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

€3,000 Mystery Bounty

Day 2 Started

05-03-2023 11:25 UTC+2

Day 2 Seat Draw

Frank Visser

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	3	Ramin Hajiyev	Azerbaijan	139,000	70
1	4	Israel Zilberman	Israel	41,000	21
1	5	Aliaksandr Hirs	Belarus	85,500	43
1	6	Wagner Ripper	Brazil	136,000	68
1	7	Conor Bergin	Ireland	26,000	13
1	8	Maria Konnikova	USA	114,500	57

2	1	Vlado Banicevic	Montenegro	54,000	27
2	3	Tomas Jozonis	Lithuania	81,000	41
2	4	Razvan Belea	Romania	27,500	14
2	5	Florian Duta	Romania	243,000	122
2	6	Ilya Nikiforov	Russia	227,500	114
2	7	Nicolas Julien	France	59,000	30

3	2	Aleksandar Tomovic	Serbia	37,500	19
3	3	Sadri Saleh	Canada	47,500	24
3	5	Nuri Hadioglu	Turkey	105,000	53
3	6	Mathieu His	France	56,000	28
3	7	Sam Benoliel	France	47,500	24
3	8	Paul Tasso	France	43,500	22

4	1	Oliver Weis	Germany	161,500	81
4	2	Sam Grafton	United Kingdom	247,500	124
4	3	Jean-Pierre Boulad	France	127,000	64
4	4	Benjamin Souriau	France	35,500	18
4	5	Ehsan Amiri	Australia	109,000	55
4	6	Franck Kalfon	France	109,500	55

5	2	Wai Sim Kok	Malaysia	104,500	52
5	3	Nacho Barbero	Argentina	111,000	56
5	4	Michel Bouskila	Australia	106,000	53
5	5	Elias Gutierrez	Switzerland	26,000	13
5	7	Zhang Fen	China	169,500	85
5	8	Dan Djorno	France	103,500	52

6	1	Gadir Aliyev	Spain	85,000	43
6	2	Andrew Chen	Canada	146,500	73
6	4	Gregory Donabedian	France	46,000	23
6	5	Ran Shahar	Israel	5,500	3
6	6	Bruno Lopes	France	191,000	96
6	7	Lucas Silva Rocha	Brazil	72,000	36

7	4	Jamie Nixon	United Kingdom	124,000	62
7	6	Jon Kyte	Norway	140,500	70
7	7	Ido Aboudi	Israel	23,000	12

8	2	Gianluca Speranza	Italy	73,000	37
8	3	Lucas Scafini	Brazil	35,000	18
8	4	Davidson Nahshon	Israel	51,000	26
8	6	Oliver Huber	Germany	101,500	51
8	8	Ori Elul	Israel	176,500	88

9	1	Terence Etim	United Kingdom	193,000	97
9	2	Jeremie Zouari	France	133,000	67
9	3	Heesoo Im	South Korea	48,500	24
9	5	Ken Demlakian	Australia	146,000	73
9	6	Kent Roed	Norway	185,000	93

10	2	Oleksii Ievchenko	Ukraine	96,000	48
10	3	Emmanuel Terrazzoni	France	31,000	16
10	4	Ibrahim Ghassan	Lebanon	44,500	22
10	5	Zhewen Hu	Hong Kong	121,000	61
10	6	Cedric Schwaederle	France	83,000	42
10	7	Fahad El Mechraa	France	143,500	72
10	8	Soraya Estrada	Spain	148,000	74

11	1	Saar Wilf	Israel	38,500	19
11	3	Ekrem Sanioglu	Turkey	45,000	23
11	5	Aurelien Russo	France	70,500	35
11	6	Ricardo Caridade	Portugal	52,500	26
11	7	Recep Aydemir	Turkey	254,000	127
11	8	Yves Piacentino	France	42,000	21

12	1	Mehdi Chaoui	Morocco	123,500	62
12	2	Anton Kraous	Bulgaria	116,000	58
12	4	Edouard Mignot	France	66,000	33
12	5	Luigi Dalterio	Italy	36,000	18
12	6	Kiryl Liudvikevich	Latvia	20,500	10
12	8	Ayaz Chandirli	Azerbaijan	98,000	49

13	1	Robbie Schiffbauer	USA	100,500	50
13	2	Jimmy Kebe	France	61,500	31
13	3	Pierre Zerbib	France	242,000	121
13	4	Stefan Dimitrov	Bulgaria	61,500	31
13	6	Selahaddin Bedir	Turkey	100,000	50
13	8	Nikolai Mamut	Russia	41,000	21

14	1	Aliaksei Boika	Belarus	103,000	52
14	2	Frederic Daoud	France	48,500	24
14	3	Aylar Lie	Norway	82,000	41
14	5	Georgios Karakousis	Greece	94,000	47
14	6	Francois Pradervand	France	76,000	38

15	1	Martin Norberg	Sweden	110,500	55
15	2	Andrea Crobu	Italy	72,000	36
15	3	Ignacio Sole Aparicio	Spain	195,000	98
15	4	Patrick Gaonach	France	49,500	25
15	5	Liu Chun Keat	Malaysia	368,500	184
15	7	Frederic Delval	France	153,000	77

16	1	Mehdi Tafer	France	238,000	119
16	3	Boris Kolev	Bulgaria	124,000	62
16	4	Alexander Shelukhin	Russia	176,000	88
16	5	Evgenii Fidchuk	Ukraine	159,000	80
16	6	Alexandru Danes	France	34,000	17
16	8	Rui Bouquet	Portugal	161,500	81

17	1	Michal Mrakes	Czech Republic	102,500	51
17	2	Lukasz Grossmann	Poland	183,500	92
17	4	Florian Montes	France	137,500	69
17	5	Tibor Nagygyorgy	Hungary	94,500	47
17	6	Fahredin Mustafov	Bulgaria	67,000	34

18	1	Dominykas Mikolaitis	Lithuania	118,000	59
18	2	Yuichi Sumida	Japan	167,000	84
18	3	Hrayr Grigoryan	Armenia	113,500	57
18	4	Christian Cinque	Italy	38,000	19
18	5	Andrey Andreev	Russia	78,000	39
18	7	Ali Kamran	Argentina	158,500	79

19	1	Adrian State	Romania	50,000	25
19	4	Rodrigo De Barros	Brazil	39,000	20
19	5	Quan Zhou	Hong Kong	38,000	19
19	6	Demosthenes Kiriopoulos	Canada	52,500	26
19	7	Marian Mitran	Romania	53,000	27
19	8	Pascal Dayot	France	115,500	58

20	1	Marian Ciurea	Romania	23,000	12
20	3	Volodymyr Legkyi	Ukraine	167,500	84
20	4	Oliver Bosch	Austria	225,000	113
20	8	Laurent Polito	France	47,000	24

21	3	Meiri Aviv	Israel	105,500	53
21	5	Arthur Conan	France	80,000	40
21	6	Weiran Pu	China	83,000	42
21	8	Martin Jacobson	Sweden	45,000	23

22	1	Will Kassouf	United Kingdom	121,000	61
22	3	Alan Goasdoue	France	229,000	115
22	4	Ramzi Karam	Lebanon	256,500	128
22	5	Christophe Larquemin	France	165,000	83
22	6	Alexandra Botez	USA	63,500	32
22	8	Stephen Kehoe	Ireland	284,500	142

23	1	Jonathan Ventura	France	12,000	6
23	3	Sylwester Fortuna	Poland	35,500	18
23	4	Nicolas Vayssieres	France	149,500	75
23	5	Philip Sternheimer	United Kingdom	83,000	42
23	6	Marian Dumitrache	Romania	17,000	9
23	8	Nikita Kuznetsov	Russia	60,000	30

24	1	Rui Querido Martins	Portugal	25,500	13
24	2	Ghassan Bitar	Lebanon	163,500	82
24	3	Antoine Labat	France	30,000	15
24	4	Marec Boyer	France	186,000	93
24	5	Yigit Aksoy	Turkey	49,500	25
24	8	Julien Veyssiere	France	45,500	23

25	1	Jessica Teusl	Austria	50,000	25
25	2	Antoine Saout	France	30,500	15
25	3	Roberto Romanello	United Kingdom	67,000	34
25	6	Thomas Eychenne	France	51,500	26
25	7	Jean Chicheportiche	France	45,500	23
25	8	Jon Vallinas	Spain	69,500	35

26	1	Murad Akhundov	Azerbaijan	123,000	62
26	2	Marco Regonaschi	Italy	59,000	30
26	5	Ramzey Idriss	Lebanon	18,000	9
26	6	Atanas Malinov	Bulgaria	43,500	22
26	7	Vladyslav Potomkin	Ukraine	150,000	75
26	8	Karim Abdelmoumene	France	79,000	40

27	1	Sergi Miralles	Spain	56,500	28
27	5	Didier Pitcho	France	108,000	54
27	6	Takumi Odani	Japan	69,000	35
27	7	Jerome Ruefenacht	Switzerland	93,000	47
27	8	Alexandru Papazian	Romania	94,500	47

28	1	Mohamed Mehalleg	France	28,500	14
28	2	Gerard Carbo	Spain	340,000	170
28	5	Walter Treccarichi	Italy	74,500	37
28	6	Fabrice Maltez	France	48,000	24
28	7	Ken Okada	Japan	56,000	28
28	8	Christophe Benzimra	France	109,000	55

29	1	Fabio Peluso	Italy	318,500	159
29	2	Manuel Pestana	Brazil	74,000	37
29	3	Takushi Shiratori	Japan	151,500	76
29	4	Oleh Okhotskyi	Ukraine	77,000	39
29	6	Alessandro Pichierri	Italy	121,000	61
29	7	Dominik Panka	Poland	101,000	51

30	4	Igor Yaroshevskyy	Ukraine	347,500	174
30	5	Marius Kudzmanas	Lithuania	195,000	98
30	6	Lazar Bartha	Romania	93,500	47
30	8	Franck Makaci	France	338,500	169

05-03-2023 11:29 UTC+2

Alexandra Botez Among Dozens of Players Dreaming of Big Bounties on Day 2 of the €3,000 Mystery Bounty

Frank Visser

Dozens of players are set to return to the felt for Day 2 of the €3,000 EPT Mystery Bounty at the 2023 PokerStars EPT presented by Monte-Carlo Casino®. 581 entries were made during Day 1 and there ended up being 167 players bagging up chips. Liu Chun Keat captured the chip lead and covers the entire field with his 368,500 stack. He is thus in a prime position to hunt Mystery Bounty tokens throughout the day.

Each player will be given a bounty chip at the start of the day, and those who knock someone out of the tournament will receive the said chip. At any moment throughout the remainder of the series, players can then redeem it at the bounty desk, where a large chest full of envelopes can be found. Those envelopes all contain a bounty with a random prize, ranging from low four-figure to high five-figure or even six-figure numbers.

Prominent chess player and live streamer Alexandra Botez is among those hoping to pull one of those top bounties today. However, with a stack of 63,500 she has some work ahead of her to increase the chances of that happening. The same can not be said for PokerStars Ambassador Sam Grafton, who is sitting on a comfortable 247,500 chips at the start of play and is looking to win his second Mystery Bounty Event of the series, having taken home the title in the €10,200 Mystery Bounty opening event already.

Top Ten Chip Counts at Start Day 2

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Liu Chun Keat	Malaysia	368,500	184
2	Igor Yaroshevskyy	Ukraine	347,500	174
3	Gerard Carbo	Spain	340,000	170
4	Franck Makaci	France	338,500	169
5	Fabio Peluso	Italy	318,500	159
6	Stephen Kehoe	Ireland	284,500	142
7	Ramzi Karam	Lebanon	256,500	128
8	Recep Aydemir	Turkey	254,000	127
9	Sam Grafton	United Kingdom	247,500	124
10	Florian Duta	Romania	243,000	122

Late registration is still open until the start of play at 12:30 p.m. local time today, and all final numbers will be calculated thereafter. €1,000 of each buy-in is reserved for the bounty prize pool, while €1,716 will go to the regular cash prize pool.

Some of the players who have already made use of the option to maximize late registration include Carl Shaw, who will fire his eighth bullet in this event, Conor Beresford, Julien Sitbon and Christopher Puetz. Jennifer Shahade will also join the fray, increasing the average chess Elo of the field even more. All of them will receive the starting stack of 30,000 chips, good for 15 big blinds at the start of play.

Play will resume at 12:30 p.m. local time, with the blinds on Level 13 at 1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 big blind ante. The levels will continue to be 40 minutes long throughout the tournament, with a break scheduled every three levels.

The PokerNews live reporting team will be here from start to finish, as always. Stay tuned for regular updates regarding hands, chip counts, and of course, big bounty action.

Tags: Alexandra Botez Carl Shaw Christopher Puetz Conor Beresford Fabio Peluso Franck Makaci Gerard Carbo Igor Yaroshevskyy Jennifer Shahade Julien Sitbon Liu Chun Keat Ramzi Karam Recep Aydemir Ricardo Caridade Sam Grafton Stephen Kehoe

05-03-2023 12:36 UTC+2

€3,000 Mystery Bounty Delayed

Frank Visser

Some administrative issues have occurred, caused by nearly 100 players opting to register at the start of Day 2. The €3,000 Mystery Bounty will now start at 1 p.m. local time.

05-03-2023 12:59 UTC+2

(What Should Be) A Full List of Late Registrations

Frank Visser

Player	Chips	Progress
Boris Angelov	30,000 30,000	30,000
Besiana Antoni	30,000 30,000	30,000
Conor Beresford	30,000 30,000	30,000
Fabrice Bigot	30,000 30,000	30,000
Emil Bise	30,000 30,000	30,000
Justin Bonomo	30,000
Ian Bradley	30,000
Enrico Camosci	30,000 30,000	30,000
Yannick Cardot	30,000 30,000	30,000
Laurent Cessy	30,000 30,000	30,000
Danut Chisu	30,000 30,000	30,000
Thiago Crema De Macedo	30,000 30,000	30,000
Marton Czuczor	30,000 30,000	30,000
Dimitar Danchev	30,000 30,000	30,000

Omar Del Pino	30,000 30,000	30,000
Bruno Desimoni	30,000 30,000	30,000
Mathieu Di Meglio	30,000 30,000	30,000
Ognyan Dimov	30,000

Silcio Domingues Costa	30,000 30,000	30,000
Christopher Dowling	30,000 30,000	30,000
Jamie Flynn	30,000 30,000	30,000
Cesar Garcia	30,000 30,000	30,000
Charles-Henri Garnero	30,000 30,000	30,000
Jack Germaine	30,000 30,000	30,000
Sam Greenwood	30,000 30,000	30,000

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05-03-2023 13:00 UTC+2

Shuffle Up and Deal

Matt Warburton

Dealers in the €3,000 Mystery Bounty have been instructed to shuffle up and deal. It's official. Day 2 of the tournament is underway.

Level: 13

Blinds: 1,000/2,000

Ante: 2,000

05-03-2023 13:09 UTC+2

Zhang Makes a Seven-Card Flush

Frank Visser

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

Elias Gutierrez Hernandez was all in on the first hand of the day for the 26,000 he bagged on Day 1 and got called by Fan Zhang.

Elias Gutierrez Hernandez: A♠4♠
Fan Zhang: K♥8♥

The flop came J♥10♥Q♥ and Hernandez commented, ''I don't think I'm going to win this one.'' Indeed, he was drawing dead on the flop and the 3♥ and 2♥ were put out to add some salt to his wound.

Player	Chips	Progress
Fan Zhang	195,500 26,000	26,000
Elias Gutierrez Hernandez	Busted

Tags: Elias Gutierrez Hernandez Fan Zhang

05-03-2023 13:12 UTC+2

Martins Busts Early as Labat Makes Set

Matt Warburton

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

In one of the first hands dealt on Day 2, Rui Martins open shoved all in from early positon for 25,500. He was called by Antoine Labat and players flipped their cards, with Martins the player at risk.

Rui Martins: A♥J♣
Antoine Labat: 10♦10♥

"A fair fight," said Martins.

The flop ran out 7♠5♣9♦10♣K♣. Labat made a set of tens on the turn and Martins couldn't find his straight on the river. Labat scooped the pot and Martins busted out early.

"You deserved that one," said Martins as he left the table.

Player	Chips	Progress
Antoine Labat	61,000 31,000	31,000
Rui Martins	Busted

Tags: Antoine Labat Rui Martins

05-03-2023 13:20 UTC+2

Chaoui Wheels Kulev and Bigot Out of the Tournament

Frank Visser

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

There was a three-way preflop all-in between Mehdi Chaoui, Alex Kulev, and Fabrice Bigot. Kulev and Bigot had both bought in at the start of the day and were at risk for their starting stack of 30,000.

Alex Kulev: A♠8♠
Fabrice Bigot: A♥J♠
Mehdi Chaoui: A♣4♣

The flop was 5♥J♣3♦ and Bigot solidified his lead with his top pair. ''I'll take a deuce,'' Chaoui said. The turn did indeed come the 2♣, giving Chaoui the straight. With both other players drawing dead, he raked in the pot and two bounty tokens as the 10♦ was dealt as a formality.

''I'm really happy to bust two of the best players in the tournament,'' Chaoui concluded as the other two players took their leave.