€10,200 Mystery Bounty Day 1 | 2024 PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo

Play has finished for the day here at the Sporting Monte-Carlo in Day 1 of the 2024 PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Monte Carlo €10,200 Mystery Bounty and Vlad Martynenko is the chip leader with a stack of 436,500 heading into Day 2.

Martynenko won the 2021 GGPoker WSOP Online Bracelet Event in the $1,500 FIFTY STACK No-Limit Hold'em and is looking to build on that bracelet win with an EPT title. In second place is Thomas Santerne with 428,000 chips. The Frenchman is looking for his second EPT title in as he claimed the €50,000 EPT Super High Roller at EPT Paris in February for €889,480. Rounding out the top three is Kazuhiko Yotsushika. He bagged a stack of 414,000 heading into Day 2 and is looking to add to his $2,485,013 in live tournament earnings.

Top 10 Chip Counts

Rank	Name	Country	Chip Count
1	Vlad Martynenko	Ukraine	436,500
2	Thomas Santerne	France	428,000
3	Kazuhiko Yotsushika	Japan	414,000
4	Vicente Delgado	Spain	400,000
5	Aliaksei Boika	Belarus	392,500
6	Alejandro Lococo	Argentina	310,000
7	Alex Kulev	Bulgaria	291,500
8	Damian Salas	Argentina	272,500
9	Jon Vallinas	Spain	265,000
10	Thomas Boivin	Belgium	247,500

Other notable players to be bagging a stack outside of the top 10 are PokerStars Ambassador Sam Grafton who bagged 150,500, Ole Schemion who has 112,000 and Adrian Mateos who has 111,000.

The current prize pool stands at €324,300 but expect that to increase as more players will register before the end of the registration period which ends at the end of Level 10 tomorrow.

Day 2 starts at 12.30p.m. local time tomorrow with the blinds at 1,500/3,000 with a 3,000 big blind ante. At the start of level 13, a Mystery Bounty token will be awarded to each remaining player and players who eliminate other players will collect the Mystery Bounty Token from the eliminated player.

As always, stay tuned to PokerNews for continued coverage of this €10,200 Mystery Bounty here at EPT Monte Carlo.

Tags: Adrian Mateos Alejandro Lococo Alex Kulev Aliaksei Boika Jon Vallinas Ole Schemion Sam Grafton Thomas Santerne Vicente Delgado Vlad Martynenko

The first bounty-based tournament of the 2024 PokerStars European Poker Tour Monte Carlo kicks off tonight with the €10,200 Mystery Bounty at Sporting Monte-Carlo, here in the glamourous principality of Monaco.

This three-day event, starting at 7 p.m. local time, is sure to see plenty of action and bounties galore, with players battling it out for chips and tokens to reveal a selection of mystery bounties.

Triumphant in this event last year was PokerStars Ambassador Sam Grafton, who defeated a field of 74 to win €145,400, including bounties. He defeated Sam Greenwood in heads-up play, overcoming a huge chip deficit in the process.

Earlier this year at EPT Paris, it was Dutchman Duco Ten Haven who scooped a total score of €244,000. He pulled one of the €50,000 bounties and defeated Quan Zhou heads-up, scoring €126,500 for first place and his first EPT title.

Action commences with blinds at 500/1,000 with a 1,000 big blind ante. Eight 30-minute levels will be played this evening, with each player getting a stack of 100,000 chips. There will be one 20 minute break at the end of Level 4.

Late registration remains open until the end of Level 10, approximately one hour into play on Day 2. Mystery bounty tokens will be awarded to each remaining player at the start of Level 13 and all tokens must be claimed at the end of the tournament.

Stay tuned as PokerNews will be bringing you all the action and updates from here on the French Riviera at EPT Monte Carlo.

Tags: Duco Ten Haven Quan Zhou Sam Grafton Sam Greenwood