Ludovic 'Cutsss' Lacay wins EPT San Remo

Ludovic "Cutsss" Lacay has won EPT9 Sanremo – and his first major title - for €744,910 . The 27-year-old French pro’s full house ended Canadian Jason Lavallee’s hopes of victory after a brief heads up battle. Lavallee, 26, from Quebec, had been the narrow chip leader at the start of the final, which took place in Casino Sanremo’s elegant theatre.

A total of 797 players from 52 countries entered the €5,300 Main Event, creating a total prize pool of €3,865,450.

Lacay has been playing EPTs since Season 4 and has already cashed in nine, including eighth place at EPT5 Warsaw and 21st at the EPT6 Grand Final. Before Sanremo, his best live cash – and the result that first put him in the spotlight outside Europe - was 16th in the 2009 WSOP Main Event for just over $500,000.

Regarding his win in Sanremo, Lacay said: "It feels pretty good. It's the accomplishment, getting there and beating all the players. When you start a tournament you aim for the first place but you never expect it. Here I am, it's amazing."

A member fo Tlpoker.pl, Adrian "piachu01" Piasecki finished 7th and took home €96,000 .

Final payouts:

1 Ludovic Lacay €744,910
2 Jason Lavallee €538,089
3 Artem Litvinov €283,000
4 Angelo Recchia €225,000
5 Jason Tompkins €171,000
6 Micah Raskin €132,000
7 Adrian Piasecki €96,000
8 Ismael Bojang €65,450

In EPT Sanremo side events, EPT London champion Benny Spindler won the €10k High Roller for €253,000. Finnish player Vesa Leikos won the €2k NL side event for €210,000 after outlasting a 450-strong field. French veteran Roger Hairabedian beat Italian Team PokerStars Pro Max Martinez to take down the €990 Heads-up tourney while Team PokerStars SportStar Fatima Moreira de Melo won the Ladies Invitational TV tourney.

sick
grats cutsss

LP fighting

sick !

wow great job cutsss. i know hes run deep a ton of times in these events and finally it worked out for him

must be nice

very good well earned score.

Cutssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

We're like that sad little town that spawned a big-time football player and we always cheer for him but the guy never visits his town and has completely forgotten about us.


RIP Cutsssssss.

gratz! The guys just was on another level/class than his opponents on the FT...

congrats cutsss

congrats

scandis...

grats!

On October 12 2012 17:16 BadGoNe wrote: gratz! The guys just was on another level/class than his opponents on the FT...

Jason Lavallee's actually pretty fuckin good

yeah you right he seemed real good too. I was just being a bit biased cuz Cutss is French obv. At least Jason is a french Canadian lol

mtts such a joke, just look at that payout, might as well play the lottery.

i watch the whole stream and i thought actually lavallee played better than him. Cutss was on a crazy rush and hits so many hands, the ft played pretty much itself for him. And lavallee folding aces on the ft was an interesting moments too !

It was a production mistake that showed AA for Lavallee (but he had AK) when the italian 3bet shoved with A7 and Lacay isolated with JJ

never ever would he fold Aces if he had the chance to bust 2 players (including the most dangerous opponent he was facing aka Cutsss) and get 90% of the chips in play HU vs the remaining nit.