Record-Breaking €1,100 FPS Main Event Field is Converging for Day 2
Welcome to a new day of the 2023 PokerStars EPT presented by Monte-Carlo Casino®️. Today, Day 2 of the largest ever €1,100 FPS Main Event, will be getting underway at noon local time.
Four starting flights were held over two days at Sporting Monte-Carlo and they attracted a massive field of 2,138 entries combined, narrowly passing the previous FPS record set at EPT Paris 2023, where 2,071 entries were recorded.
The prize pool has passed the two million mark and is standing at an enormous €2,052,480. All 321 players who qualified for Day 2 will receive a portion of it as every Day 1 played until the money was reached (15 percent of the field). The precise payouts are yet unknown but are expected to be announced before the start of the day.
Amassing the overall chip lead was Milos Petakovic from Serbia. He crushed the final Day 1d and bagged an impressive 926,000 chips with which to start Day 2, equating to more than 180 big blinds.
Completing the podium of chip rankings are Day 1c chip leader Inigo Naveiro, who brings 684,000 to Day 2, and Day 1b chip leader Recep Aydemir, with 560,000. Day 1a chip leader Adrian Chabbi also finds himself in the top ten chip counts with a respectable 513,000 chips.
Top 10 Chip Stacks Heading into Day 2
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Milos Petakovic | Serbia | 926,000 | 185 |
| 2 | Inigo Naveiro | Spain | 684,000 | 137 |
| 3 | Recep Aydemir | Turkey | 560,000 | 112 |
| 4 | Dalibor Dula | Czech Republic | 557,000 | 111 |
| 5 | Lucas Silva Rocha | Brazil | 544,000 | 109 |
| 6 | Simone Demasi | Italy | 524,000 | 105 |
| 7 | Moritz Bleiker | Switzerland | 522,000 | 104 |
| 8 | Adrian Chabbi | Spain | 513,000 | 103 |
| 9 | Ken Demlakian | Australia | 506,000 | 101 |
| 10 | Rubens Sellam | France | 503,000 | 101 |
The biggest name outside of the top ten to have bagged and tagged is PokerStars Ambassador Benjamin Spragg. He will be bringing a healthy 253,000 chips to Day 2. A lot of other notables made it through as well, including Kayhan Mokri (431,000), Conor Beresford (314,000), EPT Paris Champion Razvan Belea (357,000), Jason Wheeler (161,000), most recent FPS Paris winner Alan Goasdoue (151,000), Julien Brecard (84,000), and 2023 PSPC Champion Aliaksandr Shylko (54,000).
Day 2 will begin at noon local time and play will resume in Level 16, with the blinds at 2,000/5,000 with a big blind ante of 5,000. All levels will last for 60 minutes and the field is set to play eight of them today, with 20-minute breaks every two levels. No dinner break is scheduled as the players are scheduled to have an early finish tonight.
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