Former WSOP Champion Moneymaker into EPT Grand Final Day 3

Poker Betting: At the end of the day 2 in EPT grand final, among 413 players there were only 116 players are remains who guaranteed a minimum payout of €15,000. At the end of the night with 742,000, Nick Schulman came out as the chip leader and will be headed into the third day of play.

Team PokerStars Pro and former world champion Chris Moneymaker is moves into EPT Grand Final goes into Day 3 among the chip leaders. Moneymaker won his WSOP main event seat in 2003 via a $39 satellite and ended up besting a field of 839 players to scoop the $2.5 million first prize.

David Sesso, next closest in chips to Schulman, sits with 642,500, followed by Jean Francois Talbot, Italian Poker Tour Venice winner Matt Perrins from the UK, and Finnish high stakes online cash game player Sami Kelopuro.

Several members of Team PokerStars Pro are still in the running for the €1.7 million first prize including EPT3 London winner Vicky Coren (236,500), Swiss pro Rino Mathis (181,000), Alex Gomes from Brazil (141,500), Juan Manuel Pastor from Spain (193,500), new Czech pro Martin Hruby (155,500) and Dutchman Lex Veldhuis (194,000).

Only two of this season’s Main Event winners are still in contention – Swedish player Anton Wigg who took down EPT Copenhagen for DKK 3,675,000 and American Kevin MacPhee who won EPT Berlin last month for €1,000,000.

A total of 848 players entered the EPT Grand Final including 161 who won their seats to the €10,600 Main Event on PokerStars. They came from 51 different countries to create a total prize pool of €8,480. A total of 128 players will cash.

The event is running April 25 to 30 at Le Sporting venue at the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel. Last year’s Main Event was won by Dutch Team PokerStars Pro Pieter de Korver for a first prize of €2,300,000.

For full reports on the EPT Grand Final, please see the PokerStars blog and video blogs on PokerStars.tv. EPTLive will continue its great Season 6 coverage with a live webcast in seven languages for the last two days of the EPT Grand Final Main Event and the final of the €25,000 High Roller event on May 1.