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The second flight of EPT Monaco attracted a much greater field of players than Day 1A. In total, 423 players came to start and boosted the total number of entries to 531. There were many familiar faces at the poker tables including Viktor Blom, Patrik Antonius, Sam Trickett, Phil Ivey, Jason Mercier and Gus Hansen.

After eight levels of play, the tournament director called it a day and approximately 200 players remained. Only Mercier (48,200) from the players mentioned above survived the day. Victor Sbrissa, who won LAPT Brazil in Sao Paolo a week ago, was in the lead with 224,800 chips, which is a quite impressive results from a single day. Another two notables who made it through the day with about 200k chips were Noah Schwartz and Calvin Anderson.

Almost 750 players participated in the 2013 PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour Brazil main event ($4,000 buy-in). The tournament, which was played at the Tivoli Hotel in Sao Paulo, Brazil, concluded on Tuesday with Victor Sbrissa as the last man standing. Sbrissa overcame a final table that included Team PokerStars Pros Andre Akkari & Leo Fernandez and he collected $255,400 in prize money - by far the biggest cash of his live tournament career! 

Final table results:
1 Victor Sbrissa $255,400
2 Daniel Murta $166,684
3 Rafael Pardo $115,481
4 Leonardo Brescia $85,338
5 Andre Akkari $64,335
6 Marcos Paulo Ximenes $47,266
7 Leo Fernandez $34,140
8 Thiago Grigoletti $26,254