UNIBET PRAGUE: VERBOVEN WINS THE MAIN EVENT, COLLECTS 100K EURO

SOURCE: UNIBETOPEN.com

It wasn't as easy as some may have thought, but, Filip Verboven is indeed your Unibet Open Prague Main Event Champion.

Verboven started the day with the biggest chip stack but that stack went up and down throughout Final Table play. He started heads up play virtually heads up but in the end, Verboven (2011 PTPR Rank: NR) was able to survive and win the first live circuit tournament of his career.

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FINAL TABLE PAYOUTS (EURO) Filip Verboven € 100,000 Ruggerio Scommegna € 56,600 Stieven Razab-Sekh € 37,700 Jan Grajzel € 30,200 Gerret Van Lancker € 24,500 Tomasz Kozub € 20,700 Hans Sybrandi € 17,000 Dan Murariu € 13,200 Flavien Guenan € 9,400

PTPR CHALLENGER EVENT Unibet Open Prague NLH Main Event February 16-19, 2012 Hilton Hotel | Prague, Czech Republic Buy-in: $2,170 | Prizepool: $496,344 Entries: 698 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION FILIP VERBOVEN 35 RUGGERIO SCOMMEGNA 18 STIEVEN RAZAB-SEKH 10 JAN GRAJZEL 8 GERRET VAN LANCKER 5

UNIBET PRAGUE: VERBOVEN LEADS AS FINAL TABLE IS SET

PHOTO CREDIT/SOURCE: UNIBETOPEN.com

The final nine players are ready for action at Unitbet Open Prague.

Belgium player Filip Verboven leads the way. Verboven is one of two players with a stack above 1M.

2010 Unibet Open Varna winner Dan Murariu is fourth in chips but he's almost 800K chips behind the leader. Murariu will be playing in his fourth Unibet Open Main Event final, a very impressive feat.

FINAL TABLE SEAT ASSIGNMENTS/CHIP COUNTS
Seat 1 MURARIU Dan 454,000
Seat 2 RAZAB-SEKH Mohamed 1,000,040
Seat 3 SCOMMEGNA Ruggiero 499,000
Seat 4 VERBOVEN Filip 1,367,000
Seat 5 SYBRANDI Hans 427,000
Seat 6 VAN LANCKER Gerret 445,000
Seat 7 GUENAN Flavien 369,000
Seat 8 JÁN Grajzel 377,000
Seat 9 KOZUB Tomasz 103,000

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FINAL TABLE PAYOUTS (EURO) 1st € 100,000 2nd € 56,600 3rd € 37,700 4th € 30,200 5th € 24,500 6th € 20,700 7th € 17,000 8th € 13,200 9th € 9,400

PTPR CHALLENGER EVENT Unibet Open Prague NLH Main Event February 16-19, 2012 Hilton Hotel | Prague, Czech Republic Buy-in: $2,170 | Prizepool: $496,344 Entries: 698 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION 1st place 35 2nd place 18 3rd place 10 4th place 8 5th place 5