Each table will play five more hands before play concludes for the day.
The 2013 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final
Catch up with some of the side event action that has been taking place here at the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino European Poker Tour Grand Final.
Jesper Onrust wins his second trophy at EPT Monaco. Read about it here.
Aleksei Krylov wins the button, Konstantin Puchkov finishes 3rd. Read more about it here.
Jan Bendik bounding towards the Player of the Year title. Click through for more.
Thomas Couquet catches his first trophy, wins €18,900. More at the PokerStars Blog.
Grant Levy just found himself in an amazing spot as two players moved all in before him while he looked down at pocket kings. Alex Klimashin moved all in for 115,000 and Patrick Naxache moved all in over the top for 365,000. Levy only had to call and he created a three-way all in.
Levy: ![]()
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Alex Klimashin: ![]()
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Patrick Naxache: ![]()
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The board ran out ![]()
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and Levy won a massive pot to put him in the top 10 with just a few hands left in the day. Levy is not an unknown to winning big events as he already has an APPT Sydney and an ANZPT Perth title under his belt. In total Levy has $1,806,832 in live tournament earnings but he's sure to add at least some to that this week!
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
735,000
480,000
|
480,000 |
|
|
55,000
245,000
|
245,000 |
|
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Busted |
A few hands after losing a massive pot against Grant Levy, Patrick Naxache was all in and at risk against him holding ![]()
. Levy was racing with ![]()
, but Naxache flopped a pair when the dealer spread ![]()
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.
Naxache held as the turn and river came
,
respectively, doubling to around 165,000 chips. Levy dropped down to around 630,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
630,000
105,000
|
105,000 |
|
|
165,000
110,000
|
110,000 |
Matthew Ashton open-shoved all in for around 79,000 in early position, and Jake Cody called on the button. The rest of the players folded.
Ashton: ![]()
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Cody: ![]()
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Ashton flopped a flush draw (![]()
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), turned a gut-shot straight draw (
), and bricked on the river (
). He hit the rail, while Cody is up to 740,000 chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
740,000
226,000
|
226,000 |
|
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|
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Busted | |
Jake Cody raised to 17,000 from the cutoff seat, and Gerard Jean Pierre Gardelli called from the button. In the small blind was Dutch player Mateusz Moolhuizen, and he reraised all in for 151,000. Both Cody and Gardelli made the call.
The flop came down ![]()
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, and Cody fired 80,000. Gardelli called.
The turn was the
, and Cody fired again, this time for 100,000. Gardelli gave it up, leaving just Cody to do battle with the at-risk Moolhuizen.
Moolhuizen showed the ![]()
, and Cody held the ![]()
. The river was the
to give Moolhuizen a club flush and successfully triple him up.
Oleksii Kovalchuk was all in for 146,000 with the ![]()
against the ![]()
for Steve O'Dwyer. The flop, turn and river ran out ![]()
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, and Kovalchuk doubled up.
Team PokerStars Pro Ville Wahlbeck just double up on the very last hand of play. Patrick Naxache moved all in from the button for 155,000 and Wahlbeck called from the button.
Wahlbeck: ![]()
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Naxache: ![]()
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The board ran out ![]()
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and Wahlbeck doubled up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
228,000
98,000
|
98,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
44,000
121,000
|
121,000 |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,232,000
73,000
|
73,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
963,000
23,000
|
23,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
943,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
|
|
939,000
148,000
|
148,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
837,000
377,000
|
377,000 |
|
|
822,000
97,000
|
97,000 |
|
|
756,000
19,000
|
19,000 |
|
|
746,000
165,000
|
165,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
709,000
423,000
|
423,000 |
|
|
684,000
46,000
|
46,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
670,000
130,000
|
130,000 |
|
|
639,000
101,000
|
101,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
561,000
19,000
|
19,000 |
|
|
513,000
117,000
|
117,000 |
|
|
512,000
47,000
|
47,000 |
|
|
482,000
272,500
|
272,500 |
|
|
479,000
119,000
|
119,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
388,000
96,000
|
96,000 |
|
|
368,000
48,000
|
48,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
363,000
67,000
|
67,000 |
|
|
327,000
131,000
|
131,000 |
|
|
247,000
203,000
|
203,000 |
|
|
228,000 | |
|
|
||
|
|
214,000
22,000
|
22,000 |
|
|
188,000
57,000
|
57,000 |
The day is over, and Johnny Lodden is the chip leader with 1.232 million.