Main Event Day 2 | 2018 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo©Casino EPT

04-30-2018 16:47 UTC+2

Player	Chips	Progress
Christoph Vogelsang	Busted
Lily Kiletto	Busted
Christophe De Meulder	Busted
Yury Kanunnikov	Busted
Henri Kasper	Busted
Shyngis Satubayev	Busted
Nathan Gozlan	Busted
Viacheslav Goryachev	Busted
Dinesh Alt	Busted
Christoph Strehl	Busted
Hicham Moussa	Busted
Laurent Patroni	Busted

Jozonis Scores a Big Double

Christian Zetzsche

Level 13 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

A preflop raising war in a battle button versus big blind saw Tomas Jozonis open to 6,000 and Gary Miller made it 16,000 to go. Jozonis clicked it back to 36,000 only for Miller to reraise to 80,000. Jozonis moved all in for 149,500 and Miller eventually called after some consideration.

Tomas Jozonis:
Gary Miller:

The board ran out and Jozonis held up with his kings to more than halve Miller's stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tomas Jozonis	305,000	175,000
Gary Miller	105,000	-215,000

Tags: Gary Miller Tomas Jozonis

04-30-2018 16:34 UTC+2

Altman Jumps Above Average

Christian Zetzsche

Level 13 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

After having grinded a short stack in the early levels of the day, Brian Altman has just jumped above the average after scoring a double through Vlad Darie. The latter had opened to 5,500 on the button and Altman three-bet to 19,500 in the big blind. Darie moved all in and Altman called for 84,500.

Brian Altman:
Vlad Darie:

The board came and Altman's trip kings won the pot.

Francois Evard check-raised all in after a turn against Christoph Vogelsang and the latter asked for a count after having bet 15,000. The all in was for 49,000 and Vogelsang sighed "why didn't I check?" before sending his cards into the muck.

Player	Chips	Progress
Vlad Darie	200,000	-100,000
Brian Altman	175,000	125,000
Francois Evard	95,000	5,000
Christoph Vogelsang	40,000	22,500

Tags: Brian Altman Christoph Vogelsang Francois Evard Vlad Darie

04-30-2018 16:30 UTC+2

Dumont Jumps to Half a Million

Christian Zetzsche

Level 13 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Denis Timofeev left the tournament area and briefly mentioned in Russian to another countryman that he had busted, and his former table showed a massive stack in front of Nicolas Dumont. According to Dumont, he had five-bet shoved with pocket kings into the pocket aces of Timofeev and got there to skyrocket up in the counts.

Soon after, Thomas Lilamand was all in for 23,000 and Dumont called from two seats over with the flop reading .

Thomas Lilamand:
Nicolas Dumont:

The turn and river run out gave Dumont the nut flush and Lilamand exited with a sigh. While that boosted Dumont to half a million, it's still not good enough for the overall lead, Mark Demirdjian still has that beat.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mark Demirdjian	595,000	65,000
Nicolas Dumont	500,000	383,900
Denis Timofeev	Busted
Thomas Lilamand	Busted

Tags: Denis Timofeev Mark Demirdjian Nicolas Dumont Thomas Lilamand

04-30-2018 16:23 UTC+2

Patel on Fumes

Yori Epskamp

Level 13 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

After a raise to 6,000, Emil Patel shoved all in for a little over 50,000 in middle position. From the blinds, Ermo Kosk called all in for 44,500 and the raiser folded.

Emil Patel:
Ermo Kosk:

The board ran out and Kosk spiked his queen on the turn to survive. Patel, the former star of "2 Months 2 Million", was left with mere crumbs but doubled the hand afterwards to get to 10 big blinds.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ermo Kosk	100,000	70,000
Emil Patel	25,000	-200

Tags: Emil Patel Ermo Kosk

04-30-2018 16:20 UTC+2

Tedeschi No More

Christian Zetzsche

Level 13 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Paul Tedeschi, who had won the flip out before the start of Day 2 and earned a Platinum Pass, was lurking in the tournament area. After grinding a short stack for a long time, he was all in with against pocket eights and flopped a nine only for an eight to show up on the river.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ali Reza Fatehi	390,000	120,000
Sosia Jiang	270,000	130,000
Mark Teltscher	200,000	55,000
Mikita Badziakouski	195,000	-5,000
Hossein Ensan	140,000	5,000
Francois Evard	90,000	-45,000
Paul Tedeschi	Busted
Muhamet Perati	Busted

Tags: Paul Tedeschi Paul-Francois Tedeschi

04-30-2018 16:15 UTC+2

TV Table Back in the Field; Mateos Busts Mereu

Yori Epskamp

Level 13 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

In the break, the feature table has been moved back into the regular playing area. For Juri Mereu, the journey back into the outer field was cut short, as he busted against Mateos straight away. Mereu was holding pocket tens against Mateos' , but a queen on the river ended his Main Event attempt.

Patrik Antonius is the top dog at the table with 220,000, where Josip Simunic and Christophe de Meulder are also seated at.

Player	Chips	Progress
Patrik Antonius	220,000	153,500
Adrian Mateos	130,000	3,500
Jean-Jacques Zeitoun	65,000	28,500
Christophe De Meulder	55,000	-14,900
Juri Mereu	Busted

Tags: Adrian Mateos Christophe de Meulder Josip Simunic Juri Mereu Patrik Antonius

04-30-2018 16:11 UTC+2

Further Casualties

Christian Zetzsche

Level 13 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Among those to bust prior to the break were such big names as Dario Sammartino, Firas Nassar, Maya Geller and 2017 PokerStars Championship Prague Main Event finalist Colin Robinson.

Player	Chips	Progress
Michel Abecassis	Busted
Alexander Donev	Busted
Firas Nassar	Busted
Colin Robinson	Busted
Dario Sammartino	Busted
Andrei Zarojanu	Busted
Volodymyr Drokin	Busted
Ghassan El-Hoss	Busted
Maya Geller	Busted

Tags: Colin Robinson.Dario Sammartino Firas Nassar Maya Geller

Level: 13

Blinds: 1,000/2,500

Ante: 2,500

04-30-2018 15:46 UTC+2

Second Break of the Day

Christian Zetzsche

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

There are only 168 players remaining and they have been sent into their second 20-minute break of the day. The feature table will now change with table five coming up next, which includes Erik Seidel, Mazin Khoury and Gaella Baumann among others.

Tags: Erik Seidel Gaelle Baumann Mazin Khoury