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 EPT SEASON 4 MONTE CARLO GRAND FINAL
22-YEAR-OLD CANADIAN WIN €2 MILLION AT POKERSTARS.COM EPT GRAND FINAL IN MONTE CARLO
Date:Friday, April 18, 2008
Venue: Monte Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort, Monaco
Event: PokerStars.com EPT San Remo €5,000 No Limit Texas Hold'em
Glen Chorny, a 22-year-old business student from Ontario, Canada, won the biggest poker tournament ever held in Europe when he took down the €10,000 PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Grand Final for a first prize of over €2 million ($3 million).
After only two hands against Hungarian Denes Kalo, Chorny - who won his seat online with PokerStars - took the EPT Champion title with A5 against KQ when his Ace paired on the flop. For 31-year-old stockbroker Kalo, who won €1,179,000, it was the second time this season that he has been an EPT runner-up: he came 2nd at EPT Baden last October.
Chorny's triumph came only three months after he took 13th place at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventutre for $80k. He said: "It was tough out there, like a hard day at the office. Only the rewards are a lot better."
The EPT Grand Final attracted a record field of 842 players creating a total prize pool of over €8.4 million ($12m): the richest prize pool in the world for a poker tournament this year.
Canadian Max Villemure, 19, from Montreal, finished 3rd. Isaac "westmenloAA" Baron - Cardplayer's Online Player of the Year in 2007 - came 4th. Italian Luca Pagano, a Team PokerStars Pro, registered a record ninth EPT cash after finishing 6th.
Among the other star names in Monte Carlo this week were Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari (who came 8th for €168k), Patrick Antonius, Phil Ivey, Erick Lindgren, Freddy Deeb, Roland de Wolfe and Gus Hansen as well as almost all the Team PokerStars Pros including Daniel Negreanu, Joe Hachem (11th for €101,000), Greg Raymer, Chris Moneymaker, Vanessa Rousso and Lee Nelson.
Season 4 has taken in 11 amazing destinations including new events in Prague in the Czech Republic (555 players) and San Remo in Italy (701 players). The season has seen both player numbers and prize pools soar, and also the number of nationalities taking part - 48 in Monte Carlo, more than 70 during the season as a whole.
EPTLive.com - providing a live webcast of the action on the final two days - also saw record audience numbers.
The total prize money for season 4 of the EPT was over €38m, double the total for Season 3.
Final table/payouts:
Position | Name | Country | PS Status | € |
1 | Glen Chorny | Canada | PokerStars qualifier | 2,020,000 |
2 | Denes Kalo | Hungary | | 1,179,000 |
3 | Max Villemure | Canada | | 715,000 |
4 | Isaac Baron | USA | PokerStars qualifier | 589,000 |
5 | Michael Martin | USA | | 421,000 |
6 | Luca Pagano | Italy | Team PokerStars Pro | 337,000 |
7 | Valeriy Ilikyan | Russia | | 253,000 |
8 | Antonio Esfandiari | US | | 168,000 |
PokerStars Facts:
PokerStars is the world's largest online poker site with more than thirteen 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 over 16 billion hands , deals an average 23 million hands a day and run more than 75 million poker tournaments. PokerStars runs over 100,000 tournaments every day,awarding $300 million in prize money monthly. In February 2008, PokerStars entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the first and only poker website to reach the 150,000 simultaneous online players mark. llion 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 PokerStars European Poker Tour (www.ept.com) 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 $24 million. PokerStars also sponsors major events around the globe, such as the World Cup of Poker and other exciting tournaments. WSOP Champions Joe Hachem, Greg Raymer, and Chris Moneymaker and poker legend Daniel Negreanu are just some of the members of Team PokerStars Pro - a collective of pro poker players who all play at PokerStars and are sponsored by the site in international tournaments around the world. For more information on the site where poker players become poker champions, please visit www.pokerstars.com.
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