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

23 hours 32 minutes ago

Big Stacks Battle on Table 17

Frank Visser

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

Christophe Panetti opened to 5,000 in the hijack. Raul Mestre called on the button before Ramon Lampert made it 18,000 to go in the big blind. Panetti got out of the way, but Mestre quickly tossed in calling chips.

Mestre then called Lampert's bets of 16,000 on the 4♦Q♥8♣ flop and 47,000 on the 10♦ turn. Lampert slid in a third barrel worth 63,000 on the A♣ river, this time getting rewarded with the pot as Mestre tapped the table and mucked his cards.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ramon Lampert	445,000 30,000	30,000
Raul Mestre	335,000 60,000	60,000

Christophe Panetti	56,000 25,000	25,000

Tags: Christophe Panetti Ramon Lampert Raul Mestre

23 hours 39 minutes ago

Kitai Among Recent Casualties

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Stewart Morrison

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

Player	Chips	Progress
Jon Vallinas	Busted
Fabian Saccomanno	Busted
Chad Lipton	Busted
Vakhstang Javakhishvili	Busted
Jesus Hervas	Busted
Arie Kliper	Busted
Felipe Boianovsky	Busted
Takuma Iwamoto	Busted
Jean Chicheportiche	Busted
Oscar Romero	Busted
Jamil Wakil	Busted
Leonardo Raja	Busted
Silviu Baltateanu	Busted
Jonathan Wahnich	Busted
Jacobus Verberk	Busted
Alexandre Doyer	Busted
Davidi Kitai	Busted

23 hours 45 minutes ago

Wheeler Gets River Value

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Stewart Morrison

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

Seeing a raise to 5,000 ahead of him, Jason Wheeler called in middle position. Next to act, Jeremie Beneteau three-bet to 17,000. The original raiser folded, but Wheeler called for a second time.

Action checked through on the A♠K♦7♣ flop, prompting Wheeler to take over the betting lead on the 5♥ turn. He put 5,000 into the pot, which Beneteau called.

The 4♠ completed the board, and Wheeler put a more substantial 40,000 into the middle. Beneteau called without much hesitation, but was shown bad news.

Wheeler flipped over 7♥7♦ for a set, and Beneteau mucked his hand.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jeremie Beneteau	230,000 60,500	60,500
Jason Wheeler	228,000 68,000	68,000

Tags: Jason Wheeler Jeremie Beneteau

23 hours 51 minutes ago

Shylkou Chips Up Against Chip Leader

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Frank Visser

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

Stanislau Shylkou in the small blind and Rodrigo Selouan in the cutoff had gathered a pot of 48,000 preflop when they both checked the 8♦K♠7♦ flop.

Shylkou then bet 12,000 on the 6♥ turn, which Selouan raised to 45,000. Shylkou called, after which the J♣ river was quickly checked to showdown.

Shylkou tabled A♦K♥ for top pair, and Selouan showed K♣Q♥ before it disappeared into the muck.

Player	Chips	Progress
Rodrigo Selouan	445,000 67,000	67,000

Stanislau Shylkou	320,000 64,000	64,000

Tags: Rodrigo Selouan Stanislau Shylkou

23 hours 56 minutes ago

Vieira Double Barrels

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Stewart Morrison

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

Joao Vieira opened to 5,000 from under the gun, which only Sergiu Sirghi called in the big blind.

When Sirghi checked on the A♣10♦K♠ board, Vieira continued for 4,500, which Sirghi called.

The dealer added the 5♣ turn to the board, and this time, when Vieira put a more substantial 22,500 into the middle, Sirghi surrendered and returned his cards to the dealer.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sergiu Sirghi	154,000 9,000	9,000
Joao Vieira	142,000 9,500	9,500

Tags: Joao Vieira Sergiu Sirghi

1 day ago

Chip Count Updates

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Frank Visser

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

Player	Chips	Progress
Rodrigo Selouan	512,000 112,000	112,000

Ramon Lampert	415,000 60,500	60,500
Stanislav Anufriiev	410,500 22,000	22,000
Raul Mestre	395,000 274,000	274,000

Nikita Kuznetsov	385,000 35,000	35,000
Muhyedine Fares	375,000 238,500	238,500
Eduard Litskan	374,000 258,500	258,500
Leonard Maue	349,000 82,500	82,500
Leonardo Pires	345,500 89,500	89,500
Giuseppe Calio	344,000 121,000	121,000
Mehdi Chaoui	337,000 8,000	8,000

Jose Malpelli	320,000 60,000	60,000
Josep Valls	300,000 43,000	43,000
Benjamin Pollak	298,000 77,000	77,000
Lorenzo Franco	295,000 196,500	196,500
Oshri Lahmani	294,000 133,000	133,000
Jeremie Beneteau	290,500 134,500	134,500
Samuel Ju	280,000 48,000	48,000
Stefan Heizmann	275,000 5,000	5,000
Xavier Cortazar	271,000 55,000	55,000
Nikolaos Mouroutis	270,000 14,000	14,000
Florian Ribouchon	268,000 33,000	33,000
Boris Pesic	264,500 82,500	82,500
Christopher Puetz	261,500 9,500	9,500
Stanislau Shylkou	256,000 51,000	51,000

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Level: 13

Blinds: 1,000/2,500

Ante: 2,500

1 day ago

Flashback: Aleksandr Shevliakov Wins 2025 EPT Monte-Carlo Main Event

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Sandra Barbour

Level 12 : Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

In the movie Rocky IV, Russian boxer Ivan Drago is trained to be a powerful, emotionless fighting machine, showing no mercy towards his opponents. Aleksandr Shevliakov did his best impersonation of his fictional compatriot last year at the final table of the PokerStars European Poker Tour Monte-Carlo Main Event held at Sporting Monte-Carlo.

Shevliakov, barely cracking a smile or displaying any hint of the pressure of the moment, seized the chip lead early and powered through the rest of the final table on his way to hoisting the Golden Shard trophy and taking home the €1,000,000 first prize after defeating Ukrainian amateur Khossein Kokhestani heads-up and conquering the 1,195-player field.

2025 EPT Monte-Carlo Main Event Final Table Results

Place	Player	Country	Earnings
1	Aleksandr Shevliakov	Russia	€1,000,000
2	Khossein Kokhestani	Ukraine	€615,000
3	Boris Angelov	Bulgaria	€439,200
4	Enrico Coppola	Italy	€337,900
5	Mariusz Golinski	Poland	€259,900
6	Jamil Wakil	Canada	€199,750
7	Miguel Capriles	Venezuela	€153,600
8	Leon Zeaiter	Germany	€118,150

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1 day ago

Break Time

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Stewart Morrison

Level 12 : Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

The remaining 204 players are taking their second break of the day.

Play will resume in 20 minutes.

1 day ago

Labat Wins Flip to Double

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Frank Visser

Level 12 : Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Arthur Conan had three-bet an earlier open to 13,000 in the hijack. Thierry Labat then four-bet to 50,000 on the button and quickly called off his total stack of 85,000,

Thierry Labat: J♦J♣ All in
Arthur Conan: A♠K♦