Glen Chorny yesterday won the €10,000 buy-in PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo topping a record field of 842 to win Europe’s largest ever first prize payout of €2 million.
The 22-year-old business student from Ontario, Canada said after his victory, “It was tough out there, like a hard day at
the office. Only the rewards are a lot better.”
Chorney, who qualified for the event on PokerStars, beat Hungarian Denes Kalo in a heads-up battle which lasted only two hands when his A-5 found another ace on the flop to beat Kalo’s KQ. Kalo, a 31-year-old stockbroker who finished second at the EPT Baden event last October, collected €1,179,000 for second place.
The final table payouts were:
- Glen Chorny (Canada) — €2,020,000
- Denes Kalo (Hungary) — €1,179,000
- Maxime Villemure (Canada) — €715,000
- Isaac Baron (USA) — €589,000
- Michael Martin (USA) — €421,000
- Luca Pagano (Italy) — €337,000
- Valeriy Ilikyan (Russia) — €253,000
- Antonio Esfandiari (USA) — €168,000
Season four of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour took in 11 cities across Europe from Dublin via Copenhagen to Prague and San Remo before culminating over the last week in Monte Carlo, Monaco. Seventy nationalities took part in the tour this year which saw player and prize pool’s grow. EPTLive.com broadcast the final two days of action via live webcast.
