Leon Tsoukernik emerged victorious from the last EPT Super High Roller tournament organised by PokerStars.com in Prague. The owner of King’s Casino Rozvadov managed to break though the fierce competition and was proclaimed as the event’s champion, taking home a massive cash prize estimated to €741,100.
After only six hours of play, Tsoukernik succeeded in eliminating the rest of the players, including his long-standing rival Charlie Carrel, to be crowned as a winner and lift the tournament’s trophy.
The competition on the Day 2 of the event was stiff as it can be, and became even fiercer after Bertrand Grospellier became the bubble boy. The game proceeded until the final table was formed with the elimination of Anthony Zinno in seventh place. At the final day of the event, only six players remained standing.
At this stage of the game, Leon Tsoukernik and Charlie Carrel had the chip lead, followed by Juha Helppi and Viacheslav Buldygin. The two players who held the smallest chip stacks were Paul Newey and Julian Thomas. Actually, at the beginning of the playday, the chip lead was held by Carrel. The two players were constantly changing positions in terms of the leading chip stacks, so both of them were considered as possible winners.
One by one, all players but them two left the table, with Juha Helppi remaining third, generating his second largest score in his career as a professional poker player. This left Tsoukernik and Carrel face each other in a heads-up battle, after three days of fierce competition for the lead. At the final action, Tsoukernik was the one who took the best advantage of his position and managed to beat his long-standing opponent.
With Leon Tsoukernik emerging as winner, the UK player Charlie Carrel occupied the runner-up position, scooping a prize of €535,250. Finnish player Juha Helppi remained third, taking home a guaranteed prize pool portion of €341,150.
The fourth position in the ranking was taken by Viacheslav Buldygin from Russia, followed by another British player – Paul Newey; the two of them granted with prizes of €258,800 and €200,000, respectively. Julian Thomas got sixth, scooping a check worth €152,915, while US player Anthony Zinno remained on the seventh position, getting a prize of €123,520.
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Harry Evans
