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A Look Back at Past EPT Prague Champions – Part 2
Posted by: James Carter. - Sat, 2013-11-30 06:40
In our last piece, we took a look at the EPT Prague’s Season 4 and Season 5 champions, Arnaud Mattern of France and Salvatore Bonavena of Italy, both of whom went on to register prolific careers in poker after their
EPT wins. It is now time to move on to Season 6, when finally, a local player managed to walk away with the gold, the bragging rights and the top prize.
That player was Jan Skampa, who bested a record-setting starting field of 586 opponents, battling his way to a €682k top prize.
Although his victory was definitely a convincing one and - coming on the tail of a 4th place finish at the EPT’s Vilamoura stop – it was sort of expected too, his final table dash was by no means a walk in the park. Among the opponents he had to dispose of there, was
PokerStars’ Luca Pagano, one of the EPT buffs, who had become a staple presence at the final tables of the tour’s various stop at that point.
The player Skampa bested heads-up was Eyal Avitan from Israel.
Since his EPT Prague win, Skampa made several cashes in various live events, but he only managed to win once: in 2011, he won the €3k German Championship of Poker High Roller, taking down a prize of €33.8k.
The EPT’s Season 7 Prague stop saw Roberto Romanello rise to the top. The Italian had begun playing poker only about 5 years earlier, in 2005, after seeing the action and the excitement generated by the EPT on television. His move paid off big time in 2010, when he bested a very capable field of starters in Prague, picking a €640k prize. He didn’t stop there either: a few months later, he won the Bratislava Main Event of the EPT too, pocketing €140.6k.
Play at PokerStars and earn your way into one of the EPT’s Season 10 Main Events trough one of the online qualifiers available there.
