9 years in the past, Ognyan Dimov burst onto the poker scene when he received the European Poker Tour Deauville Predominant Occasion.
He had the massive trophy that got here with that spectacular accomplishment, however for practically a decade and numerous tournaments, one other spadie had all the time eluded the Bulgarian. That modified right now when Dimov emerged because the champion of the $20,000 No-Restrict Maintain’em occasion at EPT Cyprus.
“However I didn’t have the spadie, so now I’m fairly comfortable,” Dimov mentioned after he and Kayhan Mokri agreed to an ICM chop in the beginning of heads-up play, Dimov taking $253,876 and Mokri $260,800.
EPT Cyprus $20,000 No-Restrict Maintain’em Last Desk Outcomes
Dimov had turn out to be a daily on the excessive curler circuit, taking down a $25,000 Excessive Curler on the PCA in February 2023 and successful a $30,000 Triton Collection occasion in Monaco final October for greater than $1,000,000. He additionally has a WSOP bracelet on his resume. His win right now pushes his dwell earnings as much as $6.2 million as he sits fourth on his nation’s all-time leaderboard.
“I benefit from the feeling of competing with one of the best and simply grinding, Enjoying no matter is subsequent on the schedule,” he mentioned.
Event Recap
EPT Cyprus’s first excessive buy-in occasion drew 47 of the most important names in poker, making a prize pool of $902,776. Santhosh Suvarna fired 4 bullets however couldn’t discover the cash, whereas previous EPT champions Adrian Mateos, Dimitar Danchev, and Artur Martirosian had been additionally amongst those that fell brief.
The wild and unpredictable Hassan Nashar seized the chip lead when he busted Roman Hrabec and Jamil Wakil in a three-way all in with five-three, hitting two pair on the river to crack Wakil’s queens. However as fast as Nashar’s ascent up the leaderboard was, his downfall was simply as speedy. First, Dimov received a flip with two nines to double up. Nashar then ran ace-ten into Ren Lin’s ace-queen to hit the rail wanting the cash.
Mehdi Chaoui completed on the ultimate desk bubble as Konstantin Voronin awoke with jacks in a three-way all in to knock out Chaoui in tenth whereas incomes a double up off Mokri. Markkos Ladev led in the beginning of the nine-handed closing desk with 740,000, with Lin in second with 690,000 and Dimov following behind in third with 670,000.
Juan Pardo, who was in for 5 bullets on this occasion, jumped atop the leaderboard when he moved all in with two sevens and Jelle Moene known as for 412,000 with ace-queen. Pardo flopped a set, then improved to a full home on the flip to remove Moene in ninth.
Aleksejs Ponakovs picked up aces twice, first doubling up off Pardo’s jacks for 244,000 then towards Pardo once more with sevens for 608,000 as Ponakovs went from brief stack to chip chief in two arms. Voronin, in the meantime, was eradicated in eighth when he moved all in for 370,000 from the small blind with two tens, however Mokri awoke with kings within the huge blind as the sphere reached the cash bubble
Teun Mulder survived on the river as soon as on the cash bubble, however he couldn’t make it a second time as Mokri turned a flush to crack his jacks and remove Mulder in seventh because the bubble boy. Dimov doubled up for 340,000 when he was all in from the small blind with two kings towards Mokri’s ace-eight. Mokri had one other probability to remove an opponent when Lin moved all in for 210,000 on the flop with two pair, however Mokri snapped him off with journeys to bust Lin in sixth place.
Ladev was quickly all in for 330,000 with two queens as Ponakovs had ace-eight. An ace on the flop spelt the top for the previous chip chief as he completed in fifth. Ponakovs then bumped into aces, shoving from beneath the gun as Dimov known as for 1,025,000 on the button. Dimov doubled up but once more to cross 2,000,000 and take the chip lead.
Pardo couldn’t join with ace-eight towards Mokri’s sevens to complete in fourth, whereas Ponakovs was quickly all in for 670,000 with ten-seven towards Dimov’s king-eight. Ponakovs missed the board, and Dimov took the pot with king-high to remove Ponakovs in third place.
Mokri led 2,500,000 to 2,200,000 in the beginning of heads-up, and so they agreed to cut the prize pool and flip for the trophy. Mokri had simply eight-high, whereas Dimov received the pot with ace-high to lastly safe the trophy that had eluded him after so a few years.
His EPT Deauville Predominant Occasion trophy lastly has some firm as Dimov, after practically a decade of attempting, is lastly again within the EPT’s winner circle.
