Buy-In: | $14,876 + $893 |
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Prize Pool: | $11,364,310 |
Entrants: | 848 |
With a safe card on the river, Nicolas Chouity is the 2010 PokerStars EPT Grand Final Champion, earning €1,700,000.
Chouity entered the final table with a massive chip lead and never let up, continuing to apply pressure and knocking out all but one of his opponents. Coming back from the dinner break, Chouity played his two remaining opponents against each other perfectly and made sure that he had momentum entering heads up play.
After fading a card rush from Josef Klinger, Chouity picked up some cards of his own and they held to take the title. Congratulations Nicolas Chouity!
Josef Klinger open shoved for his last 5,720,000 and Nicolas Chouity immediately called, tabling pocket aces.
Klinger just shook his head and showed down pocket eights. The board fell K1094Q and Klinger is eliminated, earning €1,000,000.
On the first hand of heads up play, both players saw a flop of QJ4 and Nicolas Chouity bet. Josef Klinger moved all in and Chouity excitedly jumped out of his seat to call with Q2.
Klinger had him outkicked with Q8, but the turn and river fell A4 to split up the pot.
Here are the chip counts entering heads up play.
Nicolas Chouity — 21,465,000
Josef Klinger — 4,025,000
Action was folded to Nicolas Chouity who moved all in from the small blind. Dominykas Karmazinas woke up with A7 and made the call.
Chouity could only show a dominated A6, but the board fell Q536K to give him the pot with a pair of sixes. Karzaminas was eliminated in third place and earned €700,000.
Don’t forget, you can watch the entire final table on EPT Live.
The players have returned from the dinner break. Here’s a look at the chip counts.
Nicolas Chouity — 16,980,000
Josef Klinger — 5,120,000
Dominykas Karmazinas — 3,390,000
On the last hand before the dinner break, Dominykas Karmazinas shoved for his last 1,585,000 and Nicolas Chouity called with K2.
Karmazinas showed pocket fives and they held to double him up to 3 million or roughly 20 big blinds. With that, the players are now on dinner break. Stay tuned for updated chip counts.
Nicolas Chouity raised to 450,000 and Herve Costa reraised all in for 820,000 total. Chouity made the easy call with KQ and Costa revealed A9.
The board ran out KK663 and Chouity took the pot. Costa, despite only playing four hands at the final table, earned €500,000 for his week long efforts.
Don’t forget, you can watch the entire final table on EPT Live.
Andrew Chen moved all in for 1,960,000 and Josef Klinger instantly called with pocket kings. Chen sheepishly turned over 97 and failed to connect with a board of JJ1059.
Chen finishes in fifth place and earns €400,000. Klinger is now firmly in second place with over 6 million in chips.
Don’t forget, you can watch the entire final table on EPT Live.
The players have returned from the break to increased blinds of 80,000-160,000 with a 20,000 ante.
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