Day 1B of EPT Monte Carlo

Update: 6:48 GMT +2

End of level 6. Players now have a 90mn break.

Update: 6:40 GMT +2

Viktoria has just lost a significant pot against a successful bluff attempt from his opponent. She has now 47,700 chips. There are 368 players remaining for an average of 40,516.

Update: 6:06 GMT+2

While her partner was eliminated, Viktoria Szilasi has been moved to Joe Hachem and Bruno Benveniste’s table.

Update: 5:57 GMT +2

Francesco de Vivo is out after a good start, Francesco lost several hands and went back to his starting stack, and then fell to 19,000.

He raised holding a KK, the Small Blind folded and the Big Blind called.

Flop: 7d 4d 2h

BB checked and Francesco bet at 2,000. His opponent checked and raised to 5,500. After a short hesitation, Francesco paid.

Both players checked with an Ace on the turn.

Following the 6c of the river, BB decides to push all-in. Our Italian player hesitates and stares at his opponent looking for a tell. He finally paid and his opponent caught an Ace on the river which gave him a pair of Aces which kicked Francesco out with his KK.

Update: 5:47 GMT+2

Level 6: Blinds are now at 200/400 with a 50 ante.

497 players began day 1B and 403 are still in the running. The average stack is 37,000.

Update: 5:28 GMT +2

Following the break, blinds are now at 150/300 and we still have 2 players running in the EPT Monte Carlo event. Both players are from the Live the Dream Team. Viktoria Szilasi from Hungary, whose start was very successful with a stack of 59,000 and the Italian player Francesco de Vivo, whose stack is at 19,000.

Update: 4:35 GMT+2

After 4 hours, players now have a 15 mn break: well-deserved!

Update: 4:18 GMT+2

Maria Maceiras out.

Our young Spanish player had a tough day. With blinds at 150/300, a player raises to 800, another player calls. At this point, Maria pushed the remaining chunk of her stack on the table. His opponent called and showed A K against our Spanish player's A J. Maria did not get the cards she needed and is now out of the tournament.

Update: 3:42 GMT +2

Maria had difficulties trying to reverse the trend and just lost a hand.

With blinds at 150/300, our player bet 800 and the SB called.

The board showed 6h 7d 3d , Maria bet 1,200 and her opponent called.

With a Ts on the river, Maria bet 2,500 and her opponent pays again.

River shows Jh and both players check.

SB has Kd Jd and Maria mucks. Our player is now under 10,000, which accounts for one third of her starting stack.

Update: 3:00 GMT+2

Our 3 Everest Poker players are still running.

Viktoria won several hands and has 49,000 chips. Francesco de Vivo, our Italian player, has 29,000 chips whereas our Spanish player lost half of her stack.

With blinds at 100/200, the dealer raises at 600 and Maria decides to bet 1,700. The dealer calls.

On a Jc 5d 6c board, Maria raises to 2,500 and her opponent calls.

Maria checks with a Kc on the turn, her opponent best 4,000 and Maria pays.

Maria check fold with a Th on the river following the 15,000 bet of her opponent. After this move, Maria fell to 13,500.

Update: 2:15 GMT+2

After the first 2 blind levels, players have a 15 mn break.

Update: 1:15 GMT+2

Fabrice Soulier is out.

Fabrice Soulier is already out after only few hours. With blinds of 50/100, our French player raised to 300, a player called and another online qualified player bet at 1,300.

Fabrice 4bet at 3,300 and the first player folded.

The BB hesitates and seems he’s going to fold, but pushed an All-in with 30,000, his initial stack.

With AA, Fabrice calls and dominate his opponent’s KK. The young online qualified Asian player caught a K on the flop and left Fabrice with a ridiculous stack of 450.

Here is an updated chip count of his teammates:
Viktoria Szilasi: 28,050 chips
Maria Maceiras: 19,100 chips
Francesco de Vivo: 34,000 chips

Good morning and welcome to the live coverage of Day 1B of EPT Monte Carlo Grand Finale!

The director of the tournament, Thomas Kremser just made the usual speech before the start of the tournament and announced the popular "Shuffle up and deal."

At first view, we should go over the number of participants of yesterday. As for the Everest Poker Team, today we can count on Fabrice Soulier, Maria Maceiras, Viktoria Szilasi and Francesco de Vivo.

We will keep you posted with the course of the event as well as players' performance as soon as we can.