European Poker Tour Monte Carlo Day 3 Recap

Thirty-two Remain in the Hunt for €2.3 Million Top Prize

by Brendan Murray  |   Published: May 01, 2009

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The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Monte Carlo Grand Final yesterday played down from 138 to 32 players and Marcel Luske was the Monte Carlo bubble boyamong the bust outs were Michael Watson, Fabrice Soulier, Nenad Medic, Team PokerStars Pro Lee Nelson, Benjamin Spindler, Team PokerStars Pro Isabelle Mercier, Sorel Mizzi, Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies, Carl Olson, Team PokerStars Pro Andre Akaari, and former world champion and Team PokerStars Pro Joe Hachem.

Marcel Luske was the bubble boy, eliminated in 89th. On a flop of 10 3 2 , he went is all-in and Sebastian Ruthenberg called. Luske had A 9  and Ruthenberg had 2-2 for the set. The turn was the J, and the river was the A.

Some of the notable payouts included:

84: Tristan Clemencon — €20,000


78: Liya Gerasimova — €22,000


76: Andreas Hoivold — €22,000


75: Farzad Bonyadi — €22,000


71: Michael Greco — €25,000


69: Phil Laak — €25,000


64: Samuel Chartier — €28,000


63: Vitaly Lunkin — €28,000


59: Dag Palovic — €28,000


55: Luca Pagano — €31,000


44: J.J. Liu — €35,000


41: Steve Sung — €35,000


38: Alex Kravchenko — €40,000


36: Sandra Naujoks — €40,000


35: Anthony Venturini — €40,000


34: Sebastian Ruthenberg — €40,000

The top 10 in chips going into today’s play are:

  1. Matthew Woodward (USA) — 2,726,000
  2. Ludovic Lacay (France) — 2,235,000
  3. Marc Naalden (Holland) — 1,770,000
  4. Johannes Strassmann (Germany) — 1,612,000
  5. Steven Silverman (USA) — 1,509,000
  6. Peter Traply (Hungary) — 1,449,000
  7. Bart Spijkers (Holland) — 1,377,000
  8. Grayson Physioc (USA) — 1,340,000
  9. Grigory Zima (Russia) — 1,313,000
  10. Alexander Morozov (Russia) — 1,202,000

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