€5,300 Main Event Day 3 | 2026 PokerStars EPT Monte-Carlo

18 hours 31 minutes ago

Hovhannisyan Left with Crumbs, Avoids Big Blind

Stewart Morrison

Level 18 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Under the gun, Emanvel Hovhannisyan moved all in for 85,000, only receiving action from Vid Zagar, who called off his remaining 73,000.

Vid Zagar: 10♦10♣ All in
Emanvel Hovhannisyan: K♦Q♠

The pocket tens held as the board ran out 6♠4♦2♥9♥3♠.

Just as Hovhannisyan had put what was left of his stack in to cover the big blind and ante, the tournament floor gave him a reprieve, as they moved him to another table.

Player	Chips	Progress
Vid Zagar	166,000 93,000	93,000
Emanvel Hovhannisyan	12,000 138,000	138,000

Tags: Emanvel Hovhannisyan Vid Zagar

18 hours 36 minutes ago

Litskan and Smajd Exit in Back-to-Back Hands

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Frank Visser

Level 18 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Eduard Litskan shoved in roughly 120,000 preflop for an all-in bet, and Stanislau Shylkou called him.

Eduard Litskan: 10♠10♦ All in
Stanislau Shylkou: A♥K♥

Shylkou paired up on the 3♦A♣9♥ flop, and neither the 5♦ turn nor Q♠ river could save Litskan's tens.

Litskan had not yet departed the table when Anze Smajd also lost his remaining chips in the very next hand, while Charles La Boissonniere was eliminated at another table not much later.

Player	Chips	Progress
Stanislau Shylkou	435,000 115,000	115,000
Eduard Litskan	Busted
Anze Smajd	Busted
Charles La Boissonniere	Busted

Tags: Anze Smajd Charles La Boissonniere Eduard Litskan Stanislau Shylkou

18 hours 37 minutes ago

Blaison Wins Flip to Double

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Stewart Morrison

Level 18 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

When the action folded to Hugo Blaison in the cutoff, he moved all in for 60,000. Next to act, Vid Zagar also moved all in for 143,000. The players in the blinds folded, and the cards were revealed.

Hugo Blaison: K♣J♠ All in
Vid Zagar: 9♠9♣

The jack-high 4♦J♣5♦ flop saw Blaison take the lead, and it remained that way on the 5♠ turn and 7♣ river.

Player	Chips	Progress
Hugo Blaison	140,000 66,000	66,000
Vid Zagar	73,000 64,000	64,000

Tags: Hugo Blaison Vid Zagar

18 hours 46 minutes ago

Smajd Moves In

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Frank Visser

Level 18 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Paraskevas Tsokaridis raised to 16,000 in early position. Anze Smajd flat-called in the next seat over, and Eduard Litskan joined in on the button. The trio then checked through the K♥8♠4♣ flop, leading to the 5♥ appearing on the turn.

Tsokaridis then bet 23,000, Smajd called, and Litskan folded. The 7♣ river slowed Tsokaridis down as he checked it over to his opponent.

Smajd spent some time before going all in, covering his opponent's stack of 113,000. Tsokaridis quickly folded, leaving himself with less than 15 big blinds.

Player	Chips	Progress
Anze Smajd	265,000 55,000	55,000
Eduard Litskan	120,000 35,000	35,000
Paraskevas Tsokaridis	113,000 71,000	71,000

Tags: Anze Smajd Big Blinds Eduard Litskan Paraskevas Tsokaridis

18 hours 47 minutes ago

Heath Among Latest Casualties

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Stewart Morrison

Level 18 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Ben Heath	Busted
David Lappin	Busted

Claudio Di Giacomo	Busted
Nacho Barbero	Busted

18 hours 56 minutes ago

Ye Eliminated One from Pay Jump

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Stewart Morrison

Level 18 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Keith Johnson raised to 16,000 in the hijack, and both Jose Malpelli in the cutoff and Yi Ye in the big blind called.

Ye checked to Johnson, who bet another 16,000 on the 10♣9♦7♦ flop. Malpelli called again, and Ye then went into the tank.

With less than one big blind in her stack, but with the tournament poised on a pay jump, Ye spread all her time extensions out in front of her. One by one, the dealer took them, before Ye then put her 7,000 into the middle.

The Q♥ turn card joined the board, and Johnson check-folded to a bet of 25,000.

Yi Ye: K♣6♣ All in
Jose Malpelli: 3♠3♦

The pocket threes held up on the 5♥ river, and Ye was eliminated.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jose Malpelli	845,000 55,000	55,000
Keith Johnson	274,000 33,000	33,000
Yi Ye	Busted

Tags: Jose Malpelli Keith Johnson Yi Ye

19 hours 1 minute ago

Pedrotti Doubles as Said Hero-Calls With King-High

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Frank Visser

Level 18 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Seeing the completed board of A♦5♦4♠2♣9♥, with around 200,000 in the pot, Tahar Said checked under the gun before Renzo Pedrotti moved all in for 158,000 in the hijack.

Said went deep into the tank, spending several time banks before flicking in a calling chip. Pedrotti tabled J♠J♦ for a pair of jacks, which won him the pot, as Said had put his opponent on pure air and called with K♣10♥.

Player	Chips	Progress
Renzo Pedrotti	530,000 269,000	269,000
Tahar Said	230,000 265,000	265,000

Tags: Renzo Pedrotti Tahar Said

19 hours 14 minutes ago

Updated Counts

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Frank Visser

Level 18 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Thomas Eychenne	1,200,000 51,000	51,000

Diego Zeiter	1,136,000 151,000	151,000
Raul Mestre	1,085,000 125,000	125,000

Leonard Maue	1,019,000 284,000	284,000
Ognyan Dimov	933,000 17,000	17,000

Stanislav Anufriiev	878,000 205,000	205,000
Artsiom Lasouski	860,000 11,000	11,000
Jose Malpelli	790,000 204,000	204,000
Bernhard Binder	733,000 22,000	22,000
Oshri Lahmani	730,000 135,000	135,000
Longmao Fan	720,000 15,000	15,000
Yurii Zabrodotskyi	705,000 198,000	198,000
Boris Pesic	676,000 88,000	88,000
Boris Kolev	630,000 35,000	35,000
Muhyedine Fares	602,000 20,000	20,000
Cedric Schwaederle	562,000 82,000	82,000
Lorenzo Franco	544,000 99,000	99,000
Nikita Kuznetsov	538,000 166,000	166,000
Laurent Polito	522,000 162,000	162,000
Dorian Dizy	519,000 157,000	157,000
Hamza Nasir	515,000 85,000	85,000
Tahar Said	495,000 168,000	168,000
Andras Nemeth	485,000 1,000	1,000
Jeremie Beneteau	484,000 12,000	12,000
Lucas Blanco	462,000 2,000	2,000

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Level: 18

Blinds: 4,000/8,000

Ante: 8,000

19 hours 21 minutes ago

Should You Be Worried to Play on this Online Poker Site? | PokerNews Podcast #963

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Chad Holloway

Level 17 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

In the 963rd episode of the PokerNews Podcast, Chad Holloway, Mike Holtz, and Ben Ludlow are back to talk about the recent concerns and unanswered questions surrounding CoinPoker. The offshore site has come under fire for deceptive and unclear marketing, as well as concerns over player funds. Poker pro Manig Loeser recently spoke out about them, and there's been mounting pressure on social media from the likes of Pokerbots1 and Todd Witteles accounts.

The crew also takes a look at the set-over-set cooler that benefited Alan Keating in a $1.2M pot, poker thriving in Texas with the WSOP Circuit at TCH, and the High Roller for One Drop at the EPT Monte Carlo. Speaking of big tournament series, PokerNews is on-site in the southern hemisphere at the recently relaunched Aussie Millions. Chad turned to his colleagues in the land down under for an update on all things Aussie Millions.

Finally, mark your calendar for the upcoming Mixed Game Festival XIV, which will kick off at the end of the month and continue into the summer.

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