EPT Monte Carlo Main Event With More Than 1,000 Entries

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May 4, 2022 · 6 minutes to read

It's been a while. After two years the European Poker Tour Monte Carlo is back and the the opening days of the main event were a complete success. With 1,049 entries (and late reg still open) the EPT Monte Carlo will be second largest in history. After the starting flights, Dane Morten Hvam is in the lead.

EPT Monte Carlo 2022 Main Event - Key Facts

Date: May 2 - 7
Place: Monte Carlo
Players: 307 out of 1,049 entries (Late-Reg open until noon today)
Buy-in: €4,850 + €450
Prize pool: €5,087,650
Chipleader: Morten Hvam

After a two-year break due to the pandemic, the European Poker Tour is back this year at the Sporting d'été in Monte Carlo.

The Main Event with a buy-in of €5,300 is the most important poker tournament of this event and the players overran the tables. With 419 entries on Day 1A and 631 on Day 1B, a total of 1,049 entries are in the books - the second-highest number of players after EPT Monte Carlo in 2016 with 1,098 entries.

EPT Monte Carlo over the years

This is how player and prize pool numbers at EPT Monte Carlo have developed since 2005:

Year	Player	Prize Pool	Champion
2005	211	1,983,400 €	Rob Hollink
2006	298	2,801,200 €	Jeff Williams
2007	706	6,636,400 €	Gavin Griffin
2008	842	8,420,000 €	Glen Chorny
2009	935	9,350,000 €	Pieter De Korver
2010	848	8,480,000 €	Nicolas Chouity
2012	665	6,650,000 €	Mohsin Charania
2013	531	5,310,000 €	Steve O'Dwyer
2014	650	6,500,000 €	Antonio Buonanno
2015	564	5,640,000 €	Adrian Mateos
2016	1,098	5,325,300 €	Jan Bendik
2017	727	3,525,950 €	Raffaele Sorrentino
2018	777	3,768,450 €	Nicolas Dumont
2019	922	4,471,700 €	Manig Loeser
2022	1,049	5,087,650 €	-

EPT Monte Carlo player numbers since 2005

Buy-In: [2005 - 2015: €10.300; from 2016: €5.300]
Re-Entry: [2005 - 2018: Freeze-Out; from 2019: Single Re-Entry]

After the starting days, the Dane Morten Hvam leads the field. Other players in the upper region of the leader board are Gaelle Baumann, PokerStars Pros Benjamin Spragg and Rafael Moraes, Sofia Lövgren, Davidi Kitai, Christoph Vogelsang and Sam Greenwood among others.

The tournament continues today at noon with day 2. Late registrations are possible until the start of the second day. Today, starting at 12:30 (CEST), the TV table of the main event will be broadcast live on Twitch.

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Chipcounts after Day 1A and Day 1B

Player	Country	Chips	Seat
Morten Hvam	Denmark	327,500	28-5
Gangzhou Hu	France	272,000	30-3
Boris Kuzmanovic	Croatia	259,500	42-7
Merijn van Rooij	Netherlands	253,000	7-4
Bruno Volkmann	Brazil	249,000	23-2
Andrew Hulme	UK	238,500	4-6
Kazuhiko Yotsushika	Japan	233,500	13-1
Didrik Mantor	Norway	232,500	5-2
Claudio Di Giacomo	Italy	231,000	8-8
Ramon Colillas	Spain	231,000	34-2
Daniel Rezaei	Austria	230,500	19-4
Oliver Bosch	Austria	228,500	8-4
Rocco Palumbo	Italy	226,000	5-7
Justin Saliba	USA	224,500	38-2
Hugo Pingray	France	215,000	26-8
Jonathon Genovese	UK	211,000	3-3
Yuri Dzivielevski	Brazil	205,500	8-5
Ferenc Deak	Hungary	203,500	4-7
Nicolas Vayssieres	France	203,500	11-7
Arnaud Mattern	France	202,000	18-4
Rafael Moraes	Brazil	201,500	26-3
Eric Sfez	France	201,000	28-4
Yannick Cardot	France	199,500	1-4
Josip Simunic	Austria	191,500	5-6
Mikal Blomlie	Norway	191,500	12-1
Rintaro Kagawa	Japan	191,000	27-8
Dan Djorno	France	190,500	26-5
Tim Klaversma	Netherlands	189,500	24-5
Julien Mariani	France	188,000	19-5
Jules Dickerson	France	187,000	10-5
Julien Martini	France	184,000	6-4
Laurent Vauquelin	France	184,000	16-8
Gaelle Baumann	France	181,500	44-5
Vahe Ter-Khachatryan	Armenia	178,500	18-3
Tobias Anttila	Finland	178,000	34-3
Arthur Conan	France	177,500	15-1
Fady Kamar	Lebanon	176,500	9-2
Ermanno Di Nicola	Italy	176,500	19-1
Aylar Lie	Norway	176,000	10-6
Benjamin Spragg	UK	175,500	4-1
Fabian Quoss	Germany	175,500	27-7
Armin Rezaei	Austria	174,500	24-8
Selahaddin Bedir	Turkey	173,000	28-6
Marc Cristiani	France	167,000	25-7
Javier Fernandez	Spain	167,000	34-5
Mehdi Chaoui	Morocco	165,000	15-3
Oleg Bessaev	France	164,500	14-2
Alexandre Amiel	France	164,000	11-5
Paul Hoefer	Germany	163,500	28-3
Krasimir Yankov	Bulgaria	161,500	14-7
Sylvain Loosli	France	161,500	19-2
Marco Regonaschi	Italy	161,000	41-1
Michael Chetrit	France	160,500	23-7
Julien Veyssiere	France	160,000	13-8
Karim Abdelmoumene	France	155,500	16-1
Toru Ida	Japan	155,000	2-3
Leonardo Patacconi	Italy	155,000	21-2
Christoph Vogelsang	Germany	154,500	3-6
Davidi Kitai	Belgium	154,500	35-1
Ariel Sebban	France	153,000	39-2
Lucien Cohen	France	150,500	7-6
Francky Magliocco	France	150,000	19-6
Francisco Caballo	Spain	150,000	20-1
Sindre Hansen	Norway	149,000	11-2
David Lopez	Spain	147,500	31-4
Ange Besnainou	France	147,000	27-4
Daniel Golder	UK	145,500	39-5
Jean-Philippe Peyratoux	France	145,000	25-3
Timothy Adams	Canada	144,500	14-5
Dragos Trofimov	Moldova	144,000	27-6
Joseph Sabe	Lebanon	143,500	29-8
Andrea Rasulo	Italy	142,500	22-3
Matas Cimbolas	Lithuania	142,000	36-7
Laurent Chenet	France	142,000	40-1
Morgan Aceto	France	141,000	28-8
Pierre Calamusa	France	140,000	1-8
Danut Chisu	Romania	139,000	6-5
Aram Sargsyan	Armenia	138,500	32-5
Wang Tin	Hong Kong	138,000	31-8
Stefano Ferrara	Italy	137,000	27-2
Ermo Kosk	Estonia	136,500	30-8
Tamon Nakamura	Japan	136,000	37-7
Aleksandar Tomovic	Serbia	134,000	6-7
Antonin Teisseire	France	134,000	25-6
Omar Lakhdari	France	132,000	22-2
Hassan Fares	France	131,500	11-6
Kent Roed	Norway	131,000	17-7
Conor Beresford	UK	130,500	43-1
Harpreet Gill	Canada	129,500	22-5
Lucas Sfez	France	128,500	1-2
Catalin Rusu	Romania	128,500	21-4
Rainer Kempe	Germany	126,500	30-4
Hrayr Grigoryan	Armenia	126,000	13-2
Kosei Kitano	Japan	126,000	35-3
Andreas Bolling	Germany	125,000	43-7
Antonio Garcia	USA	124,500	33-4
Samuel Greenwood	Canada	123,000	2-7
Marc Foggin	UK	123,000	14-3
Senol Ardic	France	123,000	30-1
Zhong Chen	Netherlands	123,000	36-2
Ladislao Dalfo	Spain	122,000	9-4
Antony Marchetti	France	121,500	22-8
Besiana Antoni	Albania	119,500	40-5
Manuel Labous	France	119,000	5-1
Christos Xanthopoulos	Greece	118,000	42-3
Sofia Lovgren	Sweden	117,500	2-1
Christian Rudolph	Germany	117,000	30-6
Christian Rotundo	Italy	114,500	7-2
Fausto Tantillo	Italy	114,000	22-1
Peter Turmezey	Hungary	113,500	33-7
Nikolai Tulin	Russia	113,000	15-7
Stephan Salzmann	Switzerland	113,000	40-4
Gregory Teboul	France	111,500	20-3
Mikalai Vaskaboinikau	Belarus	111,500	41-6
Tommaso Briotti	Italy	111,000	9-7
Justinas Jachimavicius	Lithuania	111,000	24-7
Mykhailo Demydenko	Ukraine	110,500	17-1
Jerome Zerbib	France	110,500	40-6
Florent Estegassy	France	110,000	35-4
Gustavo Mastelotto	Brazil	108,500	19-8
Jonathan Pastore	France	108,000	12-3
Thierry Morel	France	108,000	20-8
Damien Pilkington-Lewis	UK	108,000	24-1
Jussi Nevanlinna	Finland	107,500	13-4
Nicolas Julien	France	107,500	18-1
Fabio Peluso	Italy	107,500	37-5
Alexander Tkatschew	Germany	107,000	17-4
Patrik Antonius	Finland	106,000	3-1
Halil Coknez	Germany	106,000	13-6
Jakob Miegel	Germany	105,000	11-8
Nicola Grieco	Italy	105,000	28-2
Antony Darmani	France	104,500	35-6
Pierrig Robin	France	104,000	1-6
Javier Gomez	Spain	104,000	26-7
Reddy Patur	USA	104,000	39-1
Maher Nouira	Tunisia	103,500	25-2
Francois Pirault	France	103,000	6-3
Thomas Muehloecker	Austria	101,000	29-5
Alexandru Alman	Italy	101,000	40-3
Guillaume Diaz	France	100,000	27-5
Mohamad Saghir	Germany	99,500	41-4
Pedro Garagnani	Brazil	99,000	39-6
Dirk Wiele	Germany	98,500	31-1
Leo Margets	Spain	98,500	36-5
Demosthenes Kiriopoulos	Canada	98,500	37-6
Valentino Konakchiev	Bulgaria	98,000	9-8
Sebastian Gahl	Austria	98,000	23-6
Serafim Kovalevskiy	Russia	96,000	17-6
Franz Bracher	Switzerland	95,000	36-4
Murat Inam	Turkey	94,500	15-6
Mustapha Kanit	Italy	94,000	2-6
Lukas Zaskodny	Czech Republic	93,500	34-7
Thomas Rauhut	Germany	92,000	19-7
Danny Pyke	UK	92,000	24-4
Enrico Mosca	Italy	92,000	34-8
Diego Zeiter	Argentina	91,500	9-3
Georgios Vrakas	Germany	91,500	21-8
Jaime Cervantes	USA	91,000	23-4
Sergej Babincev	Lithuania	90,500	12-5
Alexis Nicolai	France	90,500	20-4
Fabien Motte	France	90,500	44-7
Koray Aldemir	Germany	89,000	2-8
Jeremy Saderne	France	88,500	42-4
Nariman Yaghmai	Iran	88,000	35-8
Jonathan Barusta	France	87,500	5-5
Dmitry Shchepkin	Russia	87,500	30-7
Niall Farrell	UK	87,000	28-1
Massou Cohen	France	87,000	34-6
Jacques Der Megreditchian	France	87,000	40-7
Terje Bremseth	Norway	86,500	9-6
Andrian Simone	Italy	86,000	3-5
Daniel Dvoress	Canada	86,000	21-3
Claas Segebrecht	Germany	85,000	4-4
Shakhabiddin Muradov	Latvia	85,000	30-2
David Comeron	Spain	85,000	31-3
Goran Barukcic	Croatia	84,500	2-4
Maximilian Lehmanski	Austria	84,500	7-7
Ewen Trevidy	France	84,000	24-3
Alexey Losev	Russia	84,000	34-4
Patrick Faraut	France	83,000	18-6
Sebastien Le Baron	France	83,000	38-5
Lars Kamphues	Austria	82,500	44-1
Vlado Banicevic	Montenegro	82,000	21-5
Ramzi Karam	Lebanon	81,000	38-3
Kamel Atoui	France	80,500	42-2
Jason Wheatley	UK	79,000	23-5
David Splettstoesser	Germany	79,000	42-1
Olivier Murrachioli	France	78,500	38-7
Jason Wheeler	USA	78,000	7-5
Christophe Panetti	Switzerland	78,000	10-1
Andrew Rauch	USA	77,000	35-5
Jonas Lauck	Germany	76,500	37-1
Angelo Benazzi	Italy	76,000	1-7
Juan Pardo	Spain	76,000	29-2
Ilan Cohen	France	75,500	32-1
Dylan Lambert	Switzerland	75,000	22-6
Hryhorii Shevchenko	Ukraine	72,000	44-6
Stefan Schillhabel	Germany	71,500	8-3
Filippo Lazzaretto	Italy	71,500	14-6
Erkan Soenmez	Germany	71,000	4-5
Mohamed Nakdali	France	70,500	39-4
Pavel Veksler	Ukraine	70,000	13-3
Demetrio Caminita	Italy	70,000	39-7
Pavlo Vertiiko	Ukraine	70,000	43-2
Jorge Cantos	Argentina	67,500	3-2
Alejandro Romero	Spain	67,000	14-8
Aku Joentausta	Finland	66,500	39-3
Flavien Mullet	France	66,000	31-2
Daniel Ghionoiu	Canada	66,000	33-1
Giovanni Petroni	Italy	66,000	36-3
Miguel Capriles	Portugal	65,500	20-5
Matias Ruzzi	Uruguay	65,000	37-8
Kanan Taherkhani	Turkey	65,000	43-6
Eric Bensimhon	France	64,000	43-5
Artem Kasidin	Switzerland	63,000	24-2
Duong Nguyen	Vietnam	61,500	44-2
Manig Loeser	Germany	61,000	21-6
Marcelo Simoes	Brazil	61,000	33-5
Martins Adeniya	UK	60,500	26-2
Florian Guimond	France	60,000	32-2
Natalia Samsonova	Ukraine	60,000	42-5
Kitty Kuo	Taiwan	59,500	11-4
Olivier Theuillon	France	58,500	5-3
Noah Novick	USA	58,500	37-3
Jules Hamidou	Switzerland	57,500	10-3
George Damian	Romania	57,000	16-6
Rachid El Yaacoubi	France	57,000	25-4
Alain Goldberg	France	56,500	4-2
Olivier Rebello	Canada	56,500	26-1
Dan Borlan	Romania	56,500	26-6
Volodymyr Drokin	Ukraine	54,500	1-1
Axel Hallay	France	54,500	33-2
Bruno Desnos	France	54,000	36-1
Youness Ait	France	54,000	38-1
Yiannis Liperis	Cyprus	53,500	8-1
Ana Marquez	Spain	53,500	11-1
Marton Czuczor	Hungary	53,000	20-2
Nuri Aksu	Turkey	53,000	21-7
William Kassouf	UK	52,500	16-2
Toni Kaukua	Finland	52,000	10-8
Leonard Herrmann	Austria	51,500	10-4
Krystian Wrobel	Poland	51,500	41-2
Jeremy Degny	France	51,000	17-5
Tom Kunze	Austria	50,500	18-8
Stefan Lehner	Austria	50,500	38-6
Eric Qu	France	50,000	12-7
Samir Moukawem	Lebanon	49,000	6-8
Victoria Coren Mitchell	UK	47,500	3-4
Charles-Henri Garnero	France	47,500	37-2
Alexandros Kolonias	Greece	47,000	7-8
John Mooney	UK	47,000	23-8
Alex Kulev	Bulgaria	46,500	23-3
Khashayar Moghaddam	Germany	46,000	16-7
Ole Schemion	Germany	44,500	32-4
Aliaksandr Hirs	Belarus	43,000	5-8
Martin Stausholm	Austria	43,000	15-2
Emre Nuhoglu	Turkey	42,500	1-5
Sergio Castelluccio	Italy	42,500	17-3
Jun Kasai	Japan	42,500	33-8
Marius Levinskas	Lithuania	42,000	36-8
Maxime Chilaud	France	41,500	29-3
Mario Mosboeck	Austria	41,000	6-2
Tomas Jozonis	Lithuania	40,500	31-6
Oliver Weis	Germany	40,000	14-1
Alexandre Reard	France	40,000	29-4
Tibor Halatsch	Germany	39,500	3-7
Dinesh Alt	Switzerland	39,500	29-7
Christopher Frank	Germany	39,000	9-1
Viliyan Petleshkov	Bulgaria	39,000	35-2
Didier Mambour	France	38,500	41-5
Mikael Guenni	France	38,500	43-4
Huy Pham	Vietnam	37,500	40-2
Quilcate Gamboa	Brazil	37,000	4-3
Paraskevas Tsokaridis	Greece	36,000	7-1
Alexandru Cinca	Romania	36,000	33-3
Christophe Pollet	France	35,500	22-7
Fabian Bernhausser	Austria	35,500	41-7
Stanislav Anufriiev	Ukraine	35,000	2-2
Bryan Paris	USA	34,500	42-6
Henry Strasser	Canada	34,000	43-3
Bennani Chakib	Morocco	33,500	12-6
Seth Davies	USA	32,000	29-6
Jurgen Resch	Austria	31,500	44-3
Csaba Bakk	Hungary	30,500	6-6
Henri Kasper	Estonia	30,500	25-1
Maduka Meragal	Canada	30,000	12-8
Franck Makaci	France	29,500	15-4
Josef Huber	Germany	28,500	8-7
Byron Kaverman	USA	28,500	27-3
Sylvestre Ceccaldi	France	28,000	13-7
Sonny Franco	France	28,000	18-5
Johan Guilbert	France	28,000	38-4
Tsugunari Toma	Japan	27,500	12-4
Antonios Paschalidis	Greece	27,500	17-2
Jon Kyte	Norway	27,000	32-7
Nicola Benedetto	Italy	27,000	32-8
Alex Peffly	UK	26,500	20-6
Jose Astima	France	24,000	25-5
Andre Akkari	Brazil	23,500	16-3
Jakub Wojtas	Germany	23,000	18-7
Martin Naveiro		22,000	16-5
Antal Roth	Hungary	21,500	15-5
Ouassini Mansouri	France	17,500	41-3
Fabio Maritan	Brazil	17,000	31-5
Mohamed Mehalleg	France	15,500	8-2
Fabio Sperling	Germany	15,000	32-6
Jean-Louis Perez	France	13,500	10-7