€2,200 FPS High Roller Day 1a | 2023 PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo

€2,200 FPS High Roller

Day 1a Completed

04-30-2023 04:18 UTC+2

Yiannis Liperis Leads 134 Players From Day 1a of the €2,200 FPS High Roller at EPT Monte Carlo

Matt Hansen

Level 18 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Day 1a of the France Poker Series (FPS) €2,200 High Roller at the 2023 PokerStars European Poker Tour presented by Monte-Carlo Casino® has come to an end and Yiannis Liperis of Cyprus is the chip leader after nearly 15 hours of play.

The two concurrent opening flights drew a total of 1,234 entries, with Day 1b adding 326 entries to the Day 1a total of 908. The combined flights sent 182 players to Day 2, with 134 moving on from the first flight and 48 advancing from the second.

Liperis is the chip leader after a surge throughout the second half of the evening that sent him above 700,000 chips. He is followed by Mikhail Nikolaev in second with 670,000 and Florian Guimond in third with 620,000. Gerald Karlic and Ewen Trevidy round out the top five with 574,000 and 558,000, respectively.

2023 FPS €2,200 High Roller Day 1a Top Ten Chip Counts

Rank	Name	Country	Chips	Day 2 Big Blinds
1	Yiannis Liperis	Cyprus	733,000	92
2	Mikhail Nikolaev	Latvia	670,000	84
3	Florian Guimond	France	620,000	78
4	Gerald Karlic	Austria	574,000	72
5	Ewen Trevidy	France	558,000	70
6	Enrico Camosci	Italy	530,000	66
7	Juan Carlos Vecino	Spain	496,000	62
8	Ali Nikravesh	Iran	479,000	60
9	Georgi Abuladze	Estonia	475,000	59
10	Andreas Vlachos	Greece	451,000	56

Day 1a Action

Among those qualifying for Day 2 was PokerStars Ambassador Benjamin “Spraggy” Spragg, who jumped in the opening flight after he bowed out of the €1,100 FPS Main Event in the early part of the day. Spragg will aim for his second cash of the series and a strong start to the year after four cashes at the PCA in January.

Other notables returning for their shot at the €2,369,280 ($2,636,257) prize pool include Enrico Camosci, Dominik Nitsche, Arnaud Enselme, Boris Kolev, and Harry Lodge.

The most furious action of the evening came on the stone bubble when three players got their stacks in with only one bust needed to end the night. Ilya Nikiforov was the first to go when his ace-queen fell to the pocket tens of Denis Malyshev on a board that ran out with only the low cards.

On an adjacent table, Davidi Kitai jammed with ace-jack, but Wei Jie Zheng was there to knock him out with pocket queens for the second knockout of the stone bubble. Meanwhile, Arthur Conan got his last 69,000 in with pocket kings, but Hirokazu Kobayashi tabled pocket tens and picked up two more on the board to eliminate Conan with quads. The three busts at the end of the night shifted the plan from 136 returning players to 134, and all of them will be in the money when they return tomorrow.

Players will return with around 35 minutes remaining in Level 18 with blinds at 4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante. The plan for tomorrow is to play down to a winner.

Be sure to keep it with the PokerNews team throughout the coming days for live updates from the floor of the 2023 EPT Monte Carlo at Sporting Monte-Carlo in beautiful Monaco.

Tags: Arnaud Enselme Arthur Conan Boris Kolev Davidi Kitai Denis Malyshev Dominik Nitsche Enrico Camosci Ewen Trevidy Florian Guimond Georgi Abuladze Gerald Karlic Harry Lodge Ilya Nikiforov Mikhail Nikolaev Wei Jie Zheng Yiannis Liperis

04-30-2023 03:26 UTC+2

Day 2 Seat Draw

Matt Hansen

Level 18 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

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Table	Seat	Name	Country	Chips	Day 2 Big Blinds
1	1	Vlado Banicevic	Montenegro	147,000	18
1	2	Junichi Kato	Japan	461,000	58
1	3	Luis Pinho De Faria	Portugal	113,000	14
1	4	Sergi Miralles	Spain	381,000	48
1	5	Tibor Nagygyorgy	Hungary	74,000	9
1	6	Boris Kolev	Bulgaria	58,000	7
1	7	[Removed:421]	Switzerland	298,000	37
1	8	Chakib Mhiri	Tunisia	253,000	32
1	9	Yannick Cardot	France	80,000	10

2	1	Robert Spano	Australia	220,000	28
2	2	Ido Aboudi	Israel	123,000	15
2	3	Jon Kyte	Norway	217,000	27
2	4	Eros Nastasi	Italy	83,000	10
2	5	Igor D'Ursel	France	85,000	11
2	6	Alexander Vuckovic	Switzerland	156,000	20
2	7	Ewen Trevidy	France	558,000	70
2	8	Ori Elul	Israel	144,000	18
2	9	Jie Zheng	Ireland	256,000	32

3	1	Timo Kamphues	Germany	256,000	32
3	2	Alex Sampirisi	Italy	213,000	27
3	3	Gregory Chenet	France	62,000	8
3	4	Yehouda Marciano	France	114,000	14
3	5	Gareth McMahon	Ireland	148,000	19
3	6	Abraham Serrano	Spain	364,000	46
3	7	Florian Guimond	France	620,000	78
3	8	Nuri Hadioglu	Turkey	242,000	30
3	9	Yiannis Liperis	Cyprus	733,000	92

4	1	Boris Angelov	Bulgaria	198,000	25
4	2	Jensen Bernard	Belgium	195,000	24
4	3	Edolo Ghirelli	Italy	169,000	21
4	4	Eugenio Peralta	Ireland	107,000	13
4	5	Tomas Jozonis	Lithuania	66,000	8
4	6	Ricardo Caridade	Portugal	156,000	20
4	7	Danielle Noja	Australia	320,000	40
4	8	Gilles Grimaldi	France	137,000	17
4	9	Cesar Garcia	Spain	92,000	12

5	1	Fabien Motte	France	52,000	7
5	2	Maria Konnikova	USA	264,000	33
5	3	Franck Kalfon	France	221,000	28
5	4	Loic Menneteau	France	53,000	7
5	5	Fabrice Bigot	France	176,000	22
5	6	Laszlo Molnar	Hungary	85,000	11
5	7	Aliaksei Boika	Belarus	195,000	24
5	8	Viliyan Petleshkov	Bulgaria	215,000	27
5	9	Yaman Nakdali	Spain	310,000	39

6	1	Robert Greenberg	USA	168,000	21
6	2	Renat Boghdanov	Ukraine	334,000	42
6	3	Pedro Gois Neves	Portugal	290,000	36
6	4	Jean-Philippe Peyratoux	France	92,000	12
6	5	Igor Pihela	Estonia	413,000	52
6	6	George Rotariu	Romania	175,000	22
6	7	Herve Mary	France	40,000	5
6	8	Andreas Vlachos	Greece	451,000	56
6	9	Razvan Scutaru	Romania	81,000	10

7	1	Sandro Hauser	Italy	126,000	16
7	2	Candido Cappiello	Italy	117,000	15
7	3	Sam Benoliel	France	202,000	25
7	4	Yigit Aksoy	Turkey	86,000	11
7	5	Antoine Camors	France	58,000	7
7	6	Christophe Panetti	Switzerland	316,000	40
7	7	Foued Benjima	France	60,000	8
7	8	Karo Nuri	Switzerland	197,000	25
7	9	Valentino Konakchiev	Bulgaria	160,000	20

8	1	Andrew Chen	Canada	106,000	13
8	2	Walter Ripper	Brazil	225,000	28
8	3	Demosthenes Kiriopoulos	Canada	444,000	56
8	4	Arnaud Enselme	France	103,000	13
8	5	Dinesh Alt	Switzerland	590,000	74
8	6	Srdan Knezevic	Montenegro	100,000	13
8	7	Henri Kasper	Estonia	31,000	4
8	8	Dirk Noortman	Netherlands	171,000	21
8	9	Tsugunari Toma	Japan	137,000	17

9	1	Sonny Franco	France	288,000	36
9	2	Jeremie Zouari	France	116,000	15
9	3	Amir Davoudi	Iran	140,000	18
9	4	Tom Orpaz	Israel	430,000	54
9	5	Armand Loiodice	France	66,000	8
9	6	Gerard Cohen	France	101,000	13
9	7	Nicolas Julien	France	146,000	18
9	8	Ut Tam Vo	France	195,000	24
9	9	Maria Lampropulos	Argentina	29,000	4

10	1	Marco Lupino	Italy	214,000	27
10	2	Moritz Baggenstos	Switzerland	152,000	19
10	3	Anzor Lobzhanidze	Georgia	278,000	35
10	4	Marco Regonaschi	Italy	370,000	46
10	5	Kelvin Kerber	Brazil	168,000	21
10	6	Pavlos Xanthopoulos	Greece	38,000	5
10	7	Saar Wilf	Israel	181,000	23
10	8	Antonio Calabro	Italy	350,000	44
10	9	Simon Roboh	France	75,000	9

11	1	Nourredine Aittaleb	France	68,000	9
11	2	Marian Ciurea	Romania	125,000	16
11	3	Julian Fernandez	France	30,000	4
11	4	Paolo Boi	Italy	381,000	48
11	5	Johann Zeitoun	France	213,000	27
11	6	Frederic Delval	France	97,000	12
11	7	Andrea Ruosi	Italy	338,000	42
11	8	Steve Roedsens	France	82,000	10
11	9	Ambrose Ng	Canada	93,000	12

12	1	Kiryl Asaulenka	Belarus	28,000	4
12	2	Dionysios Kartsampas	Greece	215,000	27
12	3	Nicola Danselmo	Italy	159,000	20
12	4	Takushi Shiratori	Japan	240,000	30
12	5	Marco Caza	Canada	78,000	10
12	6	Honglin Jiang	New Zealand	180,000	23
12	7	Claudio Di Giacomo	Italy	147,000	18
12	8	Conor Beresford	United Kingdom	104,000	13
12	9	Ali Nikravesh	Iran	479,000	60

13	1	Aleksandar Tomovic	Serbia	61,000	8
13	2	Jeremy Palvini	France	83,000	10
13	3	Liu Chun Keat	Malaysia	149,000	19
13	4	Thierry Luksenberg	France	64,000	8
13	5	Dominik Nitsche	Germany	398,000	50
13	6	Jean-Jacques Ben Oliel	France	104,000	13
13	7	Fabiano Kovalski	Brazil	100,000	13
13	8	Cedric Weinberg	France	112,000	14
13	9	Hirokazu Kobayashi	Japan	196,000	25

14	1	Abedel Douair	France	52,000	7
14	2	Mauricio Salazar Sanchez	Colombia	290,000	36
14	3	Samiyel Duzgun	Switzerland	666,000	83
14	4	Miha Travnik	Slovenia	133,000	17
14	5	Enrico Camosci	Italy	530,000	66
14	6	Shiina Okamoto	Japan	1,106,000	138
14	7	Benjamin Pitoun	France	92,000	12
14	8	Salim Boukrouma	Algeria	308,000	39
14	9	Benjamin Spragg	United Kingdom	178,000	22

15	1	Marton Czuczor	Hungary	92,000	12
15	3	Jorge Ufano Pardo	Spain	41,000	5
15	4	Razvan Belea	Romania	99,000	12
15	5	Jordan Saccucci	Canada	171,000	21
15	6	Gerald Eisele	Switzerland	161,000	20
15	7	Wagner Ripper	Brazil	351,000	44
15	8	Renzo Plozza Moreno	Sweden	166,000	21
15	9	Luigi Dalterio	Italy	186,000	23

16	2	Samy Boujmala	France	57,000	7
16	3	Marius Kudzmanas	Lithuania	457,000	57
16	4	Hassine Hadj	Canada	212,000	27
16	5	Denis Malyshev	Russia	293,000	37
16	6	Valon Olluri	Kosovo	442,000	55
16	7	Alan Goasdoue	France	160,000	20
16	8	David Vinayagamoorthy	Norway	163,000	20
16	9	Lazar Bartha	Romania	324,000	41

17	1	Christos Xanthopoulos	Greece	295,000	37
17	2	Thomas Eychenne	France	68,000	9
17	3	Daniel Tordjman	France	340,000	43
17	5	Frederic Breton	Canada	345,000	43
17	6	Igor Pihela Jr.	Estonia	173,000	22
17	7	Marcin Poczylowski	Poland	47,000	6
17	8	Andrea Bottaro	Italy	33,000	4
17	9	Josef Huber	Germany	125,000	16

18	1	Piotr Sztenkiel	Poland	145,000	18
18	3	Giorgi Gogoladze	Georgia	80,000	10
18	4	Ivan Banic	Croatia	222,000	28
18	5	Weiran Pu	China	411,000	51
18	6	Govert Metaal	Netherlands	91,000	11
18	7	Azzedine Mehal	France	277,000	35
18	8	Thierry Oldak	France	64,000	8
18	9	Djamel Ouaret	France	270,000	34

19	1	Ionel Anton	Romania	18,000	2
19	3	Georgi Abuladze	Estonia	475,000	59
19	4	Roberto Romanello	United Kingdom	71,000	9
19	5	Gerald Karlic	Austria	574,000	72
19	6	Michele Perego	Italy	20,000	3
19	7	Terje Bremseth	Norway	277,000	35
19	8	Azim Orunov	Russia	77,000	10
19	9	Bing Zhou	Hong Kong	45,000	6

20	1	Mikael Guenni	France	229,000	29
20	2	Juan Carlos Vecino	Spain	496,000	62
20	4	Julien Bolimowski	France	345,000	43
20	5	Florian-Dimitrie Duta	Romania	87,000	11
20	6	Agatino Spitaleri	Italy	185,000	23
20	7	Leon Sturm	Germany	76,000	10
20	8	Mathieu His	France	78,000	10
20	9	Harry Lodge	United Kingdom	36,000	5

21	1	Wai Sim Kok	Malaysia	238,000	30
21	2	Mehdi Chaoui	Morocco	112,000	14
21	4	Jan-Eric Schwippert	Germany	67,000	8
21	5	Takumi Odani	Japan	266,000	33
21	6	Mikhail Nikolaev	Latvia	670,000	84
21	7	Micha Bitton	USA	199,000	25
21	8	Dan Djorno	France	242,000	30
21	9	Milos Skrbic	Serbia	61,000	8

04-30-2023 03:15 UTC+2

End of Day 1a Chip Counts (full)

Matt Hansen

Level 18 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Yiannis Liperis	733,000	317,000
Mikhail Nikolaev	670,000	30,000
Florian Guimond	620,000	82,000
Gerald Karlic	574,000	574,000
Ewen Trevidy	558,000	211,000
Enrico Camosci	530,000	530,000
Juan Carlos Vecino	496,000	496,000
Ali Nikravesh	479,000	479,000
Georgi Abuladze	475,000	20,000
Andreas Vlachos	451,000	451,000
Demosthenes Kiriopoulos	444,000	444,000
Tom Orpaz	430,000	-106,000
Igor Pihela	413,000	252,000
Weiran Pu	411,000	14,500
Dominik Nitsche	398,000	84,000
Sergi Miralles	381,000	381,000
Paolo Boi	381,000	216,700
Marco Regonaschi	370,000	370,000
Abraham Serrano	364,000	364,000
Wagner Ripper	351,000	351,000
Frederic Breton	345,000	345,000
Julien Bolimowski	345,000	345,000
Daniel Tordjman	340,000	340,000
Andrea Ruosi	338,000	106,000
Renat Bohdanov	334,000

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04-30-2023 02:59 UTC+2

End of Play

Adam Lamers

Level 18 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Play has concluded for Day 1a and there will be 181 players returning for Day 2 tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. local time. A recap of the day's action will be posted shortly along with all of the chip counts.

04-30-2023 02:58 UTC+2

Conan the Last Player to be Eliminated

Adam Lamers

Level 18 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

After two players were already eliminated on the same hand, it was time for Table 14 to show their cards. Arthur Conan was the player at risk for 69,000 and was called by Hirokazu Kobayashi.

Arthur Conan: K♥K♦
Hirokazu Kobayashi: 10♠10♣

The flop came 10♦8♥3♠ and Kobayashi took the lead with a set of tens. The 10♥ on the turn gave Kobayashi quads and Conan was drawing dead to the J♥ on the river. All three players that were eliminated on the final hand will fail to cash in this event and the money will be split among the Day 2 survivors.

Player	Chips	Progress
Hirokazu Kobayashi	185,000
Arthur Conan	Busted

Tags: Arthur Conan Hirokazu Kobayashi

04-30-2023 02:55 UTC+2

Kitai and Nikiforov Bust on the Stone Bubble

Matt Hansen

Level 18 : 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Ilya Nikiforov shoved 48,000 from early position and Denis Malyshev looked him up from the small blind.

Ilya Nikiforov: A♥Q♠
Denis Malyshev: 10♠10♦

The board ran out 6♠5♣9♦5♥2♥ and the tens held to bust Nikiforov on the bubble.

Simultaneously, action was heads up with a big pot in the middle and 6♥6♣2♥ on the board and Davidi Kitai was all in for the last of his stack. Wei Jie Zheng was the one to put him at risk and the cards were turned up.

Davidi Kitai: A♥J♠
Wei Jie Zheng: Q♥Q♦

The board ran out 8♦ and 5♦ and the queens held to bust Kitai from the the tournament.

Player	Chips	Progress
Denis Malyshev	293,000	26,000
Wei Jie Zheng	256,000	-33,000
Davidi Kitai	Busted
Ilya Nikiforov	Busted

Tags: Davidi Kitai Denis Malyshev Ilya Nikiforov Wei Jie Zheng

Level: 18

Blinds: 4,000/8,000

Ante: 8,000

04-30-2023 02:38 UTC+2

Caridade Busts Baolin

Matt Hansen

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

Lyu Baolin was all in for 12,000 and Ricardo Caridade called from middle position before [Removed:421] came along from the big blind. Action was three ways and Baolin was at risk.

The flop was K♠7♣A♦ and both remaining players checked to see the 7♦ on the turn. They checked again and 6♠ fell on the river.

Murtezi checked the river and then got out of the way and Caridade fired 20,000.

Baolin turned over Q♣Q♠, but he was out of the tournament when Caridade showed A♥5♥ to take the pot with a pair of aces

Player	Chips	Progress
[Removed:421]	182,000	-45,000
Ricardo Caridade	156,000
Lyu Baolin	Busted

Tags: Ricardo Caridade

04-30-2023 02:26 UTC+2

Hand-for-Hand Begins

Adam Lamers

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

With just 137 players remaining, the tournament clock has been paused and the hand-for-hand portion will now begin until one more player is eliminated.