€5,300 Main Event Day 3 | 2016 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final

€5,300 Main Event

Day 3 Completed

05-03-2016 21:15 UTC+1

Marcin Chmielewski Leads EPT Grand Final Main Event After Day 3

Christian Zetzsche

Level 19 : 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante

When play resumed for Day 2 of the 2016 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final €5,300 Main Event, 196 players from a field of 1,098 entries returned to the tables at the Monte-Carlo Bay Resort and Pierre Calamusa was leading the survivors. Only the top 159 spots were guaranteed a payday of at least €8,890 and the bubble burst at the very end of the second level of play.

Aaron Gustavson raised on the button and Jinfeng Huo defended from the big blind. Huo open jammed 100,000 on the flop, and Gustavson called with the for a baby flush. Huo's for two pair had outs, but both turn and river blanked.

Just prior to Huo's bubble-bursting exit, John Juanda soft-bubbled after running ace-king into the pocket aces of Juan Etcheverry. Other big names to bust before the money included David Peters, Salvatore Bonavena, Mike Watson, Ilan Boujenah, and Javier Zarco.

Once the money was reached, the seats began to empty, as one by one players hit the rail and headed to the payout window. Jake Cody and Max Silver had to settle for a min-cash, Dominykas Karmazinas joined them, and Dimitar Danchev also busted.

Erik Seidel lost a flip with king-queen against the deuces of Vanessa Selbst, and then Davidi Kitai also went out. Other notables to exit before the end of the day included Paul Hoefer, Dermot Blain, Steven van Zadelhoff, Sam Chartier, John Gale, and Yucel "Mad Turk" Eminoglu.

After five levels of 90 minutes each, the field was reduced to just 74 players, and leading the pack was Marcin Chmielewski. The Pole, who finished 21st in the France Poker Series High Roller a few days prior, bagged up 1.314 million to claim the overnight lead.

Natan Chauskin with 1.107 million and Roman Korenev with 1.091 million were the only other players to bag seven-figure stacks.

Despite not hitting seven figures, there were plenty of big stacks still left, including Dario Sammartino (902,000), Thiago Nishijima (848,000), Erwann Pecheux (818,000), Adrien Allain (810,000), Fatima Moreira de Melo (807,000), Govert Metaal (704,000), Antoine Saout (626,000), Vanessa Selbst (616,000), and Randy Lew (455,000).

Day 4 will commence Wednesday at 12 p.m. local time with another five 90-minute levels scheduled. The PokerNews Live Reporting team will be there to cover all the crucial action, so make sure to tune back in when history is being written on the French Riviera.

Day 4 Seat Draw

Table	Seat	Name	Country	Chips
1	1	Paolo Compagno	Switzerland	241000
1	2	Iacopo Brandi	Italy	436000
1	3	Antonio Rutigliano	Italy	110000
1	4	Benjamin Pollak	France	486000
1	5	Kristen Bicknell	Canada	195000
1	6	Diego Zeiter	Switzerland	183000
1	7	Thiago Nishijima	Brazil	840000
1	8	Gun Taljo	Sweden	388000

2	1	Sebastien Lebaron	France	99000
2	2	Oren Rosen	Israel	525000
2	4	Fatima Moreira de Melo	Netherlands	807000
2	5	Neil Strike	UK	156200
2	6	Thi Xoa Nguyen	France	670000
2	7	Roman Korenev	Russia	1091000
2	8	Erwann Pecheux	France	818000

3	1	Kyle Frey	USA	495000
3	2	Pascal Faivre	Canada	105000
3	3	Loc Tu	Canada	330000
3	4	Ihar Soika	Belarus	258000
3	5	Marco De Vincenti	Italy	134000
3	6	Alexios Zervos	Greece	700000
3	7	Vanessa Selbst	USA	618000
3	8	Andrei Boghean	Romania	476000

4	1	Fabio Sperling	Germany	800000
4	2	Samu Riihela	Finland	30000
4	3	Jan Bendik	Slovakia	576000
4	4	Nikolas Menke	Germany	85000
4	5	Mohamed Aissani	France	926000
4	6	Erik Van Hoek	Netherlands	376000
4	8	Georges Hallak	Canada	169000

5	1	Juan Etcheverry	Argentina	489000
5	2	Ariel Celestino	Brazil	311000
5	3	Chris Dowling	Ireland	493000
5	4	Ruediger Weber	Germany	137000
5	5	Antoine Saout	France	626000
5	6	Tomas Jozonis	Lithuania	233000
5	7	Apostolos Bechrakis	Greece	492000
5	8	Hani Bahna	Canada	285000

6	2	Andjelko Andrejevic	USA	181000
6	3	Natan Chauskin	Belarus	1107000
6	4	Dario Sammartino	Italy	902000
6	5	Albert Daher	Lebanon	566000
6	6	Omar Lakhdari	France	230000
6	7	Jimmy Guerrero	France	750000
6	8	Michel Abecassis	France	151000

7	1	Marcin Chmielewski	Poland	1314000
7	2	Asan Umarov	Kazakhstan	301000
7	3	Rintaro Kagawa	Japan	580000
7	4	Randy Lew	USA	455000
7	5	Andrea Rocci	Italy	388000
7	6	Nicolas Cardyn	France	131000
7	8	Oleh Cherepianyi	Ukraine	234000

8	1	Markus Durnegger	Austria	226000
8	2	Pierre Tilmant	Belgium	271000
8	3	Pierre Calamusa	France	580000
8	4	Koichi Nozaki	Japan	383000
8	5	Joseph Mouawad	USA	205000
8	6	Paul-Francois Tedeschi	France	661000
8	7	Ivan Soshnikov	Russia	372000
8	8	Aaron Gustavson	USA	458000

9	1	Benjamin Philipps	UK	376000
9	3	Fady Kamar	Lebanon	103000
9	4	Albert Sebag	France	159000
9	5	Nacho Barbero	Argentina	461000
9	6	Evangelos Terzoudis	Greece	985000
9	7	Jan Bengelmann	Germany	667000
9	8	Kiryl Radzivonau	Belarus	331000

10	1	Youssef Finianos	Lebanon	112000
10	2	Jason Gray	Australia	287000
10	3	Matthew Davenport	UK	617000
10	4	Adrien Allain	France	810000
10	5	Enver Abduraimov	Germany	235000
10	6	Joao Vieira	Portugal	313000
10	8	Govert Metaal	Netherlands	704000

Tags: Aaron Gustavson Adrien Allain Antoine Saout Dario Sammartino David Peters Davidi Kitai Dermot Blain Dimitar Danchev Dominykas Karmazinas Erik Seidel Erwann Pecheux Evangelos Terzoudis Fatima Moreira De Melo Govert Metaal Ilan Boujenah Jake Cody Javier Zarco John Gale John Juanda Juan Etcheverry Kristen Bicknell Marcin Chmielewski Max Silver Mike Watson Natan Chauskin Paul Hoefer Pierre Calamusa Randy Lew Roman Korenev Salvatore Bonavena Sam Chartier Steven van Zadelhoff Thiago Nishijima Vanessa Selbst Yucel Eminoglu

05-03-2016 20:23 UTC+1

End-Of-Day Counts (full)

Christian Zetzsche

Level 19 : 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Marcin Chmielewski	1,314,000 14,000	14,000
Natan Chauskin	1,107,000 32,000	32,000
Roman Korenev	1,091,000 1,000	1,000
Evangelos Terzoudis	985,000 69,000	69,000
Mohamed Aissani	926,000 26,000	26,000
Dario Sammartino	902,000 82,000	82,000
Thiago Nishijima	840,000 -100,000	-100,000
Erwann Pecheux	818,000 10,000	10,000
Adrien Allain	810,000 -66,000	-66,000
Fatima Moreira de Melo	807,000 -73,000	-73,000

Fabio Sperling	800,000 305,000	305,000
Jimmy Guerrero	750,000 570,000	570,000
Govert Metaal	704,000 -11,000	-11,000
Alexios Zervos	700,000 -100,000	-100,000
Thi Xoa Nguyen	670,000 105,000	105,000
Jan Bengelmann	667,000 35,000	35,000
Paul-Francois Tedeschi	661,000 311,000	311,000
Antoine Saout	626,000 276,000	276,000
Vanessa Selbst	618,000 73,000	73,000

Matthew Davenport	617,000 23,000	23,000
Rintaro Kagawa	580,000 125,000	125,000
Pierre Calamusa	580,000 -100,000	-100,000

Jan Bendik	576,000 101,000	101,000

Albert Daher	566,000 -54,000	-54,000
Oren Rosen	525,000 117,000	117,000

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05-03-2016 20:15 UTC+1

Chmielewski and Aissani Thriving

Christian Zetzsche

Level 19 : 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante

Marcin Chmielewski just clashed with Kiryl Radzivonau in a three-bet pot according to the colleagues of the PokerStars blog where Radzivonau three-bet big to 125,000 from the cutoff. Only the Pole called and the duo checked the flop. On the turn, Chmielewski bet 110,000 and was called before the board completed with the river.

Radzivonau was put all in for around 330,000 and the Belorussian folded after plenty of consideration, claiming to have had ace-queen.

Also thriving at the end: Mohamed Aissani. He had an opponent four-bet jam for 300,000 with ace-king and Aissani snap-called with pocket aces.

Player	Chips	Progress
Marcin Chmielewski	1,300,000 450,000	450,000
Mohamed Aissani	900,000 383,000	383,000
Kiryl Radzivonau	330,000 -62,000	-62,000

Tags: Kiryl Radzivonau Marcin Chmielewski Mohamed Aissani

05-03-2016 20:12 UTC+1

Selbst Big, Not Bigger

[user127999]

Level 19 : 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante

Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst was looking to bag huge, but she might have to settle for just bagging big, after doubling up Joseph Mouawad with the clock getting short in the day's final level.

He shoved close to 90,000 and she pushed in to isolate with the . Selbst was shaking her head the whole way as the board rolled out to the turn, giving Mouawad's multiple ways to win.

The was one of them, with Mouawad making a straight to double up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Vanessa Selbst	545,000 -295,000	-295,000

Joseph Mouawad	180,000 120,000	120,000

05-03-2016 20:08 UTC+1

Turning Down The Heat

[user127999]

Level 19 : 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante

Thi Xoa Nguyen had been on a massive heater since the bubble, but just cooled off a bit.

She made it 17,000 under the gun and Andrea Rocci defended his big blind.

She continued on the flop and bet a healthy 63,000 after Rocci checked the turn. Rocci called again and they both checked the river. Rocci showed the and Nguyen mucked.

Player	Chips	Progress
Thi Xoa Nguyen	565,000 -85,000	-85,000
Andrea Rocci	350,000 -43,000	-43,000

Tags: Andrea Rocci Thi Xoa Nguyen

05-03-2016 20:06 UTC+1

Three Hands To Go!

Christian Zetzsche

Level 19 : 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante

The clock has been stopped with 76 players left according to the screens and three more hands will be played before bagging and tagging.

05-03-2016 20:02 UTC+1

Siddique Gone

Christian Zetzsche

Level 19 : 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante

Usman Siddique's tournament has come to an end with against the of Stephan Zesiger. The flop gave the Swiss a gutshot and while the turn was a blank, the river completed said flush to send the Brit packing.

Player	Chips	Progress
Stephan Zesiger	450,000 275,000	275,000
Usman Siddique	Busted

Tags: Stephan Zesiger Usman Siddique

05-03-2016 19:55 UTC+1

Moreira de Melo Gets Over On Gale

[user127999]

Level 19 : 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante

Team PokerStars SportStar Fatima Moreira de Melo is back in the black here after busting the venerable John Gale.

The multiple bracelet winner and brain cancer survivor shoved in on the turn of an board for 160,000 with about 90,000 in the middle already.

Moreira de Melo didn't call quickly, but she did call with the . Gale was on the and graciously said good game on his way out the door when the river bricked.