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EPT: Benny Glaser and Nacho Barbero have another title, 49 players continue in the Main Event

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Starting with the Main Event

As I'm sure you already know, the €5,300 EPT Monte-Carlo Main Event is the biggest ever held here. A total of 1,208 entries means a prizepool of €5,858,800, and there is an even €1,000,000 waiting for the winner.

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Forty-nine players have made it through to today's Day 4, and all of them already have at least €17,500 in their pockets. The chipleader here is Turkish player Selahaddin Bedir with a stack of 1,895,000. Names like David Docherty (1,680,000), Adrian Mateos (1,160,000), Dan Smith (1,020,000) and Mustapha Kanit (450,000) are still among the advancers.

Some of the well-known names that busted out during Day 3 include Kayhan Mokri (62nd - €15,200), Felix Schneiders (109th - €11,500), Marle Spragg (128th - €10,000), Aliaksandr Shylko (145th - €8,700) and Mike Watson (149th - €8,700).

Benny Glaser won another trophy

Benny took part in the €1,100 PLO Hi-Lo Single Re-Entry with 57 entries and a prizepool of €54,720, where a prize of €16,670 awaited the winner. It was Benny Glaser who took home this prize, his eighth EPT trophy. In addition, Benny also appeared in the €5,200 8-Game tournament on the night with 12 entries and a prize pool of €58,200. Benny has now finished in second place here with a €17,450 prize, and the trophy for himself was awarded to Blaz Zerjav.

The results of the €1,100 PLO Hi-Lo Single Re-Entry:

POS NAME COUNTRY   PRIZE
1 Benny Glaser United Kingdom   €16,670
2 Alexander Orlov Russia   €10,950
3 David Shmuel USA   €7,950
4 Blaz Zerjav Slovenia   €6,000
5 Tahar Said France   €4,650
6 Bogdan Aurel Romania   €3,550
7 Yudai Futai Japan   €2,750
8 Ilija Savevski North Macedonia   €2,200

Results €5.200 8-Game:

POS NAME COUNTRY   PRIZE
1 Blaz Zerjav Slovenia   €29,100
2 Benny Glaser United Kingdom   €17,450
3 Dylan Weisman USA   €11,650


Nacho Barbero Winner of €50k SHR 2nd Chance

Yesterday was the final day of the €50,000 buy-in Super High Roller, which brought 79 entries and thus a prizepool of €3,832,290. This amount was shared by 11 players and the winner took home €1,079,290.

The minimum prize was worth €95,800 and went to Steve O'Dwyer, who finished in 10th place. Just ahead of the final heads-up finish was Ole Schemion, who collected €497,400 for his third place finish, and the winner was Nacho Barbero, who took home the full prize money and of course the trophy as well. Congratulations!

POS NAME COUNTRY   PRIZE
1 Nacho Barbero Argentina   €1,079,290
2 Felipe Boianovsky Brazil   €696,300
3 Ole Schemion Germany   €497,400
4 Ilya Nikiforov Estonia   €382,700
5 Ramin Hajiyev Azerbaijan   €294,300
6 Jacob Amsellem France   €234,000
7 Jean-Noel Thorel France   €187,200
8 Mikalai Vaskaboinikau Belarus   €149,700
9 Gerard Labouriaux Dit Switzerland   €119,800
10 Steve O'Dwyer Ireland   €95,800
11 Timothe Busso France   €95,800


Source - EPT, PS Live, Pokernews, Flickr