Andras Nemeth Wins First High Roller At 2024 European Poker Tour Prague Stop

Andras Nemeth is a pressure to be reckoned with in European Poker Tour excessive curler occasions. Of the Hungarian on-line poker star’s eight recorded stay match titles, 5 have are available in high-stakes EPT tournaments. The latest noticed Nemeth prime a subject of 42 entries within the 2024 EPT Prague €10,200 no-limit maintain’em thriller bounty occasion for $140,959 in whole prize cash, with a virtually even break up between most important prize pool payout and bounties.

Nemeth now has almost $7.7 million in recorded scores to his title. This was his nineteenth money for six figures or extra, and 173rd in-the-money end total. The 300 Card Participant Participant of the Yr factors he was awarded for this victory have been his first of 2024.

The highest six finishers all earned a share of the $420,799 prize pool on this match, which kicked off on the opening day of the 43-event competition.

Maksim Vaskresenski was the participant knocked out on the bubble, along with his A-J operating into A-Okay for Nikita Kuznetsov. 2024 World Sequence of Poker most important occasion third-place finisher Niklas Astedt (sixth – $57,028) was the primary to hit the rail inside the cash, along with his A-7 unable to beat the pocket sevens of Morten Klein. Astedt now sits simply exterior the highest 50 within the 2024 POY race offered by International Poker after this, his seventh POY-qualified remaining desk of the 12 months. The Swedish on-line poker legend now has greater than $4.8 million in to-date POY earnings, thanks largely to the $4 million he secured along with his deep run within the large dance this summer time.

Klein (fifth – $29,362) and Ilya Pavlov (4th – $24,062) then bowed out to arrange a three-handed showdown between Nemeth, Michail Manolakis, and Nikita Kuznetsov. Nemeth made a giant hero name with ace excessive throughout short-handed motion, selecting off a queen-high bluff from Manolakis to overhaul the chip lead.

Nikita Kuznetsov obtained all-in for his final 12 or so large blinds with J-10 trailing A-6 for Nemeth, who made the one pair by the river to win the pot and rating the knockout. Kuznetsov earned $74,730 because the third-place finisher.

Nemeth entered heads-up play with a slight lead over Manolakis. All the things appeared to go the Greek participant’s manner within the early going, however Nemeth discovered a double as much as get again to sq. one. He then picked off a bluff to leap again out in entrance once more forward of the ultimate hand of the match.

Manolakis obtained his final 15 large blinds in with QJ going through A3 for Nemeth. The board got here down OkayJ8A5 and Nemeth made a pair of aces for the win. Manolakis earned $94,658 in whole prize cash because the runner-up.