2022 PokerStars EPT Prague: Pieter Theelen Wins Eureka Main Event & Sander Ostlyngen Champions Eureka High Roller; Ben Heath Ships Back-to-Back High Rollers

Pieter Theelen, Sander Ostlyngen, Ben Heath
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  • Naman Sharma December 13, 2022
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PokerStars’ European Poker Tour (EPT) is in Prague for the fifteenth time since 2007, with King’s Casino playing host to EPT`s winter stop from December 7 to 18. And halfway through, the series has already crowned its first batch of winners.

Netherlands’ Pieter Theelen (cover left) is the biggest winner to emerge in the series so far, having championed the €1,100 Eureka Main Event for a career-best €496,760. Theelen crushed a massive 4,017-player field to win his maiden live tournament title after defeating Sweden’s Anton Suarez (2nd for €306,770) heads-up!

Norway’s Sander Ostlyngen (cover center) is a close second to Theelen in terms of bagging the most significant payout in the ongoing series. He trounced a record-breaking 1,534-entry field in the €2,200 Eureka High Roller, banking a career-best €463,850 and his first live title. Slovenia’s Stanislav Koleno placed second for €289,420.

While England and Brazil’s FIFA World Cup dreams may be squashed, countrymen Ben Heath (England) and Rodrigo Seiji (Brazil) made their nation proud by clinching EPT titles.

Heath (cover left) proved his poker prowess by taking down two €25,000 Single-Day High Rollers back-to-back for €5,00,840 and bagging two PokerStars’s Spadie trophies doing so.

Seiji won the first headliner at the ongoing series, obliterating a 68-entry field in Event #3: €10,200 Mystery Bounty to collect the lion’s share worth €95,880 (€27,500 in bounties) and his second EPT Prague title. Dutch poker pro Jorryt van Hoof banked €62,320 (€50,000 in bounties) for his runner-up finish.

 

Netherlands’ Pieter Theelen Champions €1,100 Eureka Main Event For Career-Best €496,760

Pieter Theelen pulled off a flawless comeback victory after outlasting a massive 4,017-entry field in the 2022 PokerStars EPT Prague €1,100 Eureka Main Event. Making his first-ever live tournament victory special was the personal-best €496,760 cash prize he pocketed along with the glittering PokerStars trophy. Sweden’s Anton Suarez collected €306,770 in second place.

“I’m feeling awesome, but I just have to start realizing (what happened),” Theelen said. “I don’t know what happened, actually. I was short a lot of the time, and then (I was) chip leader, and after that, it went pretty well. But after that, it was close heads-up, kind of. So I’m happy that I managed to take it down,” Theelen said after his memorable win.

Incidentally, Theelen’s first recorded live score came earlier this year in the March edition of EPT Prague Eureka Main Event (118th for € 4,660). The win pushed his live tournament winnings to $535,155.

The Eureka Main Event ran four starting flights from December 8 to 9, drawing 4,017 entries. Day 2 took off with 603 qualifiers, and only 85 players made it as far as Day 3. Day 4 saw the field narrowing to the final table, where nine players remained.

The final table was stacked with pros, including the EPT Barcelona Estrellas Main Event and EPT London Main Event runner-up finisher, Jack Sinclair (4th for €168,560), Finland’s Elias Suhonen (5th for €129,650) and Norway’s Silius Moll (7th for €76,700).

WSOP bracelet winners Martin Stoyanov (18th for €16,770), Fedor Holz (54th for €8,100), Lukas Zaskodny (59th for €7,060), Antoine Vranken (99th for €5,320), Alexandre Reard (155th for €4,010) and Indo-Dutch Sandeep Nene (169th for €4,010) were among the notables to cash the event.

Pieter Theelen
Pieter Theelen

 

Final table Results (EURO)

  1. Pieter Theelen – €496,760
  2. Anton Suarez – €306,770
  3. Leonardo Romeo – €219,120
  4. Jack Sinclair – €168,560
  5. Elias Suhonen – €129,650
  6. Quentin Guivarch – €99,720
  7. Silius Moll – €76,700
  8. Waldemar Starostin – €59,000
  9. Marko Martinkovic – €45,390

 

Norway’s Sander Ostlyngen Ships €2,200 Eureka High Roller For Career-Best €463,850

Sander Ostlyngen crushed a record-breaking 1,534-entry field in the 2022 PokerStars EPT Prague €2,200 Eureka High Roller, bagging his maiden live title for a career-best €463,850 and the shining PokerStars trophy. Slovenia’s Stanislav Koleno placed second for €289,420.

Ostlyngen has been around the poker scene since 2019. His first-recorded score of €9,115 (also his previous best score) came from a third-place finish in the €350 NLH Irish Open tournament. His win in the Eureka High Roller has improved his tournament earnings to $517,834.

The Eureka High Roller ran two starting flights on December 11, registering 1,534 entries between them. Day 2 began with 230 qualifiers and played down to a champion, with Ostlyngen clinching the victory.

The other finalists include Jorge Ufano (3rd for €206,470), Andrew Hulme (4th for €159,020), Nichita Verbitchii (5th for €122,330), Kasparas Klezys (6th for €94,130), David Hu (7th for €72,390), Marius Gicovanu (8th for €55,680) and Hugues Mazerolle (9th for €42,830).

WSOP bracelet winners who busted before the final table was formed included Dominik Panka (64th for €7,200), Alexandre Reard (101st for €5,440), Julien Martini (118th for €5,440), Simeon Naydenov (137th for €4,730), Motoyoshi Okamura (209th for €3,560) and Stefan Lehner (210th for €3,560).

Sander Ostlyngen
Sander Ostlyngen

 

Final Table Results (EURO)

  1. Sander Ostlyngen – €463,850
  2. Stanislav Koleno – €289,420
  3. Jorge Ufano – €206,470
  4. Andrew Hulme – €159,020
  5. Nichita Verbitchii – €122,330
  6. Kasparas Klezys – €94,130
  7. David Hu – €72,390
  8. Marius Gicovanu – €55,680
  9. Hugues Mazerolle – €42,830

 

Ben Heath Wins 2 €25,000 Single-Day High Rollers Back-to-Back

England’s Ben Heath broke past a two-and-a-half-year title dry spell with utmost flamboyance by taking down two €25,000 Single-Day High Rollers on consecutive days.

Ben Heath
Ben Heath

 

On December 9, he bested a 22-player field in Event #10: €25,000 NLHE High Roller, collecting the winner’s due worth €227,130 and his fourth PokerStars trophy. Bulgaria’s Alex Kulev took home €142,620 in second place.

Canada’s Daniel Dvoress (3rd for €95,080) and Brazil’s Pablo Brito Silva (4th for €63,390) were the other two players who made it in the money in Event #10.

Returning on December 10, Heath showed the win the day before was no flash in the pan by outmaneuvering a 30-entry field in Event #13: €25,000 NLHE High Roller for his fifth PokerStars trophy and another six=figure payday worth €273,710. Thailand’s Kannapong Thanarattrakul raked in €176,470 in second place.

Latvia’s Aleksejs Ponakovs (3rd for €117,050), Brazil’s Pablo Brito Silva (4th for €84,640), and Netherlands Jorryt van Hoof (5th for €68,430) were the three other players who boarded the money bus in Event #13.

Heath is no stranger to tournament success, with a poker record dating back to 2013 and over $14.37 Million in tracked live winnings. He boasts a career-best score of $2,018,148 from a runner-up finish in the $250,000 NLHE -Super High Roller at the 2021 WSOP, Las Vegas. The English poker pro also has the boasting rights to a WSOP golden bracelet and sits atop $4,888,577 in recorded WSOP earnings over seven years (2015 – 22).

Images and Content Courtesy: PokerNews

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