€5,300 Main Event Day 2 | 2016 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final

€5,300 Main Event

Day 2 Completed

05-02-2016 20:02 UTC+1

Pierre Calamusa Leads The EPT Grand Final After Day 2, Randy Lew in Strong Contention

Happy_Freaked

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

The second day of the 2016 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final was filled with excitement, and Pierre Calamusa bagged up the overnight chip lead with 580,800 in chips.

Early on Day 2, the tournament saw Leo Margets, Gaelle Baumann, Felipe Ramos, Igor Kurganov, Salman Behbehani, and Niall Farrell hit the rail. Team PokerStars players Liv Boeree, Yaxi Zhu, Jason Mercier, Betrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Naoya Kihara, Lex Veldhuis, and Celina Lin were all knocked out on Day 2 as well, but there are still plenty of players left representing the red spade.

PokerStars team pro Vanessa Selbst had a stellar start to her day, but in the end she dropped some to finish with 206,700. EPT Deauville winner and fellow PokerStars team pro Jake Cody bagged up 150,100, while Team Online member Randy Lew and SportsStar Fatima Moreira de Melo are among the biggest remaining stacks in the tournament.

Lew chipped up consistently on Day 2 to end on 385,800, and the same could be said for Moreira de Melo. The Dutch three-time Olympic medalist bagged up 357,200, as she looks for her second main event cash this season, following a 240th-place finish in Barcelona.

The No. 3 player on poker's all-time money list, Erik Seidel, with $26.5 million in career live tournament earnings, had a very strong day. Seidel stayed under the radar for most of play on Day 2, but bagged up 368,400.

Former EPT champion Aaron Gustavson (374,400) and Davidi Kitai (113,000) are still in the hunt, along with Dimitar Danchev and other big stacks like Marcin Chmielewski (493,500), Erwann Pecheux (413,800), Albert Daher (375,100), and Matthew Davenport (349,100).

Once registration closed, the 12th EPT season's finale drew a total of 1,098 participants, creating a prize pool worth €5,325,300 that will pay the top 159 places. First prize is worth €961,800, and with 205 players remaining the money will be reached on Day 3, as another five levels are slated to be played.

Play will recommence on Tuesday at 12 p.m. noon and 7h1.shop will be right there with all the coverage.

Day 3 Seat Draw

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chips
1	1	Usman Siddique	UK	151800
1	2	Jullian Feriolo	France	96700
1	3	Kyosti Isberg	Finland	70700
1	4	Arne Coulier	Belgium	269900
1	5	Michel Dattani	Portugal	312200
1	6	Marcin Chmielewski	Poland	493500
1	7	Stephan Zesiger	Switzerland	151600
1	8	Benjamin Philipps	UK	150000

2	1	Tomas Jozonis	Lithuania	128100
2	2	Bruno Lopes	France	95400
2	3	Fabio Sperling	Germany	300100
2	4	Massimiliano Patroncini	Italy	31800
2	5	Frank Werder	Germany	60200
2	6	Alexandre Luneau	France	177400
2	7	Erik Van Hoek	Netherlands	156700
2	8	Kristen Bicknell	Canada	55100

3	1	Pierre Tilmant	Belgium	174200
3	2	Sam Chartier	Canada	283300
3	3	Laurent Polito	France	118000
3	4	Yannick Del Curto	Switzerland	157700
3	5	Vincent Gueneau	United Arab Emirates	41500
3	6	Matthew Davenport	UK	349100
3	7	Georges Hallak	Canada	87700
3	8	Marko Neumann	Germany	90100

4	1	Mikael Guenni	France	127400
4	3	Albert Daher	Lebanon	375100
4	4	Simon Deadman	UK	135000
4	5	Bertrand Guenoun	France	188400
4	6	Kenneth Hicks	USA	21200
4	7	Apostolos Bechrakis	Greece	136000
4	8	Gerard Sanches	France	156000

5	1	Thi Xoa Nguyen	France	140000
5	2	Denys Shafikov	Ukraine	158600
5	3	Philippe Wettstein	Switzerland	58600
5	4	Vlad Darie	Romania	57000
5	5	Marco De Vincenti	Italy	46500
5	6	Jinfeng Huo	China	201700
5	7	Massimo Mauri	Italy	242800
5	8	Fernando Brunca Garcia	Brazil	258600

6	1	Hani Bahna	Canada	20500
6	2	Povilas Zavistanavicius	Lithuania	113300
6	3	Markku Koplimaa	Estonia	209900
6	4	Albert Sebag	France	260000
6	5	Jimmy Guerrero	France	250000
6	6	Dominykas Karmazinas	Lithuania	284700
6	7	Marco Giulini	Italy	79400
6	8	Markus Durnegger	Austria	145200

7	1	Ilan Boujenah	France	112000
7	2	Mike Barsnick	Germany	260900
7	3	Nicholas Galtos	Australia	66900
7	4	Jason Gray	Australia	109400
7	5	Yusuke Okada	Japan	72400
7	6	David Susigan	France	351900
7	7	Natan Chauskin	Belarus	271900
7	8	Jeremy Palvini	France	320000

8	1	Andreas Vlachos	Greece	227000
8	2	Ruediger Weber	Germany	139500
8	3	[Removed:365]	Israel	26400
8	4	Emin Aghayev	Monaco	30800
8	5	Arnaud Peyroles	France	105600
8	6	Samu Riihela	Finland	113300
8	7	Fabio Cortes Gago	Spain	51000
8	8	Randy Lew	USA	385800

9	1	Stephen Chidwick	UK	223800
9	3	John Juanda	Indonesia	152400
9	4	Ivan Soshnikov	Russia	271400
9	5	Mikhail Nikolaev	Latvia	25000
9	6	Jan Bendik	Slovakia	289300
9	7	Alp Tosuncuoglu	Switzerland	61300
9	8	Clemente Malheiro Carreira	Portugal	125000

10	1	David Lascar	France	140500
10	2	Koichi Nozaki	Japan	154300
10	3	Fatima Moreira de Melo	Netherlands	357200
10	4	Herve Boulan	France	127300
10	5	Igor Pihela	Estonia	256400
10	6	Andreas Hoivold	Norway	186900
10	7	Tina Andersen	Denmark	50000
10	8	[Removed:2]	Lebanon	105800

11	1	Jack Salter	UK	198700
11	2	Fady Kamar	Lebanon	333000
11	3	Frank Romanello	UK	237100
11	4	Nikolas Menke	Germany	350300
11	5	Roman Korenev	Russia	224900
11	6	Felix Lambertz	Germany	50700
11	7	Enver Abduraimov	Germany	64800
11	8	Oren Rosen	Israel	213300

12	1	Erik Seidel	USA	368400
12	2	Vanessa Selbst	USA	206700
12	3	Oleh Cherepianyi	Ukraine	116400
12	4	Ouri Cohen	France	37700
12	5	Andres Jeckeln	Argentina	164500
12	7	Ihar Soika	Belarus	115200
12	8	Asan Umarov	Kazakhstan	211700

13	1	Dario Sammartino	Italy	220400
13	2	David Peters	USA	57800
13	3	Paolo Compagno	Switzerland	173600
13	4	Andrei Boghean	Romania	330000
13	5	Ben Fitzgerald	UK	67700
13	6	Omar Lakhdari	France	212000
13	7	Kiryl Radzivonau	Belarus	190700
13	8	Loc Tu	Canada	184400

14	1	Paul Hoefer	Germany	152300
14	2	Mael Lepage	Belgium	179200
14	4	Pierre Huter	Switzerland	200000
14	5	Joseph Prichard	UK	114300
14	6	Davide Settecasi	Italy	202500
14	7	Andjelko Andrejevic	USA	98700
14	8	Kamran Aliyev	Azerbaijan	108600

15	1	Alexios Zervos	Greece	185000
15	2	Dirk Gerritse	Netherlands	276600
15	3	Mike Watson	Canada	76400
15	4	Enzo Del Piero	UK	348000
15	5	Juan Etcheverry	Argentina	196800
15	6	Yann Pineau	France	115800
15	7	Thiago Nishijima	Brazil	251400
15	8	Knut Karnapp	Germany	82500

16	1	Ariel Celestino	Brazil	241200
16	2	Iacopo Brandi	Italy	29500
16	3	Mike Andreassen	Denmark	42700
16	4	Aleksei Platonov	Russia	108600
16	5	Alejandro Perez Torres	Spain	240900
16	6	Davidi Kitai	Belgium	113000
16	7	Freddy Darakjian	France	183000
16	8	Steven van Zadelhoff	Netherlands	210000

17	1	Tomas Chudomsky	Czech Republic	79500
17	2	Benjamin Pollak	France	37200
17	3	Andrea Rocci	Italy	339500
17	4	Ophir Nadav	Israel	99900
17	5	Antonio Rutigliano	Italy	170000
17	6	Peter Akery	UK	276800
17	7	Adrien Allain	France	347000
17	8	Willliam Arruda	Brazil	109200

18	1	Neil Strike	UK	160100
18	2	Jeremy Routier	France	144100
18	3	Nikita Nikolaev	Russia	188800
18	4	Arno del Curto	Switzerland	37300
18	5	John Gale	UK	267500
18	6	Yucel Eminoglu	Turkey	137500
18	7	Javier Zarco	Spain	36700
18	8	Pierre Calamusa	France	580200

19	1	Miguel Silva	Portugal	304100
19	2	Zoltan Szabo	Hungary	196600
19	3	Max Silver	UK	56200
19	4	Joseph Mouawad	USA	127600
19	5	Jan Bengelmann	Germany	243700
19	6	Joao Vieira	Portugal	153400
19	7	Diego Ventura	Peru	141900
19	8	Pascal Faivre	Canada	55700

20	1	Dermot Blain	Ireland	64000
20	2	Evangelos Terzoudis	Greece	227800
20	3	Ramzey Idriss	Lebanon	69600
20	4	Sebastien Lebaron	France	211900
20	5	Roman Verenko	Ukraine	326800
20	6	Nicolas Le Floch	France	78000
20	7	Bao Phu	Canada	43100
20	8	Ranno Sootla	Estonia	192000

21	1	Anders Tangen	Sweden	169100
21	2	Youssef Finianos	Lebanon	57500
21	3	Antoine Saout	France	109300
21	4	Salvatore Bonavena	Italy	100000
21	5	Paul-Francois Tedeschi	France	194900
21	6	Ivan Deyra	France	193300
21	7	Chris Dowling	Ireland	171000
21	8	Laurent Ciup	France	161100

22	1	Rintaro Kagawa	Japan	224700
22	2	Jean Koja	France	125500
22	3	Franck Kalfon	France	30700
22	4	Patricio Rojas Parra	Chile	173300
22	5	Rene Schneider	Switzerland	70500
22	6	Ariel Mantel	Argentina	209800
22	7	[Removed:119]	France	88700
22	8	Michel Abecassis	France	151100

23	1	Govert Metaal	Netherlands	346600
23	2	Tobias Reinkemeier	Germany	146200
23	3	Diego Zeiter	Switzerland	136700
23	4	Erwann Pecheux	France	413800
23	5	[Removed:37]	France	38000
23	6	Isabel Baltazar	France	87600
23	7	Maksim Kolosov	Russia	240000
23	8	Nariman Yaghmai	United Arab Emirates	335500

24	1	Mahomed Aissani	France	152900
24	2	Jonathan Abdellatif	Belgium	210000
24	3	Dimitar Danchev	Bulgaria	101300
24	4	Aaron Gustavson	USA	374400
24	5	Luigi Grisa	Switzerland	204300
24	6	Andrew Abernethy	UK	149100
24	7	Thomas Popov	Canada	65500
24	8	Gun Taljo	Sweden	146900

25	1	Nacho Barbero	Argentina	107000
25	2	Nicolino Di Carlo	Italy	105800
25	3	Jake Cody	UK	150100
25	4	Kyle Frey	USA	218700
25	5	Faraz Jaka	USA	66600
25	6	Ami Barer	Canada	160200
25	7	Nicolas Cardyn	France	87800
25	8	Andrea Cortellazzi	Italy	141000

05-02-2016 19:49 UTC+1

End-of-Day Chip Counts (full)

Happy_Freaked

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

Player	Chips	Progress
Pierre Calamusa	580,200 150,200	150,200

Marcin Chmielewski	493,500 273,500	273,500
Erwann Pecheux	413,800 43,800	43,800
Randy Lew	385,800 80,800	80,800

Albert Daher	375,100 -4,900	-4,900
Aaron Gustavson	374,400 400	400

Erik Seidel	368,400 8,400	8,400

Fatima Moreira de Melo	357,200 44,200	44,200

David Susigan	351,900 252,100	252,100
Nikolas Menke	350,300 282,600	282,600
Matthew Davenport	349,100 34,100	34,100
Enzo Del Piero	348,000 286,100	286,100
Adrien Allain	347,000 182,000	182,000
Govert Metaal	346,600 -21,400	-21,400
Andrea Rocci	339,500 44,500	44,500
Nariman Yaghmai	335,500 275,600	275,600
Fady Kamar	333,000 274,500	274,500
Andrei Boghean	330,000
Roman Verenko	326,800 128,800	128,800
Jeremy Palvini	320,000 40,000	40,000
Michel Dattani	312,200 42,200	42,200

Miguel Silva	304,100 219,500	219,500
Fabio Sperling	300,100 30,100	30,100
Jan Bendik	289,300 104,300	104,300

Dominykas Karmazinas	284,700 4,700	4,700

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05-02-2016 19:15 UTC+1

Another Round of Eliminations

Happy_Freaked

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

Player	Chips	Progress
Stefano Terziani	Busted
Gerhard Mair	Busted
Samuel Bonnett	Busted
Wenxiong Luo	Busted
Fergal Coyle	Busted
Aharub Khatri	Busted
Patrick Nataf	Busted
Noah Novick	Busted
Jessica Drissi	Busted
Gurgen Arsenyan	Busted
Starostin Aleksey Vladimirovich	Busted
Maximos Pertsinidis	Busted
Robert Haigh	Busted
Timur Khamidullin	Busted
Patrick Nakache	Busted
Michael Melin	Busted
Deniz Ozen	Busted
Isaac Haxton	Busted
Ramiro Cardoso Araujo	Busted
Angelo Castriotta	Busted
Ali-Talha Kiliki	Busted
Andrei Steonescu	Busted
Saar Wilf	Busted

05-02-2016 19:10 UTC+1

Five More Hands

Happy_Freaked

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

The clock has been stopped and just five more hands are left to be played.

05-02-2016 19:10 UTC+1

Huo's Aces Hold Up

Happy_Freaked

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

Jinfeng Huo just found herself all in for 107,200 and up against Grzegorz Grochulski in the following showdown.

Huo:
Grochulski:

The board ran out and Huo celebrated a big double up right before the end of the day.

Player	Chips	Progress
Grzegorz Grochulski	225,000 152,400	152,400
Jinfeng Huo	220,000 191,100	191,100

Tags: Jinfeng Huo Grzegorz Grochulski

05-02-2016 19:05 UTC+1

Hoefer Enforces Fold

Christian Zetzsche

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

Jens Hoefer check-raised a flop of flop out of the blinds and then shoved the turn for around 24,500 to enforce a fold from his opponent. The German, who won an Aussie Millions ring at a Side Event this year and the Little One for One Drop in Las Vegas last year, is still below average but in it to win it.

Fellow German and former EPT Prague finalist Fabio Sperling is doing much better with more than twice the average stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Fabio Sperling	270,000 222,000	222,000
Paul Hoefer	70,000 -12,600	-12,600

Tags: Fabio Sperling Paul Hoefer

05-02-2016 19:03 UTC+1

Gueneau Doubles

Christian Zetzsche

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

"Nice flop. Nice hand," Simon Deadman said after Vincent Gueneau had just doubled with against the of Apostolos Bechrakis for some 20 big blinds. The board came .

The biggest stack at the table currently belongs to Dominykas Karmazinas in the last seat, but he faces very experienced competition in Deadman and Tobias Reinkemeier.

Player	Chips	Progress
Dominykas Karmazinas	280,000 16,000	16,000
Tobias Reinkemeier	160,000 100,000	100,000
Simon Deadman	150,000 -10,000	-10,000
Vincent Gueneau	60,000 33,500	33,500

Tags: Dominykas Karmazinas Simon Deadman Tobias Reinkemeier Vincent Gueneau

05-02-2016 19:03 UTC+1

Ammunition for Gun

Happy_Freaked

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

Gun Taljo just ended up all in for 63,200 and she was up against Kenneth Hicks.

Hicks:
Taljo:

The board ran out and Taljo received a full double up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Gun Taljo	128,000 69,200	69,200
Kenneth Hicks	92,000 1,400	1,400

Tags: Kenneth Hicks Gun Taljo

05-02-2016 19:00 UTC+1

Danchev Doubles Through Karnapp

Christian Zetzsche

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

The TV crew rushed to the table of Pierre Calamusa and Dimitar Danchev because the former is among the biggest stacks and the latter was just all in for around 40,000 chips on a three-way flop of . A third player was in the hand as well and the full betting is unknown, but Danchev put himself at risk with the .