100 players begin but only eight will remain when the lights go out; 40 will get paid. They are fighting for the following prizes:


1 - €480.000 (plus €10,000 buy-in into EPT Grand final in Monte Carlo)
2 - €259.000

3 - €155.300
4 - €118.500

5 - €97.700
6 - €76.800

7 - €60.800
8 - €43.500

9-10 - €26.400
11-12 - €20.800

13-14 - €16.100
15-16 - €11.300

17-24 - €8.800
25-32 - €6.400

33-40 - €4.800


Sitting atop the overnight leaderboard is Jerome Douieb, a PokerStars qualifier from France. He was leading his table a merry dance late last night, showing down some fearless bluffs that were even eliciting applause from those donating the chips. I remember one in particular, when, looking at a flop of five-five-nine, Kristian Ulriksen bet, the player to his left raised and Jerome reached for a stack of yellow 1,000 chips and tossed them into the pot.


Both players agonised before both folded and Jerome turned over pocket sevens to anguished cries from both his adversaries. We'll catch up with him later for more details - as well as all the action from this crucial second day.


Jerome has 143,000 chips, some 100,000 more than the median stack of 43,400.


reported by Howard Swains at Pokerstars

Below you'll find the chip counts as players combine their flights and begin Day 2 of the European Poker Tour.


Jerome Douieb (PokerStars qualifier) 142,925
Claude Cohen 117,450

Theo Jorgensen 111,175
Frederik Hostrup 105,850

Tune Seidelin 99,775
Julian Gardner 99,200

Martin Green 89,125
Mike Hermes 84,600

Mats Iremark 84,500
Henrik Olander 83,500

Sami Torbey (PokerStars qualifier) 83,150
David Albertsson 75,100

Roy Brindley 73,925
Patric Martensson 73,325

Jerome Zerbib 73,100
Kristian Ulriksen 72,025

Jon Hewston 71,875
Brian Hansen 70,650

Bernard Greard 68,525
Torgny Andersson 67,450

Stuart Fox 66,600
Julian Thew 65,325

Julien Veyrac (PokerStars qualifier) 64,550
Isabelle Mercier (Team PokerStars) 63,650

Ram Vaswani 61,150
Jeff Sharpe 59,800

Ole Busborg Jensen (PokerStars qualifier) 59,200
Emile Petit 58,625

Peter Roche 58,375
Jennifer Mason 55,900

Torstein Iversen 52,625
Xanthos Charalambos 51,175

Willie Tann 50,150
Mickey Wernick 50,075

Patrick Bruel 49,350
Shelle Mullet 47,725

Lex Veldhuis (PokerStars qualifier) 47,050

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