EPT Grand Final Side Event Review: Seiver, Kenney, Former Rugby Pro Highlight Winners
This year, there were 78 events scheduled at the 2015 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo? Casino European Poker Tour Grand Final. Of the non-satellite events, nearly 30 have been completed, and there have been some big winners.
The fourth event of the series was the France Poker Series Monaco �1,100 Main Event. After attracting a large field of 993 entries, the top 143 players cashed with a top prize set at �177,000. Germany's Sebastian Supper finished as the last man standing, scoring by far the largest live tournament result of his poker career. Supper defeated Manuel Solsona (�107,500) in heads-up play at a final table that included Pablo Gordillo Caballero (�56,600), Joseph Mouawad (�43,800), and Luca Moschitta (�32,700).
Other notables who cashed in the FPS Monaco Main Event were Sergio Castelluccio (18th - �6,880), Rumen Nanev (41st - �3,110), Arnaud Mattern (48th - �3,110), Simon Deadman (59th - �2,670), Andre Akkari (69th - �2,670), Alexander Kuzmin (74th - �2,250), John Andress (83rd - �2,250), Timo Pfutzenreuter (94th - �2,250), Dimitar Danchev (105th - �2,010), Amos Ben Haim (117th - �2,010), Heinz Kamutzki (132nd - �1,790), and Jack Salter (142nd - �1,790).
In the FPS Monaco �2,200 High Roller, a field of 383 entries saw the top 55 reach the money. David Susigan, a 30-year-old former rugby player, earned the victory and a career best tournament score of �126,155 after a heads-up chop. Susigan defeated Yury Gulyy in second place (�109,345). Bryan Paris also reached the final table, but ultimately finished in fifth place (�42,300).
Other notables to cash in the FPS Monaco High Roller were Carlos Chadha (10th - �11,740), David Peters (13th - �10,180), Michael Tureniec (18th - �7,350), Nicolau Villa-Lobos (19th - �7,350), Joao Vieira (21st - �6,610), Ihar Soika (23rd - �6,610), Dermot Blain (26th - �5,870), Mohsin Charania (27th - �5,870), and Rhys Jones (39th - �4,390).
In another side event, the �5,200 Turbo No-Limit Hold'em 8-Handed, Brazil's David Dayan scored a six-figure prize of �104,000 when he topped a field of 78 entries. The top 11 finishers reached the money in this event, and Dayan had to contend with Dominik Nitsche (2nd - �74,000), Dan Heimiller (3rd - �48,400), and Tom Hall (6th - �23,100) at the final table.
In the �220 Women's Event, Isabel Baltazar scored top honors and �3,690 in prize money after she defeated a field of 65 entries. Elsewhere, Scott Seiver and Bryn Kenney also earned victories.
Seiver took down the �5,300 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed event for �75,900. He topped a field of 46 entries, and that is now three final tables for Seiver from the 2015 EPT Grand Final. This most recent result follows up his eighth-place finish in the �100,000 Super High Roller for �261,800 and his ninth-place finish in the �50,000 Super High Roller for �92,860. All told, Seiver has now earned �430,560 from this festival and there are still plenty more events to go.
Kenney won the �1,100 Turbo No-Limit Hold'em Bounty event for �20,000. There were 192 entries in the field, including Joao Brito (6th - �4,650), Jannick Wrang (11th - �1,710), and Andrey Konopelko (19th - �1,070).
Side Event Results
| No. | Event | Entries | Prize Pool | Winner | Country | First Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | �1,100 FPS Monaco Main Event | 993 | �963,210 | Sebastian Supper | Germany | �177,000 |
| 6 | �330 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed | 63 | �18,333 | Najib Hassani | Canada | �4,020 |
| 7 | �550 Limit Hold'em 8 Handed | 11 | �5,335 | Ismail Erkenov | Russia | �2,670 |
| 10 | �330 FPS Monaco Cup | 747 | �217,377 | Remy Bonnet | France | �25,220 |
| 12 | �220 Turbo Pot-Limit Courcheval Hi-Lo | 37 | �7,178 | [Removed:59] | Germany | �1,530 |
| 14 | �100,000 Super High Roller | 71 | �6,888,420 | Erik Seidel | USA | �2,015,000 |
| 15 | �550 Limit Seven-Card Stud | 21 | �10,185 | Sergio Braga | Brazil | �4,280 |
| 19 | �2,200 FPS High Roller | 383 | �743,020 | David Susigan | France | �126,155 |
| 20 | �550 Limit Razz | 21 | �10,185 | Nikolaos Panopoulos | Greece | �4,280 |
| 21 | �110 Double-Elimination Flipout | 33 | �3,201 | Kasra Pour Khomamy | Germany | �1,090 |
| 22 | �110 Double-Elimination Flipout | 22 | �2,134 | Victor Ilyukhin | UK | �900 |
| 23 | �110 Double-Elimination Flipout | 23 | �2,231 | Felix Stephensen | Norway | �940 |
| 25 | �1,100 Hyper-Turbo No-Limit Hold'em | 129 | �125,130 | Erich Friedl | Austria | �26,370 |
| 28 | �220 Women's Event | 65 | �12,610 | Isabel Baltazar | France | �3,690 |
| 31 | �330 Turbo No-Limit Hold'em | 327 | �95,157 | Hani Bahna | Canada | �17,330 |
| 34 | �50,000 Super High Roller | 66 | �3,201,660 | Mustapha Kanit | Italy | �936,500 |
| 35 | �220 Senior's Event | 89 | �17,266 | Paul Didier Obigand | France | �3,996 |
| 36 | �220 Junior's Event | 8 | �1,552 | Mikhail Bernovskii | Russia | �775 |
| 37 | �550 Limit Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo | 22 | �10,670 | Paolo Compagno | Switzerland | �4,480 |
| 38 | �5,200 Turbo No-Limit Hold'em 8-Handed | 78 | �378,300 | David Dayan | Brazil | �104,000 |
| 40 | �2,150 Turbo No-Limit Hold'em Bounty | 152 | �142,880 | Nikita Lebedev | Russia | �34,300 |
| 41 | �330 Turbo No-Limit Hold'em "Win the Button!" | 152 | �44,232 | Abraham Serrano | Spain | �10,600 |
| 43 | �5,300 Pot-Limit Omaha | 46 | �223,100 | Scott Seiver | USA | �75,900 |
| 44 | �550 NL Turbo | 79 | �38,315 | Elia Hanna | Lebanon | 10530 |
| 45 | �550 Limit Omaha Hi-Lo | 32 | �15,520 | Harrazi Saber | France | �3,840 |
| 47 | �1,100 Turbo No-Limit Hold'em Bounty | 192 | �90,240 | Bryn Kenney | USA | �20,000 |
| 48 | �120 Turbo No-Limit Hold'em "Deuces Wild" with Rebuys | 77 | �11,301 | Frederic Berenger | France | �3,110 |
| 49 | �550 Hyper-Turbo No-Limit Hold'em | 130 | �63,050 | Yucel Eminoglu | Turkey | �11,050 |
For more information on the results from the side events, please click here.
*Lead photo courtesy of PokerStars.
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