Thomas Santerne has come out on high in three of the six excessive curler occasions which have performed out up to now on the ongoing 2024 European Poker Tour Prague pageant. The Frenchman accomplished this high-stakes hat trick by taking down a €25,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em occasion on Thursday, Dec. 12. This win got here simply three days after he emerged victorious within the €50,000 occasion, which is the biggest buy-in of the collection. His title streak started with a win within the €20,000 buy-in event three days earlier. The trio of victories has added $733,494 to Santerne’s profession haul, placing him simply shy of $5.3 million in lifetime earnings.
The most up-to-date win noticed Santerne outlast a smaller discipline of simply 11 entrants. The prize pool ended up at $276,925, with Santerne capturing $139,125 and his third PokerStars spade trophy of the week.
In addition to the {hardware} and the cash, Santerne has additionally gathered loads of Card Player Player of the Year factors at this collection. The 618 factors from his three victories convey his complete on the 12 months to 2,870. He now has 4 titles and 7 final-table finishes on the 12 months, and is ranked simply outdoors the highest 100 within the 2024 standings introduced by Global Poker.
Santerne’s different win this 12 months got here within the Prior €50,000 buy-in at EPT Paris in February for $960,638 and 612 factors. He additionally completed second in a $100,000 buy-in on the Triton Poker Montenegro pageant again in May for a career-best payday of $1.7 million.
The bubble was burst on this occasion when Santerne’s A-10 outran the pocket fives of Viacheslav Buldygin. Santerne then eradicated three-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Martin Kabrhel with rivered aces full besting flopped journeys for the Czech Native. Kabrhel earned $55,120 because the third-place finisher.
Santerne took roughly a 2:1 chip lead into heads-up play with reigning EPT Monte Carlo principal occasion champion Derk van Luijk. Santerne was trailing barely by the point the decisive hand of the heads-up match arose. His A
Ok
held in opposition to the A
6 of van Luijk to depart the Dutchman on fumes.
The closing hand of the event noticed van Luijk get his 11 or so huge blinds in preflop with A-Ok main the 8-6 of Santerne. The board got here down 65
439 and Santerne made a pair of sixes to convey the occasion to a detailed. van Luijk was awarded $82,680 because the runner-up.
Here is a take a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the closing desk:
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Thomas Santerne | $139,125 | 168 |
| 2 | Derk van Luijk | $82,680 | 140 |
| 3 | Martin Kabrhel | $55,120 | 112 |
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