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ADVENTURE $25,000 HIGH ROLLER TOURNAMENT
Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier has won
the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $25K High Roller for a first
prize of $433,500.
Paradise Island, The Bahamas, January 9, 2009 – Team PokerStars
Pro Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier has won the PokerStars
Caribbean Adventure $25K High Roller for a first prize of $433,500.
The victory cements ElkY’s status as one of the greatest poker
players in the world after he won last year’s PCA for $2 million,
the WPT Festa al Lago in October for $1.4 million and finished 2nd
in the $25,000 PokerStars WCOOP heads-up championship for $320,000.
ElkY now stands firmly at the top of the EPT Tournament Leader
Board and his EPT tournament earnings now total well over €2
million. He has also extended his lead at the top of the French
all-time money list - above the likes of David Benyamineand Anthony
Lellouche.
ElkY says a key moment at yesterday’s final table was when
he doubled up against fellow Team PokerStars Pro Humberto Brenes
with a set of 10s vs. Humberto’s set of 4s. Humberto Brenes
eventually came fifth for $70,800.
ElkY said: "It feels great. Last year's main event was bigger
but this means a lot. The field was so prestigious and I played
very well against good players. This will be a great memory for
me."
The two-day $25,000 High Roller tournament attracted a field of
48 players and created a total prize pool of $1.2 million. The final
table featured eight extremely strong players including WSOP champions
Eli Elezra, Scott Seiver and Daniel Alaei.
Among the other stars who competed in the event were EPT London
High-Roller winner Jason Mercier, Team PokerStars Pros Daniel Negreanu,
Greg Raymer, Dario Minieri and Joe Hachem, tennis legend Boris Becker,
PokerStars Six men Ivan Demidov and Denis Phillips as well as Gus
Hansen, Antonio Esfandiari, Chris Ferguson and many more world class
players and WSOP bracelet winners.
Name Country PokerStars Status $
1st Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier France Team PokerStars
Pro $433,500
2nd Will Molson Canada $228,000
3rd Scott Seiver USA $137,000
4th Liya Gerasimova Russia $91,300
5th Humberto Brenes Costa Rica Team PokerStars Pro $70,800
6th Eli Elezra USA $68,500
7th Daniel Alaei USA $57,000
8th Nick Schulman USA $45,700
As well as the High-Roller event, the PCA “Festival of Poker”
was host to numerous side events including $1K, $2K and $5K tournaments,
the Battleship tournament and World Cup of Poker finals. Team PokerStars
Pro Hevad Khan took down the $2,000 event for $200,000 only a few
hours before ElkY won the high roller.
The next stop on the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour is the
€5,300 buy-in EPT Deauville event running from 20-24 January
at Deauville Casino. For more information, please visit http://www.ept.com.
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