2016 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final

€5,300 Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info

2016 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
1010
Prize
€961,800
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€5,325,300
Entries
1,098
Level Info
Level
34
Blinds
125,000 / 250,000
Ante
50,000

Negreanu Joins the Grand Final, And Faces a Tanker

Level 7 : 250/500, 50 ante

After a rant about how the Toronto Raptors will get crushed tonight versus the Indiana Pacers in Game 7 of the first round of the NBA playoffs, Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu shifted his focus to the poker action.

Negreanu folded the first hand of his EPT Grand Final - the tournament he almost won in 2013, finishing fourth for €321,000 - and another player raised to 1,100. After a third player made the call, the action was on Markku Koplimaa.

Koplimaa tanked quite some time before Negreanu chimed in.

"What are you thinking about?" Negreanu said, "You for sure know what you're going to do at this point."

"Tick-tock, the clock don't stop!" Negreanu added, before Koplimaa finally three-bet.

Both Koplimaa's opponent quickly folded, and the Estonian added some more to his big stack.

Seemingly unfazed Koplimaa said with a smile, "I like playing with you, you're funny."

Player Chips Progress
Profile photo of Markku Koplimaa ee
Markku Koplimaa
168,000
168,000
168,000
Profile photo of Daniel Negreanu ca
Daniel Negreanu
30,000
30,000
30,000
Profile photo of Daniel Dvoress ca
Daniel Dvoress
30,000
30,000
30,000
Run It Once

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