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Level 17
: Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante
The remaining 74 players are taking their third break of the day.
Action is scheduled to resume in 20 minutes.
2026 PokerStars EPT Monte-Carlo
€5,300 Main Event
Day: 3
Players Left 48 / 1,011
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Level 17
: Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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Busted | |
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Busted |
Level 17
: Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante
Big blind Sergiu Sirghi, Andras Nemeth in the hijack, and Ben Heath on the button got all their chips in the middle preflop. Sirghi played 69,000, and Nemeth was at risk against Heath for his stack of 311,000.
Sergiu Sirghi: A♦K♦ 
Andras Nemeth: A♠A♣
Ben Heath: J♠J♥
Sirghi flopped the nut flush on 6♦8♦5♦. The 5♣ turn gave both Nemeth and Heath outs, but the river fell the innocuous 7♠, deciding the pot in Sirghi's favor.
He tripled up to a stack of around 35 big blinds, while Nemeth shipped the big side pot with his aces. Heath paid both opponents and was left with just over 20 big blinds heading into the break.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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484,000
130,000
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130,000 |
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216,000
146,000
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146,000 |
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125,000
405,000
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405,000 |
Level 17
: Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante
David Lappin opened to 12,000 in middle position, which gathered calls from Ognyan Dimov on the button and Ori Miller in the big blind.
Action checked through on the J♥A♠5♦ flop, and the 10♦ turn joined the board.
Miller and Lappin both checked for a second time, prompting Dimov to bet 15,000. Miller folded, but Lappin called.
The river Q♥ brought a one-liner to a straight, and Lappin opted to lead out with a bet of 21,000. Dimov responded by min-raising to 42,000.
Lappin used a time extension to contemplate his response, ultimately electing to fold.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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950,000
272,000
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272,000 |
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205,000
29,000
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29,000 |
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120,000
87,000
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87,000 |
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Level 17
: Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante
Three-way to the K♣K♥9♣ flop, Mehdi Chaoui bet 13,000 under the gun. Samuel Ju called in the cutoff before Leonard Maue raised to 35,000 on the button. Chaoui obliged with a call, but Ju mucked his cards to get out of the way.
The 2♥ fell on the turn. Chaoui checked it over to Maue, who sized up to 110,000.
"Crazy, I put you on deuces, and a deuce falls on the turn," Chaoui said with a smile.
He then folded his hand, forfeiting the pot to Maue. Maue tabled the 7♦ as he raked in the chips, proving Chaoui wrong.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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735,000
285,000
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285,000 |
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515,000
110,000
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110,000 |
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325,000
125,000
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125,000 |
Level 17
: Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante
Catching the tail end of a pot between Andrei Shmakov in the big blind and Bernhard Binder in the cutoff, Shmakov bet 51,000 into a pot of 140,000 on the completed 9♠Q♠4♣4♠5♥ board.
Binder spent some time in the tank before he moved all in, covering Shmakov's stack of 176,000. Shmakov gave it some thought before he mucked his cards, leaving himself with roughly 20 big blinds.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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711,000
156,000
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156,000 |
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595,000
45,000
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45,000 |
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460,000
100,000
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100,000 |
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400,000
76,000
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76,000 |
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315,000
151,000
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151,000 |
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275,000
11,000
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11,000 |
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125,000
22,000
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22,000 |
|
90,000
34,000
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34,000 |
Level 17
: Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante
Jason Wheeler opened the action with a raise to 12,000 in middle position. Sergiu Sirghi called in the cutoff, which enticed Laurent Polito to come along in the big blind.
Wheeler continued for 16,000 on the K♣A♥J♣ flop, which saw Sirghi fold, and Polito call to see a turn card.
That turn card was the flush-completing 3♣. Polito checked a second time, and on this occasion, folded when Wheeler continued with a bet of 29,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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360,000
48,000
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48,000 |
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218,000
53,000
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53,000 |
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70,000
21,000
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21,000 |
Level 17
: Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante
A blind-on-blind pot had grown to 60,000 preflop when Jeremie Beneteau bet 21,000 from the small blind on the 2♥5♣9♦ flop. Miroslav Rizov was in the big blind and raised to 65,000, to which Beneteau obliged with a call.
The 7♠ turn then checked through to the 9♠ river. Beneteau moved all in for 141,000, sending Rizov in the tank. After spending three time banks, Rizov cut out calling chips and slammed them in the middle.
Benetau tabled 2♦2♣ for a full house, besting the trip nines of Rizov, who tabled 9♣6♠ before seeing his former chips being added to Beneteau's stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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735,000
116,000
|
116,000 |
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472,000
198,000
|
198,000 |
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130,000
273,000
|
273,000 |
|
95,000
3,000
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3,000 |
Level 17
: Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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Busted | |
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Busted |
Level 17
: Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante
First to act, Oshri Lahmani raised to 13,000 from under the gun. The action folded all the way around to Eduard Litskan in the big blind, who called.
Litskan checked over to the preflop aggressor on the 7♠5♥Q♥ flop, who bet 10,000, and Litskan called.
The action checked through on the 3♣ turn, prompting Litskan to lead out for 20,000 on the A♠ river.
Lahmani called and flipped over A♣9♣, which was good enough to beat the Q♦4♦ of Litskan.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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595,000
170,000
|
170,000 |
|
175,000
188,000
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188,000 |
