Sami “LarsLuzak” Kelopuro is one of the best NL Heads up players in the world, but from time to time he likes to shine in live tournaments as well. After the first two days of EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final Kelopuro is holding the fifth place.

413 players qualified to the second day of the tournament but after the long day there were only 116 poker sharks left. In the end of the day Nick Schulman was leading with his 742k chipstack. Chris Moneymaker, the WSOP Main Event winner who started the whole poker boom, also wants to show that his skills have not vanished anywhere. The master is 10th in chip count.

Top 10 chips:

  1. Nick Schulman -USA - 742,000
  2. David Sesso - USA - 642,500
  3. Jean Francois Talbot - France - 635,000
  4. Matt Perrins - UK - 568,000
  5. Sami Kelopuro - Finland - 552,000
  6. Domenico Iannone - Italy - 536,000
  7. Nathan Royce Tuthill - USA - 507,500
  8. Aleh Plauski - Belarus – 501,000
  9. David Paredes - USA - 466,500
  10. Chris Moneymaker - USA - 457,000

The winner of the tournament will receive a huge prize pot of 1,7 million. Also the silver medalist can start using the title Millionaire with his/her name.

The prize structure:

1 – €1,700,000
2 – €1,000,000
3 – €700,000
4 – €500,000
5 – €400,000
6 – €300,000
7 – €200,000
8 – €140,000

9-10 – €100,000
11-12 – €80,000
13-14 – €70,000
15-16 – €60,000
17-24 – €50,000
25-32 – €40,000
33-40 – €35,000
41-56 – €30,000
57-80 – €25,000
81-104 – €20,000
105-128 - €15,000

Follow the play of Day 3 HERE.

Source: PokerNews and PokerStarsBlog



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