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EPT: Frenchman Outruns Final Table of Young Guns to Win in Warsaw
- Lance Bradley | October 25, 2009
- Christophe Benzimra has a trophy and a pile of cash after winning EPT Warsaw on Sunday.
Christophe Benzimra is a 47 year old French businessman who plays poker as a hobby. So what he was doing at the final table of a European Poker Tour event playing against a group of players with the average age of under 31? Winning it all of course and taking home $537,972 US.
Benzimra eliminated PokerStars SuperNova Elite Alfio Battisti heads-up to clinch the EPT Warsaw title Sunday in Poland. Battisti, the youngest at the table at 24, walked away with $300,457 US.
Following his win Benzimra admitted that at a table full of professional players the fact that the amateur player came out on top, might have had a little less to do with skill and more with chance.
“They were better than me,” said Benzimra. “I am not a professional player, I play just for my pleasure and let’s say today that the luck was with me.”
One of those professional players that Benzimra outran was the record holder for both cashes and final tables on the European Poker Tour. Luca Pagano, 31, recorded his 12th EPT cash and 4th EPT final table Sunday. With a fourth place finish he also recorded his best result yet, besting his sixth place finish from the 2008 Grand Final.
The five day event with a 25,000 Polish Zlotych ($9,000 US) attracted 203 players putting the total prizepool at 4,770,500 ($1,717,000 US). The next EPT stop is in Vilamoura, Portugal November 17 - 22.
2009 EPT Warsaw Results
- Christophe Benzimra - PLN 1,493,170
- Alfio Battisti - PLN 834,840
- Oleksandr Vaserfirer - PLN 500,900
- Luca Pagano - PLN 357,790
- Ruslan Prydryk - PLN 295,770
- Clayton Mozdzen - PLN 233,750
- Alexander Klimashin - PLN 186,050
- Anatoly Gurtovoy - PLN 133,570
- Alexander Debus - PLN 85,870
- Jeff Sarwer - PLN 85,870
- Aleksey Yuzikov - PLN 66,790
- Jani Sointula - PLN 66,790
- Nikolay Tsanev - PLN 57,250
- Maurice Schulmann - PLN 57,250
- Tome Cardoso Moreira - PLN 42,940 PLN
- Dani Vargas - PLN 42,940 PLN
- Julian Mogensen - PLN 28,620 PLN
- Peter Hedlund - PLN 28,620 PLN
- Antony Lellouche - PLN 28,620 PLN
- Vitaly Lunkin - PLN 28,620 PLN
- Michel Abecassis - PLN 28,620 PLN
- Shaun Deeb - PLN 28,620 PLN
- Wojciech Polak - PLN 28,620 PLN
- Konstantin Puchkov - PLN 28,620 PLN
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