Poker Tournament Results

EPT Budapest

Place	Name	Prize
1	Will Fry (Nottingham, UK)	595,839 EURO
2	Ciprian Hrisca (Romania)	342,608 EURO
3	Martin Jacobson (Lidingo, Sweden)	197,904 EURO
4	Albert Iverson (Aarhus, Denmark)	153,216 EURO
5	Marino Serenelli (Italy)	127,680 EURO
6	Gino Alacqua AKA "diablo" (Milano, Italy)	100,016 EURO
7	Zsolt Toth (Hungary)	78,736 EURO
8	Johnny Lodden (Orpezano, Norway)	53,200 EURO
9	Ivo Donev AKA "The Chess Master" (Bregenz, Austria)	32,984 EURO
10	Sebastian Saffari AKA "Bassy" (Newcastle, UK)	32,984 EURO
11	Robin Keston (London, UK)	23,408 EURO
12	Bussink Menno	23,408 EURO
13	Simeon Tsonev AKA "don_flo" (Sofia, Bulgaria)	17,024 EURO
14	Oleg Korotkov	17,024 EURO
15	Casey Kastle (Ljubljana, Slovenia)	12,768 EURO
16	Christopher Haller (Truenstein, Germany)	12,768 EURO
17	Pasquale Braco	10,640 EURO
18	Lukas Benkovic	10,640 EURO
19	Jari-Pekka Juhola (Finland)	10,640 EURO
20	Micha Hoedemaker (Amsterdam, Netherlands)	10,640 EURO
21	Ofer Golko	10,640 EURO
22	Denis Volkov (Russia)	10,640 EURO
23	Tibor Tolnai (Budapest, Hungary)	10,640 EURO
24	Alex Kravchenko (Moscow, Russia)	10,640 EURO
25	Nicolo Calia (Rome, Italy)	8,512 EURO
26	Pantelis Pavlis	8,512 EURO
27	Dwayne Stacey (Romsey, Hampshire, UK)	8,512 EURO
28	Mauro Corsetti (Rome, Italy)	8,512 EURO
29	Tommi Etelapera	8,512 EURO
30	Christopher Wemelbeke	8,512 EURO
31	Janek Schleicher (Germany)	8,512 EURO
32	Nicholas Maieritsch	8,512 EURO
33	Ofir Abramovivi	7,448 EURO
34	David Hardy (London, UK)	7,448 EURO
35	Robert Firestone (Santa Barbara, CA, USA)	7,448 EURO
36	Jacek Ladny (Poland)	7,448 EURO
37	Brice Cournut (France)	7,448 EURO
38	Rikard Englund	7,448 EURO
39	Milan Andrejkovics (Budapest, Hungary)	7,448 EURO
40	Sevrin Walser (Zurich, Switzerland)	7,448 EURO
41	Szabolcs Saskoy (Hungary)	6,384 EURO
42	George McKeever (Ireland)	6,384 EURO
43	Symeon Pyrakis	6,384 EURO
44	Massimiliano Rosa (Italy)	6,384 EURO
45	Stefano Fiore (Italy)	6,384 EURO
46	Ionel Anyon	6,384 EURO
47	Pier Scatola	6,384 EURO
48	Allan Baekke (Denmark)	6,384 EURO
49	Tristan Clemengon	5,320 EURO
50	Ludovic Lacay (Cornebarrieu, France)	5,320 EURO
51	Mario Puccini	5,320 EURO
52	Kara Scott (UK)	5,320 EURO
53	Peter Zamiska	5,320 EURO
54	Sorel Mizzi (Toronto, ON, Canada)	5,320 EURO
55	Daniel Ryan (Grand Forks, ND, USA)	5,320 EURO
56	Aditya Agarwal (Calcutta, India)	5,320 EURO

Tournament Report

WILL FRY WINS POKERSTARS.COM EPT BUDAPEST BUDAPEST, Hungary, November 1, 2008 - PokerStars player Will Fry, from Nottingham in the UK, has been crowned the first champion of PokerStars.com EPT Budapest. The 28-year-old poker pro won the €595,839 first prize after defeating 531 players in the €4,350 sell-out event. Fry, who also wins a seat to the €10,000 EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo, has been playing poker since he was six years old but only took up Texas hold 'em eight years ago. For the past five years, the former croupier and art student has made poker his full-time job, specialising in online cash games. This was his first major live event. Fry triumphed in the Hungarian capital when his pocket jacks beat the 35-year-old Romanian Ciprian Hrisca's A-6. Fry said: 'They were the first good cards I'd had in ages. Up until then I'd been re-raising with rubbish but if I get good cards, I can be pretty dangerous.” He now plans to travel for a while and give some of his winnings to charities that raise awareness of third-world poverty. The PokerStars sponsored player Johnny Lodden, who has cashed at six EPT events but has never previously made a final table, missed out on his first EPT title when he was eliminated in eighth place for €53,200. The inaugural EPT Budapest tournament follows the success of debut events in Prague last season and Warsaw the season before, and attracted players from all over the world including 71 Hungarian players. Hungarians have proven an increasingly impressive force on the international poker scene and the field in Budapest included Denes Kalo, who was a runner up twice on last season's EPT, and Valdemar Kwaysser, who won the Latin America Poker Tour event in Costa Rica this year. But it was the businessman Zoltan Toth, 41, who carried Hungary's hopes into today's final, ending in seventh place for €78,736. A total of 157 PokerStars players played in the four-day event, including 104 who won their seats online. Alex Kravchenko fared best out of the eight Team PokerStars Pros in the field, finishing 23rd for €10,640. The EPT presenter Kara Scott was also sponsored by PokerStars, and followed her 104th place finish in the WSOP Main Event with another cash here. Scott took 52nd place for €7,448. The EPT founder John Duthie said: 'The EPT has once again proved that we can move into emerging markets like Hungary and provide a sell-out tournament. The support from the local players has been overwhelming and players have also been happy to travel from all over the world to attend the inaugural event in Budapest.”