€5,300 EPT Main Event Day 1a | 2024 PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo

04-28-2024 14:34 UTC+2

Top Ten Chip Counts Following Break

Matt Warburton

Level 3 : Blinds 100/300, 300 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Fabrice Maltez	90,000 35,000	35,000
Derk van Luijk	84,100 19,100	19,100

Yauheni Tsiareshchanka	70,500 70,500	70,500
Pavel Marecek	69,000 69,000	69,000
Tudor Zapsa	61,000 17,000	17,000
Gerard Rubiralta	57,500 7,500	7,500
Thomas Boivin	56,500 1,500	1,500
Anton Gililov	56,100 56,100	56,100

Level: 3

Blinds: 100/300

Ante: 300

04-28-2024 14:23 UTC+2

Player	Chips	Progress
Gerard Cortes	65,000 65,000	65,000
Thomas Boivin	55,000 16,000	16,000
Amaury Mamou	50,000 50,000	50,000
Kalidou Sow	45,000 45,000	45,000
Harry Lodge	42,000 12,000	12,000
John Duthie	40,000 10,000	10,000
Tom Middleton	40,000 10,000	10,000

Ankit Ahuja	40,000 37,000	37,000
Dmitrii Prusov	38,000 12,000	12,000
Vivian Saliba	35,000 35,000	35,000
Michel Molenaar	34,000 4,000	4,000
Carl Shaw	32,000 2,000	2,000
Maria Konnikova	30,000

Antonio Buonanno	30,000

Dimitar Danchev	29,000 29,000	29,000

Adrian Mateos	28,000 28,000	28,000

Jack O'Neill	22,000 22,000	22,000
Mark Teltscher	21,000 21,000	21,000

Barny Boatman	20,000 10,000	10,000

Felipe Ketzer	20,000 20,000	20,000
Fabrice Bigot	20,000 10,000	10,000
Jean Ploch	15,000 15,000	15,000
Jason Wheeler	12,000 18,000	18,000
Pierre Calamusa	5,000 25,000	25,000

Players Heading for 25-Minute Break

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Matt Warburton

Level 2 : Blinds 100/200, 200 ante

Players in the EPT Main Event are heading for their first 25-minute break of the day. There are now 220 players registered and the prize pool standas at €1,173,700.

04-28-2024 14:03 UTC+2

Pronilow Gives Ju Some Credit

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David Salituro

Level 2 : Blinds 100/200, 200 ante

With 6,000 in the pot, Marc Pronilow, Samuel Ju, and Ian Hamilton went three-handed to a flop of 7♦8♦Q♥.

All three players checked to the 8♣ turn, where Pronilow bet 3,600. Ju then raised to 8,000.

Hamilton quickly folded, but Pronilow tanked for a minute before he also folded.

Nina Krasilnikova arrived at the table during the hand and introduced herself to each of her tablemates. "Smile," she told Pronilow.

"I am smiling. I couldn't have wished for a better day," Pronilow replied. "I gave you a lot of credit there," he told Ju who raked in the pot uncontested.

Player	Chips	Progress
Samuel Ju	40,000 3,000	3,000
Ian Hamilton	40,000 10,000	10,000

Marc Pronilow	30,000 5,000	5,000

Tags: Ian Hamilton Marc Pronilow Samuel Ju

04-28-2024 14:03 UTC+2

Ensan Makes Nut Straight

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Matt Warburton

Level 2 : Blinds 100/200, 200 ante

Felipe Fontaura Ketzer raised to 500 from under the gun and picked up a late position call. Mallory Frere called on the button and Hossein Ensan called in the big blind.

The flop came 4♦3♠10♦ and all four players checked. The turn came the 5♥ and Ensan, the under the gun led out for 1,200. Only Frere made the call.

The river was the A♥ and Ensan bet out again, this time for 4,000. Frere flicked out a chip to signify the call. Ensan showed 7♦6♣ for the nut straight and Frere mucked his hand.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mallory Frere	41,000
Hossein Ensan	26,000 4,000	4,000

Tags: Felipe Fontaura Ketzer Hossein Ensan Mallory Frere

04-28-2024 14:01 UTC+2

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Josh Noy

Level 2 : Blinds 100/200, 200 ante

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04-28-2024 13:59 UTC+2

A Tale of Kings, Aces, and Tens

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Sava Krink

Level 2 : Blinds 100/200, 200 ante

On the 5♥10♦10♠ flop, with 6,000 already in the pot, Priit Parmasto opened from the button with a bet of 1,600. Yunsheng Sun, seated under the gun, and [Removed:467] in the cutoff, both opted to check-call.

The turn revealed the 2♥, prompting Parmasto to assert his position with a bet of 3,500. Sun folded, but Al Sayegh responded with a check-raise to 7,000, which Parmasto called.

When the A♠ appeared on the river, Al Sayegh confidently went all-in with his last 9,200, prompting Parmasto to fold.

"Are you not afraid of aces?" Parmasto inquired, with a neighbor on his left concurring, "That's what I thought too."

Al Sayegh simply smiled and asked, "What did you have?"

"Kings," Parmasto confessed.

"Oh, wow," Al Sayegh remarked.

A few hands earlier, there was notable action on the 10♠7♥6♦10♦6♣ board, where Parmasto secured a significant pot with J♣10♥ against A♣A♦.

"Tens are running hot at this table," Parmasto remarked, "But this time not in my favor," assuming his opponent had a ten.

Player	Chips	Progress
[Removed:467]	34,000 34,000	34,000
Priit Parmasto	33,500 33,500	33,500

Tags: Priit Parmasto Yunsheng Sun

04-28-2024 13:46 UTC+2

Toma Shoves Into Van Luijk's Aces

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David Salituro

Level 2 : Blinds 100/200, 200 ante

Tsugunari Toma had a raise of 2,000 in front of him from the cutoff before Derk van Luijk reraised to 8,000 in the small blind. Toma called and they saw a flop of 10♠3♠8♣.

Van Luijk then bet 22,000 and Toma moved all in for around 25,000. Van Luijk snap-called.

Tsugunari Toma: 3♣2♣ All in
Derk van Luijk: A♦A♣

Some shocked gasps arose from the table when Toma revealed his cards. The A♥ fell on the turn to give van Luijk top set and Toma was already drawing dead by the 7♣ river.

"I did not expect that," van Luijk said as he stacked up the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Derk van Luijk	65,000 32,000	32,000

Tsugunari Toma	Busted

Tags: Derk van Luijk Tsugunari Toma

04-28-2024 13:34 UTC+2

Zapsa Shoves River After Gianoli Bets Three Streets

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Matt Warburton

Level 2 : Blinds 100/200, 200 ante

Tudor Zapsa open raised from late position and picked up two calls before Juan Cruz Gianoli three-bet to 3,000 from the big blind. Zapsa called and the rest of the table folded.

The flop came 8♠5♣Q♥ and Gianoli made a continuation bet of 2,300, which Zapsa called. The turn came the 7♠ and Gianoli led again for 6,000. Zapsa once again called.

On the Q♣ river, Gianoli took his sweet time before betting out for 6,000. Zapsa came in with a shove and Gianoli's cards were in the muck before the chips were even in the middle, giving Zapsa the pot.