After two beginning flights and 14 hours of play on Day 2, a brand new champion emerged within the PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague €2,200 Eureka Excessive Curler on the Hilton Prague. Piotr Sztenkiel claimed the distinguished Shard Trophy and a career-defining payday of €491,040, conquering an enormous area of 1,652 entrants and securing the lion’s share of the €3,171,840 prize pool.
This victory marks the head of Sztenkiel’s poker journey, eclipsing his earlier recorded money of simply €6,720 within the €2,200 FPS Excessive Curler at EPT Monte Carlo in 2023. Regardless of describing himself as a leisure participant who performs “for enjoyable,” Sztenkiel’s dominant efficiency over the previous two days proved something however informal.
Armed with an awesome chip lead, Sztenkiel swiftly closed out the event in a short five-hand heads-up battle towards Ukraine’s Konstantyn Holskyi, who walked away with €306,600 for his runner-up end—his second six-figure rating this 12 months.
Germany’s Friedrich Raez rounded out the rostrum, incomes a personal-best €219,000 for third place. Remarkably, seven of the 9 ultimate tablists achieved their largest-ever reside cashes at this occasion, a testomony to the extent of competitors and stakes on supply.
In a short remark to PokerNews, Sztenkiel mentioned he would offer extra remarks “after I am going to the cashier’s desk to type out the cash. I depart Prague as we speak and have to catch a flight.” Trophy in hand, he was final seen strolling briskly via the foyer, disappearing as swiftly as he rose to say poker glory.
€2,200 Eureka Excessive Curler Last Desk Outcomes
Day 2 Play
PokerStars Ambassador Parker Talbot got here into the day with a stack of 405,000. Nevertheless the Canadian bumped into aces earlier than busting. EPT champion Robin Ylitalo additionally got here in with an honest stack (199,000) however discovered himself brief early into the times play. He could not spin up his brief stack and was despatched to the rail.
From the early phases, all the pieces appeared to be going the best way of Hungary’s Antal Hamza. He gained a three-way all in with aces. Hamza gave the impression to be fairly the character; after flopping a full home towards Jason Wheeler in a preflop all in, he shot up out of his chair and wasn’t seen for 4 or 5 fingers. A few of his tablemates thought that Hamza thought he misplaced the hand. Wheeler believed that Hamza had “gone dwelling to inform his mum about this.”
Hamza’s sun-run continued as he cracked the aces of Vito Vella who fell in twenty second place. He then went on to bust Claudio Di Giacomo in eleventh place, who got here into Day 2 second in chips.
Mariusz Golinski, one other Polish nationwide, scored a number of knockouts en path to the ultimate desk. He eradicated Thomas Graupner (twenty third), Stefan Dimitrov, (seventeenth) and Yehor Shumeiko (fifteenth), who got here into the sphere as we speak because the chip chief.
Eventual second-place finisher Holskyi additionally had an eventful run to the ultimate desk, busting Giuseppe Dedoni (14th) and Vogel in (thirteenth). Vogel was eradicated in dramatic style as Holskyi went runner-runner to make Broadway towards Vogel’s turned two pair.
One participant needed to miss out on the ultimate desk. Sadly for Christopher Brammer it was him. He fell to Raez after jamming a brief stack from the button with jack-nine suited.
Last Desk
Hamza got here into the ultimate desk because the chip chief, with eventual winner Sztenkiel in third place. Holskyi got here into the ultimate desk in second. The gamers appeared to be having fun with one another’s firm and even complimented one another’s play on a couple of event. A full of life group of Brits joined the rail in help of their good friend Christopher Wooden, who was affectionately known as “Woody.”
Ivan Burmistrov and Matteo Calzoni have been first to fall on the ultimate desk. Golinski was subsequent to depart after he discovered his ace-ten dominated towards Wooden’s ace-king suited. In flip, Wooden was subsequent on the chopping block. He was all-in in consecutive fingers however could not discover an ace or a ten towards Sztenkiel’s pocket sixes.
Hamza’s blistering run was extinguished when he was eradicated by Sztenkiel who then claimed the remaining stack of Vladimir Lipnitskii, with Sztenkiel having the vast majority of the chips in play by this level.
Sztenkiel then busted Raez from the event after he known as Stenkiel’s shove from the small blind.
Sztenkiel got here into heads-up play with an enormous benefit, and on the fifth hand of play, Holskyi’s stack went into the center. He was forward preflop, however it was Sztenkiel’s day, and he flopped finest to take dwelling the trophy. The gamers shook fingers and exchanged social media particulars earlier than going their separate methods.
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