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Thursday 11th October 2007 Englishman wins a second poker prize
Julian Thew from Nottingham has bagged the top prize at the European Poker Tour (EPT) Baden Open, making it his second win in two months.
He won a prize of 670,800 euros to add to the £59,500 he won at the Plymouth leg of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour in September.
To bag the Baden prize he called Hungarian Denes Kalo's A-5 push with A-8, after a gruelling Head's Up, Cardplayer.com reports.
With 282 players and a buy-in of 8,000 euros, poker fans were playing for a piece of a 2.14 million prize pool. But Thew had looked strong over the whole tournament and reached the final table only second to RussianVladimir Poleshchuk who had 624,000 euros of chips to the Englishman's 610,000.
With a lot fewer chips, Manfred Hammer of Germany, Anton Allemann from Switzerland, Dutchman Thierry van den Berg, and Thomas Fuller and World Series Of Poker bracelet holder Ted Lawson - both from the US - all reached the final table too.
Allemann and Lawson made their exits in the first quarter of an hour, and Hammer was next to go, all dispatched by the Russian.
Van Der Berg left with 132,900 euros while Fuller took 160,820 euros. Then Poleshchuk was finally vanquished and placed third collecting 225,000 euros.
After Kalo was dispatched and took away 375,000 euros, Thew was named champion and on top of his prize money won a 10,000 euro buy-in to the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo.
Source: Direct News
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