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EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final – Day 5: Nicholas Chouity victorious
Posted by: James Carter. - Mon, 2010-05-03 05:56
The fact that Nicholas Chouity had hogged over 40% of the chips in play on day 4 of the
EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final cast a shadow over the final table. Sure enough, the worst expectations were confirmed as Chouity proved more than able to properly use his monster stack to suppress all opposition and to roll to victory in a dominant manner. When I say “dominant” I mean dominant in the purest sense of the word: of his 7 final tables opponents, Chouity disposed of 6 personally.
Andrew Chen was the only better known player at the table, and he started the game from a pretty good position: he shared second place with Mesbah Guerfi at the beginning of the day. Despite his decent starting stack, Guerfi was the one who became the first victim of the final table.
Guerfi picked up an Ah, Kh and locked horns with Chouity on a flop of 8,3,4. Another 4 fell on the turn and the K on the river prompted the two protagonists to shove it all into the middle. Chouity then tabled pocket 8s for the win and the Frenchman’s
poker tournament came to a screeching halt.
The first elimination only got Chouity fired up though. He proceeded to eliminate Roger Hairabedian and then Aleh Plauski. By that stage, Chouity’s domination grew so obvious that only one player managed to get anything going besides him. Josef Klinger had started the day on a short stack, but he had a lucky double up. He then proceeded to eliminate Andrew Chen, whose 9c,7c was no match for his pocket Ks.
Herve Costa held himself in reserve for much of the day, but Chouity eventually got to him too. The Frenchman’s A,9 fell to Chouity’s K,Q in the decisive hand.
From this point on, it would be all Chouity. He first disposed of Dominykas Karmazinas to set up the heads-up stage, then locked horns with Josef Klinger heads-up in the final stretch.
The heads-up battle turned to be a heads-up trouncing as the money was shoved right into the middle on the very first hand of the confrontation. That hand ended up split, but fate caught up with Klinger within 20 minutes. The last hand of the event saw Chouity’s pocket rockets go up against Klinger’s pocket 8s on a board full of bricks.
