Zona de Azar Canada – Karlic Tops Day 1 of PokerStars Championship Monte Carlo €10K Opening Event

Canada.– 27 de Abril de 2017 www.zonadeazar.com  Austrian professional poker player Gerald Karlic is leading after Day 1 of the three-day €10k Opening Event at PokerStars Championship presented by Monte-Carlo Casino®.

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There were 78 entries to the tournament so far (66 players + 12 re-entries). Late registration will remain open during the first two levels of Day 2 (closing approximately at 2.50pm).

Karlic bagged up 233,500 at the end of the eighth level, topping the 48-strong list of survivors. The 24-year-old hails from Vienna but lives in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. Karlic’ live tournament cashes combine for just under $1 million. Both of his six-figure cashes came at EPT Barcelona, where he won the €1k Event for €110,000 back in 2013 and topped it two years leater with a €155,600 for a seventh place in the €10k High Roller.

Karlic is just ahead of German superstar Ole Schemion, who has 229,000. Schemion has a sublime collection of cashes earned here in Monaco. He crushed last year’s EPT12 Grand Final. He first won the €100k Super High Roller and then added a runner-up finish in the €50k Single-Day Event, earning nearly €2.5 million during the festival.

The poker wizard from Berlin also made the final table in the EPT11 Grand Final Main Event- He departed in sixth place worth €233,500.

Further in the past, Schemion dominated EPT9 Grand Final that took place four years ago. Aged just 20, Schemion managed to win three side events to establish himself among the fearest players on the live circuit.

In all, Schemion has racked up nearly $11.5 million in live tournaments and currently sits in second place on the stacked German all-time money list.

EPT11 London finalist Jonathan Bensadoun is in third place, with 197,100 while German pros Moritz Dietrich (184,800) and Koray Aldemir (171,100) round out the top five.

Tons of famous players will come back for Day 2 including Charlie Carrel, David Peters, Steve O’Dwyer, Anthony Zinno and Aliaksei Boika who all had a strong start to the tournament, having more than doubled their starting stacks to write six-figure numbers on their bags.

Team PokerStars Pro Felipe Ramos also survived. He has 53,800.

One-hour levels are scheduled for the remaining part of the €10k Opening Event. Play will resume at 12.30pm with level 9 (blinds will be at 600/1,200, ante 200). Late registration remains open until start of level 11.

POKERSTARS CHAMPIONSHIP PRESENTED BY MONTE-CARLO CASINO®
Monaco, the stellar poker destination, will once again plays host to a world-class poker event, with 71 tournaments scheduled for PokerStars Championship Monte Carlo over the course of 11 days (from April 25 until May 5, 2017). PokerStars Championship is coming to Europe for the first time, following stops in the Bahamas, Panama and Macau.

After the fourth Championship of 2017 wraps up, PokerStars LIVE is keeping its foot firmly on the pedal with PokerStars Championship Sochi in May 20-31 and PokerStars Championship Barcelona in August 15-27.

Additional events will be announced on PokerStarslive.com in the coming months.

PokerStars Championship Monte Carlo is offering players a unique live poker experience with a packed schedule that boasts a wide variety of buy-ins and games to suit players of all levels. The event will have more than €2.5 million in total guaranteed prize pools, including the €1 million guaranteed €1,100 PokerStars National Championship, formerly known as the France Poker Series (FPS) Main Event. Last year, the FPS Main Event had a total of 1,261 entries (without the re-entry flight option) and last year’s Monte Carlo Main Event had a total of 1,098 entries.

POKERSTARS CHAMPIONSHIP PRESENTED BY MONTE-CARLO CASINO® MAJOR EVENTS:

– €10,300 Opening NLH (April 25-27, 2017)
– €440 PokerStars Cup (April 26-29, 2017) – €200,000 guaranteed
– €1,100 PokerStars National Championship (April 26-30, 2017) – €1,000,000 guaranteed
– €100,000 PokerStars Championship Super High Roller (April 27-29, 2017) – €1,000,000 1st place guaranteed – part of PokerStars Makes Millionaires
– €2,200 PokerStars National High Roller (April 28-29, 2017)
– €5,300 PokerStars Championship Main Event (April 29-May 5, 2017)
– €50,000 Single Day NLH (April 30, 2017)
– €10,300 PL Omaha (May 1-2, 2017)
– €25,750 PokerStars Championship High Roller (May 3-5, 2017) – €1,000,000 1st place guaranteed – part of PokerStars Makes Millionaires
– €220 PokerStars Open (May 3-5, 2017) – €50,000 guaranteed

For full details of the PokerStars Championship presented by Monte-Carlo Casino® schedule, please see: http://www.pokerstarslive.com/championship/events/montecarlo/schedule/

SPECIAL PRIZES UP FOR GRABS IN MONTEDAM SWING
A unique collaboration has been announced beetween the leading global gaming brands World Poker Tour® and PokerStars, who have joined forces for the PokerStars Championship WPT® MonteDam Swing™. Enhancing the schedule for players in Europe, the PokerStars Championship presented by Monte-Carlo Casino® (April 25-May 5) will be followed by WPT® Amsterdam (May 5-13) and both of these major poker events will share a special leaderboard. Results of the €1,100 PokerStars National Championship, €5,300 PokerStars Championship Monte Carlo Main Event, €1,600 buy-in WPTDeepStacks Amsterdam and €3,300 WPT Amsterdam Main Event will combine for a special leaderboard, rewarding the five top-ranked players with various packages and tickets to the upcoming stops of both PokerStars Championship and WPT. More information about the MonteDam Swing can be found on the PokerStars blog.

FIVE-DAY POKERSTARS TV BROADCAST OF THE €5,300 MAIN EVENT
The flagship €5,300 PokerStars Championship Main Event will kick off on April 29. Once again, poker afficionados from all around the world will be able to follow the elite poker battles live on various platforms, with the PokerStars TV cameras providing a five-day broadcast from Day 2 (May 1). The live stream will commence each day until the emerge of the first PokerStars Championship Monte Carlo champion. The final day will feature hole cards of all remaining players. PokerStars TV stream will be available in wide number of languages. For the full schedule go to: http://www.pokerstars.tv/en/tv/schedule

There is yet to be a European to lift the coveted PokerStars Championship Main Event trophy. The first three titles went to all the North Americans: Christian Harder (USA) took down the inagural PokerStars Championship Bahamas Main Event while Kenneth Smaron (USA) and Elliot Smith (Canada) won the Main Events in Panama and Macau, respectively.

€1,000,000 GUARANTEED POKERSTARS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
Highly successful €1,100 PokerStars National Championship has been breaking the guarantee prizes at every PokerStars Championship stop. The tournament will feature bigger guarantee than ever here in Monaco, with an even one million euro at stake. The PokerStars National Championship will feature two regular starting days (April 26 and 27) and a special turbo Day 1c, which will be restricted for players who will have been eliminated from one of the previous starting flights.

Canadian player Nicola Basile won the tournament in the Bahamas, beating a tough final table that featured Team PokerStars Pro Chris Moneymaker, David Yan, Marc-Anre Ladouceur and Maria Ho. Camilo Posada from Colombia scooped the title in Panama and Dutch pro Koen Beed topped the PokerStars National Championship Macau.

€100,000 SUPER HIGH ROLLER AND €25K HIGH ROLLER EACH WITH €1M GUARANTEED FOR WINNER
Hotbed for the high stakes poker for many years, Monaco will yet again witness the immense clashes of titans in some of the world’s highest buy-in tournaments. The PokerStars Championship presented by Monte-Carlo Casino® schedule features the ever popular €100,000 Super High Roller (April 27-29), that has previously seen the rise of American heads-up superstar Dan Colman during EPT10 Grand Final, battle of generations between Erik Seidel and Dzmitry Urbanovich during EPT11 Grand Final, as well as the triumph of European poker powerhouse Ole Schemion, who won during 2016 EPT12 Grand Final for €1,597,800 – the biggest prize of his standout career.

This year’s champion will walk away with a seven-figre score, too. There is a €1 million first prize guaranteed as part of PokerStars Makes Millionaires. There is yet another tournament with a €1,000,000 prize guaranteed for the winner – the €25,000 High Roller (May 3-5). A shot clock will be used in all NL Hold’em events with a buy-in of €5,000 and higher, with the exception of the Main Event. A few lower buy-in events will also use the shot clock format as a fun variant. In addition to this, PokerStars will also trial playing every ten-handed tournament as a nine-handed tournament during the event.

“The shot clock format has not only been accepted, but welcomed by the high stakes community,” said Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu.

TEAM POKERSTARS PROS
A strong group of Team PokerStars Pros heading to Monaco includes Daniel Negreanu, the winningest player of all times, along with Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Celina Lin, Jake Cody, Fatima Moreira de Melo, Vanessa Selbst, Liv Boeree, Igor Kurganov, reigning WSOP Player of the Year Jason Mercier and Brazilian heroes Felipe Ramos and Andre Akkari. They will be accompanied by Team Online’s Jamie Staples and Randy Lew.

To arrange an interview with any PokerStars sponsored players or sponsored celebrities, please email press@pokerstarslive.com.

HOST OF STARSFUN ACTIVITIES AWAY FROM THE TABLES
While the tournament schedule offers a great deal of fun to be experienced at the poker tables, there’s a lot of #StarsFun activities prepared for the players, too. The Virtual Reality Challenge will run each day from 11am to 10pm, with the highest scoring players receiving daily prizes such as VR headset and PokerStars Merchandise.

The unmissable Players Party will take place on April 29 at the beautiful Med Garden at Monte Carlo Bay. Free drinks will be served from 9pm until midnight.

Sport lovers will have a unique opportunity to challenge Team PokerStars Pros Vanessa Selbst and Fatima Moreira de Melo off the felt, at the tennis court instead. Selbst and de Melo will run their tennis challenge on April 30 from 9am-12pm.

Fans of the luxury sports cars can enjoy a free 30-minute ride in a Ferrari or Lamborghini as #StarsFun are giving away 100 free rides around the Principality during PokerStars Championship Monte Carlo. Playing selected events (various buy-ins) will enter players into a daily draw for free Ferrari rides – and all players who bubble any live satellite in Monaco will also receive a free voucher.

The very popular €150 buy-in charity event will take place on May 1 at 20:00 to raise funds for PokerStars’ official charity partner Right To Play. This popular event will see a host of Team PokerStars Pros taking part and amazing prizes up for grabs.

Live Spin & Go tournaments are returning with buy-ins ranging from €50 to €500. Players will have a chance to win the biggest prize yet, with the wheel awarding up to €10,000 per €500 spin in the three-handed game. The tournaments will run from April 26 – May 2 between 14:00 and 22:00 daily. For more information visit the PokerStars Welcome Desk.

Team PokerStars Pro members will welcome online qualifiers with a special reception on April 28 from 20:00 in the Blue Gin Bar at the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel. This is an exclusive session for online qualifiers to meet and speak to some of the world’s best players, plus there will be PokerStars goodies for those attending.

On April 29, Daniel Negreanu will be hosting a Q&A session about his poker career, giving an insight into tournament strategy and offering players a chance to get to know more about KidPoker himself. It’s a great opportunity to quiz one of the best poker players in the world about playing live events. This session will kick off in the main tournament room at 11am.

For a further breakdown of #StarsFun activities planned during the PokerStars Championship in Monte Carlo please see the PokerStars Blog.

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