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6.40pm: Tobias Reinkemeier wins €25,000 High Roller at EPT Grand Final Olivier Busquet out in second, winning €956,000 That's that for season six. Tobias Reinkemeier is the champion. Here's how the last hand went. Reinkemeier raised to 100,000 and Busquet shoved all in for just less than a million chip....more

5.10pm: Heads up counts The chip counts going into heads-up play are as follows: Tobias Reinkemeier: 3,136,000 Olivier Busquet: 2,508,000 5.05pm: Dori Yacoub out in third, winning €358,500 Dori Yacoub has just bluffed himself out of this tournament - and Tobias Reinkemeier made a terrific call to pick him off....more

2.40pm: Break time That's the end of the level. Players are now on a 15 minute break. 2.35pm: Reinkemeier continues to roll On a flop of 3♥3♦9♥ Dori Yacoub bet 80,000 and Reinkemeier check called for a 7♣ turn. Reinkemeier checked again before Yacoub bet 142,000. Again Reinkemeier called for...more

At about 4.10pm yesterday, the Lebanese player Nicolas Chouity seized the chip lead at the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo. There were 16 players remaining and more than a day's play before the end. But at about 9.15pm today, Chouity was crowned the latest champion on the EPT -...more

9.15pm: We have a winner Nicolas Chouity wins EPT Grand Final and €1.7m Josef Klinger out in second, winning €1m It seemed pre-ordained that Nicolas Chouity would win this event and win it he just did. Chip leader from start to finish Chouity snap-called Josef Klinger's all-in. He had good...more

6.15pm: Break time The end of another level and a 15 minute break in play. 6.10pm: Aleh Plauski eliminated in sixth place It seems like a lifetime since the last elimination but Aleh Plauski is out. He shoved for 680,000 with K♥T♣ and was called by Nicolas Chouity with A♣Q♦....more

There were two sides to day four of the EPT Grand Final, and you were either on the good side or the bad. It may have been determined by something as random as table draw, or something more rudimentary, like how many chips you had when you first took...more

9.40pm: Chips Here's how our final table will sit down tomorrow. A full wrap of today's play will be with you shortly. -- SY Seat 1: Herve Costa, 1,590,000 Seat 2: Roger Hairabedian, 1,130,000 Seat 3: Aleh Plauski, 1,695,000 Seat 4: Dominykas Karmazinas, 2,285,000 Seat 5: Josef Klinger, 1,170,000 Seat...more

6.10pm: Dinner time Level 26 has counted to a close - and that's now a 75-minute dinner break for the Main Event. There are 11 players remaining and their counts are on the chip count page (updated in a couple of minutes). We'll return to identify the "unlucky" lucky three...more

The seat and table draw for day four at the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo is as follows: (Table, seat, name, chips) 1 1 Craig Mccorkell 1,498,000 1 2 Dominykas Karmazinas 866,000 1 3 Matt Perrins 2,618,000 1 4 Herve Costa 1,105,000 1 5 Josef Klinger 622,000 1 6...more

Main Events on the EPT typically last five days, and if you're in the market for easy analogy you could say it's like a working week. The big beers are on anyone left in the office late on Friday night. That makes today, day three, Wednesday. It's the hump in...more

9.46pm: At the bell In what would turn out to be the last hand of the night Paul Berende got his chips in with David Sesso calling. Berende showed K♠Q♣ to Sasso's A♣Q♦. The board ran 7♥T♣2♣4♠8♠ giving the chips to Sasso. Berende had Sasso covered but only just, leaving...more

There is a chip leader somewhere in the midst of the crowd of 116 surviving players of day two, but the goal of players this day was to make the money. Well 128 of them did that today, making for a rapturous ending to day two, a finale of...more

Midnight: That's that The day is done. The chip leader overnight is Nick Schulman with 742,000, followed by David Sesso on 642,500 and Jean Francois Talbot with 635,000. A full wrap is on its way. -- HS 11.53pm: Last three hands Thomas Kremser has told each dealer to play three...more

10.25pm: Mid-break update A quick chat with Jean Francois "2eazy" Talbot has revealed he actually has 620,000 - at least. He leads. -- HS 10.20pm: Speaking of breaks They're taking 15 minutes now. Join us for level 16. 10.20pm: €15,000 is a lot of money The bubble at the EPT...more

If there's one thing we've learned over the years from this annual trip to Monte Carlo it's that you shouldn't expect change from €50 if you're hoping to get a dessert. If there's two things we've learned, then the second is this: they don't call it the EPT Grand Final...more

11.35pm: Over That's that, day is done. Thiago Nishijima, with 264,200, is the leader of today and of both day ones in fact. The full official count will be available here soon and a wrap of the day's events will be up soon too. Team PokerStars Pro William Thorson exited...more

10.18pm: Break That's the end of level 8. Players are now taking a 15 minute break while the green 25 chips are colored up. Then it's one more level before play ends for the night. -- SY 10.16pm: Calm before the calm Joe Elpayaa just moved all-in for around 15,000....more

This is the 13th event of season six so we expect you know the drill by now. A mass of humanity turned up to play day 1A today, 351 to be exact, each paying €10,000 for 30,000 chips and one last crack of the EPT whip before the summer...more

11.45pm: Big stacks Our full wrap is on its way, but here's a sneak preview. The three big stacks at the end of the day seem to be: Simon Munz: 175,200 Chris Bjorin: 171,100 Antonio Palma: 169,000 11.30pm: Four hands The tournament director has announced that we'll be playing four...more

10.24pm: Level up That's the end of level 8. We're on a 15-minute break before we play the last level of the day. -- SY 10.22pm: Records to be broken and family support There are players you look at in a field and think: "Will you ever win an EPT?"...more