<img src="http://admins.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/06120a768790a560d59c2fa3887df083.jpg" align="right">The European Poker Tour Season 5 (2008-2009) is over and it was once again a very successful season. 11 new champions on the most popular European poker tournament series, and at the end of it the happiest of them all was 26-year-old Pieter de Korver from The Netherlands after he had just won the EPT Monte Carlo Grande Finale!
The numbers of this season speak for themselves: a total of €37,209,724 prize money, with 5,788 players involved over the season. The biggest stop were the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure with 1347 players and the San Remo event last week, with 1347 entries. Meanwhile, back in Monte Carlo, the richest poker tournament ever held outside Las Vegas took place. With a buy-in of €10,600 and 935 players enrolled the total prizepool was a whopping €9,350,000 . Most of it was of course for our 8 final tablists: Alem Shah, Eric Qu, Daniel Zink, Pieter de Korver, Peter Traply, Dag Martin Mikkelsen, Matthew Woodward and Mikhail Tulchinsky.
De Korver was actually never considered amongst the favorites during the first few hours. At some point during the 9-hour final table he was actually down to just two big blinds, but after quite a few all-ins, most of the coinflips or 60-40 situations, made him triple up and double up a few times. The biggest hand was when he got Dag Martin Mikkelsen, who had been chipleader up to that point, push all-in with just 2 overcards, when De Korver already had flopped a full house.
Heads-up, De Korver was playing very aggressive and he had Woodward struggling to survive. Yet another checkraise from the Dutchman had them both all-in: with   on the    board, Woodward had midpair and a flushdraw, but De Korver's   had a higher kicker with the mid-pair and was thus ahead. None of the outs hit the board and Pieter de Korver was the second Dutch EPT winner in a week time!
"I was loving the atmosphere and enjoying playing cards," De Korver said. "I had a little bit of luck and I won. That's the best part of poker."
Final table payouts: 1 - Pieter de Korver, Holland €2,300,000
2 - Matthew Woodward, USA, PokerStars qualifier, €1,300,000
3 - Mikhail Tulchinskiy, Russia, PokerStars player, €800,000
4 - Dag Martin Mikkelsen, Norway, €600,000
5 - Eric Qu, France, €470,000
6 - Alem Shah, Germany, €350,000
7 - Daniel Zink, Germany, €250,000
8 - Peter Traply, Hungary, PokerStars qualifier, €170,000 Season 6 of the EPT is kicking off with a brand new event in Moscow in August. Details and season six schedule will be released by PokerStars shortly - stay tuned for updates! |
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