Holding a comfortable 300K chip lead over the field, poker pro Antonio “The Magician” Esfandiari is in a good position to take the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo. Online poker pro Isaac “westmenloAA” Baron, Johnyy Lodden, Joe Hachem, Luca Pagano and Raymond Rahme are also high up on the leader board.

Day 4 is currently underway and if it’s anything like Day 3, well…let’s just say things could get extremely interesting. According to the folks over at Pokerkingblog.com, “Salty” Joe Hachem got into a “thing” (i.e. a fight) with one of the other players. Here’s the scoop:

“Joe Hachem was involved in a hand with Peter Traply. On a board of A-6-J-A-3, Hachem bet out 80,000 and Traply called, showing A-10. Hachem tapped the table, said “nice call”, and mucked his hand. This is where things got heated.

Woody Deck, who was not involved in the hand, asked if he could see Hachem’s cards. Hachem objected, saying that he didn’t have to show because the winning hand had already been shown. The dealer agreed, and mucked Hachem’s cards. Deck, according to Pokernews, then asked Hachem if he was trying to angle shoot, and said ‘Don’t be an asshole.’”