Keith Romanovitz Wins 2016 Card Player Poker Tour St. Maarten Main EventDefending Champion Enrici Christophe Finished Second, Falling Just Short of Back-to-Back Titles |
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Keith Romanovitz has won the 2016 Card Player Poker Tour St. Maarten $1,100 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event. The $100,000 guaranteed tournament, hosted by Card Player Cruises at the Casino Royale in beautiful Maho Bay drew a total of 125 entries to easily surpass the promised prize pool.
For the win Romanovitz was awarded the first-place prize of $33,950 as well as 264 Card Player Player of the Year points.
Last year Enrici Christophe outlasted a field of 138 entries to win the inaugural running of this event for $37,950. Christophe made an incredible run at defending his title this year, making it all the way down to heads-up action before eventually falling to Romanovitz.
Christophe earned $20,984 as the runner up this time around, bringing his total winnings in this tournament to $58,934.
Cristophe was not the only player to follow up a deep run from last year. Louis Pfaff finished in seventh place in 2015 and managed to make the money again this year, finishing 12th for $2,486.
2005 World Series of Poker gold bracelet winner Anthony Reategui finished fourth for $11,130.
Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded at this final table:
| Place | Player | Earnings (USD) | POY Points |
| 1 | Keith Romanovitz | $33,950 | 264 |
| 2 | Christophe Enrici | $20,984 | 220 |
| 3 | Mohamed Mansour | $15,147 | 176 |
| 4 | Anthony Reategui | $11,130 | 132 |
| 5 | Donald Otto | $8,320 | 110 |
| 6 | Eric Munoz | $6,326 | 88 |
| 7 | Akash Mazumdar | $4,890 | 66 |
| 8 | Angelo Flanders | $3,841 | 44 |
| 9 | Jimmy Gallagher | $3,066 | 22 |
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