The EPT Monte Carlo Main Event with a buy-in of €5,300 will crown its champion today. Of the original 1,098 entries, only the last 6 players are left in the game. They will share the biggest prizes from the total prize pool of €5,323,300. Up to €890,000 awaits the winner.
But let's go back for a moment to yesterday's Day 5, where the best 13 players started, and all of them had a certain reward of at least €52,750. Joachim Haraldstad was at the head of this lineup.
Chipcount of ME EPT Monte Carlo semifinalists:
- Joachim Haraldstad – 5,635,000 (141bb)
- Arunas Sapitavicius – 4,520,000 (113bb)
- Leo Worthington-Leese – 3,135,000 (78bb)
- Leonard Maue – 2,920,000 (73bb)
- Jason Wheeler – 2,815,000 (70bb)
- Maduka Meragal – 2,795,000 (70bb)
- Samy Boujmala – 2,275,000 (57bb)
- Mike Watson – 2,020,000 (51bb)
- Arnaud Enselme – 1,945,000 (49bb)
- Ori Hasson – 1,605,000 (40bb)
- Nicola Grieco – 1,455,000 (36bb)
- Kenan Taylor – 1,135,000 (28bb)
- Oleg Vasylchenko – 750,000 (19bb)
Haraldstad maintained his chipleader position until the unofficial 9-seat final table, where the task was to bust three players. They will meet again today from 12:30.
Maduga Meragal finished in 9th place with a reward of €82,350, Arunas Sapitavicius finished in 8th place with a reward of €107,050 and Jason Wheeler took seventh place and collected €139,150.
At the top of the final six players is Leo Worthington-Leese, who you can often hear during our streams, where he has often been a commentator for us. This young player will start with a stack of 8,270,000, but he will have the star Mike Watson right behind him with a stack of 8,135,000.
All players already have a certain reward of at least €180,900 and will continue the game with blinds of 50,000/100,000/100,000, from which the last 35 minutes will be played. Of course, there is also a live stream, which you can find on our website.
Source: EPT, PSlive, Pokernews
