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PokerStars EPT Grand Final Monte Carlo - Day 3 Summary Of the 124 that returned to the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel & Casino for Day 3 of the EPT Grand Final, 44 of those would depart without so much as a parting gift. Among those leaving empty handed; Anna Wroblewski, Ted Lawson, Marcel Luske and Eli Elezra. After a brutal 2 1/2 hour hand-for-hand session, Surrinder Sunar grabbed the title of bubble boy. After the bubble had burst, one half of the remaining 80 players in the field would be eliminated. During the slower hours, PokerStars had a side game running, which was the "Stars of Poker" single-table, $10K buy-in tournament. Daniel Negreanu, Barry Greenstein, Bertrand Grospellier, Dario Minieri, Noah Boeken were among those at the tables, with Greenstein taking down the $50K first-place prize. Back to the Grand Final... After the bubble had burst, a flurry of eliminations followed. Here's PokerStars' near-complete list of payouts: Finishing with € 33,700 46th Martin Mikai Rask 47th Borge Dypvik (PokerStars qualifier) 48th Andreas Hagen Finishing with € 29,400 49th Mark Keightley 50th Benjamino Speroni 51st Gordon Vayo (PokerStars qualifier) 52nd Woody Deck 53rd Ricardo Sousa 54th Domeniko Tinni 55th Sorel Mizzi 56th Kari Somer Finishing with € 25,200 57th Sami-Pekka Ovaskainen 58th Massou Cohen 59th Matthew Kurtz 60th Cyril Bensoussan 61st Brian Green 62nd Kalil Rahal 63rd Clayton Maguire 64th Nikolaus Ponopoulu Finishing with € 21,000 65th James Campbell (PokerStars qualifier) 66th Giovanni Nervo 67th Jan Heitmann (PokerStars Sponsored Player) 68th George Lind (PokerStars qualifier) 69th Tom Ahlberg 70th Ian Prevost (PokerStars qualifier) 71st Torbjörn Jonsson 72nd Giovanni Bigom Finishing with €17,000 73rd Morten Lokken 74th Tommi Hörkkö 75th Benjamin Kang (PokerStars Sponsored Player) 76th William Martin 77th Sean Bruder (PokerStars qualifier) 78th Felipe Ramos 79th Ed De Haas 80th Trond-Erik Eidsvig Claudio Pagano and Team PokerStars Pro Luca Pagano became the first fatherson duo to cash in the same EPT event by surviving the bubble. Both are still alive heading into Day 4 at 20th and 22nd place in the chip counts, respectively. Luca also grabbed his 9th EPT cash in the process, which is a tour record. Antonio Esfandiari is the only player above the 1 million chip mark, which is good enough for the chip lead. Gordon Vayo ran K-K right into the pocket aces of Antonio, which doubled up the Magician's already healthy stack. UK pro Robin Keston looks to be in second place with around 900,000 chips, while big names like Joe Hachem, Freddy Deeb and Raymond Rahme are all still in contention. End of Day 3 Chips, from PokerStars: Antonio Esfandiari -- USA -- 1,198,000 Robin Keston -- UK -- 916,000 Denes Kalo -- Hungary -- 642,000 Johnny Lodden -- Norway -- 623,000 Maxime Villemure -- Canada -- PokerStars qualifier -- 600,000 Mostafa Belkhayate -- Morocco -- 523,000 Gerasimos Deres -- Sweden -- 494,500 Henrik Gwinner -- Denmark -- 487,000 David Shade Kruger -- USA -- 486,500 Thomas Boekhoff -- Germany -- Supernova Elite -- 465,000 Rami Boukai – USA – PokerStars qualifier -- 425,000 Eric Liu-- USA -- 398,000 Noah Siegel -- USA - -388,500 Stig Top Rasmussen -- Denmark -- 373,000 Glen Chorny – Canada – PokerStars qualifier -- 344,000 Oyvind Riisem -- Norway -- 340,000 Pablo Ubierna -- Spain -- 316,000 Peter Traply – Hungary – PokerStars qualifier -- 300,500 Valeriy Ilikyan -- Russia -- 295,000 Claudio Pagano -- Italy -- 291,000 Jonathan Dwek – Canada – PokerStars qualifier -- 282,000 Luca Pagano – Italy -- Team PokerStars Pro -- 279,500 Amit Makhija – USA – PokerStars qualifier -- 269,500 David Miara -- France -- 249,500 Isaac Baron – USA – PokerStars qualifier -- 236,500 Joe Hachem -- Australia -- Team PokerStars Pro -- 214,500 Michael Martin -- USA --PokerStars Qualifier -- 141,500 Freddy Deeb -- USA -- 140,500 Alexander Morozov -- Russia -- Supernova Elite -- 133,000 Raymond Rahme -- South Africa -- Team PokerStars Pro -- 133,000 Walid Bou Habib -- Lebanon -- 127,500 Benjamin Sprengers – USA – PokerStars qualifier -- 127,000 Anders Berg -- Norway -- Supernova Elite --124,000 Andrew Luetchford – UK – PokerStars qualifier -- 116,000 Vincent Secher – France – PokerStars qualifier -- 92,500 Anthony Chatelain -- Sweden -- 83,500 Tomas Brolin -- Sweden -- 74,000 Andreas Fluri – Switzerland – PokerStars qualifier -- 61,000 Stefan Geim – Germany – PokerStars qualifier -- 58,000 The 40 survivors will return Wednesday at 1pm local time (7am EST) to the grand ballroom and play down to the final table.

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