 Mohsin "Chicagocards1" Charania has won the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo Casino EPT Grand Final Main Event for a massive €1,350,000 .
Charania, 27, from Chicago, Illinois, beat fellow qualifier Lucille Cailly heads-up to take the title. Cailly, 29, from Paris, was the first woman ever to make the final of the EPT Grand Final and took €1,050,000 for her runner-up finish.
Charania took up poker while studying finance at the University of Illinois. Since then he's won over $3.5 million playing online, including a SCOOP side event victory in 2010, and just over $500,000 in live events. Today’s victory gives him by far his biggest live result.
He said: “I feel great. This is my first trophy – I don’t think they give you these when you win a tournament online. I’ve spent two months playing poker in Europe and this is only the second time I’ve made the antes.” Charania, who his seat in a €33 re-buy satellite on PokerStars, beat Cailly when his QQ stood up against the French pro’s AK. The pair were among 160 players who won their seat to the event online on PokerStars.
A total of 665 players from 54 countries competed in this season’s EPT Grand Final Main Event creating a total prize pool of €6,650,000. A total of 97 players were paid; EPT Prague champion Martin Finger and American Andrew Badecker went out at the same time on the bubble so shared the €15,000 prize for 96th place between them.
The €10,000 Main Event was one of 37 tournaments taking place at Le Sporting Casino in Monaco as part of the eighth EPT Grand Final “Festival of Poker”, from April 23 to May 1. Season 8 has taken players all over Europe, as well as to the Bahamas in January for the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure.
The final result:
1st - Mohsin Charania, €1,350,000
2nd - Lucille Cailly, €1,050,000
3rd - Bernard Guigon, €545,000
4th - Sergio Castelluccio, €400,000
5th - Rodrigo Caprioli, PokerStars Player, €315,000
6th - Michael Dietrich, €245,000
7th - Clayton Mozdzen, €185,000
8th - Daniel Gomez, €130,000
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