The EA Poker Tour (EAPT) discovered its option to the shores of Batumi, Georgia, for the primary time in its eleven-year historical past and smashed ensures all over in a spectacular sequence of poker that happened within the Eclipse Poker Membership.
After 4 stay beginning flights and a web-based Day 1 that collectively totaled 741 entries, the second and closing day of the $500 EAPT Predominant Occasion performed out on Sunday, September 15, and after some surprising twists and turns, it was Armenia’s Hayk Manasyan who hoisted the trophy and claimed $53,880 for his win.
Manasyan defeated his compatriot Paruyr Mamikonyan in a brief heads-up duel that noticed the runner-up add $27,320. As well as, each finalists obtained a $4k Luxon Pay Grand Closing bundle.
EAPT Predominant Occasion Closing Desk Outcomes
* denotes ICM deal
The Predominant Occasion’s prize pool reached $370,500, surpassing its assure by almost thrice. The general assured prize pool for the sequence was $350,000, however that was shattered as roughly $1,135,000 was paid out to gamers all through the competition, reinforcing Georgia’s fame as a premier vacation spot for poker.
Winner’s Response
Talking by an interpreter, Manasyan instructed PokerNews that he felt nice following his victory.
“It is my first time enjoying any EAPT occasions and first time I’ve received a trophy,” he mentioned. “Batumi is barely a forty-minute flight from Armenia and it feels wonderful to be right here with my buddies. We all the time play poker as a gaggle so it is good to have them right here with me.
“I feel my most essential hand was yesterday [Day 1c], after we have been hand-for-hand on the bubble the chip chief tried to bluff me,” Manasyan instructed PokerNews. “However I made a giant name which allowed me to take a much bigger stack into Day 2.”
With EAPT Rozvadov developing in November and EAPT Bucharest in December, Mayasan was requested if he could be attending any of the upcoming sequence.
“I like Czech Republic, I’ll give it some thought as a result of I used to stay there and I wish to defend this trophy.”
Closing Day’s Motion
A complete of 107 gamers made their means by the 4 stay flights and so they have been joined by three on-line qualifiers which meant there have been 110 gamers to begin Day 2. Eliminations have been quick and livid with the likes of Reiji Kono (102nd), Denis Vlasov (73rd), Jack Sinclair (71st), Ehsan Ghaeli (thirty sixth), and Beka Magradze (sixteenth) making their means into the money however falling in need of the ultimate desk.
As the ultimate desk approached, it was Magradze who felt onerous executed by as his stack dwindled after an enormous blunder by Kerem Turuskan turned out within the Turkish participant’s favor.
Turuskan then constructed on his momentum in unbelievable model by eliminating two gamers in the identical hand. It did not cease there for the Turk as he despatched Zoran Marich to the sidelines together with Kakhaber Sabauri. As if that wasn’t sufficient, Turuskan picked aces to burst the ultimate desk bubble on the expense of Georgia’s Giorgi Tchkonia.
When the ultimate desk acquired underway, it was Turuskan who held an unlimited lead with round forty p.c of the chips in play, and virtually thrice greater than his closest rival Yesset Aimukhanov.
The brief stack was Abat Nagimetov whose seven large blinds did not final lengthy. Ruben Hovsepyan quickly quickly joined him on the rail after he ran pocket queens into Timur Mukhamedaminov‘s pocket aces.
After the elimination of Gevorg Khachatryan in seventh, it was the chip chief who began to see his fortunes reverse as little by little his stack was eaten away at by the opposite finalists. First, Aimukhanov picked up ace-king and beat the ace-queen of Turuskan, then a couple of moments later an enormous hand performed out between the pair which left the Turkish participant questioning the place all of it went flawed.
The state of affairs went from dangerous to worse for Turuskan when his ace-eight could not beat the king-ten of Davit Khalatiani. The ultimate blow was delivered by Mukhamedaminov as he scooped a three-way all-in pot which left Turuskan on the rail in sixth.
Khalatiani then busted in fifth and the remaining 4 gamers agreed to flatten out the payouts with an ICM chop, which left all of them with a assured payout plus $14,795 on the desk to play for. The ultimate two gamers would additionally obtain a $4k Luxon Pay Grand Closing bundle.
After the deal was struck, Aimukhanov hit the rail in fourth after he misplaced a flip to the eventual champion. Mukhamedaminov quickly adopted when he incorrectly check-called three streets in opposition to Manasyan and ended up on the sidelines in third.
Heads-up was a brief affair as Manasyan shoved with nine-eight suited and acquired known as by the six-four suited of Mamikonyan. Neither participant improved, which meant Mamikonyan needed to accept second, and Manasyan was the champion.
