Nach den beiden Starttagen beim € 5.300 Main Event der PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) presented by Monte-Carlo Casino® stehen bereits 1.049 Entries zu Buche und damit ist das Event das zweitgrößte der Geschichte. Die Late Reg ist noch zum Start von Tag 2 offen.
Der zweite Starttag brachte 631 Entries, darunter waren wieder sehr viele DACH Spieler wie Fabio Sperling, Armin und Daniel Rezaei, Christopher Frank, Christopher Pütz, Christoph Vogelsang, win2day Testimonial Jessica Teusl, Jakob Miegel, Fabian Bernhauser. Maxi Lehmanski, Mario Mosböck, Rainer Kempe, Oliver Weis, Yannick Schumacher und so weiter. Auch die internationale Konkurrenz war erneut top besetzt.
187 Spieler sollten es durch die zehn Levels schaffen wobei, sich Daniel Rezaei mit 230.500 Chips weit nach vorne spielen konnte, zweitbester DACH Spieler war gestern sein Bruder Armin, auch Paul Höfer konnte sich eine gute Ausgangsposition erspielen.
Insgesamt stehen nach den zwei Starttagen 1.049 Entries (418/631) zu Buche, davon sind 307 (120/187) in Tag 2. Die Führung hält der Däne Morten Hvam mit 327.500 Chips, als bester deutschsprachiger Spieler startet Daniel Rezaei (230.500) vor Oliver Bösch (228.500), die auf den Rängen 11 und 12 liegen.
Um 12 Uhr geht es bei den Blinds 1.000/1.500 wieder an die Tische, die Late Reg endet mit dem Start von Tag 2. Das bislang größte EPT Monte Carlo Event gab es 2016 mit 1.098 Entries. Diese Zahl wird man vermutlich nicht erreichen, aber zumindest nur knapp darunter bleiben. Ab heute gibt es das Main Event im Livestream mitzuverfolgen, wir zeigen Euch ab 12:30 Uhr den Stream hier auf Pokerfirma.
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| Name | Country | Status | Chips | Table | Seat |
| Morten Hvam | Denmark | 327.500 | 28 | 5 | |
| Gangzhou Hu | France | 272.000 | 30 | 3 | |
| Boris Kuzmanovic | Croatia | 259.500 | 42 | 7 | |
| Merijn van Rooij | Netherlands | 253.000 | 7 | 4 | |
| Bruno Volkmann | Brazil | 249.000 | 23 | 2 | |
| Andrew Hulme | UK | 238.500 | 4 | 6 | |
| Kazuhiko Yotsushika | Japan | 233.500 | 13 | 1 | |
| Didrik Mantor | Norway | 232.500 | 5 | 2 | |
| Claudio Di Giacomo | Italy | 231.000 | 8 | 8 | |
| Ramon Colillas | Spain | PokerStars Ambassador | 231.000 | 34 | 2 |
| Daniel Rezaei | Austria | 230.500 | 19 | 4 | |
| Oliver Bosch | Austria | 228.500 | 8 | 4 | |
| Rocco Palumbo | Italy | 226.000 | 5 | 7 | |
| Justin Saliba | USA | 224.500 | 38 | 2 | |
| Hugo Pingray | France | 215.000 | 26 | 8 | |
| Jonathon Genovese | UK | 211.000 | 3 | 3 | |
| Yuri Dzivielevski | Brazil | 205.500 | 8 | 5 | |
| Ferenc Deak | Hungary | 203.500 | 4 | 7 | |
| Nicolas Vayssieres | France | 203.500 | 11 | 7 | |
| Arnaud Mattern | France | 202.000 | 18 | 4 | |
| Rafael Moraes | Brazil | PokerStars Ambassador | 201.500 | 26 | 3 |
| Eric Sfez | France | 201.000 | 28 | 4 | |
| Yannick Cardot | France | 199.500 | 1 | 4 | |
| Josip Simunic | Austria | 191.500 | 5 | 6 | |
| Mikal Blomlie | Norway | 191.500 | 12 | 1 | |
| Rintaro Kagawa | Japan | 191.000 | 27 | 8 | |
| Dan Djorno | France | 190.500 | 26 | 5 | |
| Tim Klaversma | Netherlands | 189.500 | 24 | 5 | |
| Julien Mariani | France | 188.000 | 19 | 5 | |
| Jules Dickerson | France | 187.000 | 10 | 5 | |
| Julien Martini | France | 184.000 | 6 | 4 | |
| Laurent Vauquelin | France | 184.000 | 16 | 8 | |
| Gaelle Baumann | France | 181.500 | 44 | 5 | |
| Vahe Ter-Khachatryan | Armenia | 178.500 | 18 | 3 | |
| Tobias Anttila | Finland | 178.000 | 34 | 3 | |
| Arthur Conan | France | 177.500 | 15 | 1 | |
| Fady Kamar | Lebanon | 176.500 | 9 | 2 | |
| Ermanno Di Nicola | Italy | 176.500 | 19 | 1 | |
| Aylar Lie | Norway | 176.000 | 10 | 6 | |
| Benjamin Spragg | UK | PokerStars Ambassador | 175.500 | 4 | 1 |
| Fabian Quoss | Germany | 175.500 | 27 | 7 | |
| Armin Rezaei | Austria | 174.500 | 24 | 8 | |
| Selahaddin Bedir | Turkey | 173.000 | 28 | 6 | |
| Marc Cristiani | France | 167.000 | 25 | 7 | |
| Javier Fernandez | Spain | 167.000 | 34 | 5 | |
| Mehdi Chaoui | Morocco | 165.000 | 15 | 3 | |
| Oleg Bessaev | France | 164.500 | 14 | 2 | |
| Alexandre Amiel | France | 164.000 | 11 | 5 | |
| Paul Hoefer | Germany | 163.500 | 28 | 3 | |
| Krasimir Yankov | Bulgaria | 161.500 | 14 | 7 | |
| Sylvain Loosli | France | 161.500 | 19 | 2 | |
| Marco Regonaschi | Italy | 161.000 | 41 | 1 | |
| Michael Chetrit | France | 160.500 | 23 | 7 | |
| Julien Veyssiere | France | 160.000 | 13 | 8 | |
| Karim Abdelmoumene | France | 155.500 | 16 | 1 | |
| Toru Ida | Japan | 155.000 | 2 | 3 | |
| Leonardo Patacconi | Italy | 155.000 | 21 | 2 | |
| Christoph Vogelsang | Germany | 154.500 | 3 | 6 | |
| Davidi Kitai | Belgium | 154.500 | 35 | 1 | |
| Ariel Sebban | France | 153.000 | 39 | 2 | |
| Lucien Cohen | France | 150.500 | 7 | 6 | |
| Francky Magliocco | France | 150.000 | 19 | 6 | |
| Francisco Caballo | Spain | 150.000 | 20 | 1 | |
| Sindre Hansen | Norway | 149.000 | 11 | 2 | |
| David Lopez | Spain | 147.500 | 31 | 4 | |
| Ange Besnainou | France | 147.000 | 27 | 4 | |
| Daniel Golder | UK | 145.500 | 39 | 5 | |
| Jean-Philippe Peyratoux | France | 145.000 | 25 | 3 | |
| Timothy Adams | Canada | 144.500 | 14 | 5 | |
| Dragos Trofimov | Moldova | 144.000 | 27 | 6 | |
| Joseph Sabe | Lebanon | 143.500 | 29 | 8 | |
| Andrea Rasulo | Italy | 142.500 | 22 | 3 | |
| Matas Cimbolas | Lithuania | 142.000 | 36 | 7 | |
| Laurent Chenet | France | 142.000 | 40 | 1 | |
| Morgan Aceto | France | 141.000 | 28 | 8 | |
| Pierre Calamusa | France | 140.000 | 1 | 8 | |
| Danut Chisu | Romania | 139.000 | 6 | 5 | |
| Aram Sargsyan | Armenia | 138.500 | 32 | 5 | |
| Wang Tin | Hong Kong | 138.000 | 31 | 8 | |
| Stefano Ferrara | Italy | 137.000 | 27 | 2 | |
| Ermo Kosk | Estonia | 136.500 | 30 | 8 | |
| Tamon Nakamura | Japan | 136.000 | 37 | 7 | |
| Aleksandar Tomovic | Serbia | 134.000 | 6 | 7 | |
| Antonin Teisseire | France | 134.000 | 25 | 6 | |
| Omar Lakhdari | France | 132.000 | 22 | 2 | |
| Hassan Fares | France | 131.500 | 11 | 6 | |
| Kent Roed | Norway | 131.000 | 17 | 7 | |
| Conor Beresford | UK | 130.500 | 43 | 1 | |
| Harpreet Gill | Canada | 129.500 | 22 | 5 | |
| Lucas Sfez | France | 128.500 | 1 | 2 | |
| Catalin Rusu | Romania | 128.500 | 21 | 4 | |
| Rainer Kempe | Germany | 126.500 | 30 | 4 | |
| Hrayr Grigoryan | Armenia | 126.000 | 13 | 2 | |
| Kosei Kitano | Japan | 126.000 | 35 | 3 | |
| Andreas Bolling | Germany | 125.000 | 43 | 7 | |
| Antonio Garcia | USA | 124.500 | 33 | 4 | |
| Samuel Greenwood | Canada | 123.000 | 2 | 7 | |
| Marc Foggin | UK | 123.000 | 14 | 3 | |
| Senol Ardic | France | 123.000 | 30 | 1 | |
| Zhong Chen | Netherlands | 123.000 | 36 | 2 | |
| Ladislao Dalfo | Spain | 122.000 | 9 | 4 | |
| Antony Marchetti | France | 121.500 | 22 | 8 | |
| Besiana Antoni | Albania | 119.500 | 40 | 5 | |
| Manuel Labous | France | 119.000 | 5 | 1 | |
| Christos Xanthopoulos | Greece | 118.000 | 42 | 3 | |
| Sofia Lovgren | Sweden | 117.500 | 2 | 1 | |
| Christian Rudolph | Germany | 117.000 | 30 | 6 | |
| Christian Rotundo | Italy | 114.500 | 7 | 2 | |
| Fausto Tantillo | Italy | 114.000 | 22 | 1 | |
| Peter Turmezey | Hungary | 113.500 | 33 | 7 | |
| Nikolai Tulin | Russia | 113.000 | 15 | 7 | |
| Stephan Salzmann | Switzerland | 113.000 | 40 | 4 | |
| Gregory Teboul | France | 111.500 | 20 | 3 | |
| Mikalai Vaskaboinikau | Belarus | 111.500 | 41 | 6 | |
| Tommaso Briotti | Italy | 111.000 | 9 | 7 | |
| Justinas Jachimavicius | Lithuania | 111.000 | 24 | 7 | |
| Mykhailo Demydenko | Ukraine | 110.500 | 17 | 1 | |
| Jerome Zerbib | France | 110.500 | 40 | 6 | |
| Florent Estegassy | France | 110.000 | 35 | 4 | |
| Gustavo Mastelotto | Brazil | 108.500 | 19 | 8 | |
| Jonathan Pastore | France | 108.000 | 12 | 3 | |
| Thierry Morel | France | 108.000 | 20 | 8 | |
| Damien Pilkington-Lewis | UK | 108.000 | 24 | 1 | |
| Jussi Nevanlinna | Finland | 107.500 | 13 | 4 | |
| Nicolas Julien | France | 107.500 | 18 | 1 | |
| Fabio Peluso | Italy | 107.500 | 37 | 5 | |
| Alexander Tkatschew | Germany | 107.000 | 17 | 4 | |
| Patrik Antonius | Finland | 106.000 | 3 | 1 | |
| Halil Coknez | Germany | 106.000 | 13 | 6 | |
| Jakob Miegel | Germany | 105.000 | 11 | 8 | |
| Nicola Grieco | Italy | 105.000 | 28 | 2 | |
| Antony Darmani | France | 104.500 | 35 | 6 | |
| Pierrig Robin | France | 104.000 | 1 | 6 | |
| Javier Gomez | Spain | 104.000 | 26 | 7 | |
| Reddy Patur | USA | 104.000 | 39 | 1 | |
| Maher Nouira | Tunisia | 103.500 | 25 | 2 | |
| Francois Pirault | France | 103.000 | 6 | 3 | |
| Thomas Muehloecker | Austria | 101.000 | 29 | 5 | |
| Alexandru Alman | Italy | 101.000 | 40 | 3 | |
| Guillaume Diaz | France | 100.000 | 27 | 5 | |
| Mohamad Saghir | Germany | 99.500 | 41 | 4 | |
| Pedro Garagnani | Brazil | 99.000 | 39 | 6 | |
| Dirk Wiele | Germany | 98.500 | 31 | 1 | |
| Leo Margets | Spain | 98.500 | 36 | 5 | |
| Demosthenes Kiriopoulos | Canada | 98.500 | 37 | 6 | |
| Valentino Konakchiev | Bulgaria | 98.000 | 9 | 8 | |
| Sebastian Gahl | Austria | 98.000 | 23 | 6 | |
| Serafim Kovalevskiy | Russia | 96.000 | 17 | 6 | |
| Franz Bracher | Switzerland | 95.000 | 36 | 4 | |
| Murat Inam | Turkey | 94.500 | 15 | 6 | |
| Mustapha Kanit | Italy | 94.000 | 2 | 6 | |
| Lukas Zaskodny | Czech Republic | 93.500 | 34 | 7 | |
| Thomas Rauhut | Germany | 92.000 | 19 | 7 | |
| Danny Pyke | UK | 92.000 | 24 | 4 | |
| Enrico Mosca | Italy | 92.000 | 34 | 8 | |
| Diego Zeiter | Argentina | 91.500 | 9 | 3 | |
| Georgios Vrakas | Germany | 91.500 | 21 | 8 | |
| Jaime Cervantes | USA | 91.000 | 23 | 4 | |
| Sergej Babincev | Lithuania | 90.500 | 12 | 5 | |
| Alexis Nicolai | France | 90.500 | 20 | 4 | |
| Fabien Motte | France | 90.500 | 44 | 7 | |
| Koray Aldemir | Germany | 89.000 | 2 | 8 | |
| Jeremy Saderne | France | 88.500 | 42 | 4 | |
| Nariman Yaghmai | Iran | 88.000 | 35 | 8 | |
| Jonathan Barusta | France | 87.500 | 5 | 5 | |
| Dmitry Shchepkin | Russia | 87.500 | 30 | 7 | |
| Niall Farrell | UK | 87.000 | 28 | 1 | |
| Massou Cohen | France | 87.000 | 34 | 6 | |
| Jacques Der Megreditchian | France | 87.000 | 40 | 7 | |
| Terje Bremseth | Norway | 86.500 | 9 | 6 | |
| Andrian Simone | Italy | 86.000 | 3 | 5 | |
| Daniel Dvoress | Canada | 86.000 | 21 | 3 | |
| Claas Segebrecht | Germany | 85.000 | 4 | 4 | |
| Shakhabiddin Muradov | Latvia | 85.000 | 30 | 2 | |
| David Comeron | Spain | 85.000 | 31 | 3 | |
| Goran Barukcic | Croatia | 84.500 | 2 | 4 | |
| Maximilian Lehmanski | Austria | 84.500 | 7 | 7 | |
| Ewen Trevidy | France | 84.000 | 24 | 3 | |
| Alexey Losev | Russia | 84.000 | 34 | 4 | |
| Patrick Faraut | France | 83.000 | 18 | 6 | |
| Sebastien Le Baron | France | 83.000 | 38 | 5 | |
| Lars Kamphues | Austria | 82.500 | 44 | 1 | |
| Vlado Banicevic | Montenegro | 82.000 | 21 | 5 | |
| Ramzi Karam | Lebanon | 81.000 | 38 | 3 | |
| Kamel Atoui | France | 80.500 | 42 | 2 | |
| Jason Wheatley | UK | 79.000 | 23 | 5 | |
| David Splettstoesser | Germany | 79.000 | 42 | 1 | |
| Olivier Murrachioli | France | 78.500 | 38 | 7 | |
| Jason Wheeler | USA | 78.000 | 7 | 5 | |
| Christophe Panetti | Switzerland | 78.000 | 10 | 1 | |
| Andrew Rauch | USA | 77.000 | 35 | 5 | |
| Jonas Lauck | Germany | 76.500 | 37 | 1 | |
| Angelo Benazzi | Italy | 76.000 | 1 | 7 | |
| Juan Pardo | Spain | 76.000 | 29 | 2 | |
| Ilan Cohen | France | 75.500 | 32 | 1 | |
| Dylan Lambert | Switzerland | 75.000 | 22 | 6 | |
| Hryhorii Shevchenko | Ukraine | 72.000 | 44 | 6 | |
| Stefan Schillhabel | Germany | 71.500 | 8 | 3 | |
| Filippo Lazzaretto | Italy | 71.500 | 14 | 6 | |
| Erkan Soenmez | Germany | 71.000 | 4 | 5 | |
| Mohamed Nakdali | France | 70.500 | 39 | 4 | |
| Pavel Veksler | Ukraine | 70.000 | 13 | 3 | |
| Demetrio Caminita | Italy | 70.000 | 39 | 7 | |
| Pavlo Vertiiko | Ukraine | 70.000 | 43 | 2 | |
| Jorge Cantos | Argentina | 67.500 | 3 | 2 | |
| Alejandro Romero | Spain | 67.000 | 14 | 8 | |
| Aku Joentausta | Finland | 66.500 | 39 | 3 | |
| Flavien Mullet | France | 66.000 | 31 | 2 | |
| Daniel Ghionoiu | Canada | 66.000 | 33 | 1 | |
| Giovanni Petroni | Italy | 66.000 | 36 | 3 | |
| Miguel Capriles | Portugal | 65.500 | 20 | 5 | |
| Matias Ruzzi | Uruguay | 65.000 | 37 | 8 | |
| Kanan Taherkhani | Turkey | 65.000 | 43 | 6 | |
| Eric Bensimhon | France | 64.000 | 43 | 5 | |
| Artem Kasidin | Switzerland | 63.000 | 24 | 2 | |
| Duong Nguyen | Vietnam | 61.500 | 44 | 2 | |
| Manig Loeser | Germany | 61.000 | 21 | 6 | |
| Marcelo Simoes | Brazil | 61.000 | 33 | 5 | |
| Martins Adeniya | UK | 60.500 | 26 | 2 | |
| Florian Guimond | France | 60.000 | 32 | 2 | |
| Natalia Samsonova | Ukraine | 60.000 | 42 | 5 | |
| Kitty Kuo | Taiwan | 59.500 | 11 | 4 | |
| Olivier Theuillon | France | 58.500 | 5 | 3 | |
| Noah Novick | USA | 58.500 | 37 | 3 | |
| Jules Hamidou | Switzerland | 57.500 | 10 | 3 | |
| George Damian | Romania | 57.000 | 16 | 6 | |
| Rachid El Yaacoubi | France | 57.000 | 25 | 4 | |
| Alain Goldberg | France | 56.500 | 4 | 2 | |
| Olivier Rebello | Canada | 56.500 | 26 | 1 | |
| Dan Borlan | Romania | 56.500 | 26 | 6 | |
| Volodymyr Drokin | Ukraine | 54.500 | 1 | 1 | |
| Axel Hallay | France | 54.500 | 33 | 2 | |
| Bruno Desnos | France | 54.000 | 36 | 1 | |
| Youness Ait | France | 54.000 | 38 | 1 | |
| Yiannis Liperis | Cyprus | 53.500 | 8 | 1 | |
| Ana Marquez | Spain | 53.500 | 11 | 1 | |
| Marton Czuczor | Hungary | 53.000 | 20 | 2 | |
| Nuri Aksu | Turkey | 53.000 | 21 | 7 | |
| William Kassouf | UK | 52.500 | 16 | 2 | |
| Toni Kaukua | Finland | 52.000 | 10 | 8 | |
| Leonard Herrmann | Austria | 51.500 | 10 | 4 | |
| Krystian Wrobel | Poland | 51.500 | 41 | 2 | |
| Jeremy Degny | France | 51.000 | 17 | 5 | |
| Tom Kunze | Austria | 50.500 | 18 | 8 | |
| Stefan Lehner | Austria | 50.500 | 38 | 6 | |
| Eric Qu | France | 50.000 | 12 | 7 | |
| Samir Moukawem | Lebanon | 49.000 | 6 | 8 | |
| Victoria Coren Mitchell | UK | 47.500 | 3 | 4 | |
| Charles-Henri Garnero | France | 47.500 | 37 | 2 | |
| Alexandros Kolonias | Greece | 47.000 | 7 | 8 | |
| John Mooney | UK | 47.000 | 23 | 8 | |
| Alex Kulev | Bulgaria | 46.500 | 23 | 3 | |
| Khashayar Moghaddam | Germany | 46.000 | 16 | 7 | |
| Ole Schemion | Germany | 44.500 | 32 | 4 | |
| Aliaksandr Hirs | Belarus | 43.000 | 5 | 8 | |
| Martin Stausholm | Austria | 43.000 | 15 | 2 | |
| Emre Nuhoglu | Turkey | 42.500 | 1 | 5 | |
| Sergio Castelluccio | Italy | 42.500 | 17 | 3 | |
| Jun Kasai | Japan | 42.500 | 33 | 8 | |
| Marius Levinskas | Lithuania | 42.000 | 36 | 8 | |
| Maxime Chilaud | France | 41.500 | 29 | 3 | |
| Mario Mosboeck | Austria | 41.000 | 6 | 2 | |
| Tomas Jozonis | Lithuania | 40.500 | 31 | 6 | |
| Oliver Weis | Germany | 40.000 | 14 | 1 | |
| Alexandre Reard | France | 40.000 | 29 | 4 | |
| Tibor Halatsch | Germany | 39.500 | 3 | 7 | |
| Dinesh Alt | Switzerland | 39.500 | 29 | 7 | |
| Christopher Frank | Germany | 39.000 | 9 | 1 | |
| Viliyan Petleshkov | Bulgaria | 39.000 | 35 | 2 | |
| Didier Mambour | France | 38.500 | 41 | 5 | |
| Mikael Guenni | France | 38.500 | 43 | 4 | |
| Huy Pham | Vietnam | 37.500 | 40 | 2 | |
| Quilcate Gamboa | Brazil | 37.000 | 4 | 3 | |
| Paraskevas Tsokaridis | Greece | 36.000 | 7 | 1 | |
| Alexandru Cinca | Romania | 36.000 | 33 | 3 | |
| Christophe Pollet | France | 35.500 | 22 | 7 | |
| Fabian Bernhausser | Austria | 35.500 | 41 | 7 | |
| Stanislav Anufriiev | Ukraine | 35.000 | 2 | 2 | |
| Bryan Paris | USA | 34.500 | 42 | 6 | |
| Henry Strasser | Canada | 34.000 | 43 | 3 | |
| Bennani Chakib | Morocco | 33.500 | 12 | 6 | |
| Seth Davies | USA | 32.000 | 29 | 6 | |
| Jurgen Resch | Austria | 31.500 | 44 | 3 | |
| Csaba Bakk | Hungary | 30.500 | 6 | 6 | |
| Henri Kasper | Estonia | 30.500 | 25 | 1 | |
| Maduka Meragal | Canada | 30.000 | 12 | 8 | |
| Franck Makaci | France | 29.500 | 15 | 4 | |
| Josef Huber | Germany | 28.500 | 8 | 7 | |
| Byron Kaverman | USA | 28.500 | 27 | 3 | |
| Sylvestre Ceccaldi | France | 28.000 | 13 | 7 | |
| Sonny Franco | France | 28.000 | 18 | 5 | |
| Johan Guilbert | France | 28.000 | 38 | 4 | |
| Tsugunari Toma | Japan | 27.500 | 12 | 4 | |
| Antonios Paschalidis | Greece | 27.500 | 17 | 2 | |
| Jon Kyte | Norway | 27.000 | 32 | 7 | |
| Nicola Benedetto | Italy | 27.000 | 32 | 8 | |
| Alex Peffly | UK | 26.500 | 20 | 6 | |
| Jose Astima | France | 24.000 | 25 | 5 | |
| Andre Akkari | Brazil | PokerStars Ambassador | 23.500 | 16 | 3 |
| Jakub Wojtas | Germany | 23.000 | 18 | 7 | |
| Martin Naveiro | 22.000 | 16 | 5 | ||
| Antal Roth | Hungary | 21.500 | 15 | 5 | |
| Ouassini Mansouri | France | 17.500 | 41 | 3 | |
| Fabio Maritan | Brazil | 17.000 | 31 | 5 | |
| Mohamed Mehalleg | France | 15.500 | 8 | 2 | |
| t | Germany | 15.000 | 32 | 6 | |
| Jean-Louis Perez | France | 13.500 | 10 | 7 |