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EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final – Day 2 report
Posted by: James Carter. - Wed, 2010-04-28 14:32
413 players returned to the green felt on day 2 of the
EPT’s Monte Carlo Grand final. The roof of the state of the art facility remained on, therefore players weren’t forced to juggle around for shady seats. Day 2 would take the surviving field past an important mile-stone: the money bubble. Set for 128th place, the money bubble burst towards the end of the day, and the not so joyous honor of becoming the bubble boy went to Sweden’s Ake Olson.
Olson got the last of his chips into the middle holding Q,Jo and got called by a player with 10,6o. Though a favorite before the flop, the Swede saw his hopes go up in smoke as Lady Luck decided to help burst the bubble and landed 10,5,6 on the flop. The turn did give him a Q, but the river fell a brick and he was sent packing, taking home nothing but the proverbial wooden spoon.
Nick Schulman represented the other end of the spectrum. He played well throughout the day and he continued to amass chips, until his stack reached 742k by the end of Day 2 of the poker tournament.
Davis Sesso had a good run too. He finished in second place, with 642,500 chips under his belt, or rather on the table in front of him. Jean Francois Talbot and Matt Perrins followed him in the chip count.
Online poker wonderkid Sami Kelopuro was right up there with the best of them too. Kelopuro was the one responsible for Yevgeniy Timoshenko’s demise. The hand which sent Timoshenko to the rail was a classic case of the perfect hand: the two players shoved all-in, with Timoshenko holding K,K against Kelopuro’s pocket rockets. The flop gave the Finn a boat (10,A,10) and even though the river brought a K to give a boat to Timoshenko too, it was too little too late for him.
PokerStars’ Chris Moneymaker was another guy enjoying an excellent day. He worked his way all the way to 10th spot before the day was called. He managed to eliminate a player just before dinner break on a 3,3 vs A,4 match-up to fly past the 400k mark.
Start of the day chip leader, Thiago Nishijima survived to Day 3. The same cannot be said about Liv Boeree, Joe Hachem and Ludovic Lacay, who all folded on Day 2 for good.
