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EPT Prague - Season 4

EPT No Limit Hold'em
Final Day

December 14, 2007
Golden Prague Poker
Tournament Schedule

Buy-In	4,700 EURO + 300 EURO
Prize Pool	2,608,500 EURO
Entries	555
Report Available

Arnaud Mattern

Place	Name	Prize
1	Arnaud Mattern (Paris, France)	708,400 EURO
2	Gino Alacqua (Italy)	407,300 EURO
3	Kristian Kjondal (Oslo, Norway)	235,300 EURO
4	Juha Lauttamus (Finland)	182,200 EURO
5	Markus Golser (Saltzberg, Austria)	151,800 EURO
6	Nedzib Suman (Sweden)	119,000 EURO
7	Dag Palovic AKA "Lucky D." (Bratislava, Slovakia)	93,600 EURO
8	Mikael Norinder AKA "SWE" (Stockholm, Sweden)	63,200 EURO
9	Johannes Strassmann (Bonn, Germany)	39,200 EURO
10	Christer Johansson (Hollviken, Sweden)	39,200 EURO
11	Sebastian Zink (Germany)	27,800 EURO
12	Nokolas Liakos (Sweden)	27,800 EURO
13	Thierry Labat (France)	20,200 EURO
14	Mike McDonald (Waterloo, Canada)	20,200 EURO
15	Cyril Bensoussan (France)	15,200 EURO
16	Adrian Koy (Germany)	15,200 EURO
17	Jose Luis Navarro (Spain)	12,650 EURO
18	Paul Gormley (Ireland)	12,650 EURO
19	Iliodoros Kamatakis (Greece)	12,650 EURO
20	Marc Karam AKA "Myst" (Ottawa, ON, Canada)	12,650 EURO
21	Luigi Rizzi (Italy)	12,650 EURO
22	Tommy Pavlicek (Hinton, AB, Canada)	12,650 EURO
23	Thomas Brolin (Sweden)	12,650 EURO
24	Steven Vollers (Netherlands)	12,650 EURO
25	Anthony Phillips (UK)	10,100 EURO
26	Oskar Silow (Gothenburg, Sweden)	10,100 EURO
27	Mikkel Madsen (Copenhagen, Denmark)	10,100 EURO
28	Frantisek Striz (Czech Republic)	10,100 EURO
29	Mikeal Nordin (Sweden)	10,100 EURO
30	Adrian Schaap (Netherlands)	10,100 EURO
31	Luis Sevilla (Spain)	10,100 EURO
32	Nick Goodall (Esher, UK)	10,100 EURO
33	Dennis Van Zoelen (Netherlands)	8,850 EURO
34	Yannic Mulder (Netherlands)	8,850 EURO
35	Ville Nyman (Finland)	8,850 EURO
36	Kai are Hauge (Norway)	8,850 EURO
37	Mika Hallstrom (Denmark)	8,850 EURO
38	Cristiano Blanco AKA "lalanco" (Roma, Italy)	8,850 EURO
39	Jorma Nuutinen (Finland)	8,850 EURO
TIE	Britt Petersen (Denmark)	8,850 EURO
TIE	Britt Petersen (Denmark)	8,850 EURO
41	Mikael Furst (Germany)	7,600 EURO
42	Carlos Kienhuis AKA "ACYK" (Harderwijk, Netherlands)	7,600 EURO
43	Tobias Reinkemeier (Cuxhaven, Germany)	7,600 EURO
44	Juhani Junnilainen (Finland)	7,600 EURO
45	Maik Daehling (Germany)	7,600 EURO
46	Will Fitzpatrick (Ireland)	7,600 EURO
47	Robert Norberg (Sweden)	7,600 EURO
48	Nicolai Vivet (Denmark)	7,600 EURO
49	Yann Monnier (France)	6,380 EURO
50	Magnus Petersson (Stockholm, Sweden)	6,380 EURO
51	Oyvind Roysem (Norway)	6,380 EURO
52	Erik Pettersson (Sweden)	6,380 EURO
53	Antoanell Judet (Romania)	6,380 EURO
54	Gerd Mueller (Germany)	6,380 EURO
55	Simon Christensson (Sweden)	6,380 EURO
56	Michael Durrer (Germany)	6,380 EURO

Tournament Report

BACKGAMMON CHAMPION WINS FIRST EUROPEAN POKER TOUR TOURNAMENT IN PRAGUE

Date: Friday, December 14, 2007
Venue: Golden Prague Casino, Hilton Prague Hotel
Event: PokerStars.com EPT Prague, €5,000 No Limit Texas Hold'em poker tournament.
Parisian Arnaud Mattern, 28, has won the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Prague event - the first EPT to be held in the Czech capital - for a first prize of €708,400. Mattern, who is also a world-class backgammon player and the current French champion, triumphed against Italian Gino 'El Diablo' Alacqua.
In the final hand, Mattern called Alacqua's all-in raise. He had AK and paired the King on the turn, beating the Italian's Q10.
Mattern is the third Frenchman to win an EPT - Jan Boubli won Season 2 Barcelona and Pascal Perrault won Season 1 Vienna. Mattern said: 'This is the best result I've ever had. I did win the French Backgammon Championship but that was only €5,000! It was a very tough final table and, during the heads-up, Gino picked up a lot of good cards but I just picked my spot and my good hands stood up.'
Today was Mattern's first EPT cash and more than ten times his previous best win - the Gutshot Poker Masters in 2006 for $51,000. As well as today's first prize, Mattern also wins a €10,000 seat to the EPT Grand Final, which takes place in Monte Carlo in April 2008.
Runner-up Alacqua, who is single and lives in Milan, says he came to Prague hoping to find love. Instead he picked up €407,300 for second place. The 46-year-old antiques dealer only took up poker 18 months ago but won the Campione d'Italia €1k Main Event this summer and was runner-up in the 2006 Italian Championship.
High-stakes online player Kristian Kjondal, 21, from Oslo, Norway, came 3rd - adding €235,300 to the €471,000 he won last April for coming 4th in the EPT Season 3 Monte Carlo Grand Final. PokerStars player Johannes Strassman was 9th, winning €39,200.
A total of 555 players from 36 countries entered EPT Prague, including 104 players who won their seats online with PokerStars. Among those competing were Team PokerStars Pros Luca Pagano, Dario Minieri, Katja Thater and Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier.
Conrad Brunner, PokerStars' Head of Communications, EMEA, said: 'For a new event, the Prague EPT has been an outstanding success. Europe's top players have put on a real show, and great credit must go to Mattern for winning against a top class field. Mattern's victory in Prague catapults him to the top of the French EPT leader board.'
The next EPT is the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in the Bahamas (January 5-10, 2008) followed by the EPT German Open in Dortmund (January 29 - February 2, 2008). Satellites for the PCA are happening now, as well as satellites for the EPT German Open. Satellites for EPT Copenhagen (February 19-23, 2008) start on December 17, 2007.