2024 PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo

€10,200 Mystery Bounty
Day: 1
Event Info

2024 PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
q10
Prize
€116,800
Event Info
Buy-in
€10,200
Prize Pool
€437,100
Entries
93
Level Info
Level
27
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
200,000
Players Info - Day 1
Entries
69
Players Left
39

Vlad Martynenko and Thomas Santerne Bag Top Stacks in Day 1 of the PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo €10,200 Mystery Bounty

Level 8 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante
Thomas Santerne
Thomas Santerne

Play has finished for the day here at the Sporting Monte-Carlo in Day 1 of the 2024 PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Monte Carlo €10,200 Mystery Bounty and Vlad Martynenko is the chip leader with a stack of 436,500 heading into Day 2.

Martynenko won the 2021 GGPoker WSOP Online Bracelet Event in the $1,500 FIFTY STACK No-Limit Hold'em and is looking to build on that bracelet win with an EPT title. In second place is Thomas Santerne with 428,000 chips. The Frenchman is looking for his second EPT title in as he claimed the €50,000 EPT Super High Roller at EPT Paris in February for €889,480. Rounding out the top three is Kazuhiko Yotsushika. He bagged a stack of 414,000 heading into Day 2 and is looking to add to his $2,485,013 in live tournament earnings.

Top 10 Chip Counts

RankNameCountryChip Count 
1Vlad MartynenkoUkraine436,500 
2Thomas SanterneFrance428,000 
3Kazuhiko YotsushikaJapan414,000 
4Vicente DelgadoSpain400,000 
5Aliaksei BoikaBelarus392,500 
6Alejandro LococoArgentina310,000 
7Alex KulevBulgaria291,500 
8Damian SalasArgentina272,500 
9Jon VallinasSpain265,000 
10Thomas BoivinBelgium247,500 
Kazuhiko Yotsushika
Kazuhiko Yotsushika

Other notable players to be bagging a stack outside of the top 10 are PokerStars Ambassador Sam Grafton who bagged 150,500, Ole Schemion who has 112,000 and Adrian Mateos who has 111,000.

The current prize pool stands at €324,300 but expect that to increase as more players will register before the end of the registration period which ends at the end of Level 10 tomorrow.

Day 2 starts at 12.30p.m. local time tomorrow with the blinds at 1,500/3,000 with a 3,000 big blind ante. At the start of level 13, a Mystery Bounty token will be awarded to each remaining player and players who eliminate other players will collect the Mystery Bounty Token from the eliminated player.

As always, stay tuned to PokerNews for continued coverage of this €10,200 Mystery Bounty here at EPT Monte Carlo.

Tags: Adrian MateosAlejandro LococoAlex KulevAliaksei BoikaJon VallinasOle SchemionSam GraftonThomas SanterneVicente DelgadoVlad Martynenko

Day 1 of the €10,200 Mystery Bounty at EPT Monte Carlo Starts Tonight

Sam Grafton
Sam Grafton

The first bounty-based tournament of the 2024 PokerStars European Poker Tour Monte Carlo kicks off tonight with the €10,200 Mystery Bounty at Sporting Monte-Carlo, here in the glamourous principality of Monaco.

This three-day event, starting at 7 p.m. local time, is sure to see plenty of action and bounties galore, with players battling it out for chips and tokens to reveal a selection of mystery bounties.

Triumphant in this event last year was PokerStars Ambassador Sam Grafton, who defeated a field of 74 to win €145,400, including bounties. He defeated Sam Greenwood in heads-up play, overcoming a huge chip deficit in the process.

Earlier this year at EPT Paris, it was Dutchman Duco Ten Haven who scooped a total score of €244,000. He pulled one of the €50,000 bounties and defeated Quan Zhou heads-up, scoring €126,500 for first place and his first EPT title.

Duco Ten Haven
Duco Ten Haven

Action commences with blinds at 500/1,000 with a 1,000 big blind ante. Eight 30-minute levels will be played this evening, with each player getting a stack of 100,000 chips. There will be one 20 minute break at the end of Level 4.

Late registration remains open until the end of Level 10, approximately one hour into play on Day 2. Mystery bounty tokens will be awarded to each remaining player at the start of Level 13 and all tokens must be claimed at the end of the tournament.

Stay tuned as PokerNews will be bringing you all the action and updates from here on the French Riviera at EPT Monte Carlo.

Tags: Duco Ten HavenQuan ZhouSam GraftonSam Greenwood