Day 4 of the 2016 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final Main Event Ready To Rock
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Day 4 of the 2016 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final €5,300 Main Event will kick off at 12 p.m. local time in Monaco today with 74 players looking to ladder up and contend for one of poker's most prestigious titles.
The money bubble burst on Day 3, meaning no one will leave empty handed today, but all eyes are surely fixed on the big cash up top, including the €961,800 first-place prize.
The current chip leader is Poland's Marcin Chmielewski, one of only three players who are up and over the one-million chip mark, including Natan Chauskin and Roman Korenev.
Going wire-to-wire from here will be no easy task, however, with Italian High Roller Dario Sammartino (902,000), Brazilian World Series of Poker bracelet winner Thiago Nishijima (848,000), 2014 France Player of the Year Erwann Pecheux (818,000), Team PokerStars SportStar Fatima Moreira de Melo (807,000), 2009 November Niner Antoine Saout (626,000), and Team PokerStars Pros Vanessa Selbst (616,000), and Randy Lew (455,000) among those within striking distance.
The plan is to play another five 90-minute levels and the PokerNews Live Reporting team will be on hand for them all.
Stay tuned right here as the chase for the 2016 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final Main Event title moves into overdrive.
Day 4 Seat Draw
| Table | Seat | Name | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Paolo Compagno | Switzerland | 241000 |
| 1 | 2 | Iacopo Brandi | Italy | 436000 |
| 1 | 3 | Antonio Rutigliano | Italy | 110000 |
| 1 | 4 | Benjamin Pollak | France | 486000 |
| 1 | 5 | Kristen Bicknell | Canada | 195000 |
| 1 | 6 | Diego Zeiter | Switzerland | 183000 |
| 1 | 7 | Thiago Nishijima | Brazil | 840000 |
| 1 | 8 | Gun Taljo | Sweden | 388000 |
| 2 | 1 | Sebastien Lebaron | France | 99000 |
| 2 | 2 | Oren Rosen | Israel | 525000 |
| 2 | 4 | Fatima Moreira de Melo | Netherlands | 807000 |
| 2 | 5 | Neil Strike | UK | 156200 |
| 2 | 6 | Thi Xoa Nguyen | France | 670000 |
| 2 | 7 | Roman Korenev | Russia | 1091000 |
| 2 | 8 | Erwann Pecheux | France | 818000 |
| 3 | 1 | Kyle Frey | USA | 495000 |
| 3 | 2 | Pascal Faivre | Canada | 105000 |
| 3 | 3 | Loc Tu | Canada | 330000 |
| 3 | 4 | Ihar Soika | Belarus | 258000 |
| 3 | 5 | Marco De Vincenti | Italy | 134000 |
| 3 | 6 | Alexios Zervos | Greece | 700000 |
| 3 | 7 | Vanessa Selbst | USA | 618000 |
| 3 | 8 | Andrei Boghean | Romania | 476000 |
| 4 | 1 | Fabio Sperling | Germany | 800000 |
| 4 | 2 | Samu Riihela | Finland | 30000 |
| 4 | 3 | Jan Bendik | Slovakia | 576000 |
| 4 | 4 | Nikolas Menke | Germany | 85000 |
| 4 | 5 | Mohamed Aissani | France | 926000 |
| 4 | 6 | Erik Van Hoek | Netherlands | 376000 |
| 4 | 8 | Georges Hallak | Canada | 169000 |
| 5 | 1 | Juan Etcheverry | Argentina | 489000 |
| 5 | 2 | Ariel Celestino | Brazil | 311000 |
| 5 | 3 | Chris Dowling | Ireland | 493000 |
| 5 | 4 | Ruediger Weber | Germany | 137000 |
| 5 | 5 | Antoine Saout | France | 626000 |
| 5 | 6 | Tomas Jozonis | Lithuania | 233000 |
| 5 | 7 | Apostolos Bechrakis | Greece | 492000 |
| 5 | 8 | Hani Bahna | Canada | 285000 |
| 6 | 2 | Andjelko Andrejevic | USA | 181000 |
| 6 | 3 | Natan Chauskin | Belarus | 1107000 |
| 6 | 4 | Dario Sammartino | Italy | 902000 |
| 6 | 5 | Albert Daher | Lebanon | 566000 |
| 6 | 6 | Omar Lakhdari | France | 230000 |
| 6 | 7 | Jimmy Guerrero | France | 750000 |
| 6 | 8 | Michel Abecassis | France | 151000 |
| 7 | 1 | Marcin Chmielewski | Poland | 1314000 |
| 7 | 2 | Asan Umarov | Kazakhstan | 301000 |
| 7 | 3 | Rintaro Kagawa | Japan | 580000 |
| 7 | 4 | Randy Lew | USA | 455000 |
| 7 | 5 | Andrea Rocci | Italy | 388000 |
| 7 | 6 | Nicolas Cardyn | France | 131000 |
| 7 | 8 | Oleh Cherepianyi | Ukraine | 234000 |
| 8 | 1 | Markus Durnegger | Austria | 226000 |
| 8 | 2 | Pierre Tilmant | Belgium | 271000 |
| 8 | 3 | Pierre Calamusa | France | 580000 |
| 8 | 4 | Koichi Nozaki | Japan | 383000 |
| 8 | 5 | Joseph Mouawad | USA | 205000 |
| 8 | 6 | Paul-Francois Tedeschi | France | 661000 |
| 8 | 7 | Ivan Soshnikov | Russia | 372000 |
| 8 | 8 | Aaron Gustavson | USA | 458000 |
| 9 | 1 | Benjamin Philipps | UK | 376000 |
| 9 | 3 | Fady Kamar | Lebanon | 103000 |
| 9 | 4 | Albert Sebag | France | 159000 |
| 9 | 5 | Nacho Barbero | Argentina | 461000 |
| 9 | 6 | Evangelos Terzoudis | Greece | 985000 |
| 9 | 7 | Jan Bengelmann | Germany | 667000 |
| 9 | 8 | Kiryl Radzivonau | Belarus | 331000 |
| 10 | 1 | Youssef Finianos | Lebanon | 112000 |
| 10 | 2 | Jason Gray | Australia | 287000 |
| 10 | 3 | Matthew Davenport | UK | 617000 |
| 10 | 4 | Adrien Allain | France | 810000 |
| 10 | 5 | Enver Abduraimov | Germany | 235000 |
| 10 | 6 | Joao Vieira | Portugal | 313000 |
| 10 | 8 | Govert Metaal | Netherlands | 704000 |