Ryan Mandara Wins EPT Cyprus $10,300 Side Event For $709,285

The United Kingdom’s Ryan Mandara secured his largest poker event payday but on Sunday, October 20. He emerged victorious from a discipline of 456 entries within the 2024 European Poker Tour Cyprus $10,300 buy-in no-limit maintain’em excessive curler, strolling away with $709,285.

Prior to this marquee win within the Mediterranean, Mandara’s high rating had been the $257,321 he earned because the champion of the 2018 Irish Poker Open most important occasion. With this newest victory, Mandara grew his lifetime haul to $1,562,093.

Mandara additionally secured 1,800 Card Player Player of the Year factors for the win. This was simply his second POY-qualified rating of the yr, with the primary coming in a $1,045 buy-in hyper turbo earlier at this competition. His 1,842 complete factors are adequate to maneuver him inside the highest 200 within the 2024 POY standing offered by Global Poker.

This occasion awarded greater than $4.4 million in complete prize cash to its high 63 finishers. Among the numerous large names to money have been two-time bracelet winners Alexandre Reard (fifty fifth) and Aleksejs Ponakovs (51st), two-time $25,000 buy-in excessive curler victor at this competition Elias Gutierrez (forty first), bracelet winner Jessica Teusl (thirty sixth), bracelet winner Patrick Leonard (twenty eighth), Andras Nemeth (18th), latest Super High Roller Bowl runner-up Juan Pardo (eleventh), high-stakes celebrity Steve O’Dwyer (ninth), and 2024 World Series of Poker most important occasion third-place finisher Niklas Astedt (eighth).

2020 WSOP Online most important occasion champion Stoyan Madanzhiev completed fourth for $297,000. The Bulgarian, who primarily battles within the on-line streets, now has almost $5.7 million in recorded earnings after this newest deep run. Madanzhiev ran A-7 into the A-Ok of Mandara in his closing hand.

Mandara additionally knocked out Jelle Moene (third – $386,200) to set a heads-up showdown with Poland’s Sebastian Malec. The two took a while to hash out a deal, in the end agreeing to lock up $697,115 for Malec and $676,785 for Mandara whereas leaving $32,500 and the trophy to play for.

Malec held 12,200,000 to Mandara’s 10,600,000 when play resumed. On the second deal of the match Mandara received a giant pot with kings and fives besting queens and fives to take a dominant lead. Not lengthy after, Malec obtained all-in with Ok9 trailing Mandara’s 1010. The board got here down 86384 and Malec was eradicated in second place. This was the second-largest rating but for Malec, who earned greater than $1.2 million because the champion of the 2016 EPT Barcelona most important occasion. He now has greater than $2.8 million in profession cashes.

Here is a take a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the closing desk:

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