Karakousis Leads €5,000 Tournament

In EPT side event news, a €5,000 No-Limit Hold'em tournament began yesterday with 187 players, but now just 16 remain in contention for the €200,900 first-place prize. The current chip leader in that tournament is Georgios Karakousis, who you may recall was runner-up at EPT London in October for £349,200. Also still in the running is Canadian World Series of Poker bracelet winner Max Greenwood with 357,000; Full Tilt Poker Ambassador Dermot Blain with 310,000; and Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree and French singer and actor Patrick Bruel.

Here's a look at the final 16:

Rank	Player	Country	Chips
1	Georgios Karakousis	Greece	538,000
2	Max Greenwood	Canada	357,000
3	Dermot Blain*	Ireland	310,000
4	David Vamplew	United Kingdom	235,000
5	Carlos Chadha	Canada	210,000
6	Mike McDonald	Canada	195,000
7	Artem Litvinov	Russian Federation	155,500
8	Patrick Bruel	France	142,000
9	Alexander Shelukhin	Russian Federation	117,500
10	Liv Boeree**	United Kingdom	114,000
11	Ariel Adda	United Kingdom	92,500
12	Oleh Okhotskyi	Ukraine	87,500
13	Thomas Muhlocker	Austria	81,000
14	Yves Boschetti	Switzerland	80,000
15	Alexander Dovzhenko	Russian Federation	65,000
16	Aslan Daurov	Russian Federation	48,000