€5,300 EPT Main Event Day 2 | 2023 PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo

€5,300 EPT Main Event

Day 2 Completed

05-02-2023 22:17 UTC+2

Estonia's Markkos Ladev Leads The Pack In EPT Monte Carlo €5,300 Main Event

Andrew Knowles

Level 15 : Blinds 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

Day 2 of the EPT Monte Carlo €5,300 Main Event has come to an end and 126 players are moving on to Day 3 of the flagship event of the 2023 PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) presented by Monte-Carlo Casino®.

A total of 1,098 entries joined the action over two starting flights to create a massive prize pool of €5,325,300 with the winner taking home €890,000 and the prestigious EPT trophy. Day 2 saw 367 hopefuls return to the blue felts and, after six levels of play, only 126 remain in the hunt for EPT glory.

Estonia's Markkos Ladev leads the way with an impressive stack of 881,000, good for 176 big blinds. Having come off a recent cash in the 2023 EPT Paris High Roller, Ladev will have eyes set on a deep run to up his previous highest score of $22,840. Belgium's Pieter Aerts and high-stakes regular Artur Martirosian round out the top three.

2023 EPT Monte Carlo €5,300 Main Event Day 2 Top Ten Chip Counts

Rank	Name	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Markkos Ladev	Estonia	881,000	176
2	Pieter Aerts	Belgium	876,000	175
3	Artur Martirosian	Russia	857,000	171
4	Kenan Taylor	United Kingdom	711,000	142
5	Mike Watson	Canada	675,000	135
6	Oleg Vasylchenko	Ukraine	657,000	131
7	Ramon Colillas	Spain	636,000	127
8	Ryhor Karapanau	Latvia	624,000	125
9	Maduka Meragal	Canada	620,000	124
10	Juan Pardo	Spain	570,000	114

Day 2 Action

Many notables returned to action at the start of the day and some who couldn’t find enough run-good to bag include high-stakes regulars Patrik Antonius, Isaac Haxton, Timothy Adams, Conor Beresford, and Stephen Chidwick, who hit the rail two away from the money.

Some other notables who managed to find a cash but couldn’t make it to a Day 3 run include Maria Lampropulos (153rd - €8,700), Sam Greenwood (151st - €8,700), Aleksejs Ponakovs (143rd - €9,850), Stefan Dimitrov (129th - €9,850) and Jeremy Palvini (127th - €9,850).

Many PokerStars Ambassadors also took to the field in hopes of a deep run. Benjamin Spragg, who recently finished 21st in the €1,100 FPS Main Event a few days ago, was back for another chance at a big score. Unfortunately for him, his day came to an end when he got his last nine big blinds in with ace-queen against the ten-nine for Killian Kramer. The board rivered a nine for Kramer to send Spragg out in 136th place for €9,850.

Parker Talbot had an impressive run to bag a healthy stack of 283,000 and will look to add to his over $1.1 million in live tournament earnings with a deep run here. Ramon Colillas was the only other PokerStars Ambassador to find a bag with a hefty stack of 636,000.

With 67 minutes left in the fifth level of the day, the money bubble burst in brutal fashion when Yasuhiro Waki picked up pocket aces and got his remaining chips in the middle preflop. Ryhor Karapanau made the call with queen-jack of clubs and a double-up looked probable for Waki. The flop, however, brought a massive sweat on an ace-high board with two clubs to give Karapanau a flush draw. The turn was a brick, but the river fell the two of clubs, sending Waki out on the stone bubble. The remaining 159 players were in the money and guaranteed a minimum payday of €8,700.

Remaining Payouts

Place	Prize (EUR)	Place	Prize (EUR)
1	€890,000	14-15	€45,900
2	€556,600	16-17	€39,950
3	€397,450	18-20	€34,700
4	€305,750	21-23	€30,200
5	€235,150	24-27	€26,250
6	€180,900	28-31	€22,850
7	€139,150	32-39	€19,850
8	€107,050	40-55	€17,250
9	€82,350	56-71	€15,000
10-11	€63,300	72-95	€13,050
12-13	€52,750	96-119	€11,350
		120-143	€9,850

Day 3 will kick off tomorrow, May 3rd, at noon local time with blinds resuming at 2,000/5,000 with a 5,000 big blind ante and a 20-minute break at the end of each level. The schedule is to play another five levels and bag for Day 4 on Thursday. All of the action can be seen on PokerStars TV via YouTube and Twitch, with live streaming featured on a 30-minute security delay.

Be sure to keep it with the PokerNews team throughout the rest of the week for live updates from the floor of the EPT Monte Carlo €5,300 Main Event at Monte Carlo Sporting Complex on the shores of the French Riviera.

Tags: Aleksejs Ponakovs Artur Martirosian Benjamin Spragg Conor Beresford Isaac Haxton Jeremy Palvini Juan Pardo Kenan Taylor Killian Kramer Maduka Meragal Maria Lampropulos Markkos Ladev Mike Watson Oleg Vasylchenko Parker Talbot Patrik Antonius Pieter Aerts Ramon Colillas Ryhor Karapanau Sam Greenwood Stefan Dimitrov Stephen Chidwick Timothy Adams Yasuhiro Waki

05-02-2023 22:15 UTC+2

End of Day Chip Counts (full)

Matt Hansen

Level 15 : Blinds 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Markkos Ladev	881,000
Pieter Aerts	876,000
Artur Martirosian	857,000
Kenan Taylor	711,000	391,000
Mike Watson	675,000
Oleg Vasylchenko	657,000	582,500
Ramon Colillas	636,000
Ryhor Karapanau	624,000
Maduka Meragal	620,000	-13,000
Juan Pardo	570,000	60,000
Leonard Maue	563,000
Leo Worthington-Leese	506,000	408,500
Javier Gomez	495,000	215,000
Andrew Hulme	488,000	22,000
Samy Boujmala	487,000
Orpen Kisacikoglu	458,000	88,000
Stefan Huber	455,000	-28,000
Gerald Karlic	452,000	297,000
Silviu Baltateanu	447,000	-57,000
Sirzat Hissou	446,000	-12,000
Pooria Moghani	439,000	335,000
Mihails Morozovs	410,000	10,000
Alexandre Landron	406,000	406,000
Renat Bohdanov	403,000	53,000
Thomas Graupner	397,000	182,000

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05-02-2023 22:14 UTC+2

Day 3 Seat Draw

Andrew Knowles

Level 15 : Blinds 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chips	Big Blinds
1	1	Arnaud Mattern	France	219000	44
1	2	Stefano Pizzuti	Italy	312000	62
1	3	Andrei Stoenescu	Romania	66000	13
1	4	Kelvin Kerber	Brazil	181000	36
1	5	Vanessa Kade	Canada	70000	14
1	6	Davidi Kitai	Belgium	185000	37
1	7	Samuel Ju	Germany	41000	8
1	8	Martin Guerrero	Spain	386000	77

2	1	Juan Pardo	Spain	570000	114
2	2	Claudio Di Giacomo	Italy	76000	15
2	3	Ryhor Karapanau	Latvia	624000	125
2	4	Yann Helwig	France	304000	61
2	5	Fiodor Martino	Italy	56000	11
2	6	Jason Wheeler	USA	270000	54
2	7	Hirokazu Kobayashi	Japan	152000	30
2	8	Kenan Taylor	United Kingdom	711000	142

3	1	Daniel Myers	United Kingdom	131000	26
3	2	Markkos Ladev	Estonia	881000	176
3	3	Joachim Haraldstad	Norway	314000	63
3	4	Paul Newey	United Kingdom	211000	42
3	5	Javier Gomez	Spain	495000	99
3	6	Aliaksandr Shylko	Belarus	265000	53
3	7	Pierre Calamusa	France	331000	66
3	8	Pavlos Xanthopoulos	Greece	64000	13

4	1	Morgan Aceto	France	299000	60
4	2	Thomas Graupner	Germany	397000	79
4	3	Julien Martini	France	221000	44
4	4	Alessandro Righetti	Italy	203000	41
4	5	Eduardo Egea Vandepette	Spain	130000	26
4	6	Majid Ejlal Noubarian	Iran	338000	68
4	7	Samy Boujmala	France	487000	97
4	8	Nicola Grieco	Italy	258000	52

5	1	Roberto Rodriguez	Spain	210000	42
5	2	Tarmo Tammel	Estonia	62000	12
5	3	Panagiotis Gavrilidis	Greece	176000	35
5	4	Parker Talbot	Canada	283000	57
5	5	Jean-Marc Cristiani	France	310000	62
5	6	Kiryl Asaulenka	Belarus	326000	65
5	7	Killian Kramer	Germany	223000	45
5	8	Apoorva Goel	India	123000	25

6	1	Giovani Tore	Portugal	63000	13
6	2	Maximilian Lehmanski	Germany	276000	55
6	3	Kuljinder Sidhu	United Kingdom	105000	21
6	4	Cristian Espineira Larrosa	Spain	134000	27
6	5	Sandra Cotescu	Romania	127000	25
6	6	Salvatore Camarda	Italy	71000	14
6	7	Pieter Aerts	Belgium	876000	175
6	8	Manuel Valduga	Italy	87000	17

7	1	Volodymyr Drokin	Ukraine	353000	71
7	2	Maksim Vaskresenski	Belarus	60000	12
7	3	Oleg Vasylchenko	Ukraine	657000	131
7	4	Leo Worthington	United Kingdom	506000	101
7	5	Magnus Carlsen	Norway	127000	25
7	6	Mike Watson	Canada	675000	135
7	7	Mark Teltscher	United Kingdom	207000	41
7	8	Dario Sammartino	Italy	152000	30

8	1	Orpen Kisacikoglu	Turkey	458000	92
8	2	Micha Bitton	USA	47000	9
8	3	Sonny Franco	France	174000	35
8	4	Pedro Gois Neves	Portugal	133000	27
8	5	Landron Alexandre	France	406000	81
8	6	Arsenii Karmatckii	Russia	56000	11
8	7	Leonardo Patacconi	Italy	265000	53
8	8	Mihails Morozovs	Latvia	410000	82

9	1	Jacob Amsellem	Israel	149000	30
9	2	Moritz Baggenstos	Switzerland	180000	36
9	3	Leonard Maue	Germany	563000	113
9	4	Ramon Colillas	Spain	636000	127
9	5	Rintaro Kagawa	Japan	133000	27
9	6	Manig Loeser	Germany	67000	13
9	7	Jose Astima	France	264000	53
9	8	Gerald Karlic	Austria	452000	90

10	1	Darius Gadeikis	Lithuania	235000	47
10	2	Andrew Hulme	United Kingdom	488000	98
10	3	Leon Sturm	Germany	64000	13
10	4	Candido Cappiello	Italy	320000	64
10	5	[Removed:449]	Switzerland	377000	75
10	6	Romain Lewis	France	139000	28
10	7	Marcello Miniucchi	Italy	98000	20
10	8	Artur Martirosian	Russia	857000	171

11	1	Santhosh Suvarna	India	198000	40
11	2	Ori Hasson	Israel	144000	29
11	3	Daniel Dvoress	Canada	328000	66
11	4	Lukas Zaskodny	Czech Republic	85000	17
11	5	Dinesh Alt	Switzerland	255000	51
11	6	Erik Seidel	USA	105000	21
11	7	Renat Bogdanov	Ukraine	403000	81
11	8	Pasquale Di Ceglie	Croatia	113000	23

12	1	Aleksandr Volkov	Russia	104000	21
12	2	Pooria Moghani	Iran	439000	88
12	3	Sergiii Baranov	Ukraine	137000	27
12	4	Silviu Baltateanu	Romania	447000	89
12	5	Sylvain Loosli	France	167000	33
12	6	Stefan Huber	Switzerland	455000	91
12	7	Elias Fisz	Netherlands	127000	25
12	8	Antonio Calabro	Italy	210000	42

13	1	Hady El Asmar	Lebanon	148000	30
13	2	Ouri Cohen	France	44000	9
13	3	Mihai Niste	Romania	288000	58
13	4	Dirk Noortman	Netherlands	191000	38
13	5	Bryan Paris	USA	323000	65
13	6	Michael Rodrigues	Portugal	105000	21
13	7	Domenico Gala	Italy	62000	12
13	8	Lars Kamphues	Austria	255000	51

14	1	Laszlo Molnar	Hungary	110000	22
14	2	Stefan Heizmann	Germany	126000	25
14	3	Vicente Delgado	Spain	324000	65
14	4	Marcel Jakob	Switzerland	138000	28
14	5	Masato Yokosawa	Japan	356000	71
14	6	Jimmy Torres Velasquez	Colombia	90000	18
14	7	Patrick Beuter	United Kingdom	125000	25
14	8	Mauricio Salazar Sanchez	Colombia	356000	71

15	2	Jean-Vincent Lehut	France	325000	65
15	3	Maduka Meragal	Canada	620000	124
15	4	Paolo Boi	Italy	290000	58
15	5	David Vinayagamoorthy	Norway	134000	27
15	6	Josef Schusteritsch	Austria	252000	50
15	7	Virgile Turchi	France	294000	59
15	8	Arnaud Enselme	France	376000	75

16	1	Harry Lodge	United Kingdom	250000	50
16	3	Francisco Caballo Pena	Spain	139000	28
16	4	Florian Guimond	France	206000	41
16	5	Sirzat Hissou	Germany	446000	89
16	6	Arunas Sapitavicius	Lithuania	378000	76
16	7	David Li-Zheng	France	124000	25
16	8	Milos Petakovic	Serbia	192000	38

05-02-2023 21:58 UTC+2

Assorted End of Day Chip Counts

Adam Lamers

Level 15 : Blinds 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Markkos Ladev	881,000	236,000
Pieter Aerts	876,000	176,000
Artur Martirosian	857,000	7,000
Mike Watson	675,000	50,000
Ramon Colillas	636,000	436,000
Leonard Maue	563,000
Juan Pardo	510,000	156,000
Samy Boujmala	487,000	-43,000
Mauricio Salazar Sanchez	353,000	173,000
Parker Talbot	283,000	-67,000
Aliaksandr Shylko	265,000	-70,000
Magnus Carlsen	127,000	-48,000
Manig Loeser	67,000	-1,000

05-02-2023 21:55 UTC+2

Day 2 Has Ended

Connor Richards

Level 15 : Blinds 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

Day 2 has wrapped up after five 90-minute levels of play with 126 players remaining. Stay tuned for a full recap of the day's events.

05-02-2023 21:52 UTC+2

Salazar Sanchez Goes for Three Streets

Connor Richards

Level 15 : Blinds 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

Mauricio Salazar Sanchez opened to 9,000 from the hijack and Volodymyr Drokin defended out of the big blind.

Drokin checked on the flop of 3♥J♥7♥ and Salazar Sanchez continued for 5,000. Drokin called. Drokin checked again on the 6♣ turn and Salazar Sanchez sized up to 16,000. Drokin again called.

Drokin checked once more on the 8♦ river and Salazar Sanchez pulled the trigger with an overbet of 72,000. Drokin went deep into the tank for several minutes and eventually folded.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mauricio Salazar Sanchez	320,000	140,000
Volodymyr Drokin	120,000	68,500

Tags: Mauricio Salazar Sanchez Volodymyr Drokin

05-02-2023 21:41 UTC+2

Three More Hands

Connor Richards

Level 15 : Blinds 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

The tournament floor has stopped the clock and announced three more hands until the end of Day 2.

05-02-2023 21:37 UTC+2

Grieco Saves 15% or More by Folding to Aerts

Connor Richards

Level 15 : Blinds 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

Nicola Grieco opened to 12,000 from the hijack and table chip leader Pieter Aerts called on the button, while Erik Seidel also called from the big blind.

Seidel checked on the flop of 8♣3♣8♥ and Grieco continued for a hefty 25,000. Aerts called and Seidel folded. Grieco slowed down on the 7♦ turn and Aerts took the betting initiative by firing for 40,000. Aerts laid it down.

Player	Chips	Progress
Pieter Aerts	700,000	20,000
Nicola Grieco	210,000	9,000
Erik Seidel	130,000	-78,000

Tags: Erik Seidel Nicola Grieco Pieter Aerts

05-02-2023 21:36 UTC+2

Kitai Four-Flushes to Double Through Sammartino

Adam Lamers

Level 15 : Blinds 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

Dario Sammartino raised to 9,000 in the cutoff and Davidi Kitai shipped all in for 100,000 on the button. The blinds folded and Sammartino never hesitated before calling it off.

Davidi Kitai: 8♣8♦
Dario Sammartino: J♠J♦

The flop came Q♣7♣2♣ and Kitai picked up the lone flush draw. The 10♦ on the turn changed nothing but the 4♣ on the river gave Kitai a flush to double through the Italian.

Player	Chips	Progress
Davidi Kitai	210,000	-4,000
Dario Sammartino	102,000	-141,000

Tags: Davidi Kitai Dario Sammartino