Posted on Thursday, 13th November 2008 by admin
Five hours that turned the game Brit’s way
A mere 5 hours turned the nature of the game. 4 hectic days and five hundred and forty rivals later, twenty-eight-year-old Will Fry of Nottingham, England, claimed the first PokerStars EPT Hungary trophy this weekend. He gets a check worth five hundred and ninety-five thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine pounds, a well-earned award. The final table eclipsed the time the finalists took to position themselves.
Though PokerStars meant to have the highest number of five hundred players, as had been witnessed earlier in 2008 in EPT London, the sizeable requirement for seats made it mandatory for them to give in and enlarge the field. This made the Budapest competition the biggest to be organized in Hungary.
Among the leading lights who enlisted were WSOP winners and title holders. International big names included WSOP bracelet winners and champions from several respected tournaments around the world like Max Pescatori and Alan Smurfit.
Fry didn’t let tension fry him
The final table on day three was certain following a tension-filled 9-handed session that went on for ninety minutes and finished when Ivo Donev was beaten by Ciprian Hrisca taking a 9th-spot payment of thirty-two thousand nine hundred and eighty-four pounds.
Saturday’s final was led by Zoltan Toth of Hungary on 1,059,000 chips, followed by Hrisca from Romania on 1,038,000 and Denmark’s Albert Iversen on 1,017,000. Tipped to victory, Norwegian Johnny Lodden was in the middle on 500,000, behind Fry on 572,000. Gino Alacqua of Italy was on 466,000 ahead of his countryman Marino Serenelli (357,000) and Martin Jacobsen from Sweden.
The final hand was exhilarating with Fry revealing pocket jacks. But the game soon swung in his favor and soon sent Hrisca into 2nd position with three hundred thousand and forty-two and six hundred and eight pounds. This left the Briton with the trophy and a 595,839-poound check.
Fry, a former casino croupier who plays in online cash games, said he planned to repay a mortgage, help friends, and make a donation to a Third World charity.
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