€10,600 Main Event Day 2 | 2014 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final

€10,600 Main Event

Day 2 Completed

04-28-2014 19:45 UTC+1

Troyanovskiy Leads Surviving 123 Players; Ivey & O'Dwyer Fall

Chad Holloway

Level 14 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante

Day 2 of the 2014 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final Main Event continued today as the surviving 347 players from the two starting flights returned for six more 75-minute levels of play. Actually, it’d be more than that as half a dozen players took advantage of late registration. When the final second ticked off the clock, just 123 would remain with Vladimir Troyanovskiy and his stack of 450,500 leading the way.

Once registration closed at the start of the day, the official numbers were released. The final EPT Main Event of Season 10 attracted 650 players, which was a nice increase over Season 9’s 531. That created a prize pool of €6.5 million. That will be distributed to the top 95 players with a hefty €1,240,000 reserved for the winner.

The day was characterized by eliminations, which included that of the defending champ Steve O’Dwyer. According to him, he had shoved his last ten big blinds in with king-nine suited. He had five opponents to overcome, but that proved too big a mission to accomplish as the player on the button woke up with pocket aces. With O'Dwyer out, Team PokerStars Pro Johnny Lodden became the last finalist standing from last year’s final table, which is considered one of the most stacked in history.

Of course O’Dwyer wasn’t the only notable to fall. Team PokerStars Pro Chris Moneymaker was felled within the first few minutes, while his fellow Team Pro, the short-stacked Liv Boeree, followed him out the door a short time later after she failed to win a race. Likewise, Full Tilt Poker Professional Viktor "Isildur1" Blom hit the rail after running into pocket aces, while the other Professional, late registrant Gus Hansen, exited holding deuce-four.

Team PokerStars Pros who also bowed out of the tournament on Day 2 were Juan Manuel Pastor, Nacho Barbero, Humberto Brenes, Alex Kravchenko, Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Marcel Luske, Mickey Petersen, Eugene Katchalov, George Danzer, Barry Greenstein, Marc-Andre Ladouceur and Ivan Demidov. Notables such as Max Altergott, Annette Obrestad, Byron Kaverman, Sorel Mizzi, David Peters, Timothy Adams, Mike “Timex” McDonald, Antonio Esfandiari, and Phil Ivey joined them on the rail.

Ivey had hit a heater earlier in the day to chip up to 240,000, and it looked like he was primed to make a deep run. Unfortunately a cooler in Level 13 (1,000/2,000/300) put an end to those hopes. It began when Italy’s Marcello Marigliano opened under the gun and received two callers. Ivey then called from the cutoff, the big blind came along, and five players took a flop of with two diamonds.

Action checked to Ivey and he promptly bet 15,000. The big blind called, and then Marigliano check-raised to 33,000. Two folds put action back on Ivey and he moved all in for roughly 160,000. The big blind folded and Marigliano made the call.

Ivey tabled for a flopped straight, but it was no good as Marigliano had flopped an even bigger straight with . Neither the turn nor river provided Ivey with a king to chop, and just like that the man was gone.

While many fell, an accomplished list of notables managed to make it through to Day 3 including Steven Silverman (369,900), Talal Shakerchi (365,800), Nick Maimone (358,800), Day 1b chip leader Hendrik Latz (278,400), Philipp Gruissem (268,000), Dani Stern (256,100), Sam Trickett (237,000), Ole Schemion (233,600), and Scott Clements (229,700). Likewise, members of Team PokerStars that punched their ticket were Johnny Lodden (326,500), Ville Wahlbeck (265,100), Angel Guillen (175,400), David Williams (145,900), and Andre Akkari (82,100).

At Noon local time on Tuesday, the surviving players will return to the Salles des Etoiles room at Le Sporting to play five 90-minute levels. During that time the money bubble will burst. The PokerNews Live Reporting will be on hand to capture all the action, so be sure to join us then.

In the meantime, find out how players take advantage of their breaks here in Monte Carlo:

Tags: Vladimir Troyanovskiy

04-28-2014 19:41 UTC+1

Official End of Day Chip Counts & Table Draw Day 3 (full)

[user76023]

Level 14 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante

Table	Seat	Name	Country	Chips
1	1	Conor Shelly	Canada	272.600
1	2	Patrick Caveriviere	France	167.000
1	3	David Boyaciyan	Netherlands	63.900
1	4	Nikolay Tsanev	Bulgaria	61.000
1	5	Dylan Honeyman	Australia	159.800
1	6	Dani Stern	USA	256.000
1	7	Rhys Jones	UK	252.900
1	8	Carlos Mejia	Colombia	120.000

2	1	Marc Uzan	France	48.300
2	2	Ville Wahlbeck	Finland	265.100
2	3	Narendra Banwari	United States	200.300
2	4	Dmitry Grishin	Russia	84.400
2	5	Ana Marquez	Spain	54.800
2	6	Timo Eckert	Germany	53.400
2	7	Vasili Firsau	Belarus	201.400
2	8	Morten Klein	Norway	208.000

3	1	Andrei Demidov	Russia	123.300
3	2	Nick Maimone	USA	358.800
3	3	Olvedo Heinze	Netherlands	95.000
3	4	Jason Duval	Canada	179.000
3	5	Mark Teltscher	UK	166.000
3	6	Maximos Pertsinidis	Greece	137.300
3	7	Senh Ung	UK	77.700
3	8	Oliver Bosch	Austria	289.900

4	1	Andre Akkari	Brazil	82.100
4	2	Philipp Gruissem	Germany	268.000
4	3	Talal Shakerchi	UK	368.800
4	4	David Williams	United States	145.900
4	5	Mohsin Charania	Canada	96.500
4	6	Mayu Roca	Colombia	303.200
4	7	Alexey Prager	Russia	84.500
4	8	Maxim Panyak	Russia	59.900

5	1	Jussi Nevanlinna	Finland	61.100
5	2	Chady Merhej	Lebanon	94.400
5	3	Pascal Lefrancois	Canada	178.000
5	4	Corneliu Cretu	Romania	48.000
5	5	Terence Michael Reardon	USA	125.800
5	7	Sam Trickett	UK	237.000
5	8	Rono Lo	China	189.900

6	1	Vladimir Troyanovskiy	Russia	450.500
6	2	Thomas Pettersson	Sweden	91.900
6	3	Steven Silverman	USA	369.000
6	4	Jonathan Odogwu	UK	62.700
6	5	Fabiano Kovalski	Brazil	143.100
6	6	Anthony Ghamrawi	Austrian	142.900
6	7	Patryk Slusarek	UK	100.500
6	8	Farid Jattin	USA	178.000

7	1	Yulius Sepman	Russia	155.600
7	2	Stephen Chidwick	UK	181.800
7	3	Bryan Paris	USA	137.400
7	4	Jack Salter	UK	65.000
7	5	Kirill Shugai	Russia	95.000
7	6	Abdulaziz Abdulaziz	France	283.100
7	7	Daniel Engels	Germany	25.500
7	8	Malte Monnig	Germany	387.000

8	1	Adrien Casanova	France	78.500
8	2	Johannes Strassmann	Germany	186.000
8	3	Philippe Rouas	USA	79.200
8	4	Antonio Lafosse Fernandez	Peru	46.000
8	5	Matias Alberto Ruzzi	Argentina	105.300
8	6	Adrian Naya	Spain	210.000
8	7	Simon Deadman	UK	278.000
8	8	Samir Hadad	Canada	162.900

9	1	Eros Nastasi	Italy	267.400
9	3	Scott Clements	USA	229.700
9	4	Angel Guillen	Mexico	175.400
9	5	Florence Allera	France	52.500
9	6	Jose Noronha	Portugal	21.500
9	7	Ayaz Manji	Portugal	112.900
9	8	Noah Boeken	Netherlands	85.600

10	1	Ivan Soshnikov	Russia	216.300
10	2	Muhyedine Fares	Senegal	176.900
10	3	Adam Joseph Reynolds	UK	194.600
10	4	Marc Daubach	UK	48.700
10	5	Henrik Lyngmark	Sweden	37.800
10	6	Mariel De Macedo	Brazil	117.600
10	7	Grzegorz Wyraz	Poland	83.900

11	2	Ole Schemion	Germany	233.600
11	3	Marcello Marigliano	Italy	427.700
11	4	Vizsnyiczai Zsolt	Hungary	104.400
11	5	Andrey Gulyy	Russia	218.700
11	6	Nikolaus Teichert	Germany	107.000
11	7	Magnus Karlsson	Sweden	88.700
11	8	Mohamad El Siblani	Lebanon	178.800

12	1	Martins Seilis	Latvia	95.300
12	2	Pascal Vos	Netherlands	50.500
12	3	Luca Moschitta	Italy	64.400
12	4	Igor Kurganov	Russia	109.700
12	5	Anatoly Filatov	Russia	164.000
12	7	Agshin Rasulov	Azerbaijan	45.900
12	8	Kenny Hicks	USA	61.200

13	1	Sebastian Bredthauer	Germany	35.100
13	2	Alex Klimashin	Russia	236.000
13	3	Nicola D'Anselmo	Italy	81.500
13	4	Mihails Morozovs	Latvia	191.000
13	5	Akim Aouine	France	137.100
13	6	Georgy Filippovich	Russia	200.000
13	7	Robert Brofeldt	Sweden	60.500
13	8	Sylvain Loosli	France	51.600

14	1	JC Alvarado	Mexico	44.000
14	2	Idris Ambraisse	France	434.300
14	3	Hendrik Latz	Germany	278.400
14	4	Henri Kasper	Estonia	55.800
14	5	Niall Farrell	UK	150.900
14	6	Alexandros Kolonias	Greece	224.000
14	7	Emil Patel	USA	176.100
14	8	Stefan Ivanov	Bulgaria	151.500

15	1	Heinz Kamutzki	Germany	272.700
15	2	Antonio Buonanno	Italy	204.200
15	3	Sebastian Von Toperczer	Germany	418.000
15	4	Chistoph Vogelsang	Germany	108.700
15	5	Miroslav Alilovic	France	250.800
15	6	Dominik Panka	Poland	55.800
15	7	Nikita Nikolaev	Russia	174.200
15	8	Michele Bianchi	Switzerland	43.300

16	1	David Cowling	Canada	209.200
16	2	Nicholas Petrangelo	USA	280.000
16	3	Johnny Lodden	Norway	326.500
16	4	Apostolos Chantzis	France	137.300
16	5	[Removed:17]	New Zealand	144.000
16	6	Salvatore Bonavena	Italy	61.100
16	7	Jose Espinoza	Peru	39.700
16	8	Ziv Vachar	Israel	174.000

Player	Chips	Progress
Vladimir Troyanovskiy	450,500 150,500	150,500
Idris Ambraisse	434,300 154,300	154,300
Marcello Marigliano	427,700 -72,300	-72,300
Sebastian von Toperczer	418,000 306,400	306,400
Malte Moennig	387,000 297,000	297,000
Steven Silverman	369,000 -15,500	-15,500
Talal Shakerchi	368,800 288,800	288,800
Nick Maimone	358,800 -26,700	-26,700
Johnny Lodden	326,500 192,500	192,500

Mayu Roca	303,200 256,800	256,800
Oliver Bosch	289,900 9,900	9,900
Abdulaziz Abdulaziz	283,100 58,100	58,100
Nicholas Petrangelo	280,000 240,000	240,000
Hendrik Latz	278,400 148,400	148,400
Simon Deadman	278,000 163,000	163,000
Heinz Kamutzki	272,700 192,700	192,700
Conor Shelly	272,600 12,600	12,600
Philipp Gruissem	268,000 153,000	153,000
Eros Nastasi	267,400 191,800	191,800
Ville Wahlbeck	265,100 112,100	112,100

Dani Stern	256,000 116,000	116,000
Rhys Jones	252,900 37,900	37,900
Miroslav Alilovic	250,800 120,800	120,800

Sam Trickett	237,000 -5,600	-5,600
Alex Klimashin	236,000 154,500	154,500

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04-28-2014 19:32 UTC+1

They Failed to Make It Through to Day 3

Chad Holloway

Level 14 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Will Molson	Busted
Carter Swidler	Busted
Jan-Peter Jachtmann	Busted
Aleksandr Gofman	Busted
Yury Gulyy	Busted
Anton Makiievskyi	Busted
Thomas Petit	Busted
Nikolay Baranov	Busted
Dominik Nitsche	Busted
Jens Luebbe	Busted
Fam Zarrin Ashkan	Busted
Marc-Andre Ladouceur	Busted

Gianluca Trebbi	Busted
Dario Sammartino	Busted
Louis Salter	Busted
Yaxi Zhu	Busted
Haralabos Voulgaris	Busted
Andres Herrera	Busted
Laurence Ryan	Busted
Mohamad El Siblani	Busted
Barry Greenstein	Busted

04-28-2014 19:16 UTC+1

A Few More Hands

Webjoker

Level 14 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante

With 12 minutes left for the day, the clock has been paused. They're playing a few more hands before the bagging and tagging process commences. We're headed out to catch any late action and to compile a list of chip counts.

Stay tuned for those as well as a full recap of the Day 2 action.

04-28-2014 19:15 UTC+1

Silverman And Benelli Tangle Again

Webjoker

Level 14 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante

We missed the precise action before the flop, but Ole Schemion confirmed our assumption that one of the players had opened under the gun plus one, Andrea Benelli had called on the button and Steven Silverman had done the same from the big blind.

Silverman checked to the initial raiser who checked behind. Benelli bet out 8,000 and Silverman check-raised to 25,000. The initial raiser folded but Benelli made the call.

The fell on the turn and Silverman bet out 36,000. Benelli didn't need much time and called.

The completed the board and Silverman announced all in. Silverman had about 120,000 to push to the middle, a tiny bit more than Benelli who had about 114,500 to play for at this time.

Benelli took his time and at least three minutes past before Jason Duval was tired of it and called for the clock. Instead of the regular one minute, Benelli got at least two minutes from the floor. Benelli used a lot of that time to make his decision, but it was his tournament life at stake of course. Eventually he tossed in a couple of chips to indicate the call.

Silverman showed and Benelli his hand was shown by the dealer; . The Italian player was thus eliminated with just a couple of minutes left in the last level the day. Silverman in the meantime is nearing 400,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Steven Silverman	384,500 204,500	204,500
Andrea Benelli	Busted

Tags: Andrea Benelli Steven Silverman

04-28-2014 19:07 UTC+1

Getting Testy

[user76023]

Level 14 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante

Rono Lo had bet 12,000 on the turn of a board before Paul Testud moved all in for 50,000. Lo thought for several minutes before finally calling with with gasps coming from the other players. He was right though because Testud turned over for no pair, no draw and the on the river gave Lo a full house.

Player	Chips	Progress
Rono Lo	200,000 132,800	132,800
Paul Testud	Busted

04-28-2014 19:04 UTC+1

Russians, Americans & French Dominate Grand Final Field

Chad Holloway

Level 14 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante

As in previous years, Russian, American and French players have dominated entries to the Season 10 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final. Although there are slightly more Russians here, there isn’t much in it: there were 69 players from Russia in the Main Event, 65 from the States and 64 from France – together accounting for 34% of the field. However there are another 20 players hailing from Belarus and Ukraine which explains why every other player seems to be speaking Russian!

There are also considerably more nationalities represented than last year – 68 compared to 56, with an influx of new players from Asia (China, Hong Kong and Malaysia) having a big impact on the whole event. As , several Asian players were here specially to compete in the €100k Super High Roller but they brought a large entourage of friends with them who have been getting involved in tournaments and cash games all over the place.

04-28-2014 19:02 UTC+1

Noronha Spins it Up from Less Than One Big Blind

[user252447]

Level 14 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante

Jose Noronha from Portugal was all in for 1,500, less than one big blind. Dario Sammartino in the big blind got it heads up by sticking in a raise and he got his showdown with versus the of Noronha. Final board of and Noronha trips gave him 8,800.

On the next hand Noronha started putting all his chips over the line, but it was a string bet and was ruled a call. Conor Shelly in the big blind did him a favour by raising and Noronha moved all in with his against the of Shelly.

Noronha pointed at his cards saying, “Very dangerous.” The cards ran out flopping him a flush and doubling up again.

Noronha was under-the-gun next hand and clearly announced, “All in.” No callers and he showed . As we left the table he still had his jacket slung over hos shoulder ready to go, but you never know.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jose Noronha	23,000 -12,100	-12,100

Tags: Dario Sammartino Jose Noronha

04-28-2014 18:54 UTC+1

The Daily EPT10 Player of the Year Update for 4-28-14

Chad Holloway

Level 14 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante

The European Poker Tour Season 10 Player of the Year race is nearing an end, and as you know players have been accumulating points in all events throughout Season 10, regardless of the buy-in level. In addition, all of the Festival Events (Estrellas, UKIPT, Eureka, FPS, IPT) that combine with an EPT tour stop have been eligible for Player of the Year points. The winner of this season’s award will walk away with €50,000 in Main Event buy-ins, good for any PokerStars or Full Tilt sponsored event.

The Global Poker Index (GPI) points formula, which will be used to determine the EPT10 POY, is a bit complicated, but you can .

Here are the current top ten on the EPT10 POY Leaderboard. As you can see, Ole Schemion is running away with it and is a near lock to lay claim to the title, especially since he finished seventh in the Super High Roller here in Monte Carlo.

Place	Player	Points
1	Ole Schemion	1,173.48 pts
2	Thomas Muhloecker	872.67 pts
3	Vanessa Selbst	803.87 pts
4	Alex Bilokur	794.40 pts
5	Andrew Chen	685.49 pts
6	Olivier Busquet	647.08 pts
7	Adrian Mateos	644.24 pts
8	Mustapha Kunit	632.79 pts
9	Dominik Panka	608.60 pts
10	Jeff Rossiter	590.27 pts

We'll be bringing you daily updates on the Player of the Year race, so be sure to keep an eye out for those.

Tags: EPT Player of the Year EPT POY Global Poker Index GPI