The last World Poker Tour tournament of 2013 came to a close yesterday when Julian Thomas defeated Vasili Firsau, who also finished runner up at the WPT Grand Prix de Paris a few months ago, heads-up in the bwin WPT Prague Main Event! Thomas received €206,230 in prize money and joined a long list of German poker professionals who have gone all the way in some of the major poker tournaments of[...] Read more » Julian Thomas Wins WPT Prague Main Event
Joined: Mar '11
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 55 (M)
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Congratulations to Julian Thomas for winning this event and taking the 200,000. Vasili Firsau must be some player if this is his second runners up spot in just a few months. Many congratulations again to everybody
Joined: Aug '10
Location: Germany
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Wow, this was the second bog tournament after the EPT last week in a few days. Nice poker showdon of the year for the german poker Players. The boom after the tv shows must going on and a lot of verry good online poker players are the next live poker heroes.
Joined: Mar '12
Location: United Kingdom
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Another Julian. And that Vasili guy is on a streak too. Germans are becoming the feared poker players of Europe if not already. I'm starting to think that as a nation they are up there with America for best players at least in oturnaments.
Joined: May '13
Location: Mauritius
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Yeah nice cup win, the picture with him holding the cup is priceless it is so rare, they just get small bracelets for those big events at least he gets a good trophy and a nice sum of money before christmas cheers keep it up!
Joined: Apr '11
Location: Romania
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Heskor, he got a up because bracelets are usually given on wsop but i agree that this cup is much more impressive than a bracelet!
But i guess there is another reason for which they offer bracelets, i mean the owner could go anywhere with it an brag, with a cup is so much harder to do that and in can only be displayed in a case.
Joined: Sep '13
Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Age: 37 (M)
Posts: 1564
what happened to huge WPT prizes, winner now gets 200k tops it used to be much higher in the past, no?
i mean there are regular events on some online poker sites with $50-$200k prize pools and much lower buy ins :o i always thought these mainstream online events would have much higher prizes than online ones...
oh well, still quite a decent win doubt he could complain about winning 'just' 200k though, lol
Joined: Apr '09
Location: Portugal
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Ending the year with a €200k first prizemust have helped giving a better reveillon to him and his closest friends and family. But poker money always tend to return to the table, so i guess there must be a part of this prize that will surely be invested on poker again, even if it is to try to win even bigger prizes!
