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EPT is back! Aresniy Karmatskiy wins Sochi Main Event!
Tags: Aresniy Karmatskiy, European Poker Tour, Sochi.
Posted on 02 April 2018 by "T".

The European Poker Tour (EPT) returned last week after owner PokerStars decided to scrap the new name of the series, PokerStars Championships, that was introduced in 2016.

Russian poker pro Aresniy Karmatskiy became the first champion of the new era of the EPT after having bested a field of 861 runners in the $3,300 buy-in EPT Sochi Main Event.

Karmatskiy received $475,000 in prize money and a PokerStars Platinum Pass which gives him an all-expenses-paid entry to the $25,000 PokerStars Players Championship, a $25,000 buy-in event to debut at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in 2019

"I've never played a $25,000 tournament," Karmatskiy said. "It's going to be a great experience to play such a big tournament. I know the level of poker will be much higher in the Bahamas, but winning an EPT was a good warm up."

According to PokerStars blog, Karmatskiy has only played professionally for one year and he has more than $2 million in online winnings, including a Super Tuesday win. His live tournament earnings are about $825k thanks to his win of the EPT Sochi Main Event! 

Final table results (name, country, prize money):

1 Arseniy Karmatskiy Russia 27,300,000 ₽
2 Viktor Shegai Russia 16,560,000 ₽
3 Ernest Shakaryan Russia 11,688,000 ₽
4 Vahe Martiroysyan Armenia 8,766,000 ₽
5 Mikhail Kovalyuk Russia 6,923,280 ₽
6 Sergey Kerzhakov Russia 5,190,000 ₽
7 Andrey Kaygorodsev Russia 3,648,180 ₽

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13 comments on "EPT is back! Aresniy Karmatskiy wins Sochi Main Event!"


 CALICUL02/04/2018 16:01:20 GMT
this player who is a year and a while professional poker player has an impressive gain in online games. Over two million dollars is a very large amount. There are many players who fail to do that in a short period of time. I think this player has poker in the blood now, he learned this game very well.
 dule-vu02/04/2018 20:37:28 GMT
we can see how poker sites fight for live tournaments in sochi and they want to have bigger and bigger tournaments!this was great prize for winners with big buy in!but most important thing is that he got platinum pass which he can use on other tournaments for free!this is great!
 Gerimantas02/04/2018 21:15:42 GMT
Yes i too think that this player is very good on vorm in last year and this year. To have 2 millions of dollars in online poker in one year is amazing results. Alzo now more than 800,000 in live poker tournaments. He must know some new rules in poker so he wins more thsm other people
 bowie198402/04/2018 23:35:11 GMT
Posted by dule-vu:
we can see how poker sites fight for live tournaments in sochi and they want to have bigger and bigger tournaments!this was great prize for winners with big buy in!

Yeah, as far as I can see every player on the final table came from different places with very diverse backgrounds. Or not.
 Tony_MON7ANA02/04/2018 23:53:31 GMT
Gigantic congratulations to Russian professional poker player Aresniy Karmatskiy on being crowned champion of the 2018 EPT Sochi main event and for scooping nearly half a million dollars. I look forward to watching tournament replays online.
 doubletop77703/04/2018 07:58:11 GMT
Many congratulations to Aresniy Karmatskiy on winning this fantastic event. I coa only dream about what it would be like to play in one of these things let alone winning one
 pajalnick03/04/2018 11:47:15 GMT
Aresniy Karmatsky played certainly not perfect ... I watched a few days this broadcast and I saw that he does not bluff at all ..... and in one hand he almost flew out of the tournament two jacks against the ace and the king .... his saved the jack on the river ... and after that he also said that he plays better than the opponent
 Sandmanilo03/04/2018 16:03:46 GMT
Congratulations to Arseniy Karmatskiy on winning the first main event of the 2018 European Poker Tour. A very nice result for a player, who plays professionally only 1 year. I'm glad that the well-known brand EPT is back.
 bowie198405/04/2018 00:33:05 GMT
Very interesting reading about all these russian newcomers who are so fresh as professional players yet gathered a sizeable amount of online winnings in very short amount of time - almost in no time. Maybe the american elections was not the only thing Russia been trolling hard with bots these past few years.
 dule-vu05/04/2018 08:12:54 GMT
Posted by bowie1984:
Posted by dule-vu:
we can see how poker sites fight for live tournaments in sochi and they want to have bigger and bigger tournaments!this was great prize for winners with big buy in!

Yeah, as far as I can see every player on the final table came from different places with very diverse backgrounds. Or not.


well its not strange that lot of players come from domestic country,same when is tournament in prague and other cities!russia is country with lot of rich players who can afford this and to play without lot of risk of losing!
 CALICUL08/04/2018 16:07:01 GMT
Bowie refers to something else and he is right because there in pokerstars are many Russian players who are very strange game and their style is a bizarre one. If you make a complaint they say it's ok but i think a different institution should check these cases. In this case, i think this player has learned a lot about the poker holdem game.
 godoy10/04/2018 17:41:01 GMT
That good that decision more correct of the ps because to change the name of the EPT would be a tremendous shit losing the essence of the tournament that good that was the old mone because then yes I will be able to throw a and spike kkkkkk
 bowie198410/04/2018 19:07:33 GMT
Posted by CALICUL:
Bowie refers to something else and he is right because there in pokerstars are many Russian players who are very strange game and their style is a bizarre one.

Well, yes and no. Many russian players have strange styles but I was about the issue that despite the high amount of local registered players in host countries the final table used to be diverse nationalitywise - especially on an EPT tour. Well, that certainly wasn't the case here.

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