EFOP HEADS UP CHALLENGE
Longest match so far was Ram 'Crazy Horse' Vaswani from England playing against Jan 'Le Grand' Boubli from France. They started, stopped and restarted again their match three times, for a total of 5 hours! Jan finally won the match, and the battle was worth it, as he also won his Quarter Final match against World Heads Up Champion Bruno Fitoussi. Unfortunately, after another 5 hours combat against John Duthie, this latter finally managed to win the match. Since it lasted so long, the two finalists - Mike SEXTON (USA) - winner of the EFOP European Hold'Em Championship year 2000 - and John DUTHIE (UK) - winner of the first Poker Million tournament to be held in the Isle of Man in year 2000 - commonly decided to play the final heads up match on Friday, February 14th, as it is a break day during the WPT monster event! Good luck to both of them!
Second Round - winners (€ 5 000)
Harry DEMETRIOU beat Howard LEDERER
Roger HAIRABEDIAN beat Surinder SUNAR
Donat BERNARD beat Patrick BUENO
Mike SEXTON beat Sherkha FARNOOD
Christen JOHARNSSON beat Patrick ZEKRI
John DUTHIE beat Tony G
Jeff LISSANDRO beat Bruno FITOUSSI
Jan BOUBLI beat Ram VASWANI
Quarter Finals - winners (€ 10 000 – total € 15 000)
Roger HAIRABEDIAN beat Harry DEMETRIOU
Mike SEXTON beat Donat BERNARD
John DUTHIE beat Christen JOHARNSSON
Jan BOUBLI beat Bruno FITOUSSI
Semi-Finals- winners (€ 20 000 – total € 35 000)
Mike SEXTON beat Roger HAIRABEDIAN
John DUTHIE beat Jan BOUBLI
Final - winner € 30 000 – TOTAL € 65 000:
To be held on Friday, February 14th
TODAY'S EUROPEAN WINNER
In a Pot Limit Hold'Em / Omaha € 1000 tournament reuniting 67 runners who took 42 rebuys, one of the best European female player defeated the field to bring back to England the European title and a first prize of € 41 400. Congratulations Lucy for your formidable performance today, and on your recent series of victories!
Total prize pool for this tournament was € 103 500, and runner up to Lucy was another young player representing the new generation and having a lot of results within the past few months, including two big wins during the Amsterdam tournament. You've guess it, Mister Korey Saka from Sweden, who took € 20 700. Among the finalists, were 5 French players, regulars at the Aviation Club, Angelo Besnainou, Yves Sassi, Eric Sala, Gilles Haddad, and last but not least, Mister Personality of the year 2001 Pascal Perrault. Mister Robin Keston from England and Erik Sagstrom from Sweden were the two other members of this final table. Congratulations to all!
WORLD POKER TOUR
In yesterday's super-satellite, a striking number of 8 tickets were given to the players! Rising up the total of super-satellite winners to 32! That number is, before today's satellites, supers, and flashes that will be held!
Today is the big day. Day 1 of the World Poker Tour / European Texas Hold'Em Championship at the Aviation Club in Paris. All the best to the participants! | 
