Samy Boujmala Wins WPT Prime Aix-en-Provence Main Event

Samy Boujmala has received the first-ever WPT Prime Aix-en-Provence, a €1,100 buy-in no-limit maintain’em primary occasion that was run in affiliation with TexaPoker. The Frenchman outlasted a 457-entry discipline that turned out to the Pasino Grand, incomes $102,938 for the win.

This was the second-largest rating but for Boujmala, trailing solely the $251,611 he earned because the fifth-place finisher on this yr’s European Poker Tour Monte Carlo €5,300 buy-in primary occasion. He now has greater than $491,000 in recorded lifetime earnings.

Boujmala secured 720 Card Player Player of the Year factors because the champion of this occasion, bringing his complete to the yr to 1,520. With his two large scores this yr, he now sits simply outdoors the highest 200 within the 2023 POY standings introduced by Global Poker.

The robust turnout for this occasion revamped the 4 obtainable beginning flights resulted in a ultimate prize pool of $482,592. The prime 59 finishers made the cash, with notables that ran deep together with 2011 EPT Snowfest primary occasion third-place finisher Koen De Visscher (thirty third), 2023 World Series of Poker millionaire maker runner-up Florian Ribouchon (twentieth), and WSOP bracelet winner Leon Soma (eighth).

Loic Menneteau got here into the ultimate day of this occasion because the chip chief among the many ultimate eight. He survived all the way down to heads-up play with Boujmala however was in the end eradicated in second place. Menneteau took house $60,940 after his A-7 was outrun by Boujmala’s Okay-9 within the ultimate hand. Boujmala flopped a king and held from there to safe the title and the six-figure prime prize, which included a $10,400 seat within the 2023 WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas which can run this December.

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

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