Pokerstars EPT Grand Final, Simon Munz leads at end of Day 1A

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Simon Munz leads Grand Final at end of Day 1a

German pro Simon Münz is leading the field at the end of Day 1a of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo.


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Münz has 175,200 and is closely followed by Swedish veteran Chris Bjorin with 171,100. American PokerStars player David Paredes who came fifth at the NAPT Venetian event is currently in fourth place with 144,600. Also among the chip leaders is Austrian Johannes Steindl with 141,300. Steindl is a long-standing member of Team PokerStars Pro Germany but his first EPT cash was only a few weeks ago when he came 13th at EPT Snowfest; he mainly plays high stakes online cash games.

A clutch of other Team PokerStars Pros also survived Day 1a including Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer, Florian Langmann and Martin Hruby plus PokerStars Team Online members Grayson Physioc, Jorge Arias and Luca Moschitta.

A total of 351 players competed on Day 1a of the €10,600 Main Event including Phil Ivey, Phil Laak, Jennifer Tilly, Patrik Antonius, Roland de Wolfe, Men “The Master” Nguyen and Erik Seidel. Amanda Cesare, who is sponsored by PokerStars after winning the Australian "Poker Star" TV show, also made it through to Day 2 with 19,400.

Five of this season’s EPT Main Event winners competed on Day 1a having won their Grand Final seat as part of their prize but only three made it through to Day 2. They are Aaron Gustavson (EPT London), Anton Wigg (EPT Copenhagen) and EPT Berlin winner Kevin MacPhee.

A total of 161 players won their seats to the prestigious €10,600 Main event online with PokerStars. The event is running April 25 to 30 at Le Sporting venue at the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel.

Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier was runner-up in the €5,250 heads-up tourney for €60,000; the event sold out with 64 players and was won by Canadian Andrew Pantling.

EPT Kyiv winner Max Lykov won €17,500 for reaching the quarter-finals and also earned himself 19 points which means he is now virtually certain to be the Season 6 EPT Player of the Year.

Among the stars set to play Day 1b today (April 26) are Daniel Negreanu, world champion Joe Cada, Greg Raymer, Joe Hachem, Jason Mercier, Dennis Phillips, Chad Brown and Vanessa Rousso.

Last year’s Main Event was won by Dutch Team PokerStars Pro Pieter de Korver for a first prize of €2,300,000.

For full reports on the EPT Grand Final, please see the PokerStars blog and video blogs on PokerStars.tv. EPTLive will continue its great Season 6 coverage with a live webcast in seven languages for the last two days of the EPT Grand Final Main Event and the final of the €25,000 High Roller event on May 1.




Name Country Chips
Simon Munz Germany 175,200
Christer Bjorin Sweden 171,100
Antonio Palma Portugal 169,000
David Paredes United States  144,600
Johannes Steindl Germany 141,300
Ayadi Fredric France 138,400
Sergiy Baranov Ukraine 136,300
Antonio Buonanno Italy 133,800
Jan Bendik Austria 132,300
Floris Morang Netherlands 131,600
Ramzi Jelassi Sweden 128,200
Felipe Montenegro Sansonetti Costa Rica  127,500
Anton Wigg Sweden  121,900
David Sesso USA 121,000
Chris Moneymaker USA 119,900
Bryan Piccioli USA 117,500
Andrew Chen Canada 116,900
Men Van Nguyen USA 116,000
Marc Naalden Netherlands 115,500
Neil Channing UK 106,100
Dieter Albrecht Switzerland  105,600
Eugene Katchalov USA 103,700
Herve Costa France 103,300
Jeff Sarwer Canada 103,200
Aaron Gustavson USA 102,800
Pavel Perfilov Russia 102,800
Ramon Demon Cserei Romania  102,400
Fowzi Baroukh UK 100,300
Imad Derwiche France 95,900
Scott Montgomery Canada 95,400
Allen Bari USA 94,000
Koen Berendsen Netherlands 92,100
Luis Felipe Ferreira De Andrade Brazil  91,900
Donald Markwardt USA 91,450
David Sands USA 90,600
Yorane Kerignard France  88,800
Oliver Busquet USA 88,400
Timothy Finne USA 88,400
Leclerc Laurent France  87,700
Jamie Michael Rosen USA 87,200
Jerome Zerbib France 87,100
Filip Nechansky Czech Republic  85,100
Eric Esposito USA 83,700
Mike Sowers USA 83,200
Alexander Debus Germany 82,500
Yann Dion Canada 80,600
William Ross USA 80,300
Noah Schwartz USA 80,300
Harry Touil France 79,700
Eric Sadoun France  79,400
Jason James Canada 78,700
Liam Flood Ireland  78,200
Andrew Scott Australia 77,600
Guillaume Darcourt France 77,600
Anthony Gargano USA 76,400
Mikhail Shalamov Russia 76,300
Aleh Plauski Belarus  75,400
Mikhail Smirnov Russia 75,300
Martin Hruby Czech Republic  74,000
Eric Mutrie Canada 72,900
Denis Aleksanrovich Russia 72,800
Greg Dyer USA 72,000
Randall Mccowan USA 71,400
Andreas Torbergsen Norway  71,100
Pierre Canali France 69,100
John Kabbaj UK 68,300
Ton Kleijnen Netherlands 68,000
Senol Karahasan Turkey 67,100
Lauri Meidla Estonia 65,100
Kevin MacPhee USA 64,800
Grayson Physioc USA 62,900
Greg Raymer USA 62,000
Andre Santos Portugal 62,000
Andrei Vlasenko Russia 61,600
Georges Ghossan Lebanon 61,200
Gianni Giaroni Italy 60,900
Olivier Daeninckx France 60,300
Rocco Palumbo Italy  59,600
Karl Johan Bjorklund Sweden 59,400
Jonathan Tare USA 59,100
Nikita Nikolaev Russia 59,100
Jose Maria Pacheco De Noronha Portugal 58,200
Kenneth Hicks USA 57,000
Nicolas Chouity Lebanon 56,800
Erik Van Den Berg Netherlands 56,700
William Brad Stalcup USA 56,700
Anatoli Gurtovoy Russia 56,700
Jorge Arias Venezuela  55,500
Peter Traply Hungary  55,000
Daniel Groth USA 54,500
Josef Klinger Austria 54,000
Artur Balijan Germany 52,800
Marco Jerovsek Austria 52,000
Andrey Danilyuk Russia 50,600
Anirudh Seth USA 48,900
Ross Boatman UK 48,600
Matthew Giannetti USA 48,400
Steven Van Zadelhoff Netherlands 47,600
Andrey Zaichenko Russia 46,600
Jan Collado Germany 46,500
Imre Leibold Estonia 46,400
Alberto Valenti Italy 46,200
Dmitry Vitkind Russia 46,000
Anthony Guetti USA 44,700
Jens Kyllonen Finland 43,200
Michael Skender Germany 43,100
Emanuele Rugini Italy 43,100
John Hall USA 42,900
Georges Yazbeck Lebanon 42,900
Ake Olsson Sweden 41,700
Oleg Poluzhnikov Russia 41,600
Grigore Dan Adamescu Germany 40,800
Michael Bramson UK 40,400
Owen Crowe Canada 40,000
Richard Friedrich Switzerland  39,900
Serge Madec France  39,600
Joshua Goldstein USA 38,400
Derek Thorpe Ireland  37,100
Krzysztof Nega Poland  36,800
Alexey Shirshov Russia 36,200
Spencer Cossette Canada 35,800
Peter Akery UK 35,600
James Kilarjian USA 35,100
Paul Febers UK 34,900
Russell Carson Canada 34,900
Heinz Kamutzki Germany 33,400
Henri Kasper Estonia 32,900
Stephen Chidwick UK 32,700
Dylan Linde USA 31,800
Jonathan Fhal France 31,700
Vladislav Varlashin Russia 31,400
Nichlas Mattsson Sweden  31,200
Ismail Erkenov Russia 30,300
Georges Hanna Lebanon 30,000
Bjorn Verbakel Netherlands 29,500
Eric Fourniois France 29,400
Lauren Kling USA 29,400
Amnon Filippi USA 29,000
Nick Binger USA 28,700
Bohdan Kozhokar Ukraine 28,600
Steven Vollers Netherlands 28,200
Almos Szikrai Hungary  28,200
Guillaume Dacheux France  27,600
Eric Frantz USA 27,100
Gary Marcum USA 26,900
Simon Ehne Sweden  26,200
Aliaksei Turchak Belarus  24,300
Gustavo Zito Argentina 23,800
Mariano Agustin Balaguer Argentina  23,500
Egor Terekhine Russia 23,400
Luca Moschitta Italy  22,100
Ilya Bulychev Russia 21,100
Miguel Borges Portugal 20,600
Joao Barbosa Portugal 20,500
Luca Giovannone Italy 19,800
Ronald Grauer Switzerland  19,600
Amanda De Cesare Australia  19,400
Thomas Partridge UK 19,200
Quinn Do USA 18,800
Mike McDonald Canada 18,300
Surinder Sunar UK 17,400
Cristiano Blanco Italy 14,800
Vladimir Rybalchenko Russia 14,800
Florian Langmann Germany 14,200
Richard Karl Kemperman USA 14,100
Aaron Szerencses Germany 13,100
Jesus Ramos Vazquez Ireland  12,300
Vyacheslav Zukhov Russia 12,300
Patrick Wymann Switzerland  9,300
Dennis Waterman USA 8,500
Stuart Fox UK 8,000
Kozinskiy Yuriy Ukraine  7,900
Gerard Gardelli France 7,700

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If Greg Raymer survived Day 1a why is he coming in for Day 1b?

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