Andras Nemeth is a drive to be reckoned with in European Poker Tour excessive curler occasions. Of the Hungarian on-line poker star’s eight recorded reside event titles, 5 have are available in high-stakes EPT tournaments. The most up-to-date noticed Nemeth prime a subject of 42 entries within the 2024 EPT Prague €10,200 no-limit maintain’em thriller bounty occasion for $140,959 in whole prize cash, with an almost even break up between important prize pool payout and bounties.
Nemeth now has practically $7.7 million in recorded scores to his title. This was his nineteenth money for six figures or extra, and 173rd in-the-money end total. The 300 Card Player Player of the Year factors he was awarded for this victory have been his first of 2024.
The prime six finishers all earned a share of the $420,799 prize pool on this event, which kicked off on the opening day of the 43-event competition.
Maksim Vaskresenski was the participant knocked out on the bubble, together with his A-J working into A-Okay for Nikita Kuznetsov. 2024 World Series of Poker important occasion third-place finisher Niklas Astedt (sixth – $57,028) was the primary to hit the rail inside the cash, together with his A-7 unable to beat the pocket sevens of Morten Klein. Astedt now sits simply outdoors the highest 50 within the 2024 POY race offered by Global Poker after this, his seventh POY-qualified closing desk of the 12 months. The Swedish on-line poker legend now has greater than $4.8 million in to-date POY earnings, thanks largely to the $4 million he secured together with his deep run within the huge dance this summer season.
Klein (fifth – $29,362) and Ilya Pavlov (4th – $24,062) then bowed out to arrange a three-handed showdown between Nemeth, Michail Manolakis, and Nikita Kuznetsov. Nemeth made an enormous hero name with ace excessive throughout short-handed motion, choosing off a queen-high bluff from Manolakis to overhaul the chip lead.
Nikita Kuznetsov received all-in for his final 12 or so huge blinds with J-10 trailing A-6 for Nemeth, who made the one pair by the river to win the pot and rating the knockout. Kuznetsov earned $74,730 because the third-place finisher.
Nemeth entered heads-up play with a slight lead over Manolakis. Everything appeared to go the Greek participant’s approach within the early going, however Nemeth discovered a double as much as get again to sq. one. He then picked off a bluff to leap again out in entrance once more forward of the ultimate hand of the event.
Manolakis received his final 15 huge blinds in with Q
J going through A
3
for Nemeth. The board got here down Okay
J8A5 and Nemeth made a pair of aces for the win. Manolakis earned $94,658 in whole prize cash because the runner-up.
Here is a have a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the closing desk:
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Andras Nemeth | $140,959 | 300 |
| 2 | Michail Manolakis | $94,658 | 250 |
| 3 | Nikita Kuznetsov | $74,730 | 200 |
| 4 | Ilya Pavlov | $24,062 | 150 |
| 5 | Morten Klein | $29,362 | 125 |
| 6 | Niklas Astedt | $57,028 | 100 |
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