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

The sun is out here in Monaco and that means another day of action at the 2023 PokerStars European Poker Tour presented by Monte-Carlo Casino® as Day 2 of the €5,300 EPT Main Event gets underway at noon local time. Leading the 332 surviving players from both starting flights is Samy Boujmala with 339,000, while the Frenchman is tailed closely by Italy's Nicola Grieco (325,000) and Britain's Mitchell Hynam (316,000).

There are plenty of other big stacks heading into the second day of action, including bracelet winners Jason Wheeler (250,000), Aleksejs Ponakovs (245,500) and Sam Greenwood (232,500), as well as other familiar faces including Vicente Delgado (244,500), Artur Martirosian (215,500) and Julien Sitbon (209,000).

Other well-knowns to look out for today include Poker Hall of Famer Erik Seidel, PokerStars Team Pro Parker Talbot and Women in Poker Hall of Famer Maria Ho. Both PokerStars Pro Benjamin Spragg and Ladies Event champion Marle Spragg are still alive, as are Harry Lodge, Vanessa Kade, Tom Orpaz, and David Kitai.

There will likely be others who join the field as late registration remains open until the start of Day 2.

Day 2 marks the start of 90-minute blind levels as players look to capitalize on deep-stack play. Action will kick off on Level 11 with blinds levels of 1,000/1,500/1,500 and there will be 20-minute breaks at the end of each level.

There are no shot clocks in play yet as those won't be introduced until Day 3. Players have yet to reach the money as only 15% of the field will be paid. Payout information should become available shortly after the close of registration.

Stay tuned as the PokerNews live reporting team is on site here in Monaco and ready to provide all the updates in the EPT Monte Carlo Main Event.

Tags: Aleksejs Ponakovs Artur Martirosian Benjamin Spragg David Kitai Erik Seidel Harry Lodge Jason Wheeler Julien Sitbon Maria Ho Marle Spragg Nicola Grieco Parker Talbot Sam Greenwood Samy Boujmala Tom Orpaz Vanessa Kade Vicente Delgado

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	1	Michel Dattani	Portugal	18,500	12
1	2	Mohamad El Rais	Switzerland	143,000	95
1	3	Lampros Vlachos	Greece	18,000	12
1	4	Roberto Rodriguez	Spain	38,000	25
1	5	Stefan Huber	Switzerland	142,000	95
1	6	Paul Newey	United Kingdom	131,000	87
1	7	Juan Pardo	Spain	157,000	105
1	8	Alfonso Simone	Italy	87,000	58

2	1	Edward Wells	United Kingdom	31,500	21
2	2	Marc MacDonnell	Ireland	117,500	78
2	3	Zhang Fen	China	40,500	27
2	4	Pooria Moghani	Iran	104,000	69
2	5	Chakib Mhiri	Tunisia	139,500	93
2	6	Daisuke Ogita	Japan	164,500	110
2	7	Alexey Losev	Russia	70,000	47
2	8	Milos Skrbic	Serbia	35,500	24

3	1	Yann Helwig	France	44,500	30
3	2	Ian Hamilton	United Kingdom	78,500	52
3	3	Mihai Ciubotaru	Romania	106,500	71
3	4	Pieter Aerts	Belgium	134,000	89
3	5	Christopher Chaudey	France	168,000	112
3	6	Daniele Todeschini	Italy	105,000	70
3	7	Alec Torelli	USA	43,500	29
3	8	Dominik Panka	Poland	94,500	63

4	1	Arunas Sapitavicius	Lithuania	228,500	152
4	2	Kosumosu Yamanaka	Japan	81,000	54
4	3	Rintaro Kagawa	Japan	187,500	125
4	4	Luca Giovannone	Italy	100,000	67
4	5	Sirzat Hissou	Germany	61,000	41
4	6	Estelle Cohuet	France	83,500	56
4	7	Marle Spragg	USA	98,500	66
4	8	Luis Rayon Perez	Spain	60,000	40

5	1	Andrew Hulme	United Kingdom	144,000	96
5	2	Azim Orunov	Russia	62,000	41
5	3	Harry Lodge	United Kingdom	114,000	76
5	4	Hirokazu Kobayashi	Japan	162,000	108
5	5	Dominykas Karmazinas	Lithuania	20,500	14
5	6	Jacob Amsellem	Israel	203,000	135
5	7	Ken Okada	Japan	83,500	56
5	8	Marian Mitran	Romania	20,500	14

6	1	Stefan Heizmann	Germany	126,000	84
6	2	Benjamin Winsor	United Kingdom	169,500	113
6	3	Thomas Graupner	Germany	96,000	64
6	4	Flavien Mullet	France	37,500	25
6	5	Mauricio Salazar Sanchez	Colombia	127,500	85
6	6	Paul Tedeschi	France	156,000	104
6	7	Bryan Paris	USA	54,500	36
6	8	Kayhan Mokri	Norway	55,500	37

7	1	Peter Moore	Canada	81,500	54
7	2	Vicente Delgado	Spain	244,500	163
7	3	Kiryl Asaulenka	Belarus	129,000	86
7	4	Ekrem Sanioglu	Turkey	130,000	87
7	5	Lars Kamphues	Austria	153,500	102
7	6	Luke Schwartz	United Kingdom	29,000	19
7	7	Christopher Puetz	Austria	149,500	100
7	8	Silviu Baltateanu	Romania	37,000	25

8	1	Candido Cappiello	Italy	81,000	54
8	2	Sandra Cotescu	Romania	78,500	52
8	3	Silvio Domingues Costa	Portugal	104,500	70
8	4	Demosthenes Kiriopoulos	Canada	55,000	37
8	5	Ouri Cohen	France	39,500	26
8	6	Josef Schusteritsch	Austria	250,000	167
8	7	Aurelien Russo	France	122,000	81
8	8	Joshua Zimmerman	Hong Kong	129,000	86

9	1	Robert Greenberg	USA	30,000	20
9	2	Adrian State	Romania	28,000	19
9	3	Virgile Turchi	France	88,500	59
9	4	Yanfeng Wang	Hong Kong	222,500	148
9	5	Brandon Merrill	USA	25,000	17
9	6	Lucas Scafini	Brazil	167,000	111
9	7	Kiryl Liudvikevich	Latvia	29,000	19
9	8	Arnaud Mattern	France	64,000	43

10	1	Romain Lewis	France	156,000	104
10	2	Isaac Haxton	USA	35,000	23
10	3	Mihai Niste	Romania	76,500	51
10	4	Maria Lampropulos	Argentina	44,000	29
10	5	Lewis Grabowski	United Kingdom	98,500	66
10	6	Yann Pineau	France	30,000	20
10	7	Artur Martirosian	Russia	215,500	144
10	8	Hala Karam	Lebanon	44,000	29

11	1	Blaz Zerjav	Slovenia	100,000	67
11	2	Gaelle Baumann	France	33,500	22
11	3	Daniel Myers	United Kingdom	26,000	17
11	4	Leonardo Patacconi	Italy	66,500	44
11	5	Matheus Sousa de Castro	Brazil	40,000	27
11	6	Danielle Noja	Australia	83,000	55
11	7	Aleksejs Ponakovs	Latvia	245,500	164
11	8	Andrew Toole	Ireland	49,000	33

12	1	Corel Theuma	Malta	219,500	146
12	2	Salvatore Camarda	Italy	41,500	28
12	3	Marton Czuczor	Hungary	92,500	62
12	4	Jonathon Darling	Italy	65,000	43
12	5	Markkos Ladev	Estonia	257,500	172
12	6	Dimitar Danchev	Bulgaria	16,700	11
12	7	Fabrizio Benvenuto	Italy	49,500	33
12	8	Pasquale Di Ceglie	Croatia	49,500	33

13	1	Saar Wilf	Israel	136,500	91
13	2	Ignacio Sole Aparicio	Spain	61,000	41
13	3	Adel Naoun	France	87,000	58
13	4	Sergiii Baranov	Ukraine	36,000	24
13	6	Jacques Der Megreditchian	France	154,000	103
13	7	Majid Ejlal Noubarian	Iran	181,000	121
13	8	Yoni Khalifa	Israel	101,000	67

14	1	Benjamin Spragg	United Kingdom	96,000	64
14	2	Mario Navarro	Spain	101,000	67
14	3	Marius Gicovanu	Romania	51,500	34
14	4	Arnaud Enselme	France	98,000	65
14	6	Sindri Stefansson	Iceland	55,500	37
14	7	Pavlos Xanthopoulos	Greece	24,500	16
14	8	Giuseppe Petti	Italy	100,000	67

15	1	Alexandru Danes	France	46,000	31
15	2	Alexander Wahl	Germany	50,500	34
15	3	Jeffrey Berwick	Canada	49,500	33
15	4	Andonis Kollakis	United Kingdom	54,500	36
15	5	Lukas Zaskodny	Czech Republic	157,500	105
15	7	Stefano Pizzuti	Italy	146,000	97
15	8	Yannick Galley	France	51,500	34

16	1	Mihails Morozovs	Latvia	85,500	57
16	2	Johann Greboval	France	46,500	31
16	3	Fiodor Martino	Italy	79,500	53
16	4	[Removed:428]	Switzerland	110,000	73
16	5	Magnus Carlsen	Norway	38,500	26
16	7	Mathias Bayer	Germany	69,000	46
16	8	Simone Andrian	Italy	66,500	44

17	1	Vlado Banicevic	Montenegro	49,000	33
17	2	Michael Howard	United Kingdom	133,000	89
17	3	Tom Orpaz	Israel	127,500	85
17	4	Heesoo Im	South Korea	72,000	48
17	6	Renat Bohdanov	Ukraine	42,000	28
17	7	Damien Pilkington-Lewis	United Kingdom	76,500	51
17	8	Jessica Pilkington	United Kingdom	59,000	39

18	1	Jamie Flynn	Ireland	105,000	70
18	2	Kuljinder Sidhu	United Kingdom	74,000	49
18	4	Matthias Lipp	Austria	111,000	74
18	5	Jeremy Palvini	France	100,000	67
18	6	Hady El Asmar	Lebanon	115,000	77
18	7	Maksim Vaskresenski	Belarus	74,000	49
18	8	Jason Wheeler	USA	250,000	167

19	1	Vanessa Kade	Canada	118,000	79
19	2	Diego Zeiter	Poland	114,500	76
19	3	Micha Bitton	USA	15,300	10
19	4	Eoghan O'Dea	Ireland	63,000	42
19	5	Aviv Meiri	Israel	73,000	49
19	6	Valeriano Toledano	Spain	79,000	53
19	8	Pedro Gois Neves	Portugal	60,000	40

20	1	Patrick Beuter	United Kingdom	105,000	70
20	2	Riccardo Grande Stevens	Italy	90,500	60
20	3	Weiran Pu	China	61,000	41
20	4	Jie Zheng	Ireland	202,500	135
20	6	Antonino Venneri	Italy	21,000	14
20	7	Luis Pinho De Faria	Portugal	57,500	38
20	8	Valentino Konakchiev	Bulgaria	87,000	58

21	2	Attila Zab	Hungary	56,500	38
21	3	Milos Petakovic	Serbia	117,500	78
21	4	Mikael Guenni	France	255,000	170
21	5	Richard Belcastro	Canada	34,500	23
21	6	Laurent Cessy	France	46,000	31
21	7	Justin Bonomo	USA	104,000	69
21	8	Sergiy Dudka	Ukraine	54,500	36

22	2	Kent Roed	Norway	110,500	74
22	3	Alain Riss	France	44,500	30
22	4	Clement Thumy	France	174,000	116
22	5	Julien Stropoli	France	82,500	55
22	6	Todd Peterson	USA	38,000	25
22	7	Nicola Grieco	Italy	325,000	217
22	8	Dario Sammartino	Italy	100,500	67

23	1	Dalibor Mijic	Croatia	130,000	87
23	2	Marcel Jakob	Switzerland	87,500	58
23	3	Alessandro Siena	Italy	28,000	19
23	4	Michael Rodrigues	Portugal	103,000	69
23	6	Olivier Paris	France	60,500	40
23	7	David Vinayagamoorthy	Norway	272,000	181
23	8	Martin Guerrero	Spain	68,500	46

24	1	Darius Gadeikis	Lithuania	197,500	132
24	2	Karoly Odor	Hungary	67,500	45
24	3	Cornelis ten Cate	Netherlands	100,500	67
24	4	Eleftherios Papangelis	Greece	61,000	41
24	6	Stephen Chidwick	United Kingdom	118,000	79
24	7	Dinesh Alt	Switzerland	182,000	121
24	8	Elias Fisz	Netherlands	112,000	75

25	1	Ori Hasson	Israel	112,000	75
25	2	Parker Talbot	Canada	136,000	91
25	3	Timo Isotalo	Finland	171,500	114
25	4	Lazar Bartha	Romania	95,000	63
25	6	Jeffrey Hakim	Lebanon	38,000	25
25	7	Andrei Stoenescu	Romania	165,000	110
25	8	Steve Savio	France	157,000	105

26	1	Aylar Lie	Norway	38,000	25
26	2	Mark Teltscher	United Kingdom	103,000	69
26	3	Ramon Colillas	Spain	104,000	69
26	4	Sebastien Le Baron	France	55,500	37
26	6	Arthur Conan	France	48,000	32
26	7	Axel Hallay	France	72,000	48
26	8	Jimmy Torres Velasquez	Colombia	155,500	104

27	1	Julien Veyssiere	France	49,500	33
27	2	Emre Nuhoglu	Turkey	88,000	59
27	3	Aliaksandr Shylko	Belarus	106,000	71
27	4	Yasuhiro Waki	Japan	42,500	28
27	5	Sachin Joshi	United Kingdom	88,500	59
27	6	David Lascar	France	50,000	33
27	8	Liu Chun Keat	Malaysia	24,000	16

28	2	Erik Seidel	USA	131,000	87
28	3	Moritz Baggenstos	Switzerland	79,500	53
28	4	Francesco Delfoco	Italy	130,000	87
28	5	Javier Gomez	Spain	71,000	47
28	6	Masato Yokosawa	Japan	146,000	97
28	7	Florian Duta	Romania	60,500	40
28	8	Johan Guilbert	France	33,000	22

29	1	Tarmo Tammel	Estonia	117,000	78
29	2	Morgan Aceto	France	63,500	42
29	4	Thiago Crema	Brazil	39,500	26
29	5	Bruno Desimoni Cunha Mota	Brazil	203,500	136
29	6	Zhewen Hu	Hong Kong	54,500	36
29	7	Gerald Karlic	Austria	99,000	66
29	8	Serge Chechin	France	53,000	35

30	1	Nicolas Julien	France	76,000	51
30	2	Tom-Aksel Bedell	Norway	100,500	67
30	3	Victor Vozian	Romania	133,000	89
30	4	Antonio Calabro	Italy	255,000	170
30	6	Patrick Caveriviere	France	41,000	27
30	7	Guillaume Walch	France	42,500	28
30	8	Rui Bouquet	Portugal	29,000	19

31	1	Lim Chin Wei	Malaysia	94,000	63
31	2	Samy Boujmala	France	339,000	226
31	3	Sokratis Linares	Greece	81,000	54
31	4	Nikita Kuznetsov	Russia	71,000	47
31	5	Franz Bracher	Switzerland	23,500	16
31	6	Conor Beresford	United Kingdom	33,000	22
31	8	Aleksandr Volkov	Russia	62,500	42

32	1	Atanas Malinov	Bulgaria	31,000	21
32	2	Daniel Dvoress	Canada	73,000	49
32	3	Mitchell Hynam	United Kingdom	316,000	211
32	5	Dirk Noortman	Netherlands	110,000	73
32	6	Mihai-Emil Isar	Romania	152,500	102
32	7	Marcello Miniucchi	Italy	163,000	109
32	8	Jordan Saccucci	Canada	46,500	31

33	2	Mike Watson	Canada	31,000	21
33	3	Jack O'Neill	United Kingdom	95,000	63
33	4	Francois Pradervand	France	31,000	21
33	5	Stefan Dimitrov	Bulgaria	112,000	75
33	6	Maria Ho	USA	145,000	97
33	7	Volodymyr Drokin	Ukraine	51,500	34
33	8	Killian Kramer	Germany	95,500	64

34	1	Manuel Valduga	Italy	84,000	56
34	2	Bartolomeo Tato	Italy	73,500	49
34	3	Stephen Kehoe	Ireland	119,500	80
34	4	Davidi Kitai	Belgium	124,000	83
34	6	Cedric Schwaederle	France	75,500	50
34	7	Maduka Meragal	Canada	227,000	151
34	8	Giovani Tore	Portugal	108,000	72

35	1	Natan Chauskin	Belarus	142,500	95
35	2	Ian Bradley	United Kingdom	55,000	37
35	3	Romans Lihacovs	Latvia	65,500	44
35	4	Manuel Roca	Spain	61,500	41
35	5	Maher Nouira	Tunisia	120,000	80
35	6	Bruno Lopes	France	66,000	44
35	8	Marco Caza	Canada	45,500	30

36	1	Eduardo Egea Vandepette	Spain	59,500	40
36	3	Robert Spano	Australia	84,000	56
36	4	Maximilian Lehmanski	Germany	57,500	38
36	5	Kelvin Kerber	Brazil	116,000	77
36	6	Mehdi Chaoui	Morocco	45,500	30
36	7	Panagiotis Gavrilidis	Greece	170,500	114
36	8	Pierre Calamusa	France	123,500	82

37	1	Domenico Gala	Italy	177,000	118
37	2	Claudio Di Giacomo	Italy	98,000	65
37	4	Mourad Shaimi	France	154,000	103
37	5	Stephane Gabarre	France	85,500	57
37	6	David Li-Zhenc	France	104,500	70
37	7	Nacho Barbero	Argentina	69,500	46
37	8	Cristian Espineira Larrosa	Spain	115,000	77

38	2	Timothy Adams	Canada	72,000	48
38	3	Jack Germaine	United Kingdom	82,000	55
38	4	Antoine Saout	France	26,500	18
38	5	Adi Rajkovic	Austria	68,000	45
38	6	James Nixon	United Kingdom	67,000	45
38	7	Bogdan Simion	Romania	127,000	85
38	8	Sylvain Loosli	France	61,000	41

39	1	Manig Loeser	Germany	61,500	41
39	2	Alexandre Landron	France	94,500	63
39	3	Gangzhou Hu	France	127,500	85
39	4	Leo Worthington-Leese	United Kingdom	97,500	65
39	5	Eric Sfez	France	43,500	29
39	6	Christophe Panetti	Switzerland	61,500	41
39	8	Eugenio Peralta	Ireland	85,000	57

40	1	Valeriu Ispas	Romania	36,500	24
40	2	Victor Prior Fernandez	Spain	119,000	79
40	4	Besiana Antoni	Albania	35,000	23
40	5	Paolo Boi	Italy	130,000	87
40	6	Andrew Chen	Canada	88,000	59
40	7	Enrico Camosci	Italy	50,000	33
40	8	Nozomu Shimizu	Japan	129,500	86

41	1	Symeon Alexandridis	Greece	114,500	76
41	2	Andriy Lyubovetskiy	Ukraine	176,000	117
41	3	Hayato Kitajima	Japan	75,000	50
41	4	Samuel Ju	Germany	42,000	28
41	5	Joseph Carlino	France	46,500	31
41	6	Francisco Caballo Pena	Spain	70,500	47
41	8	Renzo Plozza Moreno	Sweden	85,000	57

42	1	Julien Martini	France	99,000	66
42	2	Jerome Arnaud	France	38,500	26
42	3	Alessio Di Cesare	Italy	39,500	26
42	4	Tamer Kamel	United Kingdom	122,500	82
42	5	Nathaniel Zerah	France	64,500	43
42	6	Mikhail Nikolaev	Latvia	15,000	10
42	8	Antonio Buonanno	Italy	169,500	113

43	1	Joseph Mouawad	Lebanon	132,000	88
43	2	Marian Cantea	Romania	27,500	18
43	3	Yiannis Liperis	Cyprus	183,000	122
43	4	Pedro Marques	Portugal	97,000	65
43	6	Arsenii Karmatckii	Russia	150,000	100
43	7	Jose Astima	France	231,000	154
43	8	Jean-Vincent Lehut	France	46,000	31

44	1	Iulian-Bogdan Nastase	Romania	58,500	39
44	2	Priit Parmasto	Estonia	60,500	40
44	3	Kevin Abecassis	Switzerland	78,000	52
44	4	Julien Sitbon	France	209,000	139
44	5	Stylianos Kollatos	Greece	40,000	27
44	7	Apoorva Goel	India	31,500	21
44	8	Sonny Franco	France	68,000	45

45	1	Santhosh Suvarna	India	152,000	101
45	2	Jean-Marc Cristiani	France	287,000	191
45	3	Laszlo Molnar	Hungary	110,000	73
45	4	Viacheslav Goryachev	Russia	29,000	19
45	5	Oleg Vasylchenko	Ukraine	74,500	50
45	8	Milen Stefanov	Bulgaria	20,500	14

46	1	Sam Greenwood	Canada	232,500	155
46	2	Carlos Ribeiro	Brazil	134,000	89
46	3	Alessandro Righetti	Italy	104,000	69
46	4	Leon Sturm	Germany	38,000	25
46	5	Patrik Antonius	Finland	53,500	36
46	7	Kenan Taylor	United Kingdom	232,000	155

2023 PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo

2023 PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo

Boujmala & Hynam Lead Heading to Day 2 of €5,300 EPT Main Event

Day 2 Seat Draw