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 for nothing. From the moment the roof of the Salles des Etoiles slides back at the start of day 1A, there's a feeling of improbable grandeur, and grandness, about proceedings here. This is, on the one hand, big but it's also prestigious. In Monte Carlo, you're never more than six
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EPT Monte Carlo: Brazilian Nishijima sambas to top of day 1B counts
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EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B, level 9 updates (500-1,000, 100 ante)
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
EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B, level 7 & 8 updates (400-800, 75 ante)
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
EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B, level 5 & 6 updates (150-300, 25 ante)
6.45pm: Dinner break sweetener for Sundin On the last hand before the break, Mats Sundin doubled up his short stack. He had pocket tens and got his last 12,000-odd in pre-flop and won the race against a big slick. That'll make supper taste a little sweeter. And that takes us...more
EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B, levels 3 & 4 updates (150-300)
4.31pm: Level over That's about that for this level. Join us after a 15-minute break in level five. -- HS 4.30pm: Mercier's four-bet fail It was one of the tables that we'd picked out at the start of the day. When you've got Marcel Luske, Carter Phillips and Jason Mercier...more
EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B, level 1 & 2 updates (75-150)
2.14pm: Level up, break That's level 2 out of the way and the players now take a 15-minute break. -- SY 2.13pm: Weisner is on fire Off the back of one winning pot she's straight into another, this time against John Tabatabai. Weisner opened and was called by Tabatabai on...more
EPT Monte Carlo: It's day one, part two
The helicopters have landed and crumbs from the €18 croissants have (mostly) been wiped from mouths. It's time for day 1B of the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo, another flight of fun and fantasy and, inevitably, failure for some. Yesterday 351 players anted up their ten grand for a...more
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