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Season 8 of the European Poker Tour is about to come to a close as the EPT Grand Final Main Event is ready to crown a champion in Monaco. The final table was determined Sunday and taking a substantial chip lead into the final day is Bernard Guigon with 4.9 million chips, 2 million more than his closest competitor, Rodrigo Caprioli.

Guigon made hay in the last few hours of the day, starting when play got down to the final nine. Entering final table bubble play with just over 2 million chips, he picked up about 200,000 pre-flop against Lucille Cailly. Shortly thereafter, he got into a hand with Clayton Mozdzen. Mozdzen raised to 125,000 pre-flop and Guigon called from the big blind. After the flop of Tc-8s-4d, Guigon led out for 100,000 and was called by Mozdzen. It was another bet and call on the turn Ac, this time for 150,000. Same pattern when the Ks was dealt on the river, but this bet was big: 450,000. After Mozdzen called, Guigon showed A-K for top two-pair and all Mozdzen could do was muck, increasing Guigon’s stack by about 900,000 from where it was when the hand started.

Our chip leader also eliminated the final player before the final table, knocking out Alex Mostafavi in 9th place and taking around another 900,000 chips in the process. Mostafavi, possibly running some sort of stop-and-go-like move in-position, raised to 250,000 pre-flop and Bernard Guigon called from the big blind. Guigon checked the flop of Th-Td-5d, prompting Mostafavi to shove. Guigon tanked for a couple minutes before quietly calling and flipping over pocket Jacks. Mostafavi had just A-7 for Ace-high. His help never came, as the turn and river didn’t produce an Ace. He didn’t make the official final table, but he did go home with €95,000.

For the remaining eight players, here are the payouts for the final table:

1.    €1,500,000
2.    €900,000
3.    €545,000
4.    €400,000
5.    €315,000
6.    €245,000
7.    €185,000
8.    €130,000
9.    €95,000

The EPT Grand Final final table is a lesson on persistence. Half of the players still alive were in the bottom half of the chip counts entering Day 4. One of them – Daniel Gomez – had fewer than 20 big blinds to start the day and was third to last in chips. And while Bernard Guigon has a very large chip lead, two of the aforementioned bottom four – Gomez and Caprioli – are now in the top half of the final table chip counts.

The final table will commence at 1:30pm local time as the eight finalists vie for the €1,500,000 first prize.

European Poker Tour Grand Final – End of Day 4 Chip Counts

1.    Bernard Guigon – 4,900,000
2.    Rodrigo Caprioli – 2,945,000
3.    Lucille Cailly – 2,865,000
4.    Daniel Gomez – 2,665,000
5.    Mohsin Charania – 2,215,000
6.    Michael Dietrich – 1,550,000
7.    Clayton Mozdzen – 1,430,000
8.    Sergio Castelluccio – 1,410,000

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