Day 1 chip leader Jose Carlos Garcia finished on top of the leaderboards again at the EPT Grand Final Main Event, building a stack of 1.710.000, which is a massive lead over Connor Drinan, who is sitting in second place with a 1.065.000 stack. There are 34 players left and the field is stacked with stars, Scott Clements, Ole Schemion, Dario Sammartino and Johnny Lodden are all in the top 10, but Jason Mercier, Stephen Chidwick, Mustapha Kanit and Isaac Haxton are still in contest aswell. Check out the live stream from Day 4 in the article!
114 players returned for Day 3 of the EPT Grand Final Main Event, the chip leader was Ole Schemion with 477.700 chips, but Jason Mercier, Vanessa Selbst, Sergio Aido and other big names were still in aswell.
The plan for the day was to play five 90-minute levels and to reach the paying spots. Eric Sfez finished as the bubble boy after his K-K failed to hold up against Jason Mercier’s 2-2 in a preflop all-in.
After the bubble burst Nicolas Chouity, Steve O’Dwyer, Dan Smith, Maria Ho, Eugene Katchalov, Jason Wheeler, Artur Koren, Dimitar Danchev, Brian Roberts, Dzmitry Urbanovich were eliminated amongst others.
The biggest stack by the end of the day was Jose Carlos Garcia, he built his stack to 1.710.000, which will be 170 big blinds at the start of Day 4. Connor Drinan, Scott Clements, Dario Sammartino and Ole Schemion are in the top 10, and the rest of the field is stacked aswell, with Mustapha Kanit, Stephen Chidwick, Adrian Mateos, Felix Stephensen, Isaac Haxton and Fabrice Soulier still in.
On Day 4 play will go on until the best 16 is set or until Level 24 ends, you can check out the live stream below!
Chip count
Jose Carlos Garcia – 1.710.000
Connor Drinan – 1.065.000
Anatoly Chen – 987.000
Hady El Asmar – 910.000
Scott Clements – 909.000
Dario Sammartino – 827.000
Ole Schemion – 823.000
Johnny Lodden – 728.000
Andre Akkari – 574.000
Anton Astapau – 561.000
Joao Simao – 546.000
Jason Mercier – 539.000
Tom Hall – 536.000
Ryan McEathron – 521.000
Muhyedine Fares – 439.000
Christopher Frank – 435.000
Koichi Nozaki – 397.000
Dmitry Ivanov – 393.000
Stephen Chidwick – 393.000
Adrian Mateos – 376.000
Markus Ross – 348.000
Ludovic Geilich – 346.000
Romain Paon – 332.000
Philippe Narboni – 320.000
Quan Zhou – 310.000
Juan Martin Pastor – 305.000
Lyndon Basha – 303.000
Mustapha Kanit – 213.000
Liviu Ignat – 211.000
Vladislav Donchev – 159.000
Pierre Neuville – 150.000
Felix Stephensen – 125.000
Isaac Haxton – 117.000
Fabrice Soulier – 73.000
Payouts
1. €1.082.000
2. €679.000
3. €486.000
4. €379.000
5. €297.250
6. €233.500
7. €174.300
8. €120.700
9. €95.300
10-11. €78.400
12-13. €66.500
14-15. €58.100
16-17. €51.350
18-20. €45.700
21-23. €40.050
24-27. €34.400
28-31. €29.900
32-39. €26.500
40-55. €23.125
56-71. €20.900
72-79. €19.175
