This feels like I've set up my stripy big top, found some tigers who'll jump through burning hoops, gathered a few clowns with custard pies, and then announced to the World, "Roll Up, Roll Up, the Greatest Show on Earth is... Someplace else actually."


No EPT coverage, only tigers...
Over 700 players entered PokerStars European Poker Tour Grand Final, held at the exclusive Monte Carlo Bay Hotel and Resort. This event becoming the richest poker tournament ever held outside the USA. We're now into the final day with eight players remaining to play for the top prize of €1,800,000 (over $2.4 milllion).

Final Table players and chipcounts at the start of play today:

Seat 1: Ram Vaswani (UK) 432,000
Seat 2: Steve Jelinek (UK) 758,000
Seat 3: Marc Karam (Canada) 1,742,000
Seat 4: Andy Black (Ireland) 683,000
Seat 5: Soren Kongsgaard (Denmark) 1,612,000
Seat 5: Josh Prager (USA) 1,593,000
Seat 7: Gavin Griffin (USA) 2,597,000
Seat 8: Kristian Kjondal (Norway) 1,203,000

More than 250 PokerStars players started in this event, now 3 remain (in bold above) they're Josh Prager, Gavin Griffin and Steve Jelinek. Good luck!

Play begins at 4pm local time (10am ET) and PokerStars is also offering a live broadcast of the Grand Final by web cast. Lee Jones and John Duthie are amongst the expert commentators, with Team PokerStars World Champions Greg Raymer and Chris Moneymaker likely to stop by to share thoughts on the game. It promises to be quite a show.

So, "Roll Up, Roll Up, the biggest poker tournament outside the US, with a €6,636,400 prize pool, and exciting poker action is... Someplace else."


Monte Carlo. It might be glamorous, but we've got the tigers.