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Jean Montury wins EPT Malta Main Event

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Garfed   Malta. Mar 29 2015 22:21. Posts 4818

Former pool champion Jean Montury has become the first ever EPT Malta champion, taking down the €5,300 event for €687,400. The 40-year-old Frenchman, who runs a hotel and golf complex near Lille, has had numerous results on the tour including three far smaller cashes here in Malta. But his best live result before now was €57,290 for fourth place in the FPS Deauville €2k High Roller.

Montury beat fellow Frenchman Valentin Messina after cutting a heads-up deal. In addition to the trophy and champion’s title, he wins an exclusive “Black and Steel” watch from luxury Swiss brand SLYDE, the Official Watch Sponsor for EPT Season 11 Main Events and High Rollers. Messina took €615,000 for his runner-up finish.

Montury said: "I know I won a lot of money, but it was not about that. It was more about getting the trophy, winning the EPT. The heads-up was incredible, so long. My opponent won four or five all-ins, so I thought it's almost impossible to beat him. I hope now that I'll win a lot of other tournaments. I will play lots of EPTs and I am also going to Las Vegas in the summer."

Dominik Panka, the 2014 PCA champion, continued his amazing streak by making his second EPT final table within 14 months. After celebrating his 24th birthday on Friday by surviving nine all-ins confrontations, he returned for the final as one of the shortest stacks but managed to finish in third place for €347,300. His Malta performance follows another deep run in Barcelona last August when he was 11th for €77,600.

The final also involved another two EPT finalists: Hossein Ensan, third at EPT11 Barcelona, finished sixth for €153,700 while Antonin Duda, seventh in Barcelona in Season 9, was seventh here too, winning €108,200.

Aside from Panka’s deep run, the other big story at EPT Malta involved fellow Pole Dzmitry Urbanovich. The 19-year-old from Warsaw won four side events at the festival – a feat never before achieved in EPT history. His €720,000 Malta haul including €572,300 for winning the special €25k High Roller and €110,000 for taking down a €5k NL event.

In all, 2,429 players competed at the festival. There were 11,453 tournament entries and €18,571,450 was awarded in prize money, including more than €2m for the event winners.

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