Atanas Malinov Wins France Poker Series Monte Carlo Main Event

More than two thousand entries have been made within the kickoff occasion of the 2024 PokerStars European Poker Tour Monte Carlo competition that’s at the moment ongoing on the Sporting Monte-Carlo in Monaco. The 2,096-entry subject for the France Poker Series €1,100 no-limit maintain’em essential occasion, was in the end narrowed down to 1 participant: Bulgaria’s Atanas Malinov. The 33-year-old emerged victorious with the title and the highest prize of €303,190 ($327,445 USD).

This was the biggest recorded reside match rating but for Malinov, surpassing the $190,000 he earned because the runner-up in a $5,000 buy-in Merit Series of Poker occasion again in 2015. He now has greater than one million in profession match earnings to his identify.

Malinov was additionally awarded 1,080 Card Player Player of the Year factors for the victory, and is now located inside the highest 90 within the 2024 POY standings introduced by Global Poker.

The high 314 finishers earned a share of the €2,012,160 ($2,151,402 USD) prize pool on this occasion, with six-figure scores for the ultimate 4. After 4 beginning flights and two extra days of play, the ocean of entries had been narrowed down to simply six contenders remaining.

Malinov held the lead when play resumed, and added to his benefit all through the ultimate day by scoring every knockout on his strategy to the title. He first dispatched France’s Remy Murcia (sixth – $66,442), who was on fumes after a hero name gone incorrect in opposition to Marco Gambini.

Bracelet winner and 2019 EPT Prague essential occasion fourth-place finisher Gaby Livshitz was the subsequent to fall. His A-Q suited was unable to carry in a battle of the blinds in opposition to the A-5 of Malinov, which improved to aces stuffed with fives by the river. Livshitz earned $86,378 because the fifth-place finisher, rising the Israeli participant’s profession match haul to over $2 million within the course of.

Canada’s Guillaume Nolet was awarded $112,288 because the fourth-place finisher when his A-J was outrun by Malinov’s J-6 suited. Malinov flopped a six to show the tables, after which made sixes stuffed with tens by the river to make the knockout official. Nolet is approaching $2.2 million in profession earnings after this newest deep run.

A traditional coin flip spelled the tip of Gambini’s match. The Italian’s A-9 outflopped the pocket fours of Malinov after the entire chips went in preflop, however a 4 on the river gave Malinov a profitable set. Gambini earned $145,973 because the third-place finisher.

Heads-up play started with Malinov holding greater than a ten:1 chip lead over Virgile Turchi. The Frenchman earned a few double ups early on, and was in fine condition to double once more when he obtained all-in with Ok7 main the ten7 of Malinov. The board ran out 108646, although, giving Malinov tens up for the win. Turchi secured $204,358 because the runner-up, by far the biggest rating on his resume.

Here is a have a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the remaining desk:

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