Beim €5.300 Main Event der PokerStars Monte-Carlo®Casino European Poker Tour gingen gestern alle Qualifikanten für Tag 2 auf die gemeinsame Reise in Richtung bezahlte Plätze.
Außerdem war noch die Late Reg möglich, sodass es schließlich 922 und damit deutlich mehr Entries als im Vorjahr waren, die für einen Preisgeldtopf von knapp €4,5 Millionen sorgten.
Neben vielen internationalen Stars wie Ryan Riess, Ramon Colillas, Sam Greenwood oder Mikita Badziakouski waren auch etliche deutschsprachige Spieler am Start, von denen sich vor allem Paul Michaelis glänzend schlug.
Der Bracelet-Gewinner und EPT-Prag-Sieger von 2018 mischte immer im Vorderfeld mit, konnte am Ende trotz eines unglücklich verlorenen Potts mit AA gegen 66 von Wiktor Malinowski einen Platz unter den Top Ten belegen und hat heute alle Chancen, sich weiter im Vorderfeld zu behaupten.
Der Pole Malinowski derweil setzte sich nach der zwischenzeitlichen Führung beim €100k Super Highroller ein weiteres Mal an die Spitze des Feldes und geht heute als Chipleader in Tag 3.
Aus deutschsprachiger Sicht ebenfalls noch dabei sind unter anderem Manig Löser, Maxi Lehmanski, Christoph Vogelsang, Artur Koren und Markus Dürnegger, während sich andere wie Diego Zeiter und Jerome Rüfenacht zwar verabschieden mussten, aber immerhin in den Genuss des Min-Cash von €8.800 bzw. von €9.660 kamen.
Insgesamt 107 Spieler schafften den Sprung in Tag 3, und mit einer tollen Mischung aus sehr bekannten und weniger renommierten Namen wird es heute sicher wieder einen hochinteressanten Turniertag geben.
Erneut wird es einen Livestream geben, den ihr bei uns ab 12:30 Uhr verfolgen könnt.
EPT Monte Carlo, Main Event, Stand nach Tag 2:
| Name | Land | Chips | Tisch | Seat |
| Wiktor Malinowski | Poland | 769.000 | 8 | 1 |
| Julien Martini | France | 735.000 | 9 | 2 |
| Seth Davies | USA | 684.000 | 8 | 4 |
| James Romero | USA | 630.000 | 7 | 2 |
| Jean Fontaine | France | 628.000 | 14 | 4 |
| Pablo Melogno | Uruguay | 607.000 | 13 | 8 |
| Ludovic Geilich | UK | 606.000 | 6 | 4 |
| Ami Barer | Canada | 604.000 | 8 | 6 |
| Paul Michaelis | Germany | 573.000 | 9 | 8 |
| Tomas Macnamara | UK | 542.000 | 6 | 2 |
| Christophe Panetti | Switzerland | 495.000 | 5 | 8 |
| Ramon Miquel Munoz | Spain | 491.000 | 8 | 7 |
| Timothy Adams | Canada | 482.000 | 14 | 6 |
| Konstantinos Asgoudakis | Greece | 477.000 | 2 | 6 |
| Remi Castaignon | France | 440.000 | 14 | 8 |
| Francois Evard | Switzerland | 435.000 | 14 | 5 |
| Ionut Voinea | Romania | 434.000 | 4 | 7 |
| Jack Maskill | UK | 431.000 | 1 | 7 |
| Ariel Celestino | Brazil | 411.000 | 9 | 1 |
| Manig Löser | Germany | 410.000 | 2 | 7 |
| Nicola Grieco | Italy | 409.000 | 7 | 4 |
| Govert Metaal | Netherlands | 397.000 | 2 | 8 |
| Aladin Reskallah | France | 380.000 | 11 | 1 |
| Rustam Hajiyev | Azerbaijan | 377.000 | 13 | 1 |
| Massimo Mosele | Italy | 372.000 | 3 | 5 |
| Jorden Verbraeken | Belgium | 367.000 | 6 | 3 |
| Dario Sammartino | Italy | 365.000 | 11 | 6 |
| Orpen Kisacikoglu | Turkey | 361.000 | 7 | 7 |
| Viktor Katzenberger | Hungary | 352.000 | 1 | 5 |
| Bruno Volkmann | Brazil | 348.000 | 9 | 5 |
| Ignacio Barcenas Romera | Spain | 341.000 | 12 | 3 |
| Patrik Antonius | Finland | 333.000 | 4 | 3 |
| Maxi Lehmanski | Germany | 327.000 | 14 | 2 |
| Charles La Boissonniere | Canada | 320.000 | 3 | 3 |
| Ibrahim Ghassan | Lebanon | 312.000 | 3 | 8 |
| Thomas Hueber | Austria | 305.000 | 12 | 7 |
| Cedric Boussetta | France | 304.000 | 5 | 2 |
| Alisa Sibgatova | Russia | 303.000 | 3 | 2 |
| Nicola D’Anselmo | Italy | 292.000 | 7 | 8 |
| Georgios Kitsios | Greece | 263.000 | 4 | 5 |
| Masato Yokosawa | Japan | 262.000 | 1 | 8 |
| Conor Beresford | UK | 248.000 | 10 | 2 |
| Sam Greenwood | Canada | 245.000 | 13 | 5 |
| Erwann Pecheux | France | 235.000 | 10 | 8 |
| Karoly Odor | Hungary | 230.000 | 2 | 1 |
| Michael Wang | USA | 225.000 | 13 | 2 |
| Fady Kamar | Lebanon | 223.000 | 7 | 1 |
| Martin Schacher | Switzerland | 222.000 | 4 | 1 |
| Johann Zeitoun | France | 222.000 | 5 | 7 |
| Milos Lalovic | Serbia | 217.000 | 13 | 4 |
| Gen Nose | Japan | 215.000 | 11 | 2 |
| Michail Karapanos | Greece | 210.000 | 11 | 5 |
| Sylvain Mazza | France | 207.000 | 10 | 3 |
| David Lascar | France | 204.000 | 14 | 3 |
| Ryan Riess | USA | 202.000 | 7 | 6 |
| Artur Koren | Germany | 199.000 | 10 | 6 |
| Vlado Banicevic | 198.000 | 1 | ||
| Boris Kolev | Bulgaria | 196.000 | 12 | 2 |
| Markus Dürnegger | Austria | 194.000 | 10 | 5 |
| Christoph Vogelsang | Germany | 193.000 | 12 | 5 |
| Malikeh Razavi | Iran | 192.000 | 8 | 2 |
| Karim Jamil | Belgium | 185.000 | 3 | 7 |
| Mikalai Vaskaboinikau | Belarus | 181.000 | 4 | 4 |
| Vamshi Vandanapu | UK | 174.000 | 9 | 7 |
| Pierre Merlin | France | 172.000 | 8 | 3 |
| Oleg Larichev | Russia | 170.000 | 6 | 7 |
| Armin Rezaei | Austria | 169.000 | 11 | 4 |
| Eusebiu Jalba | Romania | 165.000 | 5 | 1 |
| Rocco Palumbo | Italy | 163.000 | 12 | 6 |
| Evy Widvey Kvilhaug | Norway | 162.000 | 12 | 8 |
| Nicolas Chouity | Lebanon | 156.000 | 8 | 8 |
| Fatima Moreira De Melo | Netherlands | 154.000 | 10 | 7 |
| Serafim Kovalevskiy | Russia | 149.000 | 11 | 8 |
| Wei Huang | China | 147.000 | 12 | 1 |
| Emrah Cakmak | France | 143.000 | 3 | 6 |
| Dirk Wiele | Germany | 143.000 | 11 | 3 |
| Maksim Kolosov | Russia | 142.000 | 1 | 3 |
| Ivan Deyra | France | 142.000 | 9 | 3 |
| Ramon Colillas | Spain | 134.000 | 4 | 8 |
| Morgan Aceto | France | 131.000 | 5 | 4 |
| Luis Medina | Portugal | 128.000 | 6 | 5 |
| Ambrose Travers | UK | 122.000 | 1 | 6 |
| Enio Bozzano | Brazil | 120.000 | 5 | 3 |
| Danilo Velasevic | Serbia | 118.000 | 9 | 4 |
| Michel Bouskila | Australia | 117.000 | 2 | 5 |
| Ermo Kosk | Estonia | 111.000 | 2 | 4 |
| Romain Lewis | France | 108.000 | 7 | 5 |
| Corentin Ropert | France | 107.000 | 5 | 5 |
| Tamer Kamel | UK | 106.000 | 9 | 6 |
| Dominykas Karmazinas | Lithuania | 105.000 | 1 | 2 |
| Andreas Vlachos | Greece | 97.000 | 13 | 7 |
| Vincas Tamasauskas | Lithuania | 90.000 | 1 | 4 |
| Vlad Darie | Romania | 90.000 | 4 | 2 |
| Vahe Ter-Khachatryan | Armenia | 88.000 | 8 | 5 |
| Antonio Scalzi | Italy | 87.000 | 14 | 7 |
| Andreas Klatt | Germany | 83.000 | 6 | 8 |
| Aram Sargsyan | Armenia | 82.000 | 7 | 3 |
| Roberto Fernandez | Spain | 81.000 | 14 | 1 |
| Jean Mikhael | Lebanon | 80.000 | 3 | 1 |
| Robert Nesh | Russia | 76.000 | 11 | 7 |
| Huan Jiaming | China | 67.000 | 6 | 6 |
| Mikita Badziakouski | Belarus | 65.000 | 13 | 3 |
| Guy Catan | France | 64.000 | 3 | 4 |
| Jonas Lauck | Germany | 64.000 | 4 | 6 |
| Oshri Lahmani | Israel | 55.000 | 2 | 2 |
| Sergei Bagirov | Russia | 51.000 | 12 | 4 |
| Artur Martirosian | Russia | 30.000 | 10 | 1 |
Payouts:
| Rang | Name | Land | Preisgeld |
| 1 | €827.700 | ||
| 2 | €503.960 | ||
| 3 | €353.880 | ||
| 4 | €265.620 | ||
| 5 | €206.590 | ||
| 6 | €152.800 | ||
| 7 | €109.510 | ||
| 8 | €78.030 | ||
| 9 | €61.620 | ||
| 10 | €50.930 | ||
| 11 | €50.930 | ||
| 12 | €45.570 | ||
| 13 | €45.570 | ||
| 14 | €41.090 | ||
| 15 | €41.090 | ||
| 16 | €36.620 | ||
| 17 | €36.620 | ||
| 18 | €32.150 | ||
| 19 | €32.150 | ||
| 20 | €32.150 | ||
| 21 | €27.680 | ||
| 22 | €27.680 | ||
| 23 | €27.680 | ||
| 24 | €23.210 | ||
| 25 | €23.210 | ||
| 26 | €23.210 | ||
| 27 | €23.210 | ||
| 28 | €19.990 | ||
| 29 | €19.990 | ||
| 30 | €19.990 | ||
| 31 | €19.990 | ||
| 32 | €17.310 | ||
| 33 | €17.310 | ||
| 34 | €17.310 | ||
| 35 | €17.310 | ||
| 36 | €17.310 | ||
| 37 | €17.310 | ||
| 38 | €17.310 | ||
| 39 | €17.310 | ||
| 40 | €14.800 | ||
| 41 | €14.800 | ||
| 42 | €14.800 | ||
| 43 | €14.800 | ||
| 44 | €14.800 | ||
| 45 | €14.800 | ||
| 46 | €14.800 | ||
| 47 | €14.800 | ||
| 48 | €14.800 | ||
| 49 | €14.800 | ||
| 50 | €14.800 | ||
| 51 | €14.800 | ||
| 52 | €14.800 | ||
| 53 | €14.800 | ||
| 54 | €14.800 | ||
| 55 | €14.800 | ||
| 56 | €12.790 | ||
| 57 | €12.790 | ||
| 58 | €12.790 | ||
| 59 | €12.790 | ||
| 60 | €12.790 | ||
| 61 | €12.790 | ||
| 62 | €12.790 | ||
| 63 | €12.790 | ||
| 64 | €12.790 | ||
| 65 | €12.790 | ||
| 66 | €12.790 | ||
| 67 | €12.790 | ||
| 68 | €12.790 | ||
| 69 | €12.790 | ||
| 70 | €12.790 | ||
| 71 | €12.790 | ||
| 72 | €10.780 | ||
| 73 | €10.780 | ||
| 74 | €10.780 | ||
| 75 | €10.780 | ||
| 76 | €10.780 | ||
| 77 | €10.780 | ||
| 78 | €10.780 | ||
| 79 | €10.780 | ||
| 80 | €10.780 | ||
| 81 | €10.780 | ||
| 82 | €10.780 | ||
| 83 | €10.780 | ||
| 84 | €10.780 | ||
| 85 | €10.780 | ||
| 86 | €10.780 | ||
| 87 | €10.780 | ||
| 88 | €10.780 | ||
| 89 | €10.780 | ||
| 90 | €10.780 | ||
| 91 | €10.780 | ||
| 92 | €10.780 | ||
| 93 | €10.780 | ||
| 94 | €10.780 | ||
| 95 | €10.780 | ||
| 96 | €9.660 | ||
| 97 | €9.660 | ||
| 98 | €9.660 | ||
| 99 | €9.660 | ||
| 100 | €9.660 | ||
| 101 | €9.660 | ||
| 102 | €9.660 | ||
| 103 | €9.660 | ||
| 104 | €9.660 | ||
| 105 | €9.660 | ||
| 106 | €9.660 | ||
| 107 | €9.660 | ||
| 108 | Jeffrey Hakim | Lebanon | €9.660 |
| 109 | Jose Maria Galindo | Spain | €9.660 |
| 110 | Mike Watson | Canada | €9.660 |
| 111 | Diego Zeiter | Switzerland | €9.660 |
| 112 | Gaelle Baumann | France | €9.660 |
| 113 | Eric Rabut | France | €9.660 |
| 114 | Shahar Levi | Israel | €9.660 |
| 115 | Joseph Mouawad | USA | €9.660 |
| 116 | Salvatore Donato | Italy | €9.660 |
| 117 | Nicola Basile | Canada | €9.660 |
| 118 | Yilong Wang | China | €9.660 |
| 119 | Zoubir Bel Hachemi | France | €9.660 |
| 120 | Daniel Dvoress | Canada | €8.800 |
| 121 | Vitaliy Li | Russia | €8.800 |
| 122 | Eder Takashi Murata | Brazil | €8.800 |
| 123 | Sam Grafton | UK | €8.800 |
| 124 | Nariman Yaghmai | Iran | €8.800 |
| 125 | Trygve Leite | Norway | €8.800 |
| 126 | Flavio Dias Fonseca Da Silva | Brazil | €8.800 |
| 127 | Jonathan Concepcion | Spain | €8.800 |
| 128 | Romain Piraux | France | €8.800 |
| 129 | Paul Tedeschi | France | €8.800 |
| 130 | Xiqiang Chen | China | €8.800 |
| 131 | Jerome Rüfenacht | Switzerland | €8.800 |
| 132 | Benny Glaser | UK | €8.800 |
| 133 | Cosmos Yamanaka | Japan | €8.800 |
| 134 | Slim Ezzaouia | Tunisia | €8.800 |
| 135 | Rostislav Evdokimov | Russia | €8.800 |
