Daniel Dvoress Breaks Through $50M in Live Earnings at EPT Monte Carlo

The €25,000 No-Restrict Maintain’em Limitless Re-Entries occasion on the 2026 PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Monte Carlo competition went considerably underneath the radar, principally as a result of most individuals’s consideration was on Alex Kulev taking down the €250,000 Tremendous Excessive Curler. Nonetheless, it was an unforgetable occasion for Daniel Dvoress as a result of the prize cash e received pushed him over $50 million in stay poker event earnings.

Dvoress has lengthy been a crusher on the EPT. Earlier than this €25,000 buy-in occasion, Dvoress had $49,762,958 in lifetime earnings, together with $7,685,706 in EPT winnings, rating him eighth within the long-running tour’s all-time cash listing. After serving to himself to a €390,536 ($459,338) rating, Dvoress has turn into solely the thirteenth participant in historical past to interrupt by way of $50 million in stay event cashes.

The €25,000 No-Restrict Maintain’em Limitless Re-Entries drew 64 entries, making a €1,536,640 prize pool that the highest 9 finishers shared. Russia’s Vasily Klyukin was the unlucky soul who burst the cash bubble, bowing out in tenth place.

Andras Nemeth, recent from his victory within the €10,000 Pot-Restrict Omaha 6-Max occasion earlier within the sequence, completed ninth for €44,600. Spanish duo Jon Ander Vallinas and Juan Pardo joined the listing of eradicated gamers and headed to the cashier to gather €57,600 and €74,500, respectively.

The ultimate five-figure prize went to Alisson Piekazewicz, referred to as “heyalisson” in PokerStars on-line circles. The Brazilian star banked €96,800 for his sixth-place exit.

The pay jumps grew even bigger after Piekazewicz’s demise. Adrian Mateos busted in fifth for €126,000, Isaac Haxton in fourth for €163,700, and Dutch grinder Teun Mulder got here unstuck in third, a end price €212,800.

Mulder’s elimination left Dvoress heads-up towards Ben Tollerene. A deal was struck earlier than Dvoress emerged victorious, taking dwelling €390,536 for his efforts. Tollerene padded his bankroll with a €370,104 rating.

€25,000 No-Restrict Maintain’em Closing Desk Outcomes

Dejan Kaladjurdjevic Collects His Second-Largest Rating

Montenegro’s Dejan Kaladjurdjevic pushed by way of the $5 million in earnings barrier with a formidable victory within the €50,000 No-Restrict Maintain’em Limitless Re-Entries occasion. Kaladjurdjevic left 42 opponents in his wake as he raked in €727,115 of the €2,107,215 prize pool.

That princely sum was Kaladjurdjevic’s second-largest profession rating, surpassed solely by the gargantuan $3,196,000 he received for a runner-up end within the $125,000 Triton Poker Tremendous Excessive Curler Collection Montenegro Primary Occasion in Might 2024.

The highest 9 finishers on this €50,000 buy-in affair noticed a return on their funding, and what a ultimate 9 it was.

Linus Loeliger, Diego Zeiter, and Biao Ding have been the primary in-the-money casualties earlier than Matthias Eibinger and Joao Vieira adopted them in line. The exits of Israel’s Tom Or-Paz and Adrian Mateos left solely Kaladjurdjevic and Mikita Badziakouski in rivalry for the title.

Regardless of the distinction between the remaining prizes being greater than €250,000, no deal was struck, and the event performed out as supposed. Kaladjurdjevic got here out on prime and received his fingers on €727,215, leaving Badziakouski – the second most winningest participant in EPT historical past – to scoop a €474,100 comfort prize.

€50,000 No-Restrict Maintain’em Closing Desk Outcomes

€5,300 EPT Monte Carlo Primary Occasion Heads Into Day 2

The €5,300 EPT Monte Carlo Primary Occasion has reached Day 2, with 288 of the 960 starters punching their tickets. The present prize pool is €4,656,000, however that ought to enhance as anybody who has not fired two bullets can register as much as the beginning of play. These late registrants will sit personal armed with 20 large blinds.

Greece’s Paraskevas Tsokaridis (384,000) is the chip chief in the beginning of play, intently adopted by Mehdi Chaoui of Morocco (357,000). Different notables nonetheless within the subject embody Juha Helppi (188,500), Espen Jorstad (172,000), Roberto Romanello (146,000), Derk Van Luijk (141,000), Hossein Ensan (136,500), Benny Glaser (114,500), Adrian Mateos (112,500), and Pokerstars’ David Lappin (87,500).

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Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the UK, and has labored within the poker trade since 2008, and labored for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he grew to become the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from stay reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his position of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.