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 EPT SEASON 4
DANE WINS FIRST TOURNAMENT OF POKERSTARS.COM EPT SEASON 4
Date: Saturday, September 1, 2007
Venue: Gran Casino, Barcelona
Event: PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona, €8,000 No Limit Texas Hold'em poker tournament.
Former chess champion Sander Lylloff from Copenhagen, Denmark, won the biggest poker tournament ever held in Spain when he picked up the PokerStars European Poker Tour title in Barcelona on Saturday (September 1).
Lylloff, 25, who won €1,170,700 for first prize, beat his good friend Mark Teltscher from London in a brief heads-up battle when he hit a set of Jacks against Teltscher's pair of Kings.
Teltscher, 27, won the London EPT in 2005 and was disappointed not to be the first player to win two EPT titles. Teltscher said: "It would have been great to win, but if it had to be anyone else, I'm glad it was Sander."
EPT Barcelona provided an exciting start to the 4th season of the EPT with a total of 543 players arriving in the Cataan capital for the five-day event.
Among the world-class players taking their seats were Team PokerStars' Daniel Negreanu, Humberto Brenes, Isabelle Mercier and 2004 world champion Greg Raymer, as well as Phil Gordon, Paul Wasicka and Johnny Chan. The prize pool totaled € 4,181,100.
The next EPT event is in London, from September 25-29, 2007, closely followed by the Baden Classic in early October.
EPT founder John Duthie said: "Season 4 has got off to a great start. With an increased buy-in this year for most events, we are going to be seeing far bigger prize pools and several new events have been added to the schedule."
Final table/payouts:
Position | First Name | Last Name | Country | Prize |
1 | Sander | Lylloff | Denmark | € 1,170,700 |
2 | Mark | Teltscher | UK | € 673,000 |
3 | Greg | Dyer | USA | € 388,800 |
4 | Mika | Paasonen | Finland | € 301,000 |
5 | Tronde | Eidsvig | Norway | € 250,800 |
6 | Adam | Junglen | USA | € 196,500 |
7 | Jedlicka | Nikolaus | Austria | € 154,700 |
8 | Patrick | Bruel | France | € 104,500 |
PokerStars Facts:
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PokerStars is the title sponsor of the European Poker Tour (EPT) and the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. Each fall, PokerStars hosts the world's largest online tournament, the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), which last year featured a record prize pool of over $18 million. PokerStars also sponsors major events around the globe, such as the World Cup of Poker and other exciting tournaments. WSOP Champions Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer and Joe Hachem lead Team PokerStars and prove the PokerStars credo as the place "Where Poker Players Become World Champions.™ For more information, go to www.pokerstars.com.
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