2014 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final

€10,600 Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info

2014 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a4
Prize
€1,240,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€10,000
Prize Pool
€6,500,000
Entries
650
Level Info
Level
35
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
40,000

Level: 8

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 75

The Eliminations Keep Coming

Level 7 : 250/500, 50 ante
Player Chips Progress
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Kostyantyn Shulga
Busted
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Maxime Marcouiller
Busted
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Yue Sue
Busted
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Kresten Nielsen
Busted
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Santiago Nadal
Busted
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Filippo Lazzaretto
Busted
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Oleksii Kovalchuk
Busted
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Sam Greenwood
Busted
Run It Once
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Michael Telker
Busted
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Sam Chartier
Busted
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Jarrod Rex
Busted
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Max Greenwood
Busted
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Antoine Saout
Busted
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Oliver Price
Busted
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Julian Stuer
Busted
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Andrey Lobzhanidze
Busted
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Arno del Curto
Busted
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Zhapar Sultanov
Busted
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Julia Derkach
Busted
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Leo McClean
Busted

Geilich Primed to Continue His Stellar Year

Level 7 : 250/500, 50 ante
Ludovic Geilich
Ludovic Geilich

Some big stacks are beginning to emerge here in the penultimate level of the night, and Ludovic Geilich is one of them. Earlier this month, Geilich, who plays online under "ludovi333," notched a Super Tuesday win for $101,325.13 following a four-handed deal at the final table. That online score came less than a year after Geilich won the PokerStars UKIPT Marbella Main Event for €130,000.

In a recent hand, four players each put in 1,100 preflop to see a flop of {k-Diamonds}{q-Hearts}{2-Clubs}. All four checked, and then they did the same on the {9-Clubs} turn. When the {6-Spades} completed the board on the river, Kirill Shugai checked from the small blind and Geilich bet 5,500 from the big. Team PokerStars Pro Christophe de Meulder called from the hijack, and then Hao Tian folded from the button followed by Shugai.

Geilich rolled over the {6-Spades}{9-Spades} for a rivered two pair, and it was good as de Meulder simply shook his head and then sent his cards to the muck.

Player Chips Progress
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Ludovic Geilich
200,000
15,000
15,000
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Christophe de Meulder
15,500
-4,500
-4,500

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Value Turn Raise by Lewis

Level 7 : 250/500, 50 ante

Alexey Prager bet 1,200 on a flop of {2-Hearts}{K-Spades}{10-Diamonds}{8-Diamonds} and Toby Lewis raised him to 3,500.

Prager made the call and they saw a river card {Q-Hearts}.

They both checked and Lewis wanted Prager to show first. He turned over {a-Diamonds}{10-Spades} and Lewis won with {k-Hearts}{7-Hearts}.

Player Chips Progress
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Toby Lewis
30,000
6,500
6,500
EPT 1X Winner
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Alexey Prager
20,000
20,000
20,000

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Benger Doesn’t Like 10 Handed Play

Level 7 : 250/500, 50 ante

Griffin Benger is not particularly happy that the tournament today has been ten handed due the large number of entrants and he’s letting the table, the dealer, the floor and PokerNews know about it. It was unclear if his unhappiness was correlated to the size of his stack.

Toby Lewis to his right then started reminiscing about the time EPTs and WSOPs were occasionally 11 handed. Good times.

Player Chips Progress
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Griffin Benger
13,000
2,000
2,000

Obrestad Out Kicks Boeken

Level 7 : 250/500, 50 ante
Annette Obrestad
Annette Obrestad

Annette Obrestad opened for 1,000 from the cutoff and got called by Olvedo Heinze on the button and big blind Noah Boeken. They saw a flop of {j-Diamonds}{a-Diamonds}{5-Clubs} and when Boeken checked Obrestad bet 1,600. Fold from Heinze but Boeken made the call.

The turn card was the {3-Hearts} which they checked and checked again on the river {k-Hearts}. It was Boeken to show first. “Just a jack.” he said. Obrestad waited for him to show the {j-Clubs}{2-Clubs} and laughed as she showed {j-Spades}{8-Clubs}.

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"Mad Marvin" Mauled by Marsili

Level 7 : 250/500, 50 ante

We saw a bunch of people standing around a table at the far side of the room, so we made our way over to find out what all the commotion was about.

The action escaped us, but we do know that it was an all-in three-way hand between Marvin Rettenmaier, Poland's Tomasz Chmiel, and France's Antoine Marsili.

Rettenmaier: {j-Spades}{j-Hearts}
Chmiel: {k-Diamonds}{k-Hearts}
Marsili: {a-Hearts}{q-Hearts}

It was a bad spot for both Rettenmaier and Marsili, but the latter managed to get lucky on the {8-Diamonds}{q-Spades}{a-Diamonds} flop. Neither the {3-Spades} turn nor {2-Clubs} river changed a thing, and Marsili won the pot while simultaneously crippling Chmiel and eliminating Rettenmaier.

Player Chips Progress
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Marvin Rettenmaier
Busted

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Step One Completed

Level 7 : 250/500, 50 ante
Niall Farrell
Niall Farrell

When we arrived at Farrell's table we were just in time to catch the cards and board, while [Removed:17] was counting out chips to hand them to his Scottish opponent.

Farrell later told us that he had shoved allin before the flop with {A-Clubs}{J-Diamonds} from late position. Yan in the small blind made the call, while the big blind was sitting out. Yan had {Q-}{10-} and had made the call. The board had ran out {5-Diamonds}{4-Hearts}{8-Hearts}{K-Hearts}{3-Hearts} and Farrell doubled.

"Step One completed of my master plan" he said. "Of your master plan for world domination?" we asked. "For my master plan to take over the world" he added. Farrell, who won the FTOPS Main Event for $236,232 just a week ago, is still short, but on his way back.

Player Chips Progress
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[Removed:17]
14,000
-18,500
-18,500
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Niall Farrell
13,200
-49,800
-49,800
EPT Main Event Champion
EPT 1X Winner

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