Poker has grown in all corners of the world thanks to various tournament series generating plenty of interest for the game. An example of a series that has done this is the European Poker Tour, which was sponsored by the Poker Stars download. Greece held its first EPT event in Loutraki recently, and 336 players paid €4,400 to enter. This meant a 1st place prize of €347,000.

This event’s 8-handed final table’s first casualty was Mario Puccini, a German pro known to online players as Pokerccini. He pushed all-in with KQ suited, a hand which I was sure never loses. He ended up losing to A8 offsuit, however, which proved my theory wrong. He busted in 8th place.

If you are a fellow Craps online player, you might not be used to the following preflop betting I’m about to describe in a hand that ensued soon after Puccini’s bust. First Pierre Mothes raised, and he was reraised by Hauke Heseding (a 3-bet). And then Andras Kovacs reraised again (a 4-bet), this time all-in.

Mothes wasn’t happy to see all the reraises and was forced to fold, but Heseding made the call with QQ. Kovacs held AKs, which means that the two players were flipping. Heseding had quite the sweat by the turn as Kovacs had a flush draw and overs, but Kovacs whiffed. He had to settle for 6th place.

The fold Mothes made meant that he laddered a spot in the pay jumps, but that would be as far as he’d go. He thought he was good on a monotone board with two pair, but Zimnan Ziyard had him beat with a flush. Mothes didn’t fill up, which meant that he was sent to the rail in 5th place.

Florian Schleps was the next to go, as he made the unfortunate decision to flip with Heseding. Hesending’s run good could not be quelled, as he flopped more than one Queen with AQ and then even turned a boat. Schleps had to settle for fourth place.

Heseding decided that two final table eliminations just wasn’t enough for him. He called John Taramas’s shove with ATo and was pleased when Taramas flipped over 97s. Taramas’s cheering section called with a suck out, but nothing came and he was sent to the rail in 3rd place.

It seemed like Heseding just couldn’t be beat, but Ziyard had what it took to stop him in his tracks. After an exciting heads-up battle, Heseding finally made one bluff too many and Ziyard took all but 1bb of his stack. Heseding couldn’t come back and Ziyard was crowned EPT Loutraki champion!

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