Thomas Santerne has come out on prime in three of the six excessive curler occasions which have performed out up to now on the ongoing 2024 European Poker Tour Prague competition. The Frenchman accomplished this high-stakes hat trick by taking down a €25,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em occasion on Thursday, Dec. 12. This win got here simply three days after he emerged victorious within the €50,000 occasion, which is the most important buy-in of the sequence. His title streak started with a win within the €20,000 buy-in event three days earlier. The trio of victories has added $733,494 to Santerne’s profession haul, placing him simply shy of $5.3 million in lifetime earnings.
The latest win noticed Santerne outlast a smaller area of simply 11 entrants. The prize pool ended up at $276,925, with Santerne capturing $139,125 and his third PokerStars spade trophy of the week.
Along with the {hardware} and the cash, Santerne has additionally collected loads of Card Participant Participant of the Yr factors at this sequence. The 618 factors from his three victories carry his whole on the yr to 2,870. He now has 4 titles and 7 final-table finishes on the yr, and is ranked simply exterior the highest 100 within the 2024 standings offered by International Poker.
Santerne’s different win this yr got here within the Prior €50,000 buy-in at EPT Paris in February for $960,638 and 612 factors. He additionally completed second in a $100,000 buy-in on the Triton Poker Montenegro competition again in Might for a career-best payday of $1.7 million.
The bubble was burst on this occasion when Santerne’s A-10 outran the pocket fives of Viacheslav Buldygin. Santerne then eradicated three-time World Collection of Poker bracelet winner Martin Kabrhel with rivered aces full besting flopped journeys for the Czech Native. Kabrhel earned $55,120 because the third-place finisher.
Santerne took roughly a 2:1 chip lead into heads-up play with reigning EPT Monte Carlo foremost occasion champion Derk van Luijk. Santerne was trailing barely by the point the decisive hand of the heads-up match arose. His A
Ok
held towards the A
6 of van Luijk to depart the Dutchman on fumes.
The ultimate hand of the event noticed van Luijk get his 11 or so massive blinds in preflop with A-Ok main the 8-6 of Santerne. The board got here down 65
439 and Santerne made a pair of sixes to carry the occasion to an in depth. van Luijk was awarded $82,680 because the runner-up.
Here’s a take a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the remaining desk:
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
1
Thomas Santerne
$139,125
168
2
Derk van Luijk
$82,680
140
3
Martin Kabrhel
$55,120
112
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