Main Event Coverage

PokerStars and MONTE-CARLO®CASINO EPT Grand Final - April 23-May 1, 2012 - Main Event Coverage

On this page you will find Player Lists, Gallery Photos, Payout, Side Events and Final Table from the event.

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Player Lists

Player Lists

EPT GRAND FINAL - MAIN EVENT FINALISTS

Bernard Guigon, France, 4,900,000
Rodrigo Caprioli, Brazil , PokerStars player, 2,945,000
Lucille Cailly, France, PokerStars qualifier, 2,865,000
Daniel Gomez, Spain, PokerStars player, 2,665,000
Mohsin Charania, USA, PokerStars qualifier, 2,215,000
Michael Dietrich, Canada , PokerStars qualifier, 1,550,000
Clayton Mozdzen, Canada , PokerStars qualifier, 1,430,000
Sergio Castelluccio, Italy, 1,410,000

Gallery

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Payout

Payout

Place Name Prize (€) Status
1 Mohsin Charania 1,350,000 PokerStars Qualifier
2 Lucille Cailly 1,050,000 PokerStars Qualifier
3 Bernard Guigon 545,000  
4 Sergio Castelluccio 400,000  
5 Rodrigo Caprioli 315,000 PokerStars Player
6 Michael Dietrich 245,000 PokerStars Qualifier
7 Clayton Mozdzen 185,000 PokerStars Qualifier
8 Daniel Gomez 130,000 PokerStars Player
9 Alex Mostafavi 95,000  
10 Vadzim Markushevski 95,000  
11 Andoni Larrabe 70,000  
12 Anatoly Gurtovoy 70,000  
13 Ben Vinson 60,000  
14 Geert-Jan Potijk 60,000  
15 Georges Dib 50,000  
16 Pratyush Buddiga 50,000  
17 Jesse Martin 40,000  
18 Jason Wheeler 40,000  
19 Fady Kamar 40,000  
20 Dimitar Danchev 40,000  
21 Tudor Grangure 40,000  
22 Dan Abouaf 40,000  
23 Amit Makhija 40,000  
24 John Andress 40,000  
25 Vadzim Kursevich 35,000  
26 Andrew Pantling 35,000  
27 Franck Blanc 35,000  
28 Justin Bonomo 35,000  
29 Vasili Firsau 35,000  
30 Philip Parsons 35,000  
31 Emin Aghayev 35,000  
32 Dominykas Karmazinas 35,000  
33 Frank Koopmann 30,000  
34 Matthias De Meulder 30,000 PokerStars Team Pro
35 Mikhail Petrov 30,000  
36 Ziv Caspi 30,000  
37 Richard Toth 30,000 PokerStars Team Pro
38 Andres Artinano 30,000  
39 Bruno Launais 30,000  
40 Oleg Larichev 30,000  
41 Dmitry Grishin 25,000  
42 Ignat Liviu 25,000  
43 Griffin Benger 25,000  
44 Hamad Almannai 25,000  
45 Chris Brammer 25,000  
46 Erik Seidel 25,000  
47 Andrey Demidov 25,000  
48 Stephen Chidwick 25,000  
49 Juan Gonzalez Venzano 20,000  
50 Mikhail Korotkikh 20,000  
51 Sandra Naujoks 20,000 PokerStars Team Pro
52 Andrea Benelli 20,000  
53 Lawrie Inman 20,000  
54 Guillaume Darcourt 20,000  
55 Carlos Sanchez Vegas 20,000  
56 Kut Fu Chow 20,000  
57 Leo Margets 20,000  
58 Ramon Romero 20,000  
59 Basil Yaiche 20,000  
60 Georges Ghoassan 20,000  
61 Paul Testud 20,000  
62 Chanracy Khun 20,000  
63 Rasmus Vogt 20,000  
64 David Sands 20,000  
65 Malte Moennig 20,000  
66 Angel Guillen 20,000 PokerStars Team Pro
67 Tristan Clemencon 20,000  
68 Ghosn Fadi 20,000  
69 Roberto Menache 20,000  
70 Santiago Nadal 20,000  
71 Marco Leonzio 20,000  
72 Dragan Kostic 20,000  
73 Jan Petersen 15,000  
74 Adrian Schaap 15,000  
75 Gaelle Baumann 15,000  
76 Ibrahim Ghassan 15,000  
77 Tibor Nagygyorgy 15,000  
78 Yury Gulyy 15,000  
79 Mario Ho 15,000  
80 Mikael Azoulay 15,000  
81 Alain Goldberg 15,000  
82 Pierre Neuville 15,000  
83 Sergey Baburin 15,000  
84 Ilan Boujenah 15,000  
85 Martin Vallo 15,000  
86 Nicolas Chouity 15,000  
87 Max Martinez 15,000 PokerStars Team Pro
88 Bryan Piccioli 15,000  
89 Vito Lonigro 15,000  
90 Bruno Fitoussi 15,000  
91 Giuseppe Pantaleo 15,000  
92 Noah Boeken 15,000  
93 Jose Barbero 15,000  
94 Michael Telker 15,000  
95 Pavel Gonchakov 15,000  
96 Andrew Badecker 7,500  
97 Martin Finger 7,500  

Side Events

Final Table

Final Table

Seat 1: Rodrigo “caprioli” Caprioli, 31, Sao Paolo, Brazil – 2,945,000
Caprioli is a PokerStars SuperNova Elite who bought into this year’s EPT Grand Final using FPPs – 850,000 of them! He has been playing poker since he was 12, and professionally since 2005. Like Team PokerStars Pros Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier and Dario Minieri before him, Caprioli says he’s in line to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from PokerStars – a stunning personalized TAG Heuer watches for reaching 5,000,000 lifetime VPPs (VIP Player Points).  The watches are inscribed with the players’ user IDs and the date they hit five million. Online, Caprioli mainly plays PLO cash games; this is his fifth EPT and first EPT final table; he finished 16th at EPT London in Season 6 for £19,000.

Seat 2: Bernard Guigon, 64, France, Dakar, Senegal – 4,900,000
Single with three children, Guigon is a pharmacist in Dakar and discovered draw poker in the 80s where he was playing big cash games in Dakar. He switched over to Texas Hold'em three years ago and is no stranger to big buy-in events. He says poker is more than a hobby; it’s a real passion especially as he says he is highly competitive. His best performance to date was fourth in a €1,000 WSOP Europe in Cannes last year for €50,000.

Seat 3: Michael Dietrich, 28, London, Ontario - PokerStars qualifier  - 1,550,000
Housing contractor Dietrich started playing poker while in his second year at the University of Western Ontario playing home games with friends. A year later, he started playing online. He describes himself as a semi-professional player but his main job is in building. His best live result to date was winning a major online tourney in February 2011 for $135,000. He qualified for the EPT Grand Final via a 25,000 FPP satellite on PokerStars which got him a seat into a 125,000 FPP satellite. He won that – and that got him to Monaco. Dietrich says he prefers play online to live as it's faster and he can play from home. For the last three years, he’s mainly played tournaments. He has known fellow finalist Clayton Mozdzen for years and is pleased he’s also on the final table.

Seat 4: Sergio “genio-ps” Castelluccio, 36, Avellino, near Naples, Italy – 1,410,000
Italian Sergio Castelluccio is a musician and former music teacher. He took up poker four years ago, saying “I’ve always had a passion for games, like chess – also and too many video games!” His best live result was winning PokerStars’ Italian Poker Tour San Remo Main Event in August 2010 for €200,000. He also finished 16th here in Monaco at the EPT Grand Final three years ago for €64,000 – one of his first ever live events. He’s an EPT regular but this is his first EPT final table. On the Italian Poker Tour, he’s made two finals as well as his IPT San Remo victory, plus three further cashes. He plays a lot online but mainly cash games “apart from the Sunday majors when I’m at home”.

Seat 5: Mohsin "Chicagocards1" Charania, 27, Chicago, Illinois – 2,215,000
Mohsin Charania discovered poker through friends while studying finance at the University of Illinois. Since then he's earned over $3.5 million playing online as "Chicagocards1" and just over $500,000 playing live tournaments.

In 2010, Charania won Event #20 in the PokerStars SCOOP series where he plays as "sms9231". The victory earned him $380,364, the biggest prize of his online career.  Charania's first live cash was in 2008, in a $300 tournament at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Since then he's racked up nine WSOP cashes and six WPT scores, including the biggest payday of his career so far which came by way of a sixth-place finish at the 2010 World Poker Finals at Foxwoods Casino, good for $104,741. Charania has one previous EPT cash- a €15,000 46th-place run at EPT Deauville in February. Charania is already guaranteed the biggest result of his live career here in Monaco. Charania has spent the last two months traveling the live tournament circuit with close friend Faraz Jaka, who finished third in the 2012 PCA main event.

Seat 6: Daniel “Garnerus” Gomez, 28, Spain, PokerStars player, Supernova Elite – 2,665,000
Daniel is a professional poker player from Zaragoza who started playing online seven years ago and is now a Supernova Elite on PokerStars. Gomez is known s a high stakes cash game player, playing $5/$10 to $50/$100 limits, as well as the Sunday majors. Gomez is a former chess champion and has a FIDE rating of 2230. His best live poker score to date was finishing fifth at the PokerStars-supported Estrellas Poker Tour event in Malaga last March for €18,020. Other results include 23rd in the PCA $2k NL event for $6,410 in January this year. For the last few months, he’s been living in Bournemouth on the South Coast of England.  

Seat 7: Clayton “slammedfire” Mozdzen, 28, from Winnipeg, Canada – PokerStars qualifier – 1,430,000
Mozdzen is a PokerStars qualifier who won his seat for the EPT Grand Final in a €33 rebuy satellite on PokerStars. He is no stranger to big live events and already has one EPT final table under his belt: EPT Warsaw in Season 6 where he finished sixth for the equivalent of about $80,000 – his biggest live cash to date. He already has nearly $300,000 in live tournament winnings, including €20,000 for 14th at EPT Madrid last month. He has also cashed at EPT San Remo and EPT Tallinn as well as the World Series, NAPT Uncasville and various events in his native Canada. He is a SuperNova on PokerStars with his big online tournament score being tenth out of 2,144 players in a 2009 WCOOP for $75,000. Mozdzen is being supported at the Grand Final by his girlfriend Alexa. The couple have already visited Italy and will head for a romantic break in Paris after the event.

Seat 8: Lucille Cailly - 29, Paris, France – PokerStars qualifier - 2,865,000
Cailly got her introduction to poker five years ago when her room-mates started playing weekly SNGs in their shared living room. Perhaps indicating a natural-born gambling ability, Lucille quickly found herself booking a last-minute flight to Las Vegas to get over a break-up. Luckily, she didn’t land alone in the poker capital, after meeting French pro Manuel Bevand and a friend at the airport. After this encounter, Cailly dabbled in poker journalism, live-updating EPTs and WPTs while honing her skills online. In 2010, a series of MTT successes persuaded her to jump straight in and become a full time pro. Since then, Cailly mainly plays online, earning the respect of her French peers as a true "grinder" as well as some serious money. Cailly’s best live result was winning a €1k event at the now-defunct Cercle Wagram club in Paris for €26,190. She has also cashed at the Deauville EPTs in 2010 and 2012. A former epistemology student, Lucille lives in La Défense, near Paris.

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