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EPT Monte Carlo

Justin Bonomo Wins 2012 EPT €100,000 Monte Carlo Super High Roller

by Wicked Chops Entity on 4.25.2012 in Poker Tournaments | no comments

Justin Bonomo, who attended this 2009 WSOP Bodog bowling party, captured his biggest live payday at the 2012 EPT Monte Carlo Super High Roller.

Justin Bonomo entered final table play of the 2012 EPT €100,000 Monte Carlo Super High Roller as the massive chip leader. He ended final table play with a massive pay day, capturing the title and banking €1,640,000.

Bonomo defeated Germany’s Tobias Reinkemeier (€1,064,000) heads-up for the title.

This makes only the second win of Bonomo’s live tournament career (he captured a WSOP-C event in 2009). The victory nearly doubles his career earnings, pushing him over the $5M mark.

Daniel Negreanu started final table play third overall. A win would’ve pushed Negreanu past Erik Seidel on the career live tournament earnings list, but instead he finished sixth for €310,000.

Patrik Antonius finished fourth for €443,000.

Temp Hutter did not play in the event.

Get full results and recap here.

Tagged as: EPT Monte Carlo, featured, Justin Bonomo, Poker News, Tobias Reinkemeier

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Justin Bonomo Leads EPT €100,000 Super High Roller, Negreanu Lurks

by Wicked Chops Entity on 4.24.2012 in Poker Tournaments | no comments

A win here and Daniel Negreanu will become the all-time live tourney money winner.

The final table is set for the 2012 EPT €100,000 Super High Roller.

Justin Bonomo boasts the big stack among the remaining 8 with 4,393,000. He’s followed by Tobias Reinkemeier with 1,682,000.

In third overall is Daniel Negreanu with 1,581,000. Continuing his Seidel-esque 2012 run is Jonathan Duhamel, who is fifth overall with 1,265,000.

The final table starts at 12:00 CET. First banks €1,640,000. Get full chip counts here.

Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-ept-grand-final/super-high-roller/

Tagged as: EPT Monte Carlo

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2012 EPT Monte Carlo €100,000 Super High Roller Pulls 45, €1.6M to First

by Wicked Chops Entity on 4.24.2012 in Poker Tournaments | no comments

Jonathan Duhamel is resurging (that a word?) like Stacy Keibler this year.

Huge turn-out for the 2012 EPT Monte Carlo €100,000 Super High Roller event, as 45 players entered, creating a first place prize of €1,640,000.

Day 1 ended with Talal Shakerchi as big stack. He was followed by Jonathan Duhamel, who is pulling his best Erik Seidel impersonation to start off 2012.

As of post-time (7am PT), there are 22 remaining. Shakerchi is still big-stack, and he’s still followed by Duhamel.

Plenty of notables remain, including Tobias Reinkemeier, Patrik Antonius, Dan Shak, ElkY, Phil Ivey, Vanessa Selbst, Daniel Negreanu, and Erik Seidel.

Follow and get full chip counts here.

Tagged as: EPT Monte Carlo

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Jessica Jane Clement Brings You Today’s Poker News Links

by Wicked Chops Entity on 5.3.2010 in Poker News | no comments

Jessica Jane Clement

Mirror mirror on the wall, Jessica Jane Clement has a huge rack. Wait, was that supposed to rhyme?

Lots of interesting poker news today and tournament updates from over the weekend. Some not-so-poker-stuff below as well.

:: The WSOP is expanding to Africa this October with two tournaments at the Emerald Resort and Casino in South Africa. [link]

:: Provocative commentary on the new WSOP Africa. [link]

:: Bodog parts ways with David Williams after his 2010 WPT Championship win, signs Amanda Musumeci (who?). Easy on the makeover btw. [link]

:: Ex-Betfair pro and the winner of the first WSOP Europe, Annette Obrestad, a woman, now in red at Full Tilt Poker. [link]

:: To the delight of his friends and family, and that’s about it, Lebanon’s Nicolas Chouity took down the EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final, earning  €1.7 mil. [link]

:: Germany’s Tobias Reinkemeier bested a field of 113 to capture the EPT Monte Carlo €25,000 High Roller tournament, winning nearly a million euros. [link]

:: Dutch Boyd started a new website. [link]

:: Olivia Munn is always fun to look at. [link]

:: Reason #4,857,818,192 why we freakin hate cats (fun starts :45 in). [link]

:: TwoPlusTwo delivers another epic photoshop thread. [link]

:: And voting for the Heartland Poker Tour TV hostess gets underway today on Facebook. [link]

More photos of Jessica Jane Clement here.

Jessica looking even hotter as a brunette here.

Tagged as: Annette Obrestad, David Williams, dutch boyd, EPT Monte Carlo, Jessica Jane Clement, Olivia Munn

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Kevin Eyster Leads at EPT Monte Carlo, Moneymaker and Weisner Out

by Wicked Chops Entity on 4.28.2010 in Uncategorized | 1 comment

Kelly Brook Bikini

Kelly Brook in a bikini has nothing to do with the EPT Monte Carlo, thus making this photo purely gratuitous. Imagine that.

Day 3 at the EPT Monte Carlo is “in the booksTM” and leading the way is US American Kevin “1$ickDisea$E” Eyster. The 20-year-old online player was the first over the two mil mark today and ended up bagging 2,768,000 in chips by day’s end. Stacked second is fellow Anglo Matt Perins of UK (2.5 mil) and rounding out the top three is the pretentious sounding Jean Francois Talbot of Canada (2.43 mil).

If you read the headline above or have followed poker over the past 7 years, you’re probably not surprised to learn that Chris Moneymaker was eliminated after being among the leaders yesterday. Also out is Melanie “Callisto 5″ Weisner, a woman, so we guess this ain’t the Year of the WomanTM after all.

Notables still in include Nick Shulman (578,000) and…that looks like about it unless you count Dominykas Karmazinas. We hear he’s HUGE in Lithuania.

Finally, leading the way for players we wouldn’t want to be on a plane with based on name alone are Mesbah Geurf (758,00) and Ramzi Jelassi (590k).

Get full chip counts from today here.

More of Kelly Brook in a bikini here.

Tagged as: Chris Moneymaker, EPT, EPT Monte Carlo, Melanie Weisner

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