EPT Grand Final - Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance

[NoflopsHomer]

25 minutes remaining, on this the last level of Day 1B. 190 remain at the moment, the blinds being 200/400 with a 50 ante.

[NoflopsHomer]

Prize pool, all in €'s.

1   1,825,010
2   1,061,820
3   610,550
4   471,180
5   391,550
6   305,270
7   238,910
8   159,270
9   99,550
10   99,550
11   66,360
12   66,360
13   49,770
14   49,770
15   39,820
16   39,820
17   33,180
18   33,180
19   33,180
20   33,180
21   33,180
22   33,180
23   33,180
24   33,180
25   26,550
26   26,550
27   26,550
28   26,550
29   26,550
30   26,550
31   26,550
32   26,550
33   23,230
34   23,230
35   23,230
36   23,230
37   23,230
38   23,230
39   23,230
40   23,230
41   19,910
42   19,910
43   19,910
44   19,910
45   19,910
46   19,910
47   19,910
48   19,910
49   16,590
50   16,590
51   16,590
52   16,590
53   16,590
54   16,590
55   16,590
56   16,590
57   13,270
58   13,270
59   13,270
60   13,270
61   13,270
62   13,270
63   13,270
64   13,270

[Djinn]

Last minute double up for John Gale -

An early-mid raiser to something like 1,500 found one caller and a button push for 6,575 from the bracelet-winning, easy-going player.  Desperate?  It's not his style, it looks like, to lose the will to survive short just because they've announced Last Five Hands (which they have) - he was probably happy that the early raiser re-raised to isolate him with his , as John had .
The board came:    which was overkill, but he looked happy to have doubled through to around what he started the day with, over 12 hours ago...

[snoopy1239]

Looks like these are your current chip leaders:

(1) Chad Brown -- 147,000
(2) Hans Eskilsson -- 111,250
(3) Andy Black -- 84,400
(4) Maurice Kaenter -- 72,500
(5) Patrik Antonius -- 70,900
(6) Joe Beevers -- 64,100
(7) Dan Bush -- 63,700
(8) Ali Masterman -- 63,200
(9) Nick Jenkins -- 59,400
(10) Philip Hilm -- 58,025

And of course, we still have some Dusk Till Dawners in (once again, info collated 20-30 mins before the end):

(1) Michael Greco -- 15,275
(2) Richard Ashby -- 15,000
(3) Michaela Johansson -- 13,025
(4) Frederik Ostervold -- 11,000
(5) Michael Murphy -- 8,550

Roberto Romanello bit the dust right at the death, moving his shortstack in with Jack-rag, but running in to Ace King.

[NoflopsHomer]

Ok, it's passing out time, (Djinn is collapsing next to me as I type). We're off to regain our strength returning for level 8 with blinds 300/600/75, the early hours of Day 2 of EPT's have traditionally been scenes of bloody carnage, but with the extra 5k on the starting stack, plus 90 minute blinds, I think it'll be around level 11 when the blinds go 800/1600/200 which will be the tipping point. (i.e when we get people knocked out at literally one every minute).

Time for bed, we'll be back to restart at 2pm (1pm GMT).