€1,100 FPS Main Event Day 2 | 2023 PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo

€1,100 FPS Main Event

Day 2 Started

04-28-2023 10:58 UTC+2

Day 2 Seat Draw

Frank Visser

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	1	Stephane Cohen-Tanugi	France	153,000	31
1	2	Jacques Der Megreditchian	France	106,000	21
1	3	Alvaro Almeida	Canada	112,000	22
1	4	Jason Wheeler	USA	161,000	32
1	5	Harry Lodge	United Kingdom	45,000	9
1	6	Andre Jeambrun	France	51,000	10
1	7	Konstantin Farber	Germany	24,000	5
1	8	Yiannis Liperis	Cyprus	88,000	18
1	9	Benjamin Spragg	United Kingdom	253,000	51

2	1	Lucas Silva Rocha	Brazil	544,000	109
2	2	Yoan Ouache	France	138,000	28
2	3	Arnaud Enselme	France	500,000	100
2	4	Georgi Abuladze	Estonia	154,000	31
2	5	Adel Rahou	France	249,000	50
2	6	Michael Bartov	Sweden	294,000	59
2	7	Mohamed Mehalleg	France	97,000	19
2	8	Mauricio Salazar Sanchez	Colombia	198,000	40
2	9	Pascal Peraldi	France	232,000	46

3	1	Frank-Peter Dorau	Germany	230,000	46
3	2	Jiaze Li	Hong Kong	170,000	34
3	3	Andrii Andrieiev	Ukraine	294,000	59
3	4	Matthias Roth	Switzerland	113,000	23
3	5	Ladislao Dalfo	Spain	91,000	18
3	6	Ali Achour Maher	Tunisia	241,000	48
3	7	Marco Leonzio	Italy	85,000	17
3	8	Dalibor Dula	Czech Republic	557,000	111
3	9	Jacob Amsellem	Israel	200,000	40

4	1	Aurelien Russo	France	42,000	8
4	2	Liviu Scutaru	Romania	176,000	35
4	3	Simone Demasi	Italy	524,000	105
4	4	Andrew Chen	Canada	292,000	58
4	5	Gregory Chenet	France	315,000	63
4	6	Zechariah Montoya	USA	162,000	32
4	7	Maria Konnikova	USA	141,000	28
4	8	Alexandre Raymond	Canada	82,000	16
4	9	Karim Kaladjou	France	286,000	57

5	1	Ido Aboudi	Israel	123,000	25
5	2	Ewen Trevidy	France	318,000	64
5	3	Igor D'Ursel	France	87,000	17
5	4	Quang Tran	Finland	169,000	34
5	5	Oleksandr Zlotnik	Ukraine	44,000	9
5	6	Nicolas Martin	France	37,000	7
5	7	Dionysios Kartsampas	Greece	314,000	63
5	8	Abraham Serrano	Spain	96,000	19
5	9	Leonardo Parmiggiani	Italy	103,000	21

6	1	Corrado Martinelli	Italy	117,000	23
6	2	Marcello Miniucchi	Italy	165,000	33
6	3	Brice Guido	France	410,000	82
6	4	Guy Madar	France	186,000	37
6	5	Vincent Facquet	France	235,000	47
6	6	Govert Metaal	Netherlands	244,000	49
6	7	Luca Falco	Italy	109,000	22
6	8	Franco Polidori	Italy	53,000	11
6	9	Thierry Delpui	France	121,000	24

7	1	Alberto Cigliano	Italy	189,000	38
7	2	George Rotariu	Romania	107,000	21
7	3	Guillermo Sanz	Spain	187,000	37
7	4	Tong Siow Choon	Malaysia	132,000	26
7	5	Adrian Pacheco	Australia	221,000	44
7	6	Joshua Perry	Ireland	82,000	16
7	7	Gonzalo Serrano Ranero	Spain	268,000	54
7	8	Ricardo Graells	Spain	127,000	25
7	9	Sandro Rovella	Italy	86,000	17

8	1	Lampros Vlachos	Greece	241,000	48
8	2	Blaz Zerjav	Slovenia	457,000	91
8	3	Mohamed El Berrak	France	150,000	30
8	4	Mehdi Rebai	Tunisia	87,000	17
8	5	Lukas Hafner	Austria	113,000	23
8	6	Andrea Montrone	Italy	194,000	39
8	7	Romain Revel	France	124,000	25
8	8	Joshua Stewart	USA	83,000	17
8	9	Yevhen Pavlenko	Ukraine	330,000	66

9	1	Amir Redjeb	France	200,000	40
9	2	Antonio Beatrice	Italy	198,000	40
9	3	Abedel Douair	France	171,000	34
9	4	Quentin Laugt	France	442,000	88
9	5	Michael Howard	United Kingdom	103,000	21
9	6	Hugo Caldeira Tavares	Portugal	204,000	41
9	7	Michal Mrakes	Czech Republic	284,000	57
9	8	Angelo Sisto	Italy	93,000	19
9	9	Herve Mary	France	142,000	28

10	1	Alija Puebla	Spain	244,000	49
10	2	Andrew Hulme	United Kingdom	100,000	20
10	3	Julien Bolimowski	France	176,000	35
10	4	Peter Kvisthammar	Sweden	359,000	72
10	5	Uwe Ritter	Germany	153,000	31
10	6	Yonatan Koko	Israel	311,000	62
10	7	Nicolas Lecoeuvre	France	136,000	27
10	8	Samiyel Duzgun	Switzerland	385,000	77
10	9	Joshua Zimmerman	Hong Kong	371,000	74

11	1	Jeremy Palvini	France	162,000	32
11	2	Ali Nikravesh	Iran	232,000	46
11	3	Johann Zeitoun	France	278,000	56
11	4	Adi Rajkovic	Austria	235,000	47
11	5	Clement Michaud	France	431,000	86
11	6	Quentin Girardet	France	174,000	35
11	7	Andrea Belmessieri	France	172,000	34
11	8	Francesco Delfoco	Italy	265,000	53
11	9	Leon Sturm	Germany	438,000	88

12	1	Domenico Gala	Italy	236,000	47
12	2	Julien Mariani	France	250,000	50
12	3	Ana Marquez	Spain	270,000	54
12	4	Louis Denizart	France	268,000	54
12	5	Siarhei Sharkota	Belarus	78,000	16
12	6	Andrew Barham	United Kingdom	54,000	11
12	7	Ilya Nikiforov	Russia	141,000	28
12	8	Stephane Narboni	Italy	309,000	62
12	9	Emanuele Montipilier	Italy	294,000	59

13	1	Giuseppe Petti	Italy	175,000	35
13	2	Eric Bennici	France	52,000	10
13	3	Francesco Di Profio	Italy	214,000	43
13	4	Ionut Decher	Romania	337,000	67
13	5	Jon Kyte	Norway	339,000	68
13	6	Milen Stefanov	Bulgaria	156,000	31
13	7	Raymond Montet	France	92,000	18
13	8	Danut Chisu	Romania	414,000	83
13	9	David Vinayagamoorthy	Norway	47,000	9

14	1	Giammarco Vergoni	Italy	58,000	12
14	2	Thierry Kuhn-Foret	France	341,000	68
14	3	Gianluca Speranza	Italy	419,000	84
14	4	Razvan Belea	Romania	357,000	71
14	5	Adel Naoun	France	293,000	59
14	6	Steve Roedsens	France	327,000	65
14	7	Fabrice Bigot	France	22,000	4
14	8	Cedric Cavalier	France	83,000	17
14	9	Marco Monello	Italy	79,000	16

15	1	Laurent Saint Bertin	France	163,000	33
15	2	Nicolas Tytgat	France	360,000	72
15	3	Ioan Iordan Mugur	Romania	53,000	11
15	4	Ken Okada	Japan	332,000	66
15	5	Philippe Magnus	France	437,000	87
15	6	Adrian State	Romania	280,000	56
15	7	Eric Apikian	France	184,000	37
15	8	Axel Hallay	France	219,000	44
15	9	Nikolai Mamut	Russia	298,000	60

16	1	Liu Chun Keat	Malaysia	95,000	19
16	2	Kayhan Mokri	Norway	431,000	86
16	3	Alexandre Le Vaillant	France	218,000	44
16	4	Mickael Robalo	France	36,000	7
16	5	Boris Kolev	Bulgaria	354,000	71
16	6	Candido Cappiello	Italy	72,000	14
16	7	Ken Demlakian	Australia	506,000	101
16	8	Amatore Terrafino	Italy	90,000	18
16	9	Gilbert Diaz	France	282,000	56

17	1	Daisuke Ogita	Japan	145,000	29
17	2	Mathias Bayer	Germany	314,000	63
17	3	Yannick Galley	France	492,000	98
17	4	Laurent Cessy	France	288,000	58
17	5	Raoul Iancovici	Romania	166,000	33
17	6	Sergiy Dudka	Ukraine	45,000	9
17	7	Antoine Saout	France	269,000	54
17	8	Simone Andrian	Italy	243,000	49
17	9	Bjorn Kozenkai	Hungary	114,000	23

18	1	Robbie Schiffbauer	USA	101,000	20
18	2	Christophe Panetti	Switzerland	26,000	5
18	3	Soraya Estrada	Spain	135,000	27
18	4	Omar Del Pino	Spain	460,000	92
18	5	Fadhil Farag	Sweden	163,000	33
18	6	Jeremy Routier	France	107,000	21
18	7	Georgios Farmakis	Greece	286,000	57
18	8	Nicola Benedetto	Italy	295,000	59
18	9	Dmitry Shchepkin	Russia	84,000	17

19	1	Rachid Medjahdi	France	297,000	59
19	2	Jimmy Kebe	France	116,000	23
19	3	Laurent Chenet	France	114,000	23
19	4	Otar Gurgenidze	Georgia	57,000	11
19	5	Tomas Kolarik	Czech Republic	336,000	67
19	6	Francois-Xavier Vincenti	France	406,000	81
19	7	Stylianos Kollatos	Greece	178,000	36
19	8	Rachid El Yaacoubi	France	373,000	75
19	9	Carl Costa	France	305,000	61

20	1	Enrico Mosca	Italy	92,000	18
20	2	Tanmmay Jhunjhunwala	India	83,000	17
20	3	Johann Greboval	France	227,000	45
20	4	Nicolas Vayssieres	France	51,000	10
20	5	Giorgos Onisiforou	Cyprus	199,000	40
20	6	Jerome Romero	France	145,000	29
20	7	Oleg Furman	Israel	49,000	10
20	8	Seyed Sajadian	Iran	151,000	30
20	9	Jorge Ufano Pardo	Spain	263,000	53

21	1	Patrick Lidon	France	298,000	60
21	2	Guillaume Alfieri	France	249,000	50
21	3	Predrag Budakovic	Switzerland	34,000	7
21	4	Nicolas Julien	France	116,000	23
21	5	Ana David	Romania	157,000	31
21	6	Tahar Said	France	215,000	43
21	7	Codrin Macovei	Italy	53,000	11
21	8	Hrayr Grigoryan	Armenia	187,000	37
21	9	Renat Boghdanov	Ukraine	137,000	27

22	1	Arthur Conan	France	103,000	21
22	2	Oleh Okhotskyi	Ukraine	142,000	28
22	3	Koichi Aiba	Japan	75,000	15
22	4	Dirk Noortman	Netherlands	159,000	32
22	5	Marco Regonaschi	Italy	153,000	31
22	6	Youcef Benzerfa	France	189,000	38
22	7	Franck Kalfon	France	119,000	24
22	8	Dario Cannistra	Italy	327,000	65
22	9	Dinesh Alt	Switzerland	76,000	15

23	1	Eric Brunet-Manquat	France	253,000	51
23	2	Ejlal Majid	Iran	39,000	8
23	3	Adrian Chabbi	Spain	513,000	103
23	4	Laurent Silva	France	136,000	27
23	5	Djamel Ouaret	France	176,000	35
23	6	Paul Guichard	France	69,000	14
23	7	Omar Lakhdari	Algeria	200,000	40
23	8	Landron Alexandre	France	179,000	36
23	9	Alexandru Papazian	Romania	397,000	79

24	1	Jessica Teusl	Austria	129,000	26
24	2	Andrew Hawkins	United Kingdom	133,000	27
24	3	Adriano Torregrossa	France	76,000	15
24	4	Conor Beresford	United Kingdom	314,000	63
24	5	Lewis Pilkington	United Kingdom	197,000	39
24	6	Motoyoshi Okamura	Japan	150,000	30
24	7	Alfonso Simone	Italy	432,000	86
24	8	Igor Pihela Jr.	Estonia	179,000	36
24	9	Milos Petakovic	Serbia	926,000	185

25	1	Antonio Crocetta	Italy	172,000	34
25	2	Igor Pihela	Estonia	354,000	71
25	3	Nima Alamzad	Iran	114,000	23
25	4	Julien Stropoli	France	96,000	19
25	5	Hicham Hachoumi	France	344,000	69
25	6	Yuan Li	Hong Kong	57,000	11
25	7	Andreas Bolling	Germany	120,000	24
25	8	Nourredine Aittaleb	France	165,000	33
25	9	Murad Akhundov	Azerbaijan	315,000	63

26	1	Marco Naschberger	Austria	113,000	23
26	2	Uri Netanel	Israel	54,000	11
26	3	Tomas Patka	Slovakia	161,000	32
26	4	Valentino Konakchiev	Bulgaria	39,000	8
26	5	David Hareuveni	Israel	387,000	77
26	6	Loic Dobrigna	France	71,000	14
26	7	Nicola Bertolucci	Italy	94,000	19
26	8	Jean-David Bensemhoun	France	54,000	11
26	9	Julien Sitbon	France	128,000	26

27	1	Henri Kasper	Estonia	283,000	57
27	2	Kamal Jbirane	France	186,000	37
27	3	Serafim Kovalevskiy	Russia	29,000	6
27	4	Pierre Calamusa	France	13,000	3
27	5	Gregory Caracena	France	148,000	30
27	6	Alessio Di Cesare	Italy	56,000	11
27	7	Athanasios Andrianopoulos	Greece	216,000	43
27	8	Andreas Moser	Switzerland	267,000	53
27	9	Recep Aydemir	Turkey	560,000	112

28	1	Ivane Kvinikadze	Georgia	98,000	20
28	2	Remi Marques	France	37,000	7
28	3	Cyril Piet	France	207,000	41
28	4	Terje Bremseth	Norway	232,000	46
28	5	Mirand Murseli	Switzerland	120,000	24
28	6	Atanas Malinov	Bulgaria	225,000	45
28	7	Umberto Zaffagnini	Italy	210,000	42
28	8	Richard Heveli	Hungary	314,000	63
28	9	Mihai-Emil Isar	Romania	128,000	26

29	1	Biao Ding	China	470,000	94
29	2	Peter Charalambous	United Kingdom	77,000	15
29	3	Julien Brecard	France	84,000	17
29	4	Roman Hrabec	Czech Republic	29,000	6
29	5	Frederic Breton	Canada	277,000	55
29	6	Simon Bouaksa	France	175,000	35
29	7	Inigo Naveiro	Spain	684,000	137
29	8	John Khayat	France	168,000	34
29	9	Clement Thumy	France	70,000	14

30	1	Franck Dechaud	France	134,000	27
30	2	Samuel Ju	Germany	137,000	27
30	3	Anatoly Chen	Russia	338,000	68
30	4	Matteo Delfanti	Italy	109,000	22
30	5	Danielle Noja	Australia	149,000	30
30	6	Virgil Grecu	Romania	118,000	24
30	7	Lim Chin Wei	Malaysia	258,000	52
30	8	Alessandro Siena	Italy	398,000	80
30	9	Aliaksandr Shylko	Belarus	54,000	11

31	1	Alexandre Reard	France	154,000	31
31	2	Madhav Sethi	India	257,000	51
31	3	Davide Quadri	Italy	158,000	32
31	4	Jorg Schneegass	Germany	185,000	37
31	5	Wai Sim Kok	Malaysia	227,000	45
31	6	Moritz Bleiker	Switzerland	522,000	104
31	7	Mohamed Lachheb	France	124,000	25
31	8	Jari Mahonen	Finland	164,000	33
31	9	Arseniy Meshcheryakov	Russia	115,000	23

32	1	Frederik Thiemer	Germany	56,000	11
32	2	Kelvin Kerber	Brazil	91,000	18
32	3	Kacper Swiderski	Poland	157,000	31
32	4	Christoforos Chatzikyriakos	Greece	115,000	23
32	5	Sindri Stefansson	Iceland	69,000	14
32	6	Bruno Fitoussi	France	330,000	66
32	7	Florian Villerot	Switzerland	97,000	19
32	8	Mourad Shaimi	France	168,000	34
32	9	Rubens Sellam	France	503,000	101

33	1	Alessandro Miotti	Italy	103,000	21
33	2	Masaaki Izushima	Japan	168,000	34
33	3	Marec Boyer	France	238,000	48
33	4	Georgios Karakousis	Greece	324,000	65
33	5	Kamal Sefrioui	Morocco	181,000	36
33	6	Paul Jurcuta	Romania	289,000	58
33	7	Ivan Losi	Italy	80,000	16
33	8	Salvatore Spataro	Italy	238,000	48
33	9	Alexey Losev	Russia	429,000	86

34	1	Jimmy Gomes	France	82,000	16
34	2	Andreas Vlachos	Greece	223,000	45
34	3	Paul Hoefer	Germany	126,000	25
34	4	Peter Jorgne	Sweden	55,000	11
34	5	Tom Orpaz	Israel	182,000	36
34	6	Vladyslav Potomkin	Ukraine	233,000	47
34	8	Davit Chochishvili	Georgia	85,000	17
34	9	Linda van de Ree	Netherlands	100,000	20

35	1	Otto Lemke	Germany	411,000	82
35	2	Charles Vidal	France	68,000	14
35	3	Charles Hilbert	Luxembourg	159,000	32
35	4	Vicente Delgado	Spain	305,000	61
35	5	Braz Borges	Portugal	345,000	69
35	6	Bing Zhou	Hong Kong	147,000	29
35	7	Maksym Mamon	Switzerland	197,000	39
35	8	Eugenio Peralta	Ireland	249,000	50

36	1	Stefan Dimitrov	Bulgaria	478,000	96
36	2	Alan Goasdoue	France	152,000	30
36	3	Aram Sargsyan	Armenia	192,000	38
36	4	Serge Badel	Switzerland	365,000	73
36	5	Laurent Vauquelin	France	124,000	25
36	7	Xavier Mouysset	France	97,000	19
36	8	Judy Whitlow	USA	144,000	29
36	9	Marian Dumitrache	Romania	80,000	16

04-28-2023 10:59 UTC+2

Record-Breaking €1,100 FPS Main Event Field is Converging for Day 2

Frank Visser

Welcome to a new day of the 2023 PokerStars EPT presented by Monte-Carlo Casino®️. Today, Day 2 of the largest ever €1,100 FPS Main Event, will be getting underway at noon local time.

Four starting flights were held over two days at Sporting Monte-Carlo and they attracted a massive field of 2,138 entries combined, narrowly passing the previous FPS record set at EPT Paris 2023, where 2,071 entries were recorded.

The prize pool has passed the two million mark and is standing at an enormous €2,052,480. All 321 players who qualified for Day 2 will receive a portion of it as every Day 1 played until the money was reached (15 percent of the field). The precise payouts are yet unknown but are expected to be announced before the start of the day.

Amassing the overall chip lead was Milos Petakovic from Serbia. He crushed the final Day 1d and bagged an impressive 926,000 chips with which to start Day 2, equating to more than 180 big blinds.

Completing the podium of chip rankings are Day 1c chip leader Inigo Naveiro, who brings 684,000 to Day 2, and Day 1b chip leader Recep Aydemir, with 560,000. Day 1a chip leader Adrian Chabbi also finds himself in the top ten chip counts with a respectable 513,000 chips.

Top 10 Chip Stacks Heading into Day 2

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Milos Petakovic	Serbia	926,000	185
2	Inigo Naveiro	Spain	684,000	137
3	Recep Aydemir	Turkey	560,000	112
4	Dalibor Dula	Czech Republic	557,000	111
5	Lucas Silva Rocha	Brazil	544,000	109
6	Simone Demasi	Italy	524,000	105
7	Moritz Bleiker	Switzerland	522,000	104
8	Adrian Chabbi	Spain	513,000	103
9	Ken Demlakian	Australia	506,000	101
10	Rubens Sellam	France	503,000	101

The biggest name outside of the top ten to have bagged and tagged is PokerStars Ambassador Benjamin Spragg. He will be bringing a healthy 253,000 chips to Day 2. A lot of other notables made it through as well, including Kayhan Mokri (431,000), Conor Beresford (314,000), EPT Paris Champion Razvan Belea (357,000), Jason Wheeler (161,000), most recent FPS Paris winner Alan Goasdoue (151,000), Julien Brecard (84,000), and 2023 PSPC Champion Aliaksandr Shylko (54,000).

Day 2 will begin at noon local time and play will resume in Level 16, with the blinds at 2,000/5,000 with a big blind ante of 5,000. All levels will last for 60 minutes and the field is set to play eight of them today, with 20-minute breaks every two levels. No dinner break is scheduled as the players are scheduled to have an early finish tonight.

Be sure to keep an eye on PokerNews to follow all the action from this record-breaking event, as well as the other events on our EPT Monte Carlo Tournament Page.

Tags: Adrian Chabbi Aliaksandr Shylko Benjamin Spragg Conor Beresford Dalibor Dula Inigo Naveiro Jason Wheeler Julien Brecard Kayhan Mokri Ken Demlakian Lucas Silva Rocha Milos Petakovic Moritz Bleiker Razvan Belea Recep Aydemir Rubens Sellam Simone Demasi

Level: 16

Blinds: 2,000/5,000

Ante: 5,000

04-28-2023 12:08 UTC+2

Shuffle Up and Deal

Andrew Knowles

Level 16 : Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

The cards are now in the air and action is underway in Day 2 of €1,100 FPS Main Event. The clock has resumed with four minutes remaining on Level 16.

04-28-2023 12:08 UTC+2

Belea Soars to Second Place

Frank Visser

Level 16 : Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

EPT Paris Champion Razvan Belea is off to a huge start, doubling his already above-average stack during the first hands of the day.

When the action was caught, all of his 357,000 chips were already in preflop against Steve Roedsens, who played exactly the same stack.

Razvan Belea: A♦A♣
Steve Roedsens: K♠K♦

Belea faded a king on the board of 4♣Q♠2♠8♠9♣ and doubled up to take a presumed second place on the leaderboard. Meanwhile, Roedsens was one of the many eliminations in the early minutes of Day 2.

Player	Chips	Progress
Razvan Belea	729,000 372,000	372,000

Steve Roedsens	Busted

Tags: Razvan Belea Steve Roedsens

04-28-2023 12:11 UTC+2

Payout Information Released; €307,160 Up Top for Champion

Connor Richards

Level 16 : Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Payout information has been released with a total prize pool of €2,052,480 and 321 places getting paid. A minimum cash will be worth €1,650 and the eventual champion will receive €307,160.

	POSITION	PRIZE
	1	€307,160
	2	€191,940
	3	€137,100
	4	€105,460
	5	€81,130
	6	€62,410
	7	€48,010
	8	€36,940
	9	€28,420
	10-11	€21,860
	12-13	€18,210
	14-15	€15,180
	16-17	€12,640
	18-20	€10,520
	21-23	€8,850
	24-27	€7,700
	28-31	€6,680
	32-39	€5,820
	40-55	€5,050
	56-71	€4,390
	72-95	€3,820
	96-119	€3,320
	120-143	€2,880
	144-183	€2,510
	184-223	€2,190
	224-287	€1,880
	288-321	€1,650

Level: 17

Blinds: 3,000/6,000

Ante: 6,000

04-28-2023 12:23 UTC+2

Lodge Finds a Double Up

Andrew Knowles

Level 17 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

Yiannis Liperis opened the action from early position to 15,000 and it folded around to Harry Lodge in the big blind who moved all in for 53,000 total. Liperis quickly made the call with a slightly bigger stack and the cards were shown.

Harry Lodge: A♥Q♦
Yiannis Liperis: K♣Q♠

Lodge was in great shape with the better kicker and when the board ran out J♥J♦6♣4♦8♦, the ace-queen held up to secure the full double up for Lodge.

Player	Chips	Progress
Harry Lodge	110,000 65,000	65,000
Yiannis Liperis	37,000 -51,000	-51,000

Tags: Harry Lodge Yiannis Liperis

04-28-2023 12:33 UTC+2

Orpaz Hasn't Lost a Hand Yet

Connor Richards

Level 17 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

Tom Orpaz has had a stellar start to the day that has seen him more than double up after eliminating multiple opponents.

The hot day started off with Orpaz opening and Andreas Vlachos defending in the big blind, as Orpaz relayed to PokerNews. Both players checked on the flop of K♥J♥10♦ and Vlachos checked again on the J♠ turn. Orpaz bet 15,000 and Vlachos check-raised to 35,000. Orpaz called.

The 7♣ river completed the board and Vlachos bet 75,000. Orpaz moved all in for 135,000 and his opponent folded. Orpaz held Q♥J♦ for trips and Vlachos claimed to have folded a straight with Qx9x.

The very next hand, Peter Jorgne open-shoved a stack of around 60,000 and Orpaz re-shoved to get things heads-up.

Peter Jorgne: 7x7x
Tom Orpaz: 10x10x

Orpaz had the better pair and an inconsequential runout sent Jorgne to the rail.

Orpaz then opened from the cutoff and Davit Chochishvili three-bet jammed for 50,000 from the button. Orpaz called.

Davit Chochishvili: A♦2♦
Tom Orpaz: 6♦5♦

The flop of 6♠5♠3♠ gave Orpaz the lead with two pair and the runout of 7♦Q♦ didn't change things to mark Chochishvili's elimination.

Just before the table broke, Orpaz picked up another decent pot with AxAx. The real estate investor started the day with 182,000 and is already up to 470,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tom Orpaz	470,000 288,000	288,000
Andreas Vlachos	120,000 -103,000	-103,000
Davit Chochishvili	Busted
Peter Jorgne	Busted

Tags: Andreas Vlachos Davit Chochishvili Peter Jorgne Tom Orpaz