As you probably know, this year's Main Event EPT Monte Carlo fulfilled the record from 2016 to the letter, and thanks to 1,098 entries, players took care of producing a prize pool of €5,325,300. After the cracked aces of Yasuhiro Waki, it started to be divided among the 159 best players, of which only 126 best jumped into yesterday's day 3.
Yesterday, the third game day awaited them and in it five 90-minute levels, which gradually reduced this field of players to 38 individuals. The long day brought many interesting moments, such as the one when 5-time world chess champion Magnus Carlsen prepared a pair of 44 check-shoves, but ran into a pocket TT under the hand of Mark Teltscher. The board did not help, and the brilliant Norwegian took €15,000 for the 63rd place.
The poker death was inexorable and sent such names as Harry Lodge, Erik Seidel and Parker Talbot to the cash register during day 3. Not even the Turkish high roller specialist Orpen Kisacikoglu could avoid it, who became the penultimate eliminated of the day and will not add another trophy to the recently won trophy he won three days ago in the €25k High Roller (€497,090).
On the contrary, the trophy is currently closest to 21-year-old British Kenan Taylor, who apparently decided to write his first entry on HendonMob in bold letters. Taylor is an online player who regularly plays $10/$20 cash games, but as he said, in the event of a big win, he would at least have money to boost his online bankroll. He have made excellent progress towards this, with a 3.6m stack, he sits on the chip leader's chair with significant lead (the second Sapitavicius has a 2.2m stack).
In addition to the mentioned chip leader, the legendary Canadian Mike Watson (1,280,000), the American professional Jason Wheeler (1,000,000), the Spanish PS ambassador and PSPC champion Ramon Colillas (810,000), the second PSPC champion Aliaksandr Shylko (500,000), or the British representative Leo Worthington-Leese (985,000), whom many of you know from Bratislava's Banco Casino or from the microphone of our live streams are still in the game.
So, as mentioned, a group of 38 players will return to the tables on the fourth day of play, starting at 12:00 p.m. with 10k/15k/15k blinds. Each of the players is guaranteed €19,850 at this moment, but everyone has the same goal - to survive the next sieve and get closer to the desired title. Who will succeed, you will be able to watch again from 12:30 via Live Stream, which you can find on our website.
Source: PokerNews, PSlive
