Justin Bonomo - Giant Killer! It was final table time in the 100K buy-in Super High Rollers Event at the PokerStars and Monte Carlo Casino EPT Grand Final in Monaco and Justin Bonomo certainly made this final is b++ch.
Simply put, Bonomo destroyed his competition at the final table, single-handedly eliminating five of his seven final table opponents - Bonomo never lost the chip lead on Wednesday en route to the biggest paypday of his career, 1.64M EURO to be more precise.
With his third place finish, ElkY - Bertrand Grospellier - makes his return to the QuadJacks Poker Player of the Year Top 10, powered by PTPRpoker. ElkY finished 5th overall in the race for Player of Year last season (2011), ElkY's High Rollers win last week at EPT Berlin combined with this Super High Rollers finish earn his the 10th spot on the QJ charts for 2012, we're certainly expecting more from him this year.
COREN v WEISNER HEADS UP!
The final of the 5K Heads Up Championship concluded earlier today; an all-ladies final was on the agenda as former EPT winner Victoria Cohen defeated rising poker star Melanie Weisner in the best-of-five final.
This was the first time that two women met heads up for a EPT title, it's about damn time! Cohen collect just under 60K EURO for the win, this event did not qualify for PTPR Points.
NEVANLINNA WINS 5K PLO TURBO
Finland's Jussi Nevanlinna collected the win in the 5K PLO event in Monaco defeating former PCA PLO Champ William Thorsen heads up. Nevanlinna wins 80K EURO with the win.
FT PAYOUTS (EURO) 1. Justin Bonomo, €1,640,000 2. Tobias Reinkemeier, €1,064,000 3. Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, €621,000 4. Patrik Antonius, €443,000 5. Masa Kagawa, €354,500 6. Daniel Negreanu, €310,000 RELATED POSTS >> SHR FINAL TABLE SET >> ElkY WINS BERLIN HR NEXT TOUR STOP EPT Barcelona Festival August 15-25, 2012 | PTPR TIER 3 EVENT PokerStars and Monte Carlo Casino European Poker Tour Grand Final EPT Grand Final Super High Rollers April 23-25, 2012 Casino Monte Carlo | Monaco Buy-in: $100,000 | Prizepool: $5,846,910 Entries: 45 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION JUSTIN BONOMO 100 TOBIAS REINKEMEIER 60 BERTRAND GROSPELLIER "ElkY" 35 PATRIK ANTONIUS 25 MASA KAGAWA 18 DANIEL NEGREANU 10 |
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