EPT Grand Final Main Event Reaches Day 2: Nick Yunis Leads
This year's total attendance for the €10,000+€600 EPT Grand Final Main Event stands at a most impressive 665, which means the prize pool is a gargantuan €6,650,000!
The two starting days of the European Poker Tour Grand Final Main Event have been completed and it is true to say that the players have come out in support of a return to the Monte-Carlo® Casino after a year off to have the Grand Final in Madrid.
This year's total attendance for the €10,000+€600 EPT Grand Final Main Event stands at a most impressive 665, which means the prize pool is a gargantuan €6,650,000! This huge sum of money will be distributed out amongst the top 96 finisher; a min-cash being worth €15,000 with the eventual winner walking away with a cool €1,500,000.
The man everyone has to catch if they want to leave the Principality of Monaco as the 2012 EPT Grand Final champion is Nick Yunis, who managed to turn his 30,000 starting stack into a tournament leading 191,700. Yunis is a 26-year old Chilean who has been playing poker now for seven years but after plenty of success in the online format of the game has started to play on the live circuit much more regularly.
In the last 12 months Yunis has made it to the money in no fewer than 19 major live tournaments and side events, bagging himself over $350,000 in winnings in the process. However,the hyper-aggressive player is still to have a six-figure score; that big win just keeps eluding him. His biggest cash to date tops the scales at $79,900 that he was awarded for busting out in ninth place in the $25,000 High Roller Eight-Max event at this year's PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. Could this tournament be the one that catapults Yunis well and truly into the limelight?
With 394 players still in the hunt for glory there is a long way for Yunis or anyone else for that matter before they can start dreaming of making it to the first set of money places and beyond, buy by the time play comes to an end today they should be almost be able to smell the Euros on offer! Amongst those 394 players who return for Day 2 of the Main Event include John Eames, David "Doc" Sands, Steve O'Dwyer, recent Premier League champion Scott Seiver, reigning World Series of Poker Main Event champion Pius Heinz, the legendary Phil Ivey, former Betfair Poker pro Annette Obrestad and a whole host of other familiar faces and well-known poker players.
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