€5,300 Main Event Day 2 | 2026 PokerStars EPT Monte-Carlo

20 hours 50 minutes ago

Romanello Latest to Fall

Stewart Morrison

Level 14 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Roberto Romanello opened to 6,000 from the cutoff and found himself facing a three-bet to 25,000 from Josep Valls in the big blind. Romanello responded by moving all in for 151,000. After confirming the bet size, Valls called, putting Romanello at risk.

Roberto Romanello: A♦K♣ All in
Josep Valls: Q♠Q♦

It would be a flip deciding Romanello's tournament fate, with the money bubble looming large.

There was no help to be found on the 3♦6♣10♦ flop, with the 5♠ turn and 6♠ river also unforthcoming, and, after wishing the table good luck, Romanello departed.

Player	Chips	Progress
Josep Valls	445,000 130,000	130,000
Roberto Romanello	Busted

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20 hours 57 minutes ago

Yamanaka Survives Vital Flip

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Frank Visser

Level 14 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Jorge Ufano Pardo raised it 6,000 in the hijack. Kosumosu Yamanaka then three-bet to 15,000 on the button, and Ufano Pardo four-bet jammed in response.

Yamanaka quickly called off his stack of 64,500, and the cards hit their backs.

Kosumosu Yamanaka: 7♥7♣ All in
Jorge Ufano Pardo: A♣J♠

Yamanaka's pair remained best on the 6♦4♦4♠2♥K♥ board, and he doubled up to a healthy stack of over 40 big blinds.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kosumosu Yamanaka	136,500 69,500	69,500
Jorge Ufano Pardo	65,000 32,000	32,000

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21 hours ago

Bergin Eliminated as Bubble Approaches

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Stewart Morrison

Level 14 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Stefan Dimitrov opened to 6,000 in the hijack and called when Conor Bergin moved all in on the button for 43,500.

Conor Bergin: A♣Q♦ All in
Stefan Dimitrov: 7♥7♦

The deck was unable to save Bergin, as the 2♣K♠J♣3♠5♣ board kept the pocket sevens in the lead, and the tournament moved one spot closer to the money.

Player	Chips	Progress
Stefan Dimitrov	310,000 51,500	51,500
Conor Bergin	Busted

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21 hours 9 minutes ago

Full Pre-Bubble Counts

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Frank Visser

Level 14 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Raul Mestre	630,000 70,000	70,000

Leonard Maue	630,000 281,000	281,000
Mehdi Chaoui	525,000 15,000	15,000

Rodrigo Selouan	493,000 48,000	48,000

Lorenzo Franco	478,500 73,500	73,500
Laurent Polito	472,000 22,000	22,000
Leonardo Pires	455,000 109,500	109,500
Oshri Lahmani	430,000 136,000	136,000
Eduard Litskan	425,000 85,000	85,000
Hamza Nasir	423,000 3,000	3,000
Jose Malpelli	403,500 3,500	3,500
Ramon Lampert	389,000 84,000	84,000
Stanislav Anufriiev	373,000 37,500	37,500
Giuseppe Calio	364,000 20,000	20,000
Muhyedine Fares	360,000
Samuel Ju	334,500 500	500
Benjamin Pollak	328,000 108,000	108,000
Tahar Said	316,000 113,000	113,000
Xavier Cortazar	316,000 45,000	45,000
Josep Valls	315,000 15,000	15,000
Paul Hoefer	312,500 223,500	223,500
Nikita Kuznetsov	311,500 18,500	18,500
Bernhard Binder	305,500 115,500	115,500
Thierry Labat	290,000 110,000	110,000
Kirill Beketov	288,000 51,000	51,000

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Level: 14

Blinds: 1,500/3,000

Ante: 3,000

21 hours 23 minutes ago

PokerStars Revamps Power Path With New $530 Bronze Pass

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Sandra Barbour

Level 13 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

PokerStars has rolled out a major update to its Power Path qualification system, introducing a brand-new $530 Bronze Power Pass as part of a restructure designed to smooth out progression between buy-in levels.

The changes, which came into effect on April 27, leave the upper echelons of Power Path unchanged with the $10,300 Gold Pass and $2,500 Silver Pass both remaining in place, while the main adjustments come further down the ladder, where PokerStars has reshaped its Bronze tier and added a new entry point for lower-stakes players.

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21 hours 28 minutes ago

Break Time

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Frank Visser

Level 13 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

The 167 remaining players are taking their third break of the day.

The action is expected to resume in 20 minutes, with only 16 eliminations to go before reaching the money.

21 hours 28 minutes ago

Pre-Break Eliminations

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Frank Visser

Level 13 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Samantha Abernathy	Busted
Mathew Frankland	Busted
Mikael Guenni	Busted
Anton Kraous	Busted
Armin Seyfi	Busted
Marcelo Bonanata	Busted
Viacheslav Goryachev	Busted
Jun Lin	Busted
Mario Diaz	Busted
Antoine Labat	Busted
Imed Mahmoud	Busted

21 hours 35 minutes ago

Johnson Wins at Showdown

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Stewart Morrison

Level 13 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Keith Johnson raised to 5,500 in early position before calling a three-bet to 15,500 from Morgan Aceto, one seat to his left.

The action checked all the way down on the 2♠8♠6♥J♠K♥ board, and when Johnson flipped over 9♥9♦, Aceto mucked his hand.

Player	Chips	Progress
Keith Johnson	220,000 35,000	35,000
Morgan Aceto	148,000 34,000	34,000

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21 hours 35 minutes ago

Ju Drags Four-Way Pot; Vazquez Dazzles Dizy

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Frank Visser

Level 13 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Mehdi Chaoui made it 5,000 to go under the gun. Nikita Kuznetsov flat-called in the cutoff, and Samuel Ju and Osman Aksu did so in the blinds. The quartet then checked through the J♥2♣7♣ flop, after which Ju bet 5,000 on the 5♠ turn.

Aksu and Chaoui quickly folded, but Kuznetsov had other plans and raised to 17,500. Ju called to the 7♠ river, where the players checked it to showdown. Ju tabled K♦5♦ and won the pot when Kuznetsov tapped the table and mucked his hand.

At an adjacent table, Alejandro Vazquez and Dorian Dizy had gathered a pot of 95,000 when Vazquez bet 23,000 on the Q♦J♥5♠2♣ turn from middle position.

Dizy called on the button, but folded when Vazquez shoved all in for 67,500 on the 7♥ river. Dizy accidentally flipped over his A♥K♦, and Vazquez won the pot without showing his cards.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mehdi Chaoui	540,000 10,000	10,000

Samuel Ju	335,000 25,000	25,000
Nikita Kuznetsov	330,000 55,000	55,000
Alejandro Vazquez	230,000 62,000	62,000
Osman Aksu	161,500 28,500	28,500
Dorian Dizy	130,000 73,000	73,000

Tags: Alejandro Vazquez Dorian Dizy Mehdi Chaoui Nikita Kuznetsov Osman Aksu Samuel Ju