Roland De Wolfe of the United Kingdom outlasted 388 players to win the
European Poker Tour event in Dublin recently. He won €554,000 and is the first player to win a
World Poker Tour event and an
EPT event.
The final table consisted of all Europeans, including five Brits, two Frenchmen, and players from Ireland and Sweden. The total prize pool generated was €1,847,750.
The €5,000 buy-in event was held at the Regency Hotel in Dublin, and was the fourth
EPT event to take place in its third season. Events have already taken place in Barcelona, Spain; London; and Baden, Austria. Three more events will take place to complete the third
EPT season.
De Wolfe has won more than $1.7 million on the tournament trail, including two cashes at this year's
World Series of Poker, a third-place finish at this year's
Five-Star World Poker Classic, and a victory at the
WPT's 2005
Grand Prix de Paris, which was good for $600,898.
De Wolfe knocked out seven of the final eight players. He seemed to get a lot of good cards at the final table, and sent players packing while holding A-J, A-Q, 8-8, and trip fives.
Bob Pajich is a writer for CardPlayer.com
