The final few days of the EPT event in London had so much exciting poker action taking place it would have been easy to miss out on so many of the big moments and exciting finishes to some of the individual events. It was only right that Ruben Visser got his due for winning the EPT London event and taking home £595,500 but plenty of other poker players enjoyed success in London. The British weather may have felt more like the middle of January as opposed to the middle of March but with St Patricks Day celebrations gearing up across the capital of England, it was not just the Irish that were celebrating.
The Greeks have had their financial problems of late but there was good financial news for one Greek poker player during the big London event. The celebrating player was Miltiadis Kyriakides who overcame Barry Greenstein in the final of event J at the EPT9 London event. Considering that Greenstein was won 3 bracelets from the WSOP and has amassed over $7m in live tournament wins, this was a big achieve for the Greek. The Team PokerStars Pro was beaten out in the heads-up during the Pot Limit Omaha which carried a prize pool of £91,180.
Good to see a Greek poker success
Miltiadis Kyriakides was fortunate enough to take home £32,820 for coming first in the event while Greenstein took home just over £20,000. In addition to the kudos and congratulations, Kyriakides also got a signed copy of Greenstein’s book, ‘Ace On The River’. The final 7 at the table saw representatives from Finland, two from the UK, one from Belgium and in third place was Eoghan O’Dea from Ireland. Picking up over £12,000 is going to a little extra celebration to the St Patrick’s Day weekend for any Irishman so hopefully Eoghan made it home safely with some of his winnings left!
Another big winner during the event was the Team PokerStars Pro Matthias De Meulder from Belgium. He managed to triumph in the No Limits Texas Hold Em event that was event number 15 at EPT9. De Meulder just fell short of clinching a trophy at the EPT Deauville in February so the trophy in London represents good progress and of course, another fine payday! De Meulder earned £22,580 for his win while second placed Rameev Sergey from Russian earned £20,000. There was then a big drop off in money with third placed Eddie Tasbas picking up £9,710 while fourth placed finisher Georges Tohme from the UK received £7,100.