Cristophe Benzimra Wins PokerStars EPT Warsaw
October 26, 2009
The winner of the 2009 PokerStars EPT Warsaw main event is Cristophe Benzimra, a businessman from France (he operates a Plexiglass factory in Romania). His prize was 358,644 Euros. Stating after his win that he feels he just got lucky and really only plays poker for fun, Benzimra bested a field of 400 players, finishing the tournament by beating poker pro, Alfio Battista of Italy, who had to settle for runner-up.
Benzimra self-description may be too modest when you consider that he has attended most of the PokerStars European Poker Tour events in the past 2 years. He cashed for $26,110 by taking 6th place at last year’s EPT Budapest and $18,604 for taking 17th at this year’s Rendez vous a Paris Spotlight No Limit Holdem Championship.
Team PokerStars Pro Luca Pagano, meanwhile, made his 5th EPT final table and 12th EPT cash at this event.
No Chopped Pot At Sunday Million, Priest Scoring On Million Dollar Challenge
October 12, 2009
Lots of interesting news over at PokerStars.
* After months of final table players making deals and chopping the pot. one player held out to the brutal end and came out on top. That was one “sumai” who kept the whole $225,000 first prize at the PokerStars Sunday Million for himself.
* The new PokerStars hosted TV show, the PokerStars Million Dollar Challenge, has been airing for a few weeks now, and it has a promising young champion in Reverend Andrew Trapp. That’s right, Reverend. This non-traditional Catholic priest got himself a spot on the show to play for his church and apparently he’s really good, having earned $25,000 already, plus a $100,000 seat against Daniel Negreanu for the $1 million grand prize. In order to get onto the show, Rev. Andy had to beat some 10,000 players in an online tournament (or come in the top 10, really) and then submit a winning video convincing producers to cast him on the show. Looks like they made a good call.
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