The 2024 European Poker Tour Cyprus pageant kicked off late final week, and already there have been 4 high-stakes tournaments which have wrapped up within the first six days of motion. The occasions, which featured an assortment of buy-ins between $10,200 and $25,000, paid out greater than $3.6 million in collective prize cash.
This collection runs from Oct. 9-20 at Merit Royal Diamond Hotel & Spa (pictured above) and can characteristic a complete of 10 occasions with five-figure buy-ins. Below is a better have a look at the outcomes from the primary 4.
EPT Cyprus $10,200 No-Limit Hold’em Mystery Bounty
The first high-stakes occasion of the collection was a $10,200 buy-in thriller bounty no-limit maintain’em affair. With 75 entries, there was a complete of $727,500 in prize cash to be awarded.
The prime 20 finishers earned a share of the principle prize pool, with Marcelo Bonanata securing the biggest chunk because the eventual champion. The Uruguayan was awarded $156,800 and 420 Card Player Player of the Year factors for the win, which was the primary recorded reside victory on his event resume.
Two-time bracelet winner Aleksejs Ponakovs completed second for $141,500. This was the primary of a number of early final-table finishes for the Latvian professional, so keep tuned for extra on him later.
Other large names that ran deep included Yulian Bogdanov (sixth), two-time bracelet winner Santhosh Suvarna (fifth), and Super High Roller Series Europe $25,000 pot-limit Omaha champion Tom Vogelsang (4th).
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Marcelo Bonanata | $156,800 | 420 |
| 2 | Aleksejs Ponakovs | $141,500 | 350 |
| 3 | Vladimir Korzinin | $78,300 | 280 |
| 4 | Tom Vogelsang | $87,700 | 210 |
| 5 | Santhosh Suvarna | $34,600 | 175 |
| 6 | Yulian Bogdanov | $96,500 | 140 |
| 7 | Manuel Fritz | $24,700 | 105 |
| 8 | Alexander Zubov | $31,300 | 70 |
| 9 | Valeriy Fokin | $11,000 | 35 |
EPT Cyprus $12,300 No-Limit Hold’em Bounty
The subsequent occasion additionally awarded bounty payouts, however these have been of the non-mystery selection. The $12,300 buy-in no-limit maintain’em occasion noticed 54 entries made earlier than registration closed, which constructed a prize pool of $635,040.
It took only a single day to play right down to a champion, with Armenia’s Aren Bezhanyan taking down $247,840. This was the biggest reside rating but for Bezhanyan, surpassing the $107,567 he earned for a win in a $2,583 buy-in on the High Roller Summer Festival at Sochi Casino & Resort this summer season.
Biao Ding completed third on this occasion for $85,700. The rising high-stakes star now has greater than $11 million in profession cashes after this newest rating.
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Aren Bezhanyan | $247,840 | 300 |
| 2 | Alexandr Chernikov | $112,400 | 250 |
| 3 | Biao Ding | $85,700 | 200 |
| 4 | Casimir Seire | $75,400 | 150 |
| 5 | Boris Kolev | $51,700 | 125 |
| 6 | Aliaksei Boika | $31,500 | 100 |
| 7 | Atanas Malinov | $24,500 | 75 |
| 9 | Vicente Delgado | $6,000 | 25 |
EPT Cyprus $20,000 No-Limit Hold’em
Two-time bracelet winner and 2015 EPT Deauville primary occasion champion Ognyan Dimov emerged victorious from a discipline of 47 entries within the $20,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em occasion, securing $253,876 after closing out the win.
While Dimov secured the title, an obvious heads-up deal resulted in runner-up Kayhan Mokri strolling away with the biggest payout for the occasion ($260,800). Mokri is now sitting in a centesimal place within the 2024 POY race standings offered by Global Poker. The Norwegian has received two titles and made 5 remaining tables thus far this yr, together with efficiently defending his title within the €100,000 buy-in at EPT Barcelona after successful that very same event in 2023.
Ponakovs completed third for $139,900, whereas latest Super High Roller Bowl IX runner-up Juan Pardo positioned fourth for $103,800. Ren Lin recorded his sixteenth remaining desk of the yr by surviving to the ultimate six. He earned $63,200 and 120 POY factors for this newest sturdy exhibiting. Lin now has 4,776 in whole factors, good for twelfth on the POY leaderboard.
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Ognyan Dimov | $253,876 | 360 |
| 2 | Kayhan Mokri | $260,800 | 300 |
| 3 | Aleksejs Ponakovs | $139,900 | 240 |
| 4 | Juan Pardo | $103,800 | 180 |
| 5 | Markkos Ladev | $81,200 | 150 |
| 6 | Ren Lin | $63,200 | 120 |
EPT Cyprus $25,000 No-Limit Hold’em
There have been 57 entries made within the first of three $25,000 buy-in occasions at this collection, leading to a prize pool of $1,368,570.
The prime prize swelled to $417,570, with Elias Gutierrez being the participant to safe the trophy and that sum. The Switzerland resident now has greater than $1.1 million in recorded scores after including this career-best rating to his tally.
The prime eight finishers earned a share of the prize pool, together with a number of prime POY contenders. Aleksejs Ponakovs recorded his third final-table end of the collection, inserting seventh for $68,400. He has now cashed for $349,800 and 695 factors thus far at this cease. That brings his final-table whole for the yr to 11, with 4,547 factors accrued alongside the best way. As a outcome, he’s now the 14th-ranked contender within the POY standings.
Enrico Camosci, contemporary off of an enormous exhibiting on the WSOP Europe completed sixth for $89,000. With one title and 9 final-table showings in 2024, Camosci has climbed to twenty sixth within the POY rankings (3,913 factors).
Adrian Mateos additionally cashed, incomes $198,400 because the third-place finisher. The four-time bracelet winner from Spain has now made 18 remaining tables in 2024, with three titles received. The Spanish famous person has accrued 9,064 POY factors and almost $9.9 million in POY earnings alongside the best way, making him the primary participant within the POY race. He now has a 764-point lead over second-ranked David Coleman.
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Elias Gutierrez | $417,570 | 420 |
| 2 | Alexander Zubov | $273,700 | 350 |
| 3 | Adrian Mateos | $198,400 | 280 |
| 4 | Dimitar Danchev | $150,500 | 210 |
| 5 | Artsion Lasouski | $116,300 | 175 |
| 6 | Enrico Camosci | $89,000 | 140 |
| 7 | Aleksejs Ponakovs | $68,400 | 105 |
| 8 | Zhendong Li | $54,700 | 70 |
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