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Eureka Poker Tour Czech Republic – Lybaert Wins
Posted by: James Carter. - Tue, 2013-03-26 05:23
While most of the other poker major tours have kicked off their 2013 seasons much earlier, the 3rd season of the Eureka Poker Tour only got going last week, with its first main event taking place in the Czech Republic. The event featured a €1k buy-in and no fewer than 421 players registered, creating a prize-pool which awarded the winner a €115k prize.
The winner of the first Season 3 event of the Eureka Poker Tour was Belgium’s Bart Lybaert, who bested Fabian Leib heads-up for the title.
Lybaert isn’t exactly a “name” player yet: before his Eureka Poker Tour score, his only live
poker tournament cash came in the UKIPT’s London Main Event, where he ended up in 139th place for a €1.2k reward. This Eureka Poker Tour accomplishment will certainly up his profile now though. In a post-event interview he said that everything had gone well for him and he hadn’t even encountered a single downswing.
The second day of the tournament saw him start with the largest stack, and when he reached the final table, he was still second in chips. Kasparas Klezys dropped a massive pot to him, which gave him the chip lead. The hand was a typical perfect hand: Klezys made a set of Qs on the turn, in response to which Lybaert rivered a straight. That hand was enough to set Lybaert firmly on course to victory: he was pretty much unstoppable from there on out. He turned on the aggression, forcing Giovanni Mazza to toss his pocket rockets into the muck at one point. Mazza eventually busted in 3rd place, taking home a €47.5k prize.
The heads-up stage of the action found Lybaert with 8 times as many chips as his opponent. The last hand of the event saw Lybaert’s As, 3s best Leib’s Ad, 10d.
