Jason Mercier Leads Super High Roller EPT Grand Final 2013

Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier, who bust the Main Event yesterday in seventh place, is chip leader in the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino EPT Grand Final €100k Super High Roller at the end of Day 1. Mercier has 1,183,000 with Sorel Mizzi currently second with 885,000. There were 41 players today, with seven re-entries. 30 players made it through Day 1 but those who were eliminated today have until play starts tomorrow at noon to re-enter.

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Daniel Negreanu, who finished fourth in the Main Event, Full Tilt Poker Professional Viktor Blom and PokerStars Team Online’s Isaac Haxton are all through to Day 2. Live coverage starts at noon tomorrow on EPTLive.

The €100,000 Super High Roller is one of 50 tournaments taking place at Le Sporting Casino in Monaco as part of the ninth EPT Grand Final “Festival of Poker” running from May 6-16.

EPT Season 10 will kick off with the EPT Barcelona Festival running August 28-September 7, 2013, and will be followed by six further major events in Europe as well as the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in the Bahamas in January 2014. Each event will be a spectacular “can’t-miss” Festival of Poker featuring a massive range of events for players of all kinds.

- Source:  www.pokerstars.com