The Penultimate Day Awaits

Day 5 of 2017 PokerStars Championship presented by Monte-Carlo Casino® Main Event gets underway at 12 am, another day full of poker awaits.

Sixteen players remain in the Main Event, all guaranteed €25,700 at this point, on the verge of making a lot more as €500,800 awaits the winner. That won't happen today, though, as the plan is to play down to 6 players.

When play resumes, 41 minutes remain in level 23 (12,000/24,000 with 4,000 ante). PokerNews will be on the floor from the start until the end. Here's the line up at start of play:

Table	Seat	Name	Country	Chip Count
1	1	Sergio Aido	Spain	693,000
1	2	Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier	France	653,000
1	3	Marius-Catalin Pertea	Romania	1110,000
1	4	Diego Zeiter	Switzerland	1,848,000
1	5	Alexandru Papazian	Romania	1,759,000
1	6	Maxim Panyak	Russia	1,082,000
1	7	Andrey Bondar	Russia	1,283,000
1	8	Dmytro Shuvanov	Ukraine	887,000

2	1	Stefan Schillhabel	Germany	354,000
2	2	Moritz Dietrich	Germany	451,000
2	3	Andreas Klatt	Germany	1,059,000
2	4	Douglas Ferreira Souza	Brazil	536,000
2	5	Davidi Kitai	Belgium	1,536,000
2	6	Raffaele Sorrentino	Italy	1,622,000
2	7	Michael Kolkowicz	France	2,983,000
2	8	Romain Nardin	France	3,956,000