Eureka Main Event goes to the final, who will take home €517,730?

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EPT Prague is in full swing and today we'll find out the champion of the record-breaking €1,100 buy-in, record 4,732 entries and €4,542,720 prizepool Eureka Main Event. The winner will receive €517,730.

137 players fought for it yesterday and Martin Kabrhel was the top player. 14 players made it to the final day and Martin Kabrhel is no longer among them. He had to settle for 36th place and a prize of €11,080.

Martin Tsvetanov from Bulgaria will enter the final table as chipleader with a stack of 28,650,000. Ricardo Caridade of Portugal is second (22,900,000), Austrian Gerald Karlic is third (19,425,000) and Jack Sinclair rounds out the top four with a stack of 13,900,000. All of them have already pocketed at least €25,850.

Rank Name Country Stack Big Blinds
1 Martin Tsvetanov Bulgaria 28,650,000 95
2 Ricardo Caridade Portgual 22,900,000 76
3 Gerald Karlic Austria 19,425,000 64
4 Jack Sinclair United Kingdom 13,900,000 46
5 Alexantr Spatharis Greece 9,400,000 31
6 Mikkel Nielsen Denmark 8,050,000 26
7 Konstantinos Nanos Greece 6,300,000 21
8 Theodoros Ampelikiotis Greece 5,575,000 18
9 Martijn Kiers Netherlands 5,555,000 18
10 Magnus Persson Sweden 5,350,000 17
11 Matthew Micallef Malta 5,250,000 17
12 Andris Rasins Latvia 4,675,000 15
13 Ryan Plant United Kingdom 4,300,000 14
14 Manuel Roca Andorra 2,750,000 9

 

Super High Roller

The €50,000 buy-in Super High Roller has attracted 18 entries and late registration is open until the start of today's final day, where 11 players have already advanced. Leading the way is Russian player Nikita Kuznetsov with a stack of 889,000. However, Sam Grafton and Steve O'Dwyer are also in the mix.

Rank Name Country Stack Big Blinds
1 Nikita Kuznetsov Russia 889,000 148
2 Markkos Ladev Estonia 763,000 127
3 Teun Mulder Netherlands 572,000 95
4 Sergey Lebedev United Kingdom 370,000 62
5 Paulius Plausinaitis Lithuania 350,000 58
6 Sam Grafton United Kingdom 347,000 58
7 Maksim Vaskresenski Poland 344,000 57
8 Steve O'Dwyer Ireland 343,000 57
9 Viacheslav Buldygin Russia 308,000 51
10 Ilya Nikiforov Estonia 207,000 35
11 Igor Yaroshevskyy Ukraine 118,000 51


Eureka High Roller

The €2,200 buy-in Eureka High Roller has also kicked off and today it moves into its Day 2, where there were 1,652 entries and a prizepool worth €3,171,840. This surpassed last year's edition. How much the winner will take home will be announced at the start of Day 2.

248 players have advanced to Day 2 and the top player is Yehor Shumeiko from Ukraine with a stack of 757,000. The second largest stack is held by Italian player Claudio Di Giacomo (717,000) and the top three are rounded out by home player Michal Schuh with a stack of 697,000. Play will start at blinds of 4k/8k/8k and will run in 40-minute levels.

The Eureka Cup has crowned a champion

The final day of the Eureka Cup was also on the agenda yesterday with a buy-in of €550, an entry count of 2,716 and a prizepool of €1,303,680. A prize of €184,700 awaited the winner.

The top 9 players at the final table, including a pair of local players, were fighting for it. The first player to be eliminated was also a local player, Radek Částka, who took home €17,120. The second Czech player was Matěj Osvald, who took home €36,610 for 6th place. The winner after heads-up play was Endric Geci, who took home €165,240.

PLACE NAME COUNTRY PRIZE DEAL
1 Endric Geci United Kingdom €184,700 €165,240
2 Ignacio Sole Aparicio Spain €114,700 €134,160
3 Luis Rodriguez Spain €81,640  
4 Ivan Banic Croatia €62,570  
5 Mohammad Najdi Denmark €47,900  
6 Matej Osvald Czech Republic €36,610  
7 Valeriu Pelinschii Moldova €28,910  
8 Paolo Calculli Italy €22,250  
9 Radek Castka Czech Republic €17,120  

 


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