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The 2013 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final
Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
The 2013 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€10,000
Prize Pool
€5,310,000
Total Entries
531
Level
29
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 531
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Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
The PokerStars Blog team on the floor hunted Gus Hansen down on his home turf (he lives here in Monte Carlo, not his native Denmark) to find out if he’s going to get involved in the big buy-in cash game. Find out straight from the horse’s mouth here.
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
When we arrived at the table, Sandiep Khosa was all in for his last few thousand holding 
. David "Doc" Sands had him at risk with 
, and held as the board rolled out 
.
Sands chipped up to around 28,000, while Khosa hit the rail.
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
JP Kelly and Vanessa Selbst were hanging out by the 5k turbo tournament rather than sat next to each other in the main room.
"My exit is boring," said Kelly. "But hers is interesting," nodding toward Selbst.
The Team PokerStars Pro elaborated, "I played like a nit all day before I four-bet with ace-king and a player decided to stick 50 big blinds in with queen-eight."
"I wish I'd had a better hand!" added a slightly more sarcastically toned Selbst.
She'll be back in our coverage for the high roller tournaents later in the festival.
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
Tamer Kamel, who made the final table of the EPT London Main Event, limped in from the small blind, and Phil Ivey instantly raised to 1,200 out of the big blind. Kamel called, and the dealer fanned 
.
Kamel checked, Ivey flicked out another 1,200, and Kamel called.
The turn was the 
, Kamel checked again, and Ivey tossed out 3,000. Kamel reached for chips, check-raising to 7,000, and the dealer announced, "Raise."
Ivey perked up.
"Raise," the dealer repeated.
Ivey removed his headphones.
"Raise," the dealer echoed a third and final time.
"Oh," Ivey blurted. "I know."
He put his headphones back on, thought for less than 20 seconds, then slid his cards into the muck.
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
Sound the alarm - Phil Ivey is playing the main event. Now is not the time to panic. NOW is the time to panic. Click through to the PokerStars blog.
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
Gus Hansen never recovered from his precarious position and busted to Xuan Liu.
He moved all in from the cut-off with 
and Liu caled with ace-deuce. Neither player improved on the board.
"That was a quick one!" said Hansen.
"Yeah, and I'm next!" commented Viktor Blom.
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
Ugh busted the #EPTGrandFinal main event :-( lost a big one with a flopped flush vs rivered quads and JT<AK for my last chips...May 07 2013Follow
Atleast I won't have to worry about what to do with all that first prize money :) #EPTGrandFinalMay 07 2013Follow
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
Viktor Blok and Gus Hansen both have very short stacks and are bound to double or bust anytime soon.
Blom is taking the patient approach whereas Hansen is playing as many pots as he can. This tactic saw him hover between seven and ten thousand over the course of two orbits before he dropped down to 2,150 after a clash with Ziv Bachar.
Bachar opened from early position and Hansen defended his big blind to see a 
flop appear. Hansen led for 750 and Bachar called to the 
turn where Hansen checked to him. The Dane got tricky and raised to 2,175 and was called.
On the 
river Hansen checked and tank-called a 2,000 bet. Bachar opened 
and Hansen mucked saying, "Yeah, that was a bad card that ten!"
Most of the table laughed but it's not funny having a liitle more than 2,000 chips in front of you.
