to spin things up was Steve O'Dwyer, but he got eliminated in the very first hand of the day. The same empty-handed fate awaited Team PokerStars Pros Igor Kurganov, Celina Lin and Fatima Moreira de Melo, as well as Platinum Pass winner Tedeschi, Daniel Dvoress, Maria Lampropulos, Justin Bonomo, Isaac Haxton and Tsugunari Toma.

On Day 3, there's 01:15:18 to be played out in level 14, followed by a maximum of four more levels of 90 minutes each. Cards will be back in the air at noon and levels will resume with blinds at 1,500/3,000 and a big blind ante of 3,000. PokerNews will be on the floor to provide all the coverage from the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo©Casino EPT €5,300 Main Event as we get closer towards crowning the new champion.

Ole_Schemion — Ole Schemion will be back on Day 3

Day 3 Seat Draw

Table	Seat	Name	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	1	Sonny Franco	France	233,000	78
1	2	Pavel Ignatov	Russia	34,000	11
1	3	Liwei Sun	Italy	100,500	34
1	4	Aleksandr Sheshukov	Russia	251,500	84
1	5	Leo Margets	Spain	82,000	27
1	6	Olivier Ferrero	France	87,000	29
1	7	Francois Evard	Switzerland	48,500	16
1	8	Jean-Jacques Zeitoun	France	41,500	14

2	1	Ermo Kosk	Estonia	70,500	24
2	2	Chaofei Wang	China	71,500	24
2	3	Brian Altman	United States	289,000	96
2	4	Antoine Saout	France	350,500	117
2	5	Hossein Ensan	Germany	245,000	82
2	6	Alexis Fleur	France	351,000	117
2	7	Guntis Aleskins	Latvia	117,000	39
2	8	Ionut-Flavius Voinea	Romania	69,000	23

3	1	Toby Orion Boas	United States	187,500	63
3	2	Javier Fernandez Alonso	Spain	393,500	131
3	3	[Removed:37]	France	218,000	73
3	4	Florian Maurer	Austria	252,500	84
3	5	[Removed:17]	New Zealand	86,000	29
3	6	Said Butba	Russia	475,000	158
3	7	Sosia Jiang	New Zealand	155,500	52
3	8	Andreas Kaju	Estonia	95,000	32

4	1	Ali Chaieb	France	341,000	114
4	2	Carl-Fredrik Tingvall	Sweden	192,500	64
4	3	Rainer Kempe	Germany	323,000	108
4	4	Danut Chisu	Romania	257,000	86
4	5	Paul Byrne	United Kingdom	119,000	40
4	6	Ali Reza Fatehi	Iran	435,500	145
4	7	Igor Yaroshevskyy	Ukraine	116,000	39
4	8	Jan Bednar	Czech Republic	159,500	53

5	1	Alexandros Kolonias	Greece	321,500	107
5	2	Pierre Morin	France	219,500	73
5	3	Dimitar Danchev	Bulgaria	278,500	93
5	4	Anthony Blanchard	France	160,000	53
5	5	Emil Patel	Finland	84,500	28
5	6	Philipp Gruissem	Germany	152,500	51
5	7	Dan Djorno	France	162,000	54
5	8	Nicola D'Anselmo	Italy	51,500	17

6	1	Paul Newey	United Kingdom	183,500	61
6	2	Gaelle Baumann	France	115,500	39
6	3	Mark Demirdjian	Canada	395,500	132
6	4	Georgios Karakousis	Greece	136,000	45
6	5	Maxim Panyak	Russia	494,500	165
6	6	Manuel Ruivo	Portugal	221,500	74
6	7	Nadim Hage Ali	France	159,000	53
6	8	Aroldo Fioroni	Switzerland	199,000	66

7	1	Pierre Barthelemy	France	97,500	33
7	2	Anton Kraus	Bulgaria	56,000	19
7	3	Andre Akkari	Brazil	227,000	76
7	4	Eric Qu	France	403,500	135
7	5	Krisztian Gyorgyi	Hungary	321,000	107
7	6	Sadri Saleh	Canada	59,000	20
7	7	Luca Marchetti	Italy	122,000	41
7	8	Eric Sfez	France	309,000	103

8	1	Philippe Narboni	France	72,500	24
8	2	Andre Haneberg	Germany	301,500	101
8	3	Antal Roth	Hungary	126,500	42
8	4	Matthias Tikerpe	Estonia	98,500	33
8	5	Arianna Son	United States	124,000	41
8	6	Mazin Khoury	United Kingdom	268,000	89
8	7	Joe Mouawad	Lebanon	176,000	59
8	8	Florent Estegassy	France	71,000	24

9	1	Thomas Pettersson	Sweden	225,000	75
9	2	Benjamin Chicheportiche	France	147,000	49
9	3	Gary Miller	United Kingdom	159,000	53
9	4	Jason Wheeler	United States	90,000	30
9	5	Markku Koplimaa	Estonia	168,000	56
9	6	Samy Ouellani	France	272,000	91
9	7	Erik Seidel	United States	71,500	24
9	8	Gary Hasson	Belgium	285,000	95

10	1	Mikita Badziakouski	Belarus	229,500	77
10	2	Giuliano Bendinelli	Italy	95,000	32
10	3	Nick Petrangelo	United States	463,000	154
10	4	Tomas Jozonis	Lithuania	198,000	66
10	5	Andres Korn	Argentina	131,500	44
10	6	Vlado Banicevic	Montenegro	148,500	50
10	7	Davidi Kitai	Belgium	150,500	50
10	8	Boutros Naim	Lebanon	430,000	143

11	1	Fabrice Maltez	France	72,000	24
11	2	Davor Lanini	Italy	153,500	51
11	3	Wei Huang	China	49,000	16
11	4	Ville Tapio Sissonen	Finland	244,500	82
11	5	Ekrem Sanioglu	Turkey	190,000	63
11	6	Patrik Antonius	Finland	114,000	38
11	7	Pablo Melogno	Uruguay	269,000	90
11	8	Honglin Jiang	New Zealand	127,000	42

12	1	Jacques Guenni	France	65,500	22
12	2	Lukasz Cygan	Poland	250,500	84
12	3	Remy Lubespere	France	177,000	59
12	4	Randy Lew	United States	231,500	77
12	5	Gavin O'Rourke	Ireland	296,000	99
12	6	David Peters	United States	603,500	201
12	7	Francesco Grieco	Italy	63,000	21
12	8	Conor Beresford	United Kingdom	342,000	114

13	1	Boris Kuzmanovic	Croatia	134,000	45
13	2	Sebastian Von Toperczer	Germany	49,000	16
13	3	Mark Teltscher	United Kingdom	134,500	45
13	4	Adrian Mateos	Spain	181,000	60
13	5	Pasquale Braco	Italy	74,500	25
13	6	Jack Salter	United Kingdom	73,500	25
13	7	Makram Saber	Lebanon	30,000	10
13	8	Ole Schemion	Germany	285,000	95

14	1	Yorane Kerignard	France	95,000	32
14	2	Dan Abouaf	France	440,500	147
14	3	[Removed:432]	France	452,000	151
14	4	Thierry Gogniat	France	176,000	59
14	5	Saar Wilf	Israel	275,500	92
14	6	Makoto Haga	Japan	69,000	23
14	7	Josip Simunic	Austria	244,000	81
14	8	Stefan Huber	Switzerland	269,000	90

15	1	Ryan Riess	United Kingdom	44,000	15
15	2	Michael Glick	United Kingdom	191,500	64
15	3	Sam Greenwood	Canada	246,000	82
15	4	Pete Chen	Taiwan	47,000	16
15	5	Federico Petruzzelli	Italy	293,500	98
15	6	Romain Lewis	France	55,500	19
15	7	Nicolas Dumont	France	483,000	161
15	8	Massou Cohen	France	56,000	19

Tags: Ali Reza Fatehi David Peters Nick Petrangelo Paul-Francois Tedeschi

04-30-2018 18:20 UTC+2

End-of-Day Chip Counts (full)

Yori Epskamp

Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
David Peters	603,500
Maxim Panyak	494,500	44,500
Nicolas Dumont	483,000	-17,000
Said Butba	475,000	45,000
Nick Petrangelo	463,000	-97,000
O.N	452,000	42,000
Dan Abouaf	440,500	30,500
Ali Reza Fatehi	435,500	-94,500
Boutros Naim	430,000
Eric Qu	403,500	289,500
Mark Demirdjian	395,500	-114,500
Javier Fernandez	393,500	-6,500
Alexis Fleur	351,000	71,000
Antoine Saout	350,500
Conor Beresford	342,000	132,000
Ali Chaieb	341,000	273,600
Rainer Kempe	323,000	141,000
Alexandros Kolonias	321,500	-48,500
Krisztian Gyorgyi	321,000	240,900
Eric Sfez	309,000	-91,000
Andre Haneberg	301,500	-68,500
Gavin O'Rourke	296,000	101,000
Federico Petruzzelli	293,500	-16,500
Brian Altman	289,000	79,000
Ole Schemion	285,000	20,000

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04-30-2018 18:10 UTC+2

Lascar and Lampropulos Bust to End Day 2

Christian Zetzsche

Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

The field has been reduced to just 120 hopefuls and thus the clocks have been stopped to bag and tag nine players away from the money as previously announced by the tournament floor.

The last two casualties were David Lascar and Maria Lampropulos, who were ousted on neighboring tables at almost the same time.

First it was Lascar that open-shoved for 26,000 first to act and Jason Wheeler in the big blind used his last two remaining time bank extensions before making the call.

David Lascar:
Jason Wheeler:

The board came and Lascar headed to the rail.

Lampropulos raised to 7,500 and was called by two-time WSOP Main Event finalist Antoine Saout in the big blind. Saout bet the flop for 8,000 and Lampropulos called. After the turn, Saout bet 16,000 and Lampropulos shoved for what appeared tobe 40,000, the instant call of Saout followed.

Maria Lampropulos:
Antoine Saout:

Only a jack could help 2018 PCA champion Lampropulos, but instead it was the blank that fell on the river to end Day 2 with 120 players remaining.

Player	Chips	Progress
Antoine Saout	350,500	215,500
Jason Wheeler	90,000	-225,000
David Lascar	Busted
Maria Lampropulos	Busted

Tags: Antonie Saout David Lascar Jason Wheeler Maria Lampropulos

04-30-2018 18:09 UTC+2

Peters Clips Reeves, Claims Chip Lead

Yori Epskamp

Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

In one of the final hands of the day, David Peters claimed the overall chip lead in a big hand against Luke "Bit2Easy" Reeves in a clash between high stakes giants that left the latter biting the dust. A sizable pot was already created after David Peters had three-bet an open to 18,000. Behind him, Reeves four-bet to 44,000, the initial raiser folded and and Peters called.

Both the flop and turn went check/check. The on the river, however, made things interesting as Peters overbet shoved all in, effectively putting Reeves to a decision for all of his remaining 153,500 in chips.

It was a tough spot for Reeves, who burned two of his timebank chips before slapping in a call. Peters quickly showed for aces up, Reeves mucked his hand but was forced to show his .

With the pot, Peters moved up to over 600,000 in chips and claimed the overall chip lead as the day drew to a close.

Player	Chips	Progress
David Peters	603,500	412,200
Lucas Reeves	Busted

Tags: David Peters Luke Reeves

04-30-2018 18:02 UTC+2

Danchev Busts Trofimov

Christian Zetzsche

Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

The cards were all but rushed away while Dragos Trofimov shook hands with table neighbor Dimitar Danchev, the board of still showing. Trofimov had shoved all in for just 23,000 with queen-ten and Danchev's ace-queen remained the best hand after all community cards were dealt.