Leo Worthington-Leese Wins European Poker Tour Cyprus Eureka Main Event

The 2024 European Poker Tour Cyprus cease kicked off with a bang. The $1,100 buy-in Eureka Poker Tour no-limit maintain’em primary occasion that sat on the prime of the schedule drew a large turnout of two,803 complete entries, leading to a prize pool of almost $2.7 million.

After six beginning flights and three extra days of combined-field motion, the UK’s Leo Worthington-Leese was topped the champion. The Brighton, England resident walked away with $314,030, which was the second-largest rating of his profession. His prime payday stays the $425,272 he secured because the third-place finisher in final yr’s EPT Monte-Carlo primary occasion. He now has greater than $1.5 million in recorded match scores to his identify.

This victory additionally earned Worthington-Leese 1,200 Card Participant Participant of the 12 months factors. This was his second title and sixth final-table end of the yr. With 2,290 complete factors, he now sits inside the highest 125 within the 2024 POY standings offered by World Poker.

The highest 418 finishers made the cash on this occasion, with huge names like Victoria Livschitz (81st), 2020 World Sequence of Poker On-line primary occasion champion Stoyan Madanzhiev (sixty fourth), two-time bracelet winner Alexandre Reard (53rd), two-time bracelet winner Michael Wang (51st), two-time bracelet winner Martin Zamani (thirty ninth), Marle Spragg (thirty fifth), and _WPT and EPT champion Andrey Pateychuk (14th).

The ultimate day started with eight gamers remaining and Yuan Xu on prime of the leaderboard. Worthington-Leese sat in sixth chip place to begin, however was just a few huge blinds away from being inside the highest three.

Alexey Badulin misplaced a basic preflop race to complete eighth ($46,600), along with his A-J dropping in opposition to the pocket tens of Aleksandr Razinkov. Frederick Anastasiades was then capable of overcome the pocket fours of Recep Aydemir (seventh – $60,850) with A-9 to slim the sphere to 6.

Guoliang Wei known as off his final handful of blinds with 10-6 suited going through a small-blind shove from Samuel Fournier, who held A-J. Neither participant linked with the board and Wei was despatched packing in sixth place ($78,770). Fournier then picked up pocket aces in opposition to the pocket nines of Xu and flopped aces full after all the chips went in preflop to finish Xu’s run in fifth place ($101,390).

Razinkov was the subsequent to fall. He shoved from the small blind with Okay3 and obtained a fast name from Anastasiades, whose A9 made a successful two pair by the river. Razinkov was awarded $132,120 for his efforts.

The ultimate three agreed to a deal to redistribute the remaining prize cash, leaving the trophy and $79,957 put aside for the eventual winner. After that was hashed out, Worthington-Leese shoved from the small blind with 109 and was appeared up by Fournier and his pocket fives out of the large blind. Worthington-Leese flopped a 9, turned a ten, and held from there to ship Fournier to the rail with the $237,051 he negotiated for.

The following huge conflict pitted pocket sevens for Anastasiades in opposition to the pocket queens of Worthington-Leese. The bigger pocket pair held up and Anastasiades was left with simply a few huge blinds remaining in his stack.

The ultimate hand noticed Anastasiades shove with Okay2. Worthington-Leese known as from the large blind with J3 and the board got here down 75496 to offer Worthington-Leese a seven-high straight on the tip. With that he locked up the title, whereas Anastasiades was eradicated in second place ($248,479).