Main Event Day 2 | The 2013 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final

05-08-2013 04:16 UTC+1

Day 2 Chip Counts (full)

Player	Chips	Progress
Victor Sbrissa	224,800
Noah Schwartz	204,600
Calvin Anderson	198,100
Oleksii Kovalchuk	148,600 3,600	3,600
Andrew Lichtenberger	137,800
Danilo Donnini	137,800
Dan Smith	136,500

Pablo Fernandez	135,900
Victor Ramdin	134,400

Marcin Horecki	134,100

Freddy Deeb	133,900
JC Alvarado	128,500 38,500	38,500
Igor Kurganov	127,900
Arlo Dotson	127,100
Ekrem Sanioglu	126,200
Carlos Egea	124,800 124,800	124,800
Javier Etayo	122,800 122,800	122,800
Vasili Firsau	120,500 120,500	120,500
Dominykas Karmazinas	120,300 9,100	9,100
Jake Cody	119,000

Emin Aghayev	118,800 118,800	118,800
Simon Boss	115,600 115,600	115,600
El Khazen Youssef	111,700
Paul Volpe	110,800
Alex Klimashin	109,600 109,600	109,600

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Main Event

Day 2 Started

05-08-2013 09:02 UTC+1

Table	Seat	Name	Country	Chips
1	1	Mohamed Mamouni	France	49.100
1	2	Mikhail Ustinov	Russia	19.400
1	3	Bryn Kenney	USA	25.600
1	4	Pratyush Buddiga	USA	45.400
1	5	Primoz Adamic	Slovenia	45.400
1	6	Robert Haigh	Germany	23.600
1	7	Dmitry Shchepkin	Russia	82.800
1	8	Andras Nemeth	Hungary	38.100
1	9	Steven Moreau	France	49.800

2	1	Stephane Benadiba	France	38.200
2	2	[Removed:17]	New Zealand	90.200
2	3	Carmelo Menechella	Canada	10.400
2	4	Ognjen Sekularac	Serbia	72.100
2	5	Adrien Allain	France	44.100
2	6	John Juanda	USA	77.700
2	7	Stefan Olofsson	Sweden	74.800
2	8	Ami Barer	Canada	20.400
2	9	Kevin Vandersmissen	Belgium	85.300

3	1	Filippo Candio	Italy	52.700
3	2	Vitaly Zheleztsov	Russia	61.800
3	3	Hannes Speiser	Austria	23.700
3	4	Adrian Mateos Diaz	Spain	34.700
3	5	Tom Marchese	USA	35.300
3	6	Michael Lukas	Poland	71.400
3	7	Dmitry Vitkind	Russia	16.000
3	8	Robertas Vaitkevicius	Lithuania	11.400
3	9	Benny Spindler	Germany	11.000

4	1	Viacheslav Goryachev	Russia	28.900
4	2	Gregory Byard	USA	83.000
4	3	Hugo Pingray	France	105.000
4	4	Conte Francesco Paolo	Brazil	53.000
4	5	Alexander Luber	Germany	39.900
4	6	Panagiotis Gavriilidis	Greece	79.100
4	7	Alec Torelli	USA	84.800
4	8	Simon Boss	Switzerland	115.600
4	9	Danilo Donnini	Italy	137.800

5	1	[Removed:203]	Germany	81.900
5	2	Noah Boeken	Netherlands	74.900
5	3	Kevin Iacofano	UK	36.200
5	4	Aroldo Fioroni	Switzerland	46.700
5	5	JC Alvarado	Mexico	128.500
5	6	Mario Zeljko	Croatia	42.300
5	7	Ronny Voth	Germany	95.500
5	8	Lee Markholt	USA	14.600
5	9	Yury Gulyy	Russia	37.300

6	1	Govert Metaal	Netherlands	51.900
6	2	Chad Brown	USA	61.000
6	3	Mads Amot	Norway	47.000
6	4	Rodrigo Caprioli	Brazil	29.200
6	5	Dan O'Brien	USA	29.800
6	6	David Cowling	Canada	51.900
6	7	Paul Newey	UK	32.500
6	8	Emil Patel	USA	70.700
6	9	Iulian Ruxandescu	Romania	17.900

7	1	Vadzim Markushevski	Belarus	30.800
7	2	Didier Pitcho	France	30.400
7	3	Tatiana Barausova	Russia	57.700
7	4	Clemens Janes	Germany	26.000
7	5	Felipe Ramos	Brazil	62.200
7	6	Bruno Lopes	France	66.000
7	7	Fatima Moreira de Melo	Netherlands	45.100
7	8	Vicky Coren	UK	45.100
7	9	Isaac Haxton	USA	30.600

8	1	Niklas Asplund	Sweden	43.700
8	2	Arlo Dotson	USA	127.100
8	3	Freddy Deeb	USA	133.900
8	4	Annette Obrestad	Norway	56.800
8	5	Roman Szymonowicz	UK	72.700
8	6	Aaron Gustavson	USA	54.400
8	7	Max Silver	UK	42.700
8	8	Gabriel Otranto	Brazil	51.700
8	9	Samir Moukawem	Lebanon	44.700

9	1	German Simon Dansker	Argentina	30.300
9	2	Mikolaj Zawadzki	Poland	16.400
9	3	Marcin Horecki	Poland	134.100
9	4	Laurent Francois Lagreve	France	26.500
9	5	Marc-Andre Ladouceur	Canada	26.400
9	6	Diego Ivan Arbuello	Argentina	41.300
9	7	Hendrik Latz	Germany	95.400
9	8	Jesper Onrust	Netherlands	18.900
9	9	Artak Meyroyan	Russia	28.400

10	1	Craig McCorkell	United Kingdom	75.400
10	2	Kostyantyn Shulga	Ukraine	102.000
10	3	Antonio Matias	Portugal	101.000
10	4	Dominykas Karmazinas	Lithuania	120.300
10	5	Victor Ramdin	USA	134.400
10	6	Randy Lew	USA	24.600
10	7	Steve O'Dwyer	USA	73.500
10	8	Nikolay Zege	Russia	76.800
10	9	Giuseppe Sammartino	Italy	35.100

11	1	Migeon Yann	France	37.000
11	2	Tamer Kamel	UK	97.200
11	3	Dmitrii Grinenko	Russia	108.100
11	4	Bastian Winde Harbo	Norway	48.800
11	5	Arno del Curto	Switzerland	44.900
11	6	George Bogdan Ana	Romania	17.000
11	7	El Khazen Youssef	Lebanon	111.700
11	8	Davidi Kitai	Belgium	88.800
11	9	Johnny Lodden	Norway	47.800

12	1	Luke Schwartz	UK	80.000
12	2	Calvin Anderson	USA	198.100
12	3	charbel salloum	Lebanon	55.000
12	4	Marcel Luske	Netherlands	35.500
12	5	Nicolas Chouity	Lebanon	57.600
12	6	Stephan Kjerstad	Norway	14.300
12	7	Aurelien Guiglini	France	43.200
12	8	Joseph El Khoury	Lebanon	26.600
12	9	Andrew Lichtenberger	USA	137.800

13	1	Pierre Neuville	Belgium	45.900
13	2	Georges Tohme	UK	46.000
13	3	Andreas Vlachos	Greece	91.500
13	4	Yannick Bonnet	France	52.600
13	5	Jason Mercier	USA	48.200
13	6	Daniel Carlsson	Sweden	32.300
13	7	Ilkin Amirov	Azerbaijan	35.000
13	8	Mikita Badziakouski	Belarus	50.100
13	9	Andrew Patrick King	Ireland	75.200

14	1	Michael Friedrich	Switzerland	58.300
14	2	Justin Bonomo	USA	45.900
14	3	Daniel Colman	Canada	48.800
14	5	Yacoub Boukhris	France	81.700
14	6	Ville Mattila	Finland	7.200
14	7	Michael Tureniec	Sweden	28.000
14	8	Ziv Bachar	Israel	83.900
14	9	Jovan Jojic	Serbia	64.600

15	1	Tobias Reinkemeier	Germany	48.400
15	2	Guy Goossens	Belgium	80.800
15	3	Alex Klimashin	Russia	109.600
15	4	Fedor Holz	Germany	15.100
15	5	Robert Auer	Germany	42.000
15	6	Mihai Manole	Romania	40.400
15	7	Andrew Teng	UK	53.900
15	8	Alexander Dovzhenko	Russia	42.000
15	9	Jan Bendik	Slovakia	108.900

16	1	Ander Ramirez	Poland	36.200
16	2	Vasili Firsau	Belarus	120.500
16	3	Rob Yong	UK	62.400
16	4	Leonid Vichman	Canada	67.400
16	5	Joao Nunes	Portugal	37.500
16	6	Pierre Sakr	Lebanon	67.500
16	7	Emile Petit	France	43.900
16	8	Kenny Hallaert	Belgium	44.400
16	9	Mickey Petersen	Denmark	21.900

17	1	Goran Mandic	Croatia	68.300
17	2	Robin Keston	UK	59.000
17	3	Andrey Gulyy	Russia	97.500
17	4	Victor Sbrissa	Brazil	224.800
17	5	Petter Northug	Norway	54.000
17	6	Peter Smurfit	Ireland	17.600
17	7	Roger Tondeur	Switzerland	49.600
17	8	Grant Levy	Australia	104.100
17	9	Ankush Mandavia	USA	83.200

18	1	Angel Guillen	Mexico	68.200
18	2	Pablo Fernandez Campo	UK	135.900
18	3	Konstantin Maslak	Russia	62.500
18	4	Lauri Pesonen	Finland	56.500
18	5	Humberto Brenes	Costa Rica	34.300
18	6	Ramin Hajiyev	Azerbaijan	75.200
18	7	Elisabeth Hille	Norway	33.400
18	8	Zoltan Szabo	Hungary	32.400
18	9	Christopher Frank	Germany	64.100

19	1	Torsten Brinkmann	Germany	47.400
19	2	Artem Litvinov	Russia	65.800
19	3	Konstantin Puchkov	Russia	36.100
19	4	Javier Etayo	Spain	122.800
19	5	Vitalijs Tarhanovs	Latvia	101.600
19	6	Zoltan Purak	Hungary	59.800
19	7	Nikolaus Teichert	Germany	91.200
19	8	Daniel Negreanu	USA	88.600
19	9	Vladimir Troyanovskiy	Russia	57.800

20	1	Toni Judet	Romania	71.000
20	2	Jake Cody	UK	119.000
20	3	Andreas Eiler	Germany	55.900
20	4	Franck Kalfon	France	49.700
20	5	Fowzi Baroukh	UK	49.500
20	6	Tamas Pechtinger	Hungary	32.900
20	7	Kirill Telezhkin	Russia	32.900
20	8	Michael Watson	Canada	62.900
20	9	Ramey Shaio	UK	59.700

21	1	Yakov Onuchin	Russia	38.400
21	2	Gintaras Simaitis	Lithuania	20.500
21	3	Joe Mouawad	Lebanon	48.100
21	4	Pantelis Efthymiou	Greece	49.900
21	5	Robert Zipf	Germany	73.200
21	6	Ignat Liviu	Romania	98.800
21	7	Emin Aghayev	Azerbaijan	118.800
21	8	Max Greenwood	Canada	9.400
21	9	Anatoly Gurtovoy	Russia	66.500

22	1	Scott Palmer	USA	31.600
22	2	Noah Schwartz	USA	204.600
22	3	David Peters	USA	55.100
22	4	Alexander Reard	France	47.900
22	5	Jan Collado	Germany	39.100
22	6	Matthew Ashton	UK	68.200
22	7	Joao Brito	Portugal	90.700
22	8	Bulat Bikmetov	Russia	69.800
22	9	Paul Volpe	USA	110.800

23	1	Ismael Bojang	Austria	66.700
23	2	Benoit GURY	France	12.300
23	3	Victor Shuchleib	Mexico	87.600
23	4	Martin Hanowski	Germany	20.500
23	5	Fiona Gaelle Acerbis	France	81.000
23	6	Karl Andre Oddsen	Norway	60.500
23	7	Mateusz Moolhuizen	Netherlands	54.200
23	8	Nikita Nikolaev	Russia	50.800
23	9	Galen Hall	USA	40.900

24	1	Narendra Banwari	USA	44.200
24	2	Carlos Egea	Spain	124.800
24	3	Emeric Styevlik	Austria	9.900
24	4	Andrew Chen	Canada	48.300
24	5	Oleksii Kovalchuk	Ukraine	148.600
24	6	Anaras Alekberovas	Lithuania	71.800
24	7	Jean-Philippe Rohr	France	62.200
24	8	Giacomo Fundaro	Italy	39.100
24	9	Brendon Rubie	Australia	82.000

25	1	El Amir Ziad Chehab	Lebanon	67.000
25	2	Martin Finger	Germany	13.900
25	3	Peter Akery	UK	22.900
25	4	Andrew Pantling	Canada	64.400
25	5	Henri Chapuis	France	40.100
25	7	Gert Zumkehr	Switzerland	47.400
25	8	Ville Wahlbeck	Finland	30.200
25	9	Barry Greenstein	USA	70.000

26	1	Patrick Sacrispeyre	France	29.600
26	2	Yury Kerzhapkin	Russia	34.800
26	3	Giuseppe Zarbo	Italy	23.100
26	4	georges dib	Lebanon	96.000
26	5	Clyde Tjauw Foe	Netherlands	69.100
26	6	Leo Fernandez	Argentina	75.200
26	7	Flavien Guenan	France	70.500
26	8	Balasz Botond	Hungary	16.100
26	9	Kim Brian	USa	45.800

27	1	Per Ummer	Sweden	41.300
27	2	Gerard Jean Pierre Gardelli	France	40.800
27	3	Senh Ung	UK	55.200
27	4	Frederik Treusch	Germany	55.300
27	5	Elio Fox	USA	58.900
27	6	Walid Bou Habib	Lebanon	56.900
27	7	Miguel Cieri Di Pentima	Venezuela	17.800
27	8	Byron Kaverman	USA	35.900
27	9	Dan Smith	USA	136.500

28	1	Maksim Semisoshenko	Russia	49.000
28	2	David Gent	UK	54.300
28	4	Alex Kravchenko	Russia	81.500
28	5	Timothy Adams	USA	40.200
28	6	Slade Fisher	New Zealand	26.900
28	7	Taylor Paur	USA	81.100
28	8	Mohsin Charania	Canada	51.000
28	9	James Mitchell	UK	81.000

29	1	Igor Kurganov	Germany	127.900
29	2	Siemsens Goswin	Germany	22.000
29	3	Yngve Steen	Norway	36.500
29	4	Sergii Baranov	Ukraine	77.600
29	5	Ekrem Sanioglu	Turkey	126.200
29	6	Ole Schemion	Germany	83.200
29	7	Riccardo D errico	Italy	76.500
29	8	Salvatore Bonavena	Italy	40.300
29	9	Mathew Frankland	UK	108.300

30	1	Manuel Bevand	France	65.400
30	2	Christophe De Meulder	Belgium	38.800
30	3	Marcus Hellner	Sweden	40.800
30	4	Michael Pauker	Belgium	56.600
30	5	David Vamplew	UK	37.100
30	6	Maxi Lehmanski	Germany	25.600
30	7	Luca Pagano	Italy	18.100
30	8	Jacques Zaicik	France	20.100
30	9	Sandiep Khosa	UK	41.600

Welcome Back to the EPT Grand Final, Day 2

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The tournament starts here for most people. You've survived Day 1 and now all your competitors are under one roof and within eyeshot. A total of 531 players took a seat over the course of the two starting flights and 268 players remain for Day 2.

To get through today they will have to survive six more 75-minute levels, before the levels extend to 90 minutes each from Day 3.

Yesterday's chip leader, Victor Sbrissa, is the overall chip leader coming back today with 224,800. He has a talented bunch of players chasing him including Noah Schwartz, Calvin Anderson and Freddy Deeb.

Team PokerStars Pro are still out in force and being represented by Christophe De Meulder, Alex Kravchenko, Leo Fernandez, Barry Greenstein, Ville Wahlbeck, Jake Cody, Toni Judet, Daniel Negreanu, Humberto Brenes, Angel Guillen, Jason Mercier, Marcel Luske, Johnny Lodden, Victor Ramdin, Chad Brown, Vicky Coren, Marcin Horecki along with Randy Lew, Isaac Haxton, Tatiana Barausova and Mickey Petersen from Team Online. Lest us not forget Team PokerStars SportStar Fatima Moreira de Melo!

Play in due to start very shortly at 12pm CET. Join PokerNews back here then.

Level: 9

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 100

05-08-2013 11:09 UTC+1

Shuffle Up and Deal

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Level 9 : 400/800, 100 ante

Cards are in the air for Day 2!

05-08-2013 11:20 UTC+1

Former Copenhagen Champ Very Unlucky

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Remko Rinkema

Level 9 : 400/800, 100 ante

Yacoub Boukhris just ended up getting Michael Tureniec all in for his tournament life. Tureniec started the day with 28,000 chips and was looking to dodge just a few cards.

Yacoub Boukhris:
Michael Tureniec:

The board ran out and the former EPT Copenhagen winner was knocked out.

Player	Chips	Progress
Yacoub Boukhris	110,000 28,300	28,300
Michael Tureniec	Busted

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05-08-2013 11:35 UTC+1

Full House for Anderson

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Donnie Peters

Level 9 : 400/800, 100 ante

Team PokerStars Pro Marcel Luske checked the flop before former EPT Grand Final champion Nicolas Chouity fired 2,100. Behind him, Calvin Anderson raised to 5,000. After Luske folded, Chouity called to see the turn.

The paired the board on the turn, and Chouity checked to his opponent. Anderson wasted little time in firing 7,300. Chouity called.

The river was the , and Chouity checked again. While Chouity had about 43,000 in chips in his stack, Anderson plopped out a bet of 23,000. Chouity looked somewhat pained, but made the call anyway.

Anderson instantly slapped over the for a full house, jacks full of queens, and Chouity mucked.

Player	Chips	Progress
Calvin Anderson	235,000 36,900	36,900
Marcel Luske	38,000 2,500	2,500

Nicolas Chouity	20,000 37,600	37,600

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05-08-2013 11:37 UTC+1

Early Exit For Moreira de Melo

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Remko Rinkema

Level 9 : 400/800, 100 ante

Bruno Lopes raised preflop and Team PokerStars Sports Star Fatima Moreira decided to make the call from his immediate left. PokerStars Team Online Isaac Haxton and Niklas Asplund called as well and four players saw the flop.

The flop brought out and Lopes fired out 3,700 after which Moreira de Melo raised to 7,400. Haxton and Asplund folded quickly after which Lopes moved all in. Moreira de Melo snap-called and the surprising showdown went as following.

Bruno Lopes:
Fatima Moreira de Melo:

The board ran out , and Moreira de Melo was eliminated.

Player	Chips	Progress
Bruno Lopes	120,000 54,000	54,000

Fatima Moreira de Melo	Busted

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05-08-2013 11:38 UTC+1

Rubie Doubles a Shorty

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Level 9 : 400/800, 100 ante

When we arrived at Table 24, a short-stacked Emeric Styevlik was all in with . Brendon Rubie had him at risk with , and the board had just finished . Styevlik was very relived to have made a straight on the turn, but Rubie is still healthy with 62,000 chips.