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Day 2 of the EPT Grand Finals in the Bay Casino in Monte Carlo started with 340 players at the end of the day had 85 players qualified for Day 3. The Irishman Andy Black had worked steadily to the front and after the evening meal break chip leader, he ended Day 2 with incredible 513,300 chips.
Black started his day at the toughest table of the whole tournament, sat at his table Dave Colclough, John Shipley, Barry Greenstein and Chris Moneymaker. Black built his chip stack but amazingly quickly, so he could as a pot in the amount of 100K chips win when he Barry Greenstein sent home. Both players were pre-flop all-in, Greenstein’s AK
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but not sufficient to Black’s AA to beat.
Since the seats at the tables during the day quite often redistributed (partially locomotives players as soon after that, it barely came to write the names), Black played at many tables, but he managed to the table always with more chips to leave when he was at the top of the table had brought. When he was a considerable chip stack up, he went to the aggressive attack on überrollte and his opponents in the storm.
“He is a Raise machine,” said a British reporter, “he plays very aggressive. Nobody can stop him.”
Josh Arieh, which is the first time in a tournament EPT participated, was at the end of the second day in relation to the chip stack. Most chips, he could win when he was a bluff erahnte and a pot with over 100K won. This pot Josh made at that time even the chip leader.
“Well, let’s play poker!” said Josh, as he chips aufstapelte.
Arieh As a reporter asked his name, he replied: “Billy Madison”. As we understand fun, we just assumed because Arieh a big fan of the Adam Sandler movie “Billy Madison”.
“The European style of play is something different,” said Arieh, “But I will already be accustomed.”
Arieh, Black and Brown were the fierce attacks of young Scandinavian players stand. The Scandinavian players have the reputation of being hyperaggressiv to play and are perfect because of their “poker faces” very difficult to read.
This group included players: Simon Johansson (Sweden), Johnny Lodden (Norway), Christopher Ulsrud (Norway), Philip Hilm (Denmark), David Sonelin (Sweden), Kristian Kjondal (Norway), Soren Bakfort (Denmark), Patric Martensson (Sweden), Thomas Wahlroos (Finland), Ricki Nielsen (Denmark), Chris Bjorin (Sweden), Lars Eidissen (Norway), Lars Bonding (Denmark) and Gunnar East Brod (Norway)
The Norwegians Johnny Lodden was both an object of interest for the European press, as well as for the players against which it during the tournament had each other. He is one of the most successful online Texas Holdem poker players. Johnny is in the online Texas Holdem poker scene under his screen name “Bad_ip” very well known. Lodden said: “I have this year for each EPT tournament in action. I love live Turniern to play, especially when the big events. Live tournaments are somehow better than to play online.
Phil Helmut was one of the many players on Day 2 which had to be eliminated. Phil “The Texas Holdem poker Brat” could return home after its KK against AA had lost.
Due to the large number of players, which in the course of the day 2 were already resigned, was tournament director Thomas Kremser decided the day 2, a chip-earlier level to an end. The place seats from 64 receive prize money, thus there are only 21 places up to the Bubble.
Below is the prize money for the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo:
Total participants: 706
Prize pool: € 6,626,400
Disbursements:
1st € 1,825,010
2nd € 1,061,820
3rd € 610.550
4th € 471.180
5th € 391.550
6th € 305.270
7th € 238.910
8. € 159.270
9-10. € 99.550
11-12. € 66.360
13-14. € 49.770
15-16. € 39.820
17-24. € 33.180
25-32. € 26.550
33-40. € 23.230
41-48. € 19.910
49-56. € 16.590
57-64. € 13.270
On Day 2 had inter alia, the following players eliminated: Patrik Antonius, Erica Schoenberg, Barry Greenstein, Phil Hellmuth, John Gale, Jan Boubli, Kevin O’Donnell, Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Mark Vos, Harry Demetriou, Noah Boeken, Theo Jorgensen , Greg Raymer, Harry Demetriou, Nik Persaud, Victor Ramdin, George Danzer, Shane tube Eger, Michaela Johansson, Alexander Stevic, Katja Thater, David Colclough, Martin De Knijff, William Thorson, Patrik Antonius, Bill Chen, Fabrice Soulier, John Shipley, Vicky Coren, Casey Kastle, David Benyamine, Chris Moneymaker, Anthony Holden, Isabelle Mercier, Jan Van Hall and Carl Olson.
Top 10 chip counts at the end of Day 2:
Andy Black (Ireland) 513.300
Josh Arieh (USA) 343.100
Antony Lellouche (France) 332.100
Johnny Lodden (Norway) 310.900
Simon Johansson (Sweden) 302.100
Christopher Ulsrud (Norway) 286.800
Philip Hilm (Denmark) 273.200
Oscar Blanco Carrasco (Spain) 245.900
Steve Jelinek (England) 226.400
Biri Balazs (Hungary) 219.200
Other notable chip stacks:
Chad Brown (USA) 212.900
Marc Karam (Canada) 196.700
Jonathan Little (USA) 176.300
Carlos Mortensen (Spain) 174.700
Pete Giordano (USA) 167.800
Thomas Wahlroos (Finland) 154.900
Ram Vaswani (UK) 141.900
Ricki Nielsen (Denmark) 138.400
Chris Bjorin (Sweden) 136.600
Peter Dalhuijsen Christiaan (Holland) 120.600
Lars Bonding (Denmark) 119.500
Gavin Griffin (USA) 111.200
Joe Beevers (UK) 82.800
Josh Prager (USA) 60.400
David “Devil Fish” Ulliott (UK) 54.400
Patric Martensson (Sweden) 47.300
Ali Masterman (UK) 44.300
Ross Boatman (UK) 32.900
On day 3 is the start of the tournament for 2:00 pm (local time). Texas Holdem poker News reported live from Monaco again, stay with Texas Holdem poker News on the date we deliver the best photos and videos – Texas Holdem poker News Reporting live EPT Monte Carlo.
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