What's Going On in the EPT Grand Final Side Events?

This year, there were 78 events scheduled at the 2015 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino European Poker Tour Grand Final. Of the non-satellite events, nearly 30 have been completed, and there have been some big winners.

The fourth event of the series was the France Poker Series Monaco €1,100 Main Event. After attracting a large field of 993 entries, the top 143 players cashed with a top prize set at €177,000. Germany's Sebastian Supper finished as the last man standing, scoring by far the largest live tournament result of his poker career. Supper defeated Manuel Solsona (€107,500) in heads-up play at a final table that included Pablo Gordillo Caballero (€56,600), Joseph Mouawad (€43,800), and Luca Moschitta (€32,700).

Other notables who cashed in the FPS Monaco Main Event were Sergio Castelluccio (18th - €6,880), Rumen Nanev (41st - €3,110), Arnaud Mattern (48th - €3,110), Simon Deadman (59th - €2,670), Andre Akkari (69th - €2,670), Alexander Kuzmin (74th - €2,250), John Andress (83rd - €2,250), Timo Pfutzenreuter (94th - €2,250), Dimitar Danchev (105th - €2,010), Amos Ben Haim (117th - €2,010), Heinz Kamutzki (132nd - €1,790), and Jack Salter (142nd - €1,790).

In the FPS Monaco €2,200 High Roller, a field of 383 entries saw the top 55 reach the money. David Susigan, a 30-year-old former rugby player, earned the victory and a career best tournament score of €126,155 after a heads-up chop. Susigan defeated Yury Gulyy in second place (€109,345). Bryan Paris also reached the final table, but ultimately finished in fifth place (€42,300).

Other notables to cash in the FPS Monaco High Roller were Carlos Chadha (10th - €11,740), David Peters (13th - €10,180), Michael Tureniec (18th - €7,350), Nicolau Villa-Lobos (19th - €7,350), Joao Vieira (21st - €6,610), Ihar Soika (23rd - €6,610), Dermot Blain (26th - €5,870), Mohsin Charania (27th - €5,870), and Rhys Jones (39th - €4,390).

In another side event, the €5,200 Turbo No-Limit Hold'em 8-Handed, Brazil's David Dayan scored a six-figure prize of €104,000 when he topped a field of 78 entries. The top 11 finishers reached the money in this event, and Dayan had to contest with Dominik Nitsche (2nd - €74,000), Dan Heimiller (3rd - €48,400), and Tom Hall (6th - €23,100) at the final table.

In the €220 Women's Event, Isabel Baltazar scored top honors and €3,690 in prize money after she defeated a field of 65 entries. Elsewhere, Scott Seiver and Bryn Kenney also earned victories.

Seiver took down the €5,300 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed event for €75,900. He topped a field of 46 entries, and that is now three final tables for Seiver from the 2015 EPT Grand Final. This most recent result follows up his eighth-place finish in the €100,000 Super High Roller for €261,800 and his ninth-place finish in the €50,000 Super High Roller for €92,860. All told, Seiver has now earned €430,560 from this festival and there are still plenty more events to go.

Kenney won the €1,100 Turbo No-Limit Hold'em Bounty event for €20,000. There were 192 entries in the field, including Joao Brito (6th - €4,650), Jannick Wrang (11th - €1,710), and Andrey Konopelko (19th - €1,070).

Side Event Results

No.	Event	Entries	Prize Pool	Winner	Country	First Prize
4	€1,100 FPS Monaco Main Event	993	€963,210	Sebastian Supper	Germany	€177,000
6	€330 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed	63	€18,333	Najib Hassani	Canada	€4,020
7	€550 Limit Hold'em 8 Handed	11	€5,335	Ismail Erkenov	Russia	€2,670
10	€330 FPS Monaco Cup	747	€217,377	Remy Bonnet	France	€25,220
12	€220 Turbo Pot-Limit Courcheval Hi-Lo	37	€7,178	[Removed:59]	Germany	€1,530
14	€100,000 Super High Roller	71	€6,888,420	Erik Seidel	USA	€2,015,000
15	€550 Limit Seven-Card Stud	21	€10,185	Sergio Braga	Brazil	€4,280
19	€2,200 FPS High Roller	383	€743,020	David Susigan	France	€126,155
20	€550 Limit Razz	21	€10,185	Nikolaos Panopoulos	Greece	€4,280
21	€110 Double-Elimination Flipout	33	€3,201	Kasra Pour Khomamy	Germany	€1,090
22	€110 Double-Elimination Flipout	22	€2,134	Victor Ilyukhin	UK	€900
23	€110 Double-Elimination Flipout	23	€2,231	Felix Stephensen	Norway	€940
25	€1,100 Hyper-Turbo No-Limit Hold'em	129	€125,130	Erich Friedl	Austria	€26,370
28	€220 Women's Event	65	€12,610	Isabel Baltazar	France	€3,690
31	€330 Turbo No-Limit Hold'em	327	€95,157	Hani Bahna	Canada	€17,330
34	€50,000 Super High Roller	66	€3,201,660	Mustapha Kanit	Italy	€936,500
35	€220 Senior's Event	89	€17,266	Paul Didier Obigand	France	€3,996
36	€220 Junior's Event	8	€1,552	Mikhail Bernovskii	Russia	€775
37	€550 Limit Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo	22	€10,670	Paolo Compagno	Switzerland	€4,480
38	€5,200 Turbo No-Limit Hold'em 8-Handed	78	€378,300	David Dayan	Brazil	€104,000
40	€2,150 Turbo No-Limit Hold'em Bounty	152	€142,880	Nikita Lebedev	Russia	€34,300
41	€330 Turbo No-Limit Hold'em "Win the Button!"	152	€44,232	Abraham Serrano	Spain	€10,600
43	€5,300 Pot-Limit Omaha	46	€223,100	Scott Seiver	USA	€75,900
44	€550 NL Turbo	79	€38,315	Elia Hanna	Lebanon	10530
45	€550 Limit Omaha High/Low	32	€15,520	Harrazi Saber	France	€3,840
47	€1,100 Turbo No-Limit Hold'em Bounty	192	€90,240	Bryn Kenney	USA	€20,000
48	€120 Turbo No-Limit Hold'em "Deuces Wild" with Rebuys	77	€11,301	Frederic Berenger	France	€3,110
49	€550 Hyper-Turbo No-Limit Hold'em	130	€63,050	Yucel Eminoglu	Turkey	€11,050