€3,000 Mystery Bounty Day 2 | 2023 PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo

05-03-2023 19:59 UTC+2

These Players Did Not Make It to the DInner Break (€4,200)

Frank Visser

Level 21 : Blinds 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Lucas Scafini	Busted
Jamie Nixon	Busted
Fabrice Maltez	Busted
Recep Aydemir	Busted
Lymor Davidson	Busted
Oleksii Ievchenko	Busted
Andrew Chen	Busted
Chun Keat Liu	Busted

Ali Kamran	Busted
Kent Roed	Busted
Yannick Cardot	Busted
Ekrem Sanioglu	Busted
Jordan Saccucci	Busted

Karim Abdelmoumene	Busted

05-03-2023 19:58 UTC+2

Arrocha Scoops Four-Bet Pot to Stack Over One Million Chips

Matt Warburton

Level 21 : Blinds 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

Selahaddin Bedir had put in a three-bet preflop from the button following an open-raise. Mario Navarro Arrocha then four-bet from the small blind to 180,000 and Bedir made the call.

The flop came 8♠Q♥J♥ and Arrocha continued for 125,000, which Bedir called.

The turn came the 5♦ and Arrocha moved all in. Bedir folded his hand and Arrocha scooped a pot that brought him to over 1,000,000 chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mario Navarro	1,160,000 410,000	410,000
Selahaddin Bedir	680,000 -365,000	-365,000

Tags: Mario Navarro Arrocha Selahaddin Bedir

05-03-2023 19:55 UTC+2

Navarro Arrocha Anticipates the Bluff

Frank Visser

Level 21 : Blinds 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

Mario Navarro Arocha and Antoine Labat checked through the turn on a 9♥5♠8♣5♦ board. The river was the 7♠ and Navarro Arrocha checked again from middle position to Labat, who was on the button. Labat thought about it for a bit and bet a sizable 136,000 into the pot of 160,000.

Navarro Arocha quickly called and Labat could not show anything higher than king-high with his K♦J♠. Navarro Arracho had his opponent narrowly beaten with the ace-high hero call as he showed down A♠10♠.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mario Navarro	750,000 50,000	50,000
Antoine Labat	465,000 404,000	404,000

Tags: Antoine Labat Mario Navarro Arocha

05-03-2023 19:49 UTC+2

Selahaddin Squeezes Some Out of Greenwood

Frank Visser

Level 21 : Blinds 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

Sam Greenwood had bet 15,000 into a pot of 66,000 from the big blind. The board read 6♦6♥10♣8♠4♥. Selahaddin Bedir was on the button and raised to 75,000.

Greenwood mulled it over for a bit before making the call, but mucked his hand as soon as Bedir showed him the 9♦9♣ for some thin value.

Bedir is one of the biggest stacks in the room and sits on just over one million chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Selahaddin Bedir	1,045,000 945,000	945,000
Sam Greenwood	310,000 -55,000	-55,000

Tags: Sam Greenwood Selahaddin Bedir

05-03-2023 19:35 UTC+2

Boyer's Pocket Pair Holds and Mitran Eliminated

Matt Warburton

Level 21 : Blinds 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

Sam Greenwood raised to 22,000 from early position and Marian Mitran shoved from the small blind for 158,000. Marc Boyer asked for the count and then moved all in with Mitran covered. Greenwood folded and two players flipped their cards.

Marian Mitran: A♦K♣
Marc Boyer: 3♥3♠

It was a coinflip scenario with Mitran at risk of busting. The board ran out 4♥8♦10♥2♥10♣ and Boyer's pocket threes held up. He shouted out in joy as the river came and he claimed the bounty.

Mitran, meanwhile, was eliminated from the tournament.

Player	Chips	Progress
Marc Boyer	740,000 190,000	190,000
Marian Mitran	Busted

Tags: Marc Boyer Marian Mitran Sam Greenwood

05-03-2023 19:32 UTC+2

Konnikava's Ace-King Brings a Double

Frank Visser

Level 21 : Blinds 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

All of Konnikava's 110,000 chips were in the middle when the action was caught and Aleksandar Tomovic had made the call with the covering stack.

Maria Konnikova: A♦K♠
Aleksandar Tomovic: A♠8♦

The board ran out an uneventful 4♦7♠3♣9♣2♣ and Konnikova raked in a double-up seconds before she got moved to another table. Tomovic, on the other hand, was left with just over four big blinds.

Player	Chips	Progress
Maria Konnikova	237,000 13,000	13,000

Aleksandar Tomovic	52,000 -58,000	-58,000

Tags: Aleksandar Tomovic Maria Konnikova

Level: 21

Blinds: 6,000/12,000

Ante: 12,000

05-03-2023 19:18 UTC+2

Sole Aparicio Always Bluffs

Frank Visser

Level 20 : Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

The flop read 9♠K♦10♠ in a pot between Ignacio Sole Aparicio and Ehsan Amiri. The pot amounted to 110,000 and Sole Aparicio checked from under the gun to Amiri on the button, who put out a bet of 40,000. Sole Aparicio responded with a minimum raise to 80,000.

''Is this a bluff?'' Amiri asked.

''I'm always bluffing this spot" Sole Aparicio answered, after which both players shared a smile. Eventually, the supposed bluff worked as Amiri laid his hand down.

Amiri was one of the lucky players to pull a €40,000 bounty out of the chest earlier today.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ignacio Sole Aparicio	415,000 220,000	220,000
Ehsan Amiri	300,000 -101,000	-101,000

Tags: Ehsan Amiri Ignacio Sole Aparicio

05-03-2023 19:17 UTC+2

Noja Shoves and Busts to Davidson

Matt Warburton

Level 20 : Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

Action folded around to Danielle Noja on the button, who shoved all in with a short stack. Lymor Davidson made the call in the big blind and players flipped their cards, with Noja at risk.

Danielle Noja: A♦5♣
Lymor Davidson: J♣6♠

The board ran out 9♥J♥6♥A♥4♣ to give Davidson two pair on the flop. Noja was eliminated from the tournament in 48th place.

Player	Chips	Progress
Lymor Davidson	113,000
Danielle Noja	Busted

Tags: Danielle Noja Lymor Davidson

05-03-2023 19:03 UTC+2

Kassouf Plays it By His Book

Frank Visser

Level 20 : Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

Will Kassouf made it 24,000 from the hijack and Recep Aydemir three-bet to 70,000 from the small blind. Sam Greenwood was in the big blind and eyed his opponents' stacks, but decided to fold.

This was when Kassouf's patented speech play took place. Over the course of several minutes, he engaged in talks with his opponent, discussing the strength of their hands, stack depths, and the quality of Daniel Negreanu's book, among other things, before he raised to 195,000. The talk did not slow down thereafter, however, as Aydemir was thinking about the predicament he had found himself in.

Sam Greenwood had had enough and said that he would have to call the clock if Kassouf kept talking, even though he wanted to give Aydemir time to think.

Kassouf quieted down for a bit but soon started up again. ''Will you show if I fold?'' asked Aydemir.

''I can't do that, I'll reveal how I play to the whole table. This is not in any book, only the Will Kassouf book.''

''Is it an audio book?'' Jamie Nixon chimed in.

After this exchange, time was finally called. Aydemir folded his hand during the countdown and showed 10♣10♠. Kassouf allowed Aydemir to pick one card of his holding to show as well and Aydemir picked the A♠.