PokerStars EPT Grand Final Monte Carlo - Day 5 Summary
For the last week, some of the biggest players from around the globe made the trip to Monte Carlo for the EPT Grand Final. A total of 842 players entered the championship event, making this the largest field in EPT history. In the end it was a 22-year-old Ontario native who would take down the biggest poker prize ever awarded outside of Las Vegas.
Day 4 ran a little long and we were left with ten players to begin Day 5, instead of the typical eight-handed EPT final table. Stig Top Rassmussen and Henrik Gwinner would quickly depart to form the true final table.
Antonio Esfandiari spent the last couple days behind a monster stack. The Magician would see more than half his stack shipped to players like Stig Top Rassmussen and Glen Chorny late in Day 4. This would ultimately lead to his elimination, as Luca Pagano quickly close the door Esfandiari after flopping broadway during an all in. Valeriy Ilikyan would follow Esfandiari with a 7th place finish after he ran A-Q into A-K.
Action would slow, until Team PokerStars pro Luca Pagano ran into Denes Kalo's queens after the dinner break. Michael Martin then ran top pair into Chorny's overpair to earn a 5th place finish. Isaac "westmenlowAA" Baron is a monster online, considered by many to be the best online player in the world. Baron would find himself short and eliminated by the aces of Chorny.
Maxime Villemure was pleased to hold Q-8 on the A-10-4-J-9 board and got the rest of his money in the pot. Bad news was ahead for Villemure as Chorny's K-Q spelled the nuts and gave the Canadian a 10-1 chip lead going into heads-up play.
Heads-up play would last just two hands. Hungarian Denes Kalo open-shoved holding K-Q and was looked up by Corny's and his A-5. A-Q-6-6-10 meant that the EPT Grand Final trophy is heading to Timmins, Ontario with Chorny, along with €2 million. That works out to 3,208,838 Canadian.
PokerStars EPT Grand Final results:
1. Glen Chorny €2,020,000
2. Denes Tamas Kalo €1,179,000
3. Maxime Villemure €715,000
4. Isaac Baron €589,000
5. Michael Martin €421,000
6. Luca Pagano €337,000
7. Valeriy Ilikyan €253,000
8. Antonio Esfandiari €168,000
9. Henrik Gwinner €126,000
10. Stig Top Rasmussen €126,000
11. Joseph Hachem €101,000
12. Robin Keston €101,000
13. Vincent Secher €76,000
14. Thomas Boekhoff €76,000
15. Oyvind Riisem €55,200
16. Eric Liu €55,200
17. Johnny Lodden €46,300
18. David Miara €46,300
19. Walid Bou Habib €46,300
20. Amit Makhija €46,300
21. Stefan Geim €46,300
22. Claudio Pagano €46,300
23. Noah Siegel €46,300
24. Mostafa Belkhayate €46,300
25. Rami Boukai €42,100
26. Peter Traply €42,100
27. Raymond Rahme €42,100
28. Pablo Ubierna €42,100
29. Andrew Luetchford €42,100
30. Kassem "Freddy" Deeb €42,100
31. Anthony Chatelain €42,100
32. Gerasimos Deres €42,100
33. David Kruger €38,000
34. Jonathan Dwek €38,000
35. Alexander Morozov €38,000
36. Benjamin Sprengers €38,000
37. Anders Berg €38,000
38. Tomas Brolin €38,000
39. Andreas Fluri €38,000
40. Stephen Kjerstad €38,000
41. Michel Carvin €33,700
42. Pierre Hall €33,700
43. Haward Speer €33,700
44. Simon Faure €33,700
45. Csaba Toth €33,700
46. Martin Rask €33,700
47. Borge Dypvik €33,700
48. Andreas Hagen €33,700
49. Mark Keightley €29,400
50. Benjamino Speroni €29,400
51. Gordon Vayo €29,400
52. Woody Deck €29,400
53. Ricardo Sousa €29,400
54. Domenico Tinnirello €29,400
55. Sorel Mizzi €29,400
56. Kari Somer €29,400
57. Sami Ovaskainen €25,200
58. Massou Cohen €25,200
59. Matthew Kurtz €25,200
60. Cyril Bensoussan €25,200
61. Brian Green €25,200
62. Rahal Kalil €25,200
63. Clayton Maguire €25,200
64. Nick Panopoulos €25,200
65. James Campbell €21,000
66. Giovanni Nervo €21,000
67. Jan Heitmann €21,000
68. George Lind €21,000
69. Tom Ahlberg €21,000
70. Ian Prevost €21,000
71. Torbjörn Jonson €21,000
72. Giovanni Bigom €21,000
73. Morten Lokken €17,000
74. Tommi Horkko €17,000
75. Benjamin Kang €17,000
76. William Martin €17,000
77. Sean Bruder €17,000
78. Felipe Ramos €17,000
79. Ed De Haas €17,000
80. Trond Eidsvig €17,000
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