Petrangelo Leads; Antonius and Negreanu with Big Stacks - Bubble Bursts on Day 2
Day 2 of the 2017 PokerStars Championship presented by Monte-Carlo Casino €5,300 Main Event® saw another 11 players buy in with a fresh stack to create a 727-entry strong field. The total prize pool was set with €3,525,950 and the top 143 players were guaranteed a minimum cash of €7,580. However, all eyes are set on the first-place payout of €500,800, coveted golden trophy and title of first ever PokerStars Championship Main Event winner on European soil.
Six levels of 75 minutes each were scheduled and that's how long it took to let the money bubble burst. It was Salvatore Candido Graziano who lost a flip with pocket queens against the ace-king suited of Davidi Kitai in a battle of the blinds to become the last player to leave empty-handed. Another nine players then ran out of chips during the last four hands, reducing the field to the last 134 hopefuls.
Among those were James Mitchell, Peter Eichhardt, PokerStars Team Pro Jason Mercier, Byron Kaverman, Ryan Franklin and the only ever two-time European Poker Tour Main Event champion Victoria Coren Mitchell. Mercier cold four-bet shoved for around 40 big blinds with pocket tens and three-bettor Douglas Ferreira Souza called with ace-king suited to spike an ace on the flop.
Ultimately, it was High Roller regular Nick Petrangelo who ended up on top with a massive stack of 562,000. Other big stacks and notables included Michael Kolkowicz (470,500), Patrik Antonius (452,200), Faraz Jaka (416,500) Mark Teltscher (408,000), Stefan Schillhabel (402,000) Sebastian Malec (382,500), Andreas Klatt (375,000), Fabrice Soulier (364,500), Dan Smith (333,000), Manig Loeser (323,500) and Hossein Ensan (290,000). Start-of-the-day chip leader Jeff Hakim was among the bigger stacks for most of the day and eventually bagged up 350,000.
Malec is a former EPT Main Event champion and claimed the title in Barcelona last year in one of the most epic final hands, scooping the trophy and a payday of €1,122,800. Klatt is looking to make history here in “Le Sporting” after taking down the 1,252-entry strong €1,100 National Championship Main Event just yesterday.
Four PokerStars Team Pros made it through to Day 3: Daniel Negreanu (300,000), Celina Lin (200,500), Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier (121,500) and Liv Boeree (63,500).
Among those who entered before the start were Luke Schwartz, Dario Sammartino, Jussi Nevanlinna, Byron Kaverman, Timothy Adams and Team PokerStars Pro Randy "nanonoko" Lew. However, Lew's appearance didn't last very long as he was eliminated during the first level of the day when running with pocket queens into pocket kings.
The Red Spade also had to wave goodbye to Igor Kurganov and Fatima Moreira de Melo before the money bubble burst. Kurganov fell to Christoph Vogelsang after the German check-called a river-shove in a limped pot with six-deuce for just bottom pair, and Kurganov was caught with the fingers in the cookie jar, tabling only queen-nine suited for a bluff. Moreira de Melo lost a flip with king-queen suited against the pocket tens of Faraz Jaka.
Other notables to bow out throughout the six levels included Steve O'Dwyer, Ole Schemion, Jean Montury, Charlie Carrel, Andrew Chen, 2016 EPT Grand-Final runner up Adrian Allain, Keven Stammen, Gaelle Baumann, Timothy Adams and €50,000 Single-Day High Roller champion Adrian Mateos. O'Dwyer departed in the first level of the day when his flush draw and gutshot didn't get there against the flopped set of Paul-Francois Tedeschi in a four-way limped pot.
The remaining 134 players will return tomorrow at 12 p.m. noon local time to the play five levels of 90 minutes each with a break every level, and the action recommences with blinds of 2,000/4,000 and a running ante of 500. The PokerNews live reporting team will be there to provide the action from the floor until a winner is crowned on Friday, May 5th 2017.
Main Event Day 3 Seat Draw
| Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Preben Stokkan | Norway | 80,500 |
| 1 | 2 | Remi Castaignon | France | 275,000 |
| 1 | 3 | Vasyl Zabrodskyy | Ukraine | 185,500 |
| 1 | 4 | Makram Saber | Lebanon | 115,000 |
| 1 | 5 | Tom-Aksel Bedell | Norway | 263,500 |
| 1 | 6 | Alexander Debus | Germany | 128,500 |
| 1 | 7 | Lee Hon Cheong | Hong Kong | 118,000 |
| 1 | 8 | Karen Oliver | UK | 26,000 |
| 2 | 1 | Cosmin Mihai Petrica | Romania | 96,000 |
| 2 | 2 | Jose Gonzales | Argentina | 175,000 |
| 2 | 4 | Martin Jacobson | Sweden | 53,500 |
| 2 | 5 | Shijirbaatar Sanjaasuren | Mongolia | 333,000 |
| 2 | 6 | Chunjie Liu | China | 86,000 |
| 2 | 7 | Nick Petrangelo | USA | 562,000 |
| 2 | 8 | Alexandru Papazian | Romania | 222,500 |
| 3 | 1 | Robert Pankowski | Poland | 100,000 |
| 3 | 2 | Michael Kolkowicz | France | 470,500 |
| 3 | 3 | Geoffroy Combette | France | 162,500 |
| 3 | 4 | Vasileios Charalampakis | Greece | 41,500 |
| 3 | 5 | [Removed:43] | France | 121,500 |
| 3 | 6 | Francesco Favia | Italy | 201,000 |
| 3 | 7 | Johan Guilbert | France | 85,000 |
| 3 | 8 | Raffaele Sorrentino | Italy | 243,500 |
| 4 | 1 | Luiz Duarte | USA | 166,500 |
| 4 | 2 | Marcin Dziembala | Poland | 29,000 |
| 4 | 3 | Andrey Bondar | Russian Federation | 130,500 |
| 4 | 4 | Paul-Francois Tedeschi | France | 139,000 |
| 4 | 5 | Fabrice Soulier | France | 364,500 |
| 4 | 6 | Ian Gillespie | USA | 27,000 |
| 4 | 7 | Thiago Crema | Brazil | 193,000 |
| 4 | 8 | Waldemar Nowak | Poland | 66,000 |
| 5 | 1 | Dan Smith | USA | 333,000 |
| 5 | 2 | Ariel Malnik | Lithuania | 49,000 |
| 5 | 3 | Luke Cerklewicz | UK | 58,500 |
| 5 | 4 | Daniel Dvoress | Canada | 150,000 |
| 5 | 5 | Ke Chen | China | 118,500 |
| 5 | 6 | Jan Bendik | Slovakia | 50,500 |
| 5 | 7 | Anton Hrabchak | Ukraine | 85,000 |
| 5 | 8 | Alexandre Luneau | France | 42,000 |
| 6 | 1 | Daniel Negreanu | Canada | 300,000 |
| 6 | 2 | Raffaello Locatelli | Italy | 135,000 |
| 6 | 3 | "Bertrand ""ElkY"" Grospellier" | France | 121,500 |
| 6 | 4 | Clemente Malheiro Carreira | Portugal | 125,000 |
| 6 | 5 | Allan Dyrstad | Norway | 54,000 |
| 6 | 6 | Martin Lunde | Norway | 30,000 |
| 6 | 7 | Michel Pereira Marques | Brazil | 132,000 |
| 6 | 8 | Thomas Popov | Canada | 26,500 |
| 7 | 1 | Andreas Klatt | Germany | 375,000 |
| 7 | 2 | Carole Segoura | France | 110,000 |
| 7 | 3 | Paul Testud | France | 210,000 |
| 7 | 4 | Vladimir Demenkov | Russian Federation | 90,500 |
| 7 | 5 | Vicente Delgado | Spain | 269,500 |
| 7 | 6 | Iliodoros Kamatakis | Greece | 140,000 |
| 7 | 8 | Jean-Jacques Zeitoun | France | 56,000 |
| 8 | 1 | Sergei Petrushevskii | Russian Federation | 158,500 |
| 8 | 2 | Stefan Schillhabel | Germany | 402,000 |
| 8 | 3 | Nicolas Fuentes Vidal | Chile | 278,000 |
| 8 | 4 | Christopher Frank | Germany | 280,000 |
| 8 | 5 | Narcis-Gabriel Nedelcu | Romania | 63,000 |
| 8 | 6 | Karim Souaid | France | 136,000 |
| 8 | 7 | Bruno Lopes | France | 155,000 |
| 8 | 8 | Paul Gresel | Netherlands | 20,000 |
| 9 | 1 | Liv Boeree | UK | 63,500 |
| 9 | 2 | Luigi Conti | Italy | 79,500 |
| 9 | 3 | Sebastian Malec | Poland | 382,500 |
| 9 | 4 | Faraz Jaka | USA | 416,500 |
| 9 | 5 | Sindre Tvedt | Norway | 28,500 |
| 9 | 6 | Arezki Belaidi | Canada | 69,500 |
| 9 | 7 | Benoit Lam | France | 42,000 |
| 9 | 8 | Usman Siddique | UK | 69,500 |
| 10 | 1 | Julian Feriolo | France | 32,000 |
| 10 | 2 | Jason Wheeler | USA | 230,000 |
| 10 | 3 | Jeffrey Hakim | Lebanon | 350,000 |
| 10 | 4 | Xavier Rouayroux | France | 253,000 |
| 10 | 5 | Hannes Speiser | Austria | 265,500 |
| 10 | 6 | Jerome L'Hostis | UK | 263,000 |
| 10 | 7 | Patrik Antonius | Finland | 452,500 |
| 10 | 8 | Maksim Shulga | Russian Federation | 188,500 |
| 11 | 1 | Douglas Ferreira Souza | Brazil | 330,000 |
| 11 | 2 | Igor Yaroshevskyy | Ukraine | 128,500 |
| 11 | 3 | Marius Gierse | Germany | 322,500 |
| 11 | 4 | Jerome Brion | France | 174,000 |
| 11 | 5 | Arne Coulier | Belgium | 342,500 |
| 11 | 6 | [Removed:170] | Lithuania | 22,000 |
| 11 | 7 | Dmytro Shuvanov | Ukraine | 353,000 |
| 11 | 8 | Aleksei Istomin | Russian Federation | 36,000 |
| 12 | 1 | Mark Teltscher | UK | 408,000 |
| 12 | 2 | Roger Tondeur | Switzerland | 242,500 |
| 12 | 3 | Vishwanath Manjunath | UK | 61,000 |
| 12 | 4 | Mickael Mamou | France | 47,000 |
| 12 | 5 | Philipp Kober | Austria | 128,500 |
| 12 | 6 | Romain Lewis | France | 125,500 |
| 12 | 7 | Sergio Aido | Spain | 124,000 |
| 12 | 8 | Peyman Luth | Germany | 162,000 |
| 13 | 1 | Moritz Dietrich | Germany | 287,500 |
| 13 | 2 | Krisztian Fejerdi | Hungary | 283,500 |
| 13 | 3 | Viliyan Petleshkov | Bulgaria | 112,000 |
| 13 | 4 | Stephen Woodhead | UK | 14,500 |
| 13 | 5 | Chebli Chebli | Lebanon | 210,500 |
| 13 | 6 | Emil Patel | Finland | 94,500 |
| 13 | 7 | Mikko Turtiainen | Finland | 75,500 |
| 13 | 8 | Franck Makaci | France | 32,000 |
| 14 | 1 | Romain Nardin | France | 35,500 |
| 14 | 2 | Tsugunari Toma | Japan | 243,500 |
| 14 | 3 | Lukasz Kubicki | Poland | 280,000 |
| 14 | 4 | Rocco Palumbo | Italy | 81,000 |
| 14 | 5 | Valerii Lubenets | Ukraine | 32,000 |
| 14 | 6 | Isabel Baltazar | France | 114,500 |
| 14 | 7 | Jack Salter | UK | 141,000 |
| 14 | 8 | Diego Vilela | Brazil | 270,000 |
| 15 | 1 | Maria Ho | USA | 78,000 |
| 15 | 2 | Lauren Monosson | USA | 42,000 |
| 15 | 3 | Davidi Kitai | Belgium | 179,500 |
| 15 | 4 | Yury Salikaev | Russian Federation | 83,500 |
| 15 | 5 | Hideki Takafuji | Japan | 106,000 |
| 15 | 6 | David Urban | Slovakia | 270,000 |
| 15 | 7 | Alexios Zervos | Greece | 47,500 |
| 15 | 8 | Maxim Panyak | Russian Federation | 67,000 |
| 16 | 1 | Christoph Vogelsang | Germany | 128,500 |
| 16 | 2 | Stefan Huber | Switzerland | 203,000 |
| 16 | 3 | Diego Zeiter | Switzerland | 234,000 |
| 16 | 4 | Jimmy Guerrero | France | 110,000 |
| 16 | 5 | Adrian Ionescu | Romania | 66,500 |
| 16 | 6 | Hossein Ensan | Germany | 290,000 |
| 16 | 7 | Manig Loeser | Germany | 323,500 |
| 16 | 8 | Gianluca Speranza | Italy | 296,000 |
| 17 | 1 | Luke Schwartz | UK | 187,000 |
| 17 | 2 | Diego Ventura | Peru | 38,500 |
| 17 | 3 | Ramon Miquel Munoz | Spain | 145,000 |
| 17 | 4 | Marius-Catalin Pertea | Romania | 71,500 |
| 17 | 5 | Andreas Hoivold | Norway | 32,500 |
| 17 | 6 | Celina Lin | China | 200,500 |
| 17 | 7 | Shakhabiddin Muradov | Latvia | 110,000 |
| 17 | 8 | Aleksandar Tomovic | Serbia | 262,500 |