Poker news tagged with 'ept loutraki'

The first ever EPT stop in Greece, EPT Loutraki, has come to an end. The main event attracted a field of 336 players who generated a prize pool €1,344,000, and yesterday the tournament got a winner, Zimnan Ziyrad. For the win Ziyrad, 25, from UK, received a first prize of €347,000 - the biggest cash in his career. This is was he said after the big win.

"I feel great. It was a very tough day," Ziyard said. "I had an easy run the first few days but this was totally different. It was definitely the most challenging table I've ever played."

Final table results:

1 - Zimnan Ziyard, United Kingdom, PokerStars qualifier, €347,000
2 - Hauke Heseding, Germany, PokerStars qualifier, €221,800
3 - Ioannis "John" Taramas, Greece, €134,400
4 - Florian Schleps, PokerStars qualifier, €100,800
5 - Pierre Mothes, Germany, PokerStars qualifier, €67,200
6 - Andras Kovacs, Hungary, €53,700
7 - Charalampos Kapernopoulos, Greece, €40,300
8 - Mario Puccini, Germany, PokerStars qualifier, €27,000

The EPT Loutraki main event has now been played for 3 days, and in a few hours 100 players will return with hopes of becoming 1 of the 48 players who will receive a share from the $€1,344,000. Day 1a and 1b both ended with a German players in the lead. But once Day 2 came to an end, not a single German is among the top 10 players.

The chip leader is the Team PokerStars Pro Toni Judet from Romania with 288,200, and in second place is Grudi Grudev from Bulgaria with 251,600 chips. Apart from Toni Judet, there is only 1 Team PokerStars Pro with chips left, Ana Marquez. Marquez has 69,000 chips and is closely followed by David Vamplew with 67,600 chips.

Both starting days of the first ever EPT Loutraki main event are now in the books. In total, 102 players made it through Day 1a and 130 day 1b, which means that 232 players will return to play around noon today. The official prize pool and payout structure is still to be confirmed though. In the lead is Mario Puccini from Germany with 159k, and about 16k chips behind him is Team PokerStars Pro Tony Judet from Romania (both players from Day 1b). A few notables that survived day 1b: Johnny Lodden, Kevin MacPhee and Eugene Katchalov.

Greece has waited a very long time for the European Poker Tour to pay them a visit. Yesterday, the long wait was finally over as the first ever EPT Loutraki main event kicked off. Day 1a attracted a field of 145 runners who could afford the buy-in of €4,400.

Many all ins and Bad beats later the first day came to and end with 102 remaining players, and Julian Herold, from Germany, is the chip leader with a stack of 138k. A few notables that will join Herold at the poker tables tomorrow are Ana Marques, Chris Moorman and David Vamplew. 

Now, it will be interesting to see how many players that will come and play Day 1b today. Let's hope for at least 200 players so there will be a nice prize pool.