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PokerStars EPT Prague - Jan Skampa wins
Posted by: James Carter. - Mon, 2009-12-07 14:02
The PokerStars EPT’s Prague title stays home in the Czech Republic. Jan Skampa, the young local who entered the final day of the poker tournament with the chip lead, managed to preserve his advantage as he raced home for the PokerStars trophy and the €682,000 first prize.
Skampa broke several records with his PokerStars EPT Prague performance. He became the first player since Ram Vaswani and Julian Thew to make two consecutive EPT final tables. Truth be told though, back when Vaswani and Thew set the record, starting fields were much smaller than the current ones, which makes Skampa’s achievement all the more impressive.
The final day of the poker tournament began with the two short-stacks making their do or die moves. Sven Eichelbaum was the first one to be eliminated. He trusted his small stack to an A,J he’d picked up and ran it right into Larry Ryan’s pocket rockets for the bust.
Gustav Ekerot, the other short-stack followed him to the rail soon. Relieved that he wouldn’t be the first casualty of the day, and probably content with the share of prize-money for 7th place, Ekerot shoved all in on a Q,7. Eyal Avitan had the rockets this time and the field shrank to 6.
PokerStars’ own Luca Pagano was the next casualty. Playing his 6th
EPT final table, the Team PokerStars pro ran his A,J into Stefan Mattsson’s pocket Qs and headed to the rail in 6th place.
Mattsson then moved on to knock out Ryan too. He picked up pocket rockets and fortunately for him, Ryan landed a pair of Js in the BB. Both players shoved all-in and Mattsson walked away with the goods.
Following these two eliminations, Mattsson ruled supreme at the final table. As the poker tournament drew closer to the end though, he dropped a massive pot to Jan Skampa, which not only promoted the Czech to a contender but pretty much got Mattsson out of the way too.
Anthony Roux fell next, and heading into three-handed play, Mattsson found himself at a disadvantage. Avitan eventually took care of him, busting him out in 3rd place.
Heads-up play between Avitan and Skampa lasted for three hours, during which the chip lead changed hands several times. Eventually, Skampa’s pocket Js put an end to the event.
