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EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final – Silverman Wins €25k High Roller
Posted by: Jo Martin - Tue, 2013-05-14 11:41
Unlike the
EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final’s Main Event, the heads-up stage of which saw Andrew Pantling refuse a deal offered by the eventual winner, Steve O’Dwyer, the € 25k High Roller ended in a 3-way deal at the top. When everything was said and done, Steven Silverman remained at the top of the pile, having taken down the largest live tournament haul of his career: €775.4k. The runner-up and the third place finisher won equal amounts per the terms of the agreement: they both walked away with €760k.
Tony Gregg was the one who lost the heads-up battle against the eventual winner. Fadar Kamar was the 3rd place finisher.
A total of 12 players returned to the tables at the beginning of the final day of the event, with Silverman 3rd in chips.
PokerStars’ Vanessa Selbst and Igor Kurganov were both in contention then and they both made the 8-handed final table in fact. Kurganov was eliminated in 7th place, after Victor Sbrissa, one of the early chip leaders of the
poker tournament.
Kurganov got his last few chips into the middle holding an Ad, 10d, and he got called by Silverman’s A,Qo. The board fell a bunch of blanks and Kurganov’s tournament life was over. He picked up €154.7k for his efforts.
Selbst looked pretty dominating for a while at the final table and managed to make it all the way to 4th place. Chris Moore and Toby Lewis fell in 6th and 5th places respectively. Tony Gregg was the one who eliminated Selbst after her Qd, Jd fell to his Ac, Kc. The three-handed deal took quite a while to materialize, but eventually it did and after Fadar Kamar’s elimination in 3rd place, the heads-up bout was a go. At that point, the battle was basically for a €15k extra the winner would secure. The last hand of the event saw Silverman’s As, Js best Gregg’s pocket deuces.
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