Poker news tagged with 'ept warsaw'

It came to be the French businessman Christophe Benzimra, 47, who took home EPT Warsaw's first prize of $358,644 and a seat to the Season 6 EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo. Christophe Benzimra started playing poker only 3 years ago, but still he has taken part at almost every EPT event in the last two sesasons. However, this is his first big cash in EPT.

"I think I was lucky today. I am not a professional, I play for fun. I'm not giving up work! I play poker just for the pleasure of it."; Christophe Benzimra said after the win.

Luca Pagana in the top of the EPT leaderboard
The Italian PokerStars PRO Luca Pagana was knocked out in fourth place and won €85,938. This was Luca Pagana's 12th cash finish, and fifth final table in European Poker Tour. He has now overtaken the lead from fellow PokerStars PRO Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier to top the EPT all-time Tournament Leader Board.

A total of 203 players (Day 1a=88, Day 1b=115) entered the Main Event of EPT Warsaw this time. Of these 203 players, 148 made it to Day 2 of the tournament. In the lead is PokerStars qualifier Carter Phillips from North Carolina with 194,850 chips.

Phillips, seems to be on an EPT roll at the moment as he took home EPT Barcelona just a month ago. Luca Pagano, the Team PokerStars Pro from Italy, is still up among the leaders with 101,575 chips. It will very interesting to see if these 2 players will continue playing great poker and stay in the top till Day 3 of the tournament.