2025 PokerStars EPT Monte-Carlo

€5,300 Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
2025 PokerStars EPT Monte-Carlo
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
k2
Prize
€1,000,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,300
Prize Pool
€5,795,750
Total Entries
1,195
Level Info
Level
36
Blinds
250,000 / 500,000
Ante
500,000
Players Info - Day 2
Entries
448
Players Left
149
Players Left 1 / 1,195
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Peukert Busts to Navarro

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

Mario Navarro open-raised to 13,000 from late position and Christian Peukert moved all in from the small blind for around 50,000. Navarro called and players flipped their cards.

Christian Peukert: Q9 All in
Mario Navarro: A4

The board ran out K323K and Navarro held with his ace-high and the two pair on board to win the pot, sending Peukert to the exit.

Tags: Christian PeukertMario Navarro

Goeller Makes Big River Call to Position Himself Among Chip Leaders

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

Action was on the river on a board of 310J4Q in an inflated pot worth several hundred thousand chips. Andreas Goeller checked and Antoine Saout pushed all in for 190,000. Goeller went into the tank before making the call.

Saout had A10 for a pair of tens that he'd turned into a bluff. Goeller had AQ for a pair of queens to win the pot, sending Saout to the rail.

Goeller slammed his fists on the table in excitement several times, then got told to calm down by the floor. In any case, he chipped up to over 800,000 and put himself among the chip leaders as Day 2 drew to a close.

Tags: Andreas GoellerAntoine Saout

Cimbolas Runs Into Cristiani's Jacks

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

Matas Cimbolas moved all in for 27,000 from early position and Jean Cristiani called in the cutoff.

Matas Cimbolas: 33 All in
Jean Cristiani: JJ

Cimbolas picked up a straight draw on the 52A flop as he looked to come from behind against Cristiani's jacks, but he improved no further on the 10 turn and 8 river and was sent to the rail.

Tags: Jean CristianiMatas Cimbolas

Hooper Wins a Flip to Bust Kotake

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

Ryo Kotake and Michael Hooper were both sitting on short stacks of around 50,000 as they got their last chips in the middle preflop, Kotake in the cutoff and Hooper from middle position.

Ryo Kotake: 44 All in
Michael Hooper: AK

The K32 flop gave Hooper the lead with a pair of kings, while the rest of the board came Q8 and Kotake was eliminated.

Tags: Michael HooperRyo Kotake

Post-Bubble Bustouts

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

[Removed:547] One of First to Bust After Bubble

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

Hala Karam open-raised to 10,000 from under the gun and [Removed:546] moved all in from the small blind for 42,000. Karam called with the covering stack and players flipped their cards.

[Removed:546]: 99 All in
Hala Karam: AK

It was a classic race and the the board ran out KJ527 to give Karam a pair of kings. She won the pot and [Removed:547] was eliminated just within the money.

Tags: Hala Karam

Antoniou Flops the Joint to Double Off Jungevicius

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

Heads-up on a flop of 695, Kestutis Jungevicius in the small blind moved all in and Andreas Antoniou called for 129,000 under the gun.

Andreas Antoniou: 87 All in
Kestutis Jungevicius: 1010

Jungevicius had an overpair, but Antoniou had flopped the nut straight as the board ran out QJ to earn him a double up.

"Not a bad flop," Antoniou said as the pot was pushed towards him.

Tags: Andreas AntoniouKestutis Jungevicius

Rayon Perez Makes the Nuts to Bust O'Dwyer

Level 15 : Blinds 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
Steve O'Dwyer
Steve O'Dwyer

Steve O'Dwyer moved all in for 55,000 from the big blind and Luis Rayon Perez put him at risk in the cutoff.

Steve O'Dwyer: A9 All in
Luis Rayon Perez: A10

O'Dwyer was dominated and fell further behind on the 1074 flop as Rayon Perez hit top pair. The 7 turn and 9 river improved Rayon Perez to the nut flush and O'Dwyer, the 2013 champion of this event, was sent to the rail.

Tags: Luis Rayon PerezSteve O'Dwyer

Ian Gascoigne Bubbles the EPT Monte-Carlo Main Event

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

Conor Beresford raised to 8,000 in middle position and Ian Gascoigne called in the cutoff.

Beresford checked the A54 flop and Gascoigne bet 20,000. Beresford then raised to 50,000, Gascoigne moved all in for 80,000, and Beresford called.

"I have two fives," Gascoigne said.

"If you really have two fives I'm in really bad shape," Beresford replied.

"I have no pair on the flop," Gascoigne then said.

"Everybody is lying," tablemate Ka Kwan Lau added.

"We're here on the bubble at the EPT Monte-Carlo Main Event, and we have an Englishman all in," Gascoigne then said, doing his best Toby Stone impression as he waited to turn his cards over.

Ian Gascoigne: AQ All in
Conor Beresford: 44

Gascoigne didn't have a set but instead turned over top pair. Beresford, though, had a set of fours and Gascoigne was drawing dead after the J turn. The river was the 10 and Gascoigne was eliminated on the money bubble.

The remaining 175 players are in the money.

Tags: Conor BeresfordIan Gascoigne