Ryan Mandara Wins EPT Cyprus $10,300 Side Event For $709,285

The UK’s Ryan Mandara secured his largest poker match payday but on Sunday, October 20. He emerged victorious from a discipline of 456 entries within the 2024 European Poker Tour Cyprus $10,300 buy-in no-limit maintain’em excessive curler, strolling away with $709,285.

Previous to this marquee win within the Mediterranean, Mandara’s high rating had been the $257,321 he earned because the champion of the 2018 Irish Poker Open important occasion. With this newest victory, Mandara grew his lifetime haul to $1,562,093.

Mandara additionally secured 1,800 Card Participant Participant of the Yr factors for the win. This was simply his second POY-qualified rating of the 12 months, with the primary coming in a $1,045 buy-in hyper turbo earlier at this pageant. His 1,842 whole factors are adequate to maneuver him inside the highest 200 within the 2024 POY standing introduced by World Poker.

This occasion awarded greater than $4.4 million in whole prize cash to its high 63 finishers. Among the many many huge names to money had been two-time bracelet winners Alexandre Reard (fifty fifth) and Aleksejs Ponakovs (51st), two-time $25,000 buy-in excessive curler victor at this pageant Elias Gutierrez (forty first), bracelet winner Jessica Teusl (thirty sixth), bracelet winner Patrick Leonard (twenty eighth), Andras Nemeth (18th), current Tremendous Excessive Curler Bowl runner-up Juan Pardo (eleventh), high-stakes famous person Steve O’Dwyer (ninth), and 2024 World Collection of Poker important occasion third-place finisher Niklas Astedt (eighth).

2020 WSOP On-line important occasion champion Stoyan Madanzhiev completed fourth for $297,000. The Bulgarian, who primarily battles within the on-line streets, now has practically $5.7 million in recorded earnings after this newest deep run. Madanzhiev ran A-7 into the A-Okay of Mandara in his remaining hand.

Mandara additionally knocked out Jelle Moene (third – $386,200) to set a heads-up showdown with Poland’s Sebastian Malec. The 2 took a while to hash out a deal, in the end agreeing to lock up $697,115 for Malec and $676,785 for Mandara whereas leaving $32,500 and the trophy to play for.

Malec held 12,200,000 to Mandara’s 10,600,000 when play resumed. On the second deal of the match Mandara received a giant pot with kings and fives besting queens and fives to take a dominant lead. Not lengthy after, Malec received all-in with Okay9 trailing Mandara’s 1010. The board got here down 86384 and Malec was eradicated in second place. This was the second-largest rating but for Malec, who earned greater than $1.2 million because the champion of the 2016 EPT Barcelona important occasion. He now has greater than $2.8 million in profession cashes.