After 9 hours of play on Day 2, Marcelo Bonanata of Uruguay is the most recent 2024 PokerStars European Poker Tour Cyprus champion after taking victory within the $10,200 Thriller Bounty for a complete of $156,800, inclusive of bounties.
Bonanata, who surged from the center of the pack in the course of the closing desk, defeated Latvian Aleksejs Ponakovs after a backwards and forwards heads-up battle. Ponakovs is consoled with a $129,000 payday after scooping a $50,000 bounty, whereas Vladimir Korzinin of Estonia accomplished the rostrum locations.
Bonanata is an EPT common. His first money in an EPT occasion was in 2013, however this marks his first stay event victory outdoors his native nation and his maiden EPT triumph.
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Solely 26 gamers certified from Day 1, with Ren Lin main the way in which, and the sector elevated to 39 in the beginning of play after 13 gamers took benefit of late registration.
These figures introduced the full discipline to 75 gamers, producing a $352,500 money prize pool, together with a bounty prize pool of $375,000.
Dimitar Danchev was the primary participant to fall on Day 2 to Teun Mulder, and the knockouts continued at a gentle tempo as Patrick Leonard, Ognyan Dimov and Boris Kolev all fell by the wayside earlier than the primary break.
At that time, Korzinin led the way in which, forward of Mulder, after taking an enormous pot in opposition to Lin with a set, with Yulian Bogdanov finishing the highest three.
The departures continued at a speedy tempo after the break, with Adrian Mateos and Aliaksei Boika each being despatched to the rail, whereas Tom Vogelsang moved among the many chip leaders after securing a double knockout.
Korzinin continued to chip up after busting Vicente Delgado, with Bogdanov shut on his tail after he disposed of Paul Newey and Marius Kudzmanas in a single hand.
Lin grew to become brief after his pocket jacks had been cracked, and he finally proved to be the bubble boy when he received his short-stack in with a dominated ace in opposition to Bonanata.
The ultimate desk was set after Diogo Coelho and Joao Tomas busted to Manuel Fritz and Alexander Zubov respectively.
Ultimate Desk Motion
Korzinin got here into the ultimate desk with the chip lead, having nearly double the stack of his closest challenger, Vogelsang. Bonanata, Fritz, Bogdanov and Ponakovs all had related stacks within the 40-big-blind area, whereas Santhosh Suvarna and Valeriy Fokin introduced up the rear.
Fokin was the primary participant to exit when he missed the board versus Ponakovs. His fellow Russian Zubov was subsequent to depart in eighth, when he jammed the flop however discovered his flush draw was dominated by Bonanata.
Brief-stack Fritz received unfortunate to have his pocket kings cracked by Vogelsang to go away the world in seventh, and the dangerous luck tales continued as Bonanata two-outed Bogdanov to ship the Bulgarian packing in sixth. Bogdanov will little doubt take solace in taking the biggest quantity of bounties, totaling $75,000.
Suvarna had executed nicely to navigate his short-stack to fifth, however he was subsequent to go to the rail when Vogelsang rivered a straight.
On the closing 4, Bonanata and Korzinin held an honest lead over Vogelsang and Ponakovs, who had been enjoying related stacks.
The Dutchman was subsequent to depart when Ponakovs three-bet jammed from the massive blind versus Vogelsang’s button open, and spiked his solely overcard on the flip.
Korzinin had been chip chief for almost all of the day, however he exited in third when he picked an unlucky time to run a bluff straight into Ponakov’s flopped journey tens.
That set the stage for the heads-up battle between Bonanata and Ponakovs, with Bonanata holding a slight lead.
Ponakovs went in entrance with a greater ace-high at showdown and prolonged his lead when he rivered a flush.
Bonanata hit the entrance once more when a small river elevate compelled a fold from Ponakovs, and he took successive key pots with two pair and a straight. Ponakovs briefly threatened an additional comeback, however finally fell brief when he couldn’t overcome Bonanata’s pocket deuces in a flip within the closing hand.
