The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Monte Carlo Grand Final yesterday played down from 138 to 32 players and 
among 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:
- Matthew Woodward (USA) — 2,726,000
- Ludovic Lacay (France) — 2,235,000
- Marc Naalden (Holland) — 1,770,000
- Johannes Strassmann (Germany) — 1,612,000
- Steven Silverman (USA) — 1,509,000
- Peter Traply (Hungary) — 1,449,000
- Bart Spijkers (Holland) — 1,377,000
- Grayson Physioc (USA) — 1,340,000
- Grigory Zima (Russia) — 1,313,000
- Alexander Morozov (Russia) — 1,202,000
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