<img align="right" src=http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/05af6.EPTprageu.jpg style="margin:5px; border: 1px solid black;">The European Poker Tour stopped last week in the Czech capital Prague, and to the delight of the crowd, the main prize stayed there. It was the 23-year-old Jan Skampa who took home the victory in this €5,250 Main Event that saw 584 entrants.
It was far from easy for the young Czech, in only his fourth EPT event. Yet he did have final-table experience, as he made the final 9 in the last EPT event, the EPT Vilamoura, where he finished fourth for €120,000 . This time it all went a little better, and after a 3 hour heads-up match against the Israeli businessman Eyal Avitan he took home the main prize: €682,000 and a seat at the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo next April.
In the final hand Skampa was holding a 2:1 chiplead and raised 450,000 from the button. Avitan moved all-in for a total of 4 million and Skampa quickly called, holding   . Avitan's   was drawing very thin, and after the flop of    and the turn of  he was drawing dead and it was all over, making Jan Skampa the new EPT Prague champion!
He is the first Czech player to win an EPT event, and winning it at his home town was extra special to him: "It feels great to win. It's my fourth EPT and I won it in my home town - that must be one of the greatest accomplishments you can have in poker. It was tough when we were three-handed but once Stefan Mattsson [who finished third] was out, I felt confident I could win."
Also worth mentioning is an incredible performance by Team PokerStars Pro Luca Pagano. He made his record-breaking sixth EPT final table and 13th EPT cash as he finished sixth for €100,000
Final results: 1 - Jan Skampa, Czech Republic, €682,000
2 - Eyal Avitan, Israel, €454,000
3 - Stefan Mattsson, Sweden, €255,000
4 - Anthony Roux, France, €171,000
5 - Larry Ryan, Ireland, PokerStars qualifier, €135,000
6 - Luca Pagano, Italy, Team PokerStars Pro, €100,000
7 - Gustav Ekerot, Sweden, €71,000
8 - Sven Eichelbaum, Germany, €55,500 The next stop of the European Poker Tour is the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas, starting January 4, 2010. Satellites for this event, and for the EPT Deauville (from 20-25 Januari 2010) are already running on PokerStars. |
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