FPS Monaco: Treusch leads 314 to start Day 2
Last night as we were recapping the conclusion of Day 1B of the France Poker Series Monaco Main Event -- one of the many tournaments kicking off the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino EPT Grand Final...
View ArticleFPS Monaco: Turn me on, Deadman
For a time yesterday, the France Poker Series Monaco Main Event had all but taken over the spacious main tournament room and second room (also large) dedicated primarily to cash games and smaller side...
View ArticleFPS Monaco: How can you be in two places at once...?
Of the Team PokerStars Pros making it through to today's Day 2 of the France Poker Series Monaco Main Event, Andre Akkari was returning to the biggest stack of the bunch. Except he hasn't returned. Not...
View ArticleFPS Monaco: Bubble edges closer in Main Event; FPS High Roller begins
"He found the only guy in all of Monaco he covers!" So cried Jacques Guenni with a big grin after watching a short-stacked Anthony Mathieu all in (again) and called by an even shorter Steponas Venckus....
View ArticleFPS Monaco: On the thing that bursts after which everyone cashes
There's a word we use when reporting on poker tournaments to describe the period we've just crossed through in the France Poker Series Monaco Main Event. It's a metaphor. Think soap. Economic crises....
View ArticleFPS Monaco: Salter, MacPhee, Pfutzenreuter out; Taibi on top as field shrinks
Following the slow, lengthy -- though exciting -- period during which the France Poker Series Monaco Main Event field when from 145 to 144, it has swiftly shrunk to less than 90 players now as the...
View ArticleFPS Monaco: Dean-Henri Taibi takes over, leads to end Day 2
Much like the night's penultimate level, the last hour of Day 2 of the France Poker Series Main Event at the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino EPT Grand Final festival was fast-paced. Many more cashed,...
View ArticleFPS Monaco: 57 return for Day 3 led by Taibi, Besalduch, Bier, Braga
We're in luxurious Monaco, a place where more than a few millionaires dwell. Speaking of, there's an exclusive group in the millionaire-club -- chip-wise, that is -- to start Day 3 of the France Poker...
View ArticleFPS Monaco: Level 21-24 updates
4:59pm: Break time Level 24 having concluded, the remaining players are now taking their second break of the day. For continuing updates from Day 3 picking up with Level 25, click here. 4:46pm:...
View ArticleFPS Monaco: Level 25-28 updates
For Level 21-24 updates, please click here. 11:08pm: Gordillo grabs night's last pot In the last hand of the level -- and of Day 3 -- a hand arose in which it folded to the often-active Pablo Gordillo...
View ArticleFPS Monaco: Pablo Gordillo big leader with 7 left for final day
Another long day in the France Poker Series Monaco Main Event PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino EPT Grand Final has come to a close, and after eight full one-hour levels the 57 players who had survived...
View ArticleFPS Monaco: Main Event final table profiles
From a whopping field of 993, they reached the final eight-handed table with about an hour left to play last night in the France Poker Series Monaco Main Event that has helped kick off the PokerStars...
View ArticleFPS Monaco: Final table; Level 29-32 updates
Watch cards-up coverage of the FPS Monaco Main Event final table on EPT Live by clicking here. Time stamps of the updates below reflect the one-hour delay. 6:06pm: Break time; updated chip counts The...
View ArticleFPS Monaco: Final table; Level 33-35 updates
Watch cards-up coverage of the FPS Monaco Main Event final table on EPT Live by clicking here. Time stamps of the updates below reflect the one-hour delay. Click here for live updates from Levels...
View ArticleFPS Monaco: Sebastian Supper steers way to Main Event victory, wins €177,000
From the 993 who entered this year's France Poker Series Monaco Main Event PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino EPT Grand Final, just seven were left for today's final day of play. Its ups and downs...
View ArticleFPS Lille: How Bart Lybaert kicked off a great week for Belgium
With a win in the UKIPT Bristol this week, the Belgian poker community was celebrating a second win in the space of about a week. Pierrick Tallon was merely carrying on where Bart Lybaert had started...
View ArticleFPS Monaco: Main Event Day 1A coverage archive
As a usual kick-off to the the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino EPT Grand Final, the France Poker Series Monaco Main Event is traditionally a popular starting point for poker players coming to...
View ArticleFPS Monaco: Main Event Day 1B coverage archive
We knew when we saw 349 come out for yesterday's Day 1A -- the first of two Day 1 flights in this €1,100 buy-in France Poker Series Monaco Main Event -- that today was going to be grand (bilingual pun...
View ArticleFPS Monaco: Main Event Day 2 coverage archive
It was a fast-paced Day 2 in the France Poker Series Monaco Main Event on Friday -- so fast, in fact, the decision was made to forgo the dinner break stop a couple of levels early. When the last hands...
View ArticleFPS Monaco: Main Event Day 3 coverage archive
There were 1,261 to start. Then 339, then 60. Now, just six players are still with a chance at the France Poker Series Monaco Main Event title and the €218,000 prize that goes with it. One of those six...
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