EPT Portugal Updates

[GreekStein]

bloody hell, not a good day

[action man]

fkin jude ainsworth, bottom of the chip count to top 10, wp. gogoggggogo, also mick mccools mate gino.

[Murph1984]

Rubin Visser must be a lock to win the lot after getting a rubdown in the JP thread other day.

[TightEnd]

Dear all

Please see below for a list of all 24 Day 3 survivors including chip leader Antony Lellouche, Jeff Sarwer in second place, Portuguese pro Ricardo Sousa in third place and young Dutch Team PokerStars Pro Ruben Visser now fourth.

24 players have already cashed including German Team PokerStars Pros Jan Heitmann and Johannes Strassman, PokerStars player Johan van Til, Danish pro Martin Wendt and Hendon mobster Ross Boatman.

Also still in the running is Irish pro Jude Ainsworth, making his debut appearance as a member of Team PokerStars Pro. A total of 322 players from 30 countries entered the £5,300 main event creating a total prize pool of €1,561,700. The first prize is € 404,793.

The tournament, which runs November 17-22, has attracted some of the best players in the world to the glamorous Vilamoura resort. A total of 69 players won their seats online with PokerStars.

Please see http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/ept-vil...and-payout-s.html for full list of results so far.


Name Country Status
Antony Lellouche France 1,134,000
Jeff Sarwer Canada 913,500
Ricardo Sousa Portugal 765,000
Ruben Visser Netherlands Team PokerStars Pro 749,000
Jan Skampa Czech Republic 562,000
Claudio Coelho Portugal 508,500
Jude Ainsworth Ireland Team PokerStars Pro 491,000
Gino Gabriel UK 385,000
Matt Johns USA PokerStars qualifier 374,000
Joao Barbosa Portugal 362,000
Tome Moreira Portugal 359,000
Santiago Terrazas Spain PokerStars qualifier 351,000
Antonio Matias Portugal 305,000
Ryan Franklin United States PokerStars player 299,500
Joao Silva Portugal 283,500
Andrei Vlasenko Russia 258,500
Aurelien Guiglini France 253,000
Michel Abecassis France 250,000
Mohamed Razab Netherlands 237,500
James Collopy USA PokerStars qualifier 192,500
Pierre Neuville Belgium PokerStars qualifier 174,000
Guillaume Da Silva France 167,500
Hugo Felix Portugal PokerStars qualifier 160,500
Javier Garcia Switzerland 140,500

Best wishes

Mad Harper
EPT Media Coordinator
http://www.ept.com

1 - € 404,793
2 - € 257,681
3 - € 156,170
4 - € 117,128
5 - € 78,085
6 - € 62,468
7 - € 46,851
8 - € 31,234

9-10 - € 23,426
11-12 - € 17,180
13-14 - € 13,274
15-16 - € 11,713
17-24 - € 10,151

25 - Nicolo Calia, Italy, €8,589
26 - Olaf De Zeeuw, Holland, €8,589
27 - Jan Heitmann, Germany, Team PokerStars Pro, €8,589
28 - Alexey Yuzikov, Russia, €8,589
29 - Luis Rodriguez, Spain, €8,589
30 - Amir Pirbazari, Ireland, €8,589
31 - Marco Della Tommasina, Italy, €8,589
32 - Tobias Reikenmeier, Germany, €8,589

33 - Garcia Cayetano, Spain, €8,121
34 - Marco Paulo Orlandi, Switzerland, €8,121
35 - Ross Boatman, UK, €8,121
36 - Per Anton Bertilsson, Sweden, €8,121
37 - Stefan Mattsson, Sweden, €8,121
38 - Martin Wendt, Denmark, €8,121
39 - Jamel Maistriaux, Belgium, €8,121
40 - Ljubomir Josipovic, Austria, €8,121

41 - Berney Frankfort, Holland, €7,652
42 - Johan van Til, Holland, PokerStars player, €7,652
43 - Manuel Cadilhe, Portugal, €7,652
44 - Robert Willis, Ireland, €7,652
45 - Ismail Erkenov, Russia, €7,652
46 - Johannes Strassmann, Germany, Team PokerStars Pro, €7,652
47 - Eduardo Lopez, Spain, €7,652
48 - Alexandre Brail, France, PokerStars qualifier, €7,652

Players: 322
Total prize pool: €1,561,700

[TightEnd]

PORTUGUESE BUSINESSMAN WINS EPT VILAMOURA

VILAMOURA, PORTUGAL, November 22, 2009: Portuguese businessman Antonio Matias has won EPT Vilamoura, the richest poker tournament ever held in Portugal, for a first prize of €404,793.

Matias, 54, who runs a travel agency, beat some of the best players in the world to win the €5,300 main event, the richest poker tournament ever held in Portugal. As well as the champion's title, Matias wins a seat into the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo next April.

Matias was the first player to win on home soil since Team PokerStars Pro Sandra Naujoks in Dortmund last season. He said: "I like to think of myself as a citizen of the world but it is very satisfying win an EPT in my home country. I wasn't intimidated by the competition because I play a lot of very good players in cash games. I just decided to play the way I play, and hope that luck didn't turn its back on me. I play poker just for a hobby but when I got the chip lead yesterday, at that point, the only thing I had on my mind was winning."


The runner-up was Belgian PokerStars qualifier Pierre Neuville. The retired businessman has played numerous EPT events and had his heart set on victory after bubbling the final at EPT San Remo last season. At 67 years old, he was the oldest finalist in EPT history.

Third place finisher was the former chess whizz Jeff Sarwer from Canada. Sarwer has run deep in back-to-back EPTs after finishing tenth at EPT Warsaw last month. French veteran Michel Abecassis came sixth for €62,468 while PokerStars player Ryan Franklin, 18, from Lake Tahoe in the USA came seventh for €46,851.

A total of 322 players took part in the €5,300 main event, including 69 players who won their seats online. The total prize pool was €1,561,700.

More than 20 Team PokerStars Pros took part and among those who cashed were Ruben Visser from Holland, who came 13th, and Irish pro Jude Ainsworth who came 14th. Also in the money were German Team PokerStars Pros Jan Heitmann and Johannes Strassman.

PokerStars players also enjoyed success in the numerous side events that took place during EPT Vilamoura. New Team PokerStars Pro Rino Mathis from Switzerland won the €1k Pot Limit Omaha side event for a first prize of €15,932 while Polish Team PokerStars Pro Marcin Horecki beat a 97-strong field to take down the €330 NLHE Turbo for a first prize of €10,303.

EPT spokesperson Kirsty Thompson said: "It's always exciting when the European Poker Tour visits a new destination and we have wanted to hold an EPT in Portugal for some time so we are delighted that so many players took part including 63 players from Portugal. It's been a superb week of poker."


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Name Country PokerStars status €
1 Antonio Matias Portugal €404,793
2 Pierre Neuville Belgium PokerStars qualifier €257,681
3 Jeff Sarwer Canada €156,170
4 Jan Skampa Czech Republic €117,128
5 João Silva Portugal €78,085
6 Michel Abecassis France €62,468
7 Ryan Franklin USA PokerStars player €46,851
8 Andrei Vlasenko Russia €31,234