€10,600 Main Event | 2014 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final

05-02-2014 08:53 UTC+1

Seat 4: Mayu Roca, 27, Bogotá, Columbia – PokerStars qualifier – 4,625,000 chips

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Mayu "Marroca5" Roca is already top of Colombia’s all-time money list for live tournament winnings, and his score here in Monaco will extend that lead significantly. Not only is Roca Colombia’s only WCOOP champion, having won a $530 Stud hi-lo event in 2011 for $25,545, but the 27-year-old has registered more than $3.1m in online tournaments cashes. "I definitely believe that I can win," Roca said. "I look at that first prize and daydream about it, but I just concentrate on the tournament."

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Player	Chips	Progress
Mayu Roca	4,625,000

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Seat 5: Magnus Karlsson, 33, Linkoping, Sweden – PokerStars qualifier - 2,595,000 chips

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Karlsson has been playing poker for 19 years, starting with 5 card draw home games with friends “for pennies”. He’s been a pro since 2005, describing himself as an online grinder, mainly playing heads-up and six max cash games. Karlsson has now competed in four PokerStars events – APPT Cebu, the PCA, UKIPT Dublin and now here in Monaco – and cashed each time. He hails from the city of Linkoping, which was once the hottest poker city in the world, and home also to well-known Swedish pros Erik Sagstrom and Bengt Sonnert among others.

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Player	Chips	Progress
Magnus Karlsson	2,595,000

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Seat 6: Malte Moennig, 27, Cologne, Germany – PokerStars qualifier - 1,150,000 chips

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Malte Moennig, from Cologne, Germany, mainly plays tournaments online where his biggest score was a $40,000 win on PokerStars. He qualified for the EPT Grand Final in a 25,000 FPP VIP Bash. Moennig's previous tournament cashes were 15th at UKIPT Bristol for £3,155 and 65th at the EPT Season 8 Grand Final for €20,000. No matter what happens on the final table, this will be his biggest live cash.

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Player	Chips	Progress
Malte Moennig	1,150,000

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Seat 7: Antonio Buonanno, 47, Marzano Appio, Italy – 2,065,000

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Antonio Buonanno, who is an EPT regular, was born in Naples but now splits his time between his homes in Marzano Appio in the province of Caserta, and Valletta, the capital of Malta. He used to own several clothing stores but is now a full time poker professional. He's been an IPT and EPT regular for the past three to four years and prefers playing live to online. His lifetime tournament winnings amount to $390,848, more than half of that from a fourth place in a $5,000 no limit event at the World Series last summer for $231,147.

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Antonio Buonanno	2,065,000

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Seat 8: Sebastian Von Toperczer, 25, Lohmar (near Bonn), Germany – PokerStars qualifier - 1,240,000

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Sebastian Toperczer is an economics student originally from Germany but who spent two semesters studying in Norway. He’s a PokerStars qualifier and won his seat in a €215 satellite at the end of February. He’s been playing on the EPT since Sanremo in Season 9 and is now a regular on the tour with two cashes in Main Events (Barcelona and Sanremo) plus five side events. He goes in to tomorrow’s final as one of the shorter stacks but is guaranteed at least €128,800 which close to doubles his lifetime tournament winnings of €76,000.

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Sebastian von Toperczer	1,240,000

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