The EPT Season 11 Grand Final €10,600 Main Event is currently taking place at the Monte-Carlo Casino in Monaco. The event attracted a total of 564 players who created a prize pool of €5,640,000.
Speaking of the prize pool, the champion is to be awarded the amount of €1,082,000. The runner-up will receive €679,000. And the player who finishes third will be paid a €486,000 share of the money.
Day 4 of the Main Event is scheduled to start today at noon local time. It will see only 34 players returning. According to plan, they are to play either to the end of Level 24 or until there are only 16 of them remaining.
Day 4 is to begin with Jose Carlos Garcia from Poland as the chip leader. He has a total of 1,710,000 in chips. Garcia is followed by American Connor Drinan, who finished Day 3 with 1,065,000, and Russian Anatoly Chen with 987,000.
PokerStars Team Pros Johnny Lodden, Andre Akkari, and Jason Mercier, as well as 2014 GPI Player of the Year Ole Schemion, and two-time WPT champion Scott Clements are also among those who will be seen returning for Day 4 of the Main Event.
Players like Dzmitry Urbanovich, who finished 2nd at the EPT Grand Final €100,000 Super High Roller event, PokerStars Team Pro Eugene Katchalov, and Jean Montury, who won the EPT Season 11 Malta Main Event, were among the players who could not manage to survive through Day 3 and remain in contention for the first-place prize.
Despite his rather Spanish name, Day 3 chip leader Jose Carlos Garcia competes for Poland. Up to now, the player has a total of $623,015 in live tournament earnings. He scored his biggest live cash back in January 2015, when he finished 4th in the PCA LAPT $2,643 + 357 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event and was paid the amount of $119,820.
Previously, the player cashed €40,000 ($53,368) for his 4th place in the EPT Season 11/ESPT €2,000 + 200 No-Limit Hold’em event held in Barcelona in August 2014, €33,700 ($46,518) for finishing 10th in the EPT Season 10 €10,000 + 300 No-Limit Hold’em EPT High Roller event held in Vienna in March 2014, and €58,900 ($76,050) for winning the EPT Season 9 San Remo €2,000 + 100 No-Limit Hold’em Six Max Turbo event in 2012.
At present, Garcia ranks 8th in the Poland all time money list. He also takes 86th place in the GPI leaderboard.
