PokerStars Championship Monte Carlo news including PokerNews revealing that Patrik Antonius is keen on opening a poker room in Monaco, and victories for Adrian Mateos and Jack Salter.

I am a bit of a Patrik Antonius fanboy.

It’s not just his perfectly chiselled face. Each time I watched him competing on television, he always looked so goddam cool – the iceman.

So it was difficult for me, in 2011 when he took the lion share of John Eames chips in the €10,400 buy-in World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) Main Event because I had a piece and was hoping to retire.