The 2024 European Poker Tour Monte Carlo competition options six tournaments with buy-ins of €25,000 or extra. The €100,000 tremendous excessive curler wrapped up on Apr. 29, with Patrik Antonius securing the $2.1 million prime prize, whereas the ultimate multi-day excessive curler is at the moment ongoing. Below we check out the 4 different excessive curler occasions from Monaco which have already performed right down to winners.
EPT Monte Carlo €30,000 No-Limit Hold’em
A complete of 77 entries have been made within the €30,000 buy-in affair, constructing a prize pool value greater than $2.4 million when rendered in US {dollars}. The prime 11 finishers earned a share, with the most important chunk going to Bulgarian prime all-time match earner Alex Kulev. The bracelet winner and 2023 EPT Monte Carlo €100,000 occasion champion walked away with $684,056 for his efforts.
This was the fifth-largest rating of his profession. He went on to complete ninth on this 12 months’s six-figure buy-in at this competition as nicely for an additional $235,764. He now has almost $10.9 million in profession match earnings. The 658 Card Player Player of the Year factors he earned throughout these two scores introduced his complete for 2024 to 2,221, which locations him inside the highest 25 within the POY standings offered by Global Poker.
Kulev overcame a stacked closing desk that included the likes of Christoph Vogelsang (seventh), two-time bracelet winner and EPT Sochi essential occasion champion Artur Martirosian (fifth), bracelet winner Jose ‘Nacho’ Barbero (third), and two-time bracelet winner Daniel Dvoress (2nd).
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Alex Kulev | $684,056 | 588 |
| 2 | Daniel Dvoress | $441,288 | 490 |
| 3 | Jose Barbero | $315,252 | 392 |
| 4 | Vicente Delgado | $242,460 | 294 |
| 5 | Artur Martirosian | $186,516 | 245 |
| 6 | Timothe Busso | $148,284 | 196 |
| 7 | Christoph Vogelsang | $118,692 | 147 |
| 8 | Mohamed Naddaf | $94,824 | 98 |
| 9 | Lewis Spencer | $75,924 | 49 |
EPT Monte Carlo €25,000 No-Limit Hold’em
Next up on the high-stakes agenda was the primary of a number of €25,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em occasions. Japan’s Masashi Oya was the final participant standing from a discipline of 70 complete entries. He earned $544,644 after defeating Steve O’Dwyer heads-up for the title.
This was the third recorded title for the 2023 WSOP Paradise $100,000 buy-in occasion winner. He now has greater than $6.7 million in lifetime earnings, with this being his second-largest rating but.
O’Dwyer ticked previous $42 million in profession cashes because of his $353,916 payday. Martirosian completed sixth for his second final-table displaying of the sequence.
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Masashi Oya | $544,644 | 588 |
| 2 | Steve O’Dwyer | $353,916 | 490 |
| 3 | Hassan Nashar | $251,424 | 392 |
| 4 | Yaman Nakdali | $193,320 | 294 |
| 5 | Enrico Camosci | $148,824 | 245 |
| 6 | Artur Martirosian | $114,372 | 196 |
| 7 | Aleksejs Ponakovs | $88,020 | 147 |
| 8 | Morten Klein | $68,040 | 98 |
| 9 | Samuel Ju | $52,596 | 49 |
EPT Monte Carlo €50,000 No-Limit Hold’em
Jose ‘Nacho’ Barbero is backing up his breakout efficiency on the lice circuit in 2023 with one other spectacular run in 2024. Barbero, who completed third in final 12 months’s POY race closing standings, has made 4 closing tables and received two titles already this 12 months. His newest noticed him greatest a discipline of 79 entries within the €50,000 buy-in excessive curler.
Barbero earned $1,165,633 for the win., in addition to 714 POY factors. He has climbed to twenty ninth place within the this 12 months’s rankings.
The prime 11 finishers earned a chunk of the $4.1 million prize pool, with gamers like Steve O’Dwyer (tenth), Jean Noel Thorel (seventh), and Ole Schemion (third) operating deep.
Felipe Boianovsky earned the second-largest payout on this occasion, taking house $752,004 because the runner-up.
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Jose Barbero | $1,165,633 | 714 |
| 2 | Felipe Boianovsky | $752,004 | 595 |
| 3 | Ole Schemion | $537,192 | 476 |
| 4 | Ilya Nikiforov | $413,316 | 357 |
| 5 | Ramin Hajiyev | $317,844 | 298 |
| 6 | Jacob Amsellem | $252,720 | 238 |
| 7 | Jean Noel Thorel | $202,176 | 179 |
| 8 | Mikalai Vaskaboinikau | $161,676 | 119 |
| 9 | Gerard Labouriaux Dit | $129,384 | 59 |
EPT Monte Carlo €25,000 No-Limit Hold’em
The penultimate €25,000 buy-in of the competition attracted 65 entries. Maher Nouira emerged victorious, denying Mashashi Oya heads-up to safe the title and $398,747. The two struck a deal to redistribute the prize cash, and Oya truly walked away with the most important payout regardless of happening to complete second. He earned $435,499 because the runner-up. Oya now sits simply exterior the highest 50 on this 12 months’s POY standings.
Plenty of huge names cashed on this occasion, together with two-time POY award winner Stephen Chidwick (ninth), Sergio Aido (eighth), Christoph Vogelsnaf (seventh), Orpen Kisacikoglu (fifth), Juan Pardo (4th), and Daniel Dvoress (third).
Dvoress cashed for $675,000 throughout two final-table finishes in excessive rollers at this competition. With ten closing tables and two titles this 12 months, he’s at the moment ranked fourth on the POY leaderboard.
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Maher Nouira | $398,747 | 504 |
| 2 | Masashi Oya | $435,499 | 420 |
| 3 | Daniel Dvoress | $233,496 | 336 |
| 4 | Juan Pardo | $179,496 | 252 |
| 5 | Orpen Kisacikoglu | $138,240 | 210 |
| 6 | Liangce Ni | $106,164 | 168 |
| 7 | Christoph Vogelsang | $81,756 | 126 |
| 8 | Sergio Aido | $63,180 | 84 |
| 9 | Stephen Chidwick | $48,924 | 42 |
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