€2,200 No-Limit Hold'em Deep Stack Day 1 | 2019 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino EPT

05-03-2019 16:55 UTC+2

Player	Chips	Progress
Ben Heath	42,000 12,000	12,000
Artur Koren	41,200 11,200	11,200
Paul Newey	31,000
Joey Weissman	30,000

Alexandru Papazian	30,000
Daniel Rezaei	27,400 -2,600	-2,600
Harry Lodge	19,600 -10,400	-10,400

Moreno Plozza First One Out

Milko van Winden

Level 2 : 100/100, 100 ante

Moreno Plozza was the fist one eliminated. He folded a big hand right at the start of the tournament and then wasn't able to recover. He was sent to the rail by Carole Segoura.

Player	Chips	Progress
Carole Segoura	40,000
Moreno Plozza	Busted

Tags: Carole Segoura Moreno Plozza

Level: 3

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 200

05-03-2019 17:13 UTC+2

New Names

Milko van Winden

Level 3 : 100/200, 200 ante

More players keep entering the €2,200 No-Limit Hold'em Deep Stack tournament and some of them are very high profile players. Mustapha Kanit is one of the latest entrants in the tournament.

Fabrice Maltez got very short in the second level and he's now already back up to 7,200.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mustapha Kanit	30,000
Francois Evard	30,000
Andrei Konopelko	30,000
Gianluca Speranza	30,000
Fabrice Maltez	7,200 4,800	4,800

Tags: Fabrice Maltez Mustapha Kanit

05-03-2019 17:22 UTC+2

Carrel is ''Not Winning''

Milko van Winden

Level 3 : 100/200, 200 ante

A player from early position raised to 600 and Charlie Carrel three-bet from the button to 2,000. He was called by Sam Higgs from the big blind and by the initial raiser.

The flop fell and it checked to Carrel. He continued with a bet of 2,400 and he was called by Higgs. The other player got out of the way and they continued the hand heads-up.

The turn was the and Carrel bet 5,000 when it checked to him, only to be called again by Higgs. The came down and Higgs checked to Carrel for the third time in a row.

Carrel said ''I'm not winning this'' before he checked behind and he mucked his cards when Higgs showed .

Player	Chips	Progress
Sam Higgs	34,000 34,000	34,000
Charlie Carrel	16,800 -13,200	-13,200

Tags: Charlie Carrel Sam Higgs

05-03-2019 17:31 UTC+2

Player	Chips	Progress
Victoria Coren Mitchell	30,000

Paul Hoefer	30,000
Matas Cimbolas	30,000
Ramon Miquel Munoz	30,000
Ran Azor	30,000

The World According to Boutros Naims

Valerie.Cross

Level 3 : 100/200, 200 ante

Boutros Pierre Naim is a man of will.

The Lebanese-born, poker-playing Monaco resident — and PokerStars qualifier to the EPT Main Event this week — once quit his investment banking job on a whim because his company moved offices from one part of London to another. It increased his commuting time and Naim wouldn’t stand for it.

“For me,” he says, “this was basically a no-go.” So he moved to Monaco.

But when he was in his 60s and living in the principality, Naim found himself missing his son, who had moved to Massachusetts to attend Babson College. Naim decided to move nearby and applied to Harvard University — not to seek a degree but simply to take courses on subjects like economics, the history of the Ottoman Empire, and meta-ethics. He applied for admission through the same process as any other student, leading to some bureaucratic-themed amusement.

Read the full article by Jason Kirk at the PokerStars Blog.

Tags: Boutros Naim

Level: 4

Blinds: 100/300

Ante: 300

05-03-2019 17:37 UTC+2

Day 1 Photos

Milko van Winden

Photos courtesy of Danny Maxwell/PokerStars

05-03-2019 17:55 UTC+2

Assorted Chip Counts

Milko van Winden

Level 4 : 100/300, 300 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Orpen Kisacikoglu	50,200 20,200	20,200

Mustapha Kanit	44,000 14,000	14,000
Fabrice Maltez	35,000 27,800	27,800
Joey Weissman	34,800 4,800	4,800

Francois Evard	33,400 3,400	3,400
Romain Lewis	30,000
Harry Lodge	9,900 -9,700	-9,700