The 2013 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final

Main Event
Day: 4
Event Info

The 2013 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
108
Prize
€1,224,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€10,000
Prize Pool
€5,310,000
Entries
531
Level Info
Level
29
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000

Lodden Leads the Last 34

Johnny Lodden
Johnny Lodden

Day 4 of the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final is set to kick off in 45 minutes or so, and leading the remaining 34 players is Team PokerStars Pro Johnny Lodden. Lodden was the only player to bag more than a million chips at the end of Day 3, and will begin today with 1.232 million. The Norwegian has ninth, 13th, 13th, 17th, and 32nd-place finishes in EPT Main Events, but he has never reached a final table.

Team PokerStars Pros Jake Cody and Jason Mercier, Team PokerStars Online member Mickey Petersen, and Noah Boeken have all made EPT Main Event final tables. In fact, they're all former champions. Cody won EPT6 Deauville, Mercier EPT4 Sanremo, Petersen EPT8 Copenhagen, and Boeken EPT1 Copenhagen. No player has ever repeated as champion in the nine seasons of the European Poker Tour.

Also atop the chip counts are Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu, John Juanda, and Noah Schwartz. Negreanu is on a hot streak, coming off of his win in the first ever World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific Main Event, while Juanda and Schwartz recorded major six-figure scores at the end of 2012. Juanda finished runner-up in the 2012 World Series of Poker Europe €50,000 Majestic High Roller, while Schwartz won the World Poker Tour bestbet Fall Series Main Event.

Of the remaining 34 players, seven represent the red spade. Ville Wahlbeck and Victor Ramdin will join their aforementioned peers on the felt today, making the field 20.5% Team PokerStars.

The cards will be in the air at 15:00 CET, so be sure to stay tuned for all of your up-to-the-minute updates here on PokerNews.

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Day 4 Table and Seat Draw

TableSeatPreferredNameCountryChips
11Gerard GardelliFrance561,000
12Paul VolpeUSA247,000
13Laurent LagreveFrance139,000
14Freddy DeebUSA670,000
15Vasili FirsauBelarus837,000
16Daniel NegreanuCanada684,000
17--empty--  
18John JuandaUSA939,000
     
21Mickey PetersenDenmark362,000
22Johnny LoddenNorway 1,232,000
23--empty--  
24Noah BoekenNetherlands105,000
25Noah SchwartzUSA756,000
26Goran MandicCroatia822,000
27Andreas EilerGermany709,000
28Kevin VandersmissenBelgium214,000
     
31Victor RamdinUSA479,000
32--empty--  
33Luke SchwartzUK188,000
34Mateusz MoolhuizenNetherlands482,000
35Grant LevyAustralia513,000
36--empty--  
37Jason MercierUSA746,000
38Guy GoossensBelgium98,000
     
41Steve O'DwyerUSA963,000
42Ville WahlbeckFinland 228,000
43Patrick NaxacheFrance44,000
44Andrew LichtenbergerUSA512,000
45--empty--  
46Andrew PantlingCanada943,000
47Clyde Tjauw FoeNetherlands363,000
48Giuseppe SammartinoItaly113,000
     
51Ismael BojangAustria186,000
52Didier PitchoFrance156,000
53Jake CodyUK639,000
54Kevin IacofanoUSA131,000
55German Simon DanskerArgentina150,000
56Oleksii KovalchukUkraine327,000
57Conte Francesco PaoloBrazil388,000
58--empty--  

Main Event

Day 4 Started