The final table of the Monte Carlo Millions has been determined now that John Juanda outlasted six other players to win the second-chance tournament that was filled with players who were knocked out of the main event.
Juanda joined Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari, Dave "Devilfish" Ulliot, Ken Lennaard, Johan Storakers, Victor Ramdin, and Jesse Jones in the Monte Carlo Gold Second Chance Tournament, which includes a prize pool of more than $250,000 and, perhaps more important, the chance at the final table of the big tournament.
Juanda received $100,000 and a gold ticket into the main event with its top prize of $1 million.
Now that he has been given a second chance at the $1 million top prize, Juanda has a tough task ahead of him. Phil Ivey is the dominating chip leader of the final table in the main event with $2,317,000 in chips. In second place is
Richard Herbert with $908,000. Juanda will start will $160,000 in chips. Players got into the Monte Carlo Millions one of two ways. They either received an invitation to the $25,000 event or won their way in through limited satellites that ran on the Prima Poker Network.
The 120-strong player field consisted of 27 World Series of Poker gold bracelet holders and seven World Poker Tour championship titleists. The final table is slated to take place later today at the Casino de Monte-Carlo. This is the first time poker is being played at the casino. The tournament was filmed and will be broadcast in Europe and in the United states on Fox Sports at a later date.
