Now the first EPT Budapest is finished and the last man standing was a pokerstars players Will Fry. Will is from Nottingham in UK and won $595,839 in first prize money. He also won a seat to the EPT grand final in Monte Carlo. This was Will Fry´s first big live event and he ended up winning it. He was up against Ciprian Hrisca from Romania heads up. The last hand of the tournament came after about 5 hours play and lookeed like this:
The put all the chips in before the flop and they showed the cards, Fry had J-J and Hrisca had A-6. The flop was 10-Q-6 and there was a little hope for Hrisca. But nohing came and J-J won the hand, means that Will Fry won the EPT Event. Pokerstars player Johnny Lodden who is from Norway by the way, was out at 8th place winning $53,200. On place seven was the hungarian player Zoltan Toth with a winning of $78,736.
The swede at the final table, Martin Jacobson finished 3rd. He ended up winning $197,904.
In EPT Budapest there were 532 poker players attending, and the Buy-in was $4000+$350. This event was held in Sofitel Hotel in Budapest. Next EPT event is in Warsaw and is from 15-19 November.
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Will Fry won EPT Budapest
EPT Budapest started
Yesterday the ETP Budapest started and this is the first time there is a EPT event in Hungary. There is 532 poker players in the event and they play for the prizepool of $2,128,000 and the first prize will be $595,839. The buy in is $4000+$350 and will last for four days, from October 28 til November 1st. The event takes place at Las Vegas Casino at Sofitel Hotel in Budapest.
The 1st day (Day 1a) there was 262 poker players starting and 88 players survived the first day and will be back at Day 2. Day 1b has just started today and here will many big names show up, especially from the Pokerstars Pro team. We can follow names like Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, and he has just come back from Las Vegas where he won the WPT Festa al Lago and a first prize for over $1,4 million. Other names on day 1b is William Thorson, Alex Kravchenko, Dario Minieri and a big star on the ETP scene, Sebastian Ruthenberg who won EPT Barcelona, the first EPT event this year.
We will come back to pronounce the winner of this event and a little highlights from the final table.