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 EPT SEASON 4 : LONDON
POKERSTARS QUALIFIERS WIN OVER £1 MILLION AT LONDON EPT
Date: Saturday, September 29, 2007
Venue: Grosvenor Victoria Casino, London
Event: PokerStars.com EPT London, £5,200 No Limit Texas Hold'em poker tournament
A Lebanese father-of-three who nearly didn't come to the PokerStars.com London European Poker Tour tournament because his friends couldn't accompany him went on to win the event - and a record first prize of £611,500 ($1,247,000).
Mouawad, a 47-year-old property developer from Beirut, qualified online for the tournament on PokerStars. He was one of nine qualifiers who cashed in the event, winning a combined total of £1,184,307 - more than half the total prize pool of £2,038,400 (approximately $4,156,000).
Mouawad defeated Florian Langmann, 24, the reigning German champion to take first place. Mouawad went all in with Q3 and was called by Langmann with 89. The flop of Q96 paired up both players but another queen on the turn gave Mouawad.
"I didn't expect to win at all," said Mouawad. "It was fun, and a big achievement, and I went up against some great players." Mouawad has been playing poker for 15 years but only took up Hold'em when it became popular in his local casino. "There are now a lot of successful players from Lebanon including Joe Hachem and Freddie Deeb." Mouawad, the third Lebanese player to cash at an EPT, also wins a seat at the €10,000 EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final next April.
A total of four PokerStars qualifiers made it to the final table, out of 60 who won seats - a record for an EPT event. They were Marcel Baran, 28, from Aschaffenburg in Germany, who won £203,840 for third place, Josh Egan, 23, from Auckland, New Zealand, who won a Double Shoot Out on PokerStars and came 4th for £152,880 and Fredrik Haugen, 19, from Gothenburg, Sweden, who £124,342 for 5th place.
Also playing in London this week were Team PokerStars Pros Daniel Negreanu, Noah Boeken, Hevad Khan, Dario Minieri, Katja Thater, Luca Pagano and Chris Moneymaker - who came 17th for £12,230.
A total of 392 players took part in the event.
The next EPT is the Baden Classic in Austria, from October 7-10, closely followed by EPT Dublin (October 30 - November 3).
Final table/payouts:
Position | First Name | Last Name | Country | Prize |
1 | Joseph | Mouawad | Lebanon | £611,500 |
2 | Florian | Langmann | Germany | £346,528 |
3 | Marcel | Baran | Germany | £203,840 |
4 | Josh | Egan | New Zealand | £152,880 |
5 | Fredrik | Haugen | Sweden | £124,342 |
6 | Antony | Lellouche | France | £97,843 |
7 | Paul | Mendes | UK | £77,459 |
8 | Ian | Cox | UK | £57,075 |
PokerStars Facts:
PokerStars is the world's largest and most innovative online poker site with more than ten million players worldwide. PokerStars was the first site to introduce features that became the industry standard and offers the highest levels of security and customer support in the online poker world. To date, PokerStars has dealt out over ten billion hands and run more than 50 million poker tournaments, awarding well over $7 billion in prize money. PokerStars is the world's largest poker tournament room running over 50,000 tournaments every day. In February 2006, PokerStars.com entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the first poker website ever to reach the 100,000 simultaneous player mark. The PokerStars Sunday Million weekly event is the largest weekly tournament on the planet with a $1 million guaranteed tournament prize pool.
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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