It has been an extended and intense week of poker, however the crown jewel of the 2024 European Poker Tour Cyprus is now inside grasp as simply six of the unique 1,284 entrants stay within the $5,300 Essential Occasion.
Tomorrow, they may return to the Advantage Royal Diamond Resort and Spa and battle on the felt for the trophy, $1,030,000 first-place prize, and title of EPT Essential Occasion Champion.
It took simply over three ranges the attain a closing desk of six, throughout which period Oliver Weis pulled out to an amazing chip lead after bagging up 18,505,000 — greater than thrice his next-closest competitor Mikhail Shalamov, who ended with 6,050,000.
Weis’ deep run continues what has been a breakout yr for the German poker participant, who gained a Jeju occasion in South Korea for $274,313 and the €10,300 Excessive Curler in EPT Paris for a career-best $1,050,978 rating.
Justifiably so, Weis defined he was “assured” heading to the ultimate day along with his substantial chip lead.
“I am feeling fairly good. It will be superb to cap the yr off with one other win. Final yr was not so good, so hopefully, I can attain the last word aim of profitable an EPT Essential Occasion.”
EPT Cyrpus Remaining Desk
Day 5 Motion
Sixteen gamers returned for Day 5, and most weren’t shy about getting their chips into the center. Boris Tabiyev sat down by far the quick stack and took a stand with king-seven on simply the second hand of play. Taibyev discovered himself in good condition to double in opposition to Philip Joyce‘s jack-seven, however the latter spiked a flush on the river to say the primary elimination of the day.
Not lengthy after, Marta Miquel Munoz adopted Tabiyev out the door after she ran ace-queen into Bobby James‘ cowboys, persevering with the decade-long drought of a lady profitable an EPT Essential Occasion.
Following the primary break of the day, the chips actually began to fly as Eleftherios Sinnos and Halil Tasyurek had been eradicated inside a half hour of one another in 14th and thirteenth place, respectively.
In the meantime, Joyce and Anton Kraous took turns doubling up via one another, with Kraous getting the final snicker, cracking pocket aces with ace-queen suited. Joyce was left with crumbs following the conflict, which had been hoovered up by Mikhail Shalamov.
Weis then started his meteoric ascent, which kicked off when his large bluff obtained via the then chip chief, Georgios Tsouloftas. From there, Weis acquired one other increase after Damir Zhugralin bluffed with pocket tens into his flush to be eradicated in tenth place and arrange the ultimate desk.
Andrea Dato entered the ultimate desk, tied for second in chips, and have become the ninth participant to make back-to-back closing tables in the identical EPT occasion. Nonetheless, Dato’s luck started to erode as he had his aces cracked by Shamalov’s pocket sevens to take a notable hit to his stack.
A brief-stacked Timo Kamphues turned the primary casualty of the ultimate desk after his ace-eight was felled in opposition to Weis’ jack-nine. Weis hit two pair to say his third elimination of the day and additional separate himself from the pack.
Weiss was not completed, nonetheless, and ended Dato’s run after waking up with pockets queens in opposition to Dato’s pocket jacks. It was a cooler for Dato, who needed to accept a disappointing eighth place after putting runner-up to Gilles Simon final yr.
All eyes had been on Anton Kraous at that time, who had been nursing a brief stack of lower than ten large blinds for a lot of the session. Kraous was pressured to make a transfer and doubled up via Tsouloftas after waking up with kings however nonetheless bowed out in seventh place after four-bet jamming with king-jack into James’ ace-jack.
Remaining Desk Payouts
The ultimate desk of six will resume Sunday, October 20, at 12:30 p.m. native time with 69:54 minutes left to play in Stage 29, which options 50,000/100,000 blinds with a 100,000 big-blind ante.
Simply 5 eliminations separate every of the remaining gamers from claiming probably the most coveted prizes in poker. The stakes have by no means been larger, and PokerNews will proceed offering protection till the ultimate hand is dealt and the subsequent EPT Essential Occasion Champion is topped.
