A poker participant turned a €530 on-line satellite tv for pc on PokerStars right into a million-plus payoff by successful the European Poker Tour Monte Carlo Most important Occasion.
Aleksandr Shevliakov gained €1 million ($1,130,352) and the PokerStars trophy for being the final participant standing at Sporting Monte Carlo within the headliner. The €5,300 occasion attracted a 828 discipline who additionally rebought 367 occasions to construct a prize pool of €5,795,750 ($6,551,239).
Shevliakov, an IT skilled from Russia, doubled his lifetime better of $541,206 for ending second in a €10,000 buy-in on the 2023 EPT Paris competition.
“I gained. It’s a dream come true. That is it,” the 37-year-old stated afterwards.
This was the second-largest EPT Monte Carlo in its historical past, simply lacking out in tying final 12 months’s 1,208 entry discipline by 13. These numbers are being reached in no small half by the net qualifiers that run on PokerStars, which owns the EPT.
Alexandros Kolonias, the 2019 World Sequence of Poker Europe Most important Occasion champ, stalled in fifteenth. WSOP Circuit ring record-holder and four-time bracelet winner Ari Engel made it to thirty fourth. It’s a given the occasion attracted most of the finest on this planet, and so they did effectively within the aspect occasions.
Nguyen, Lonis amongst high-roller winners
The Most important Occasion was a part of a 42 occasion sequence that befell in Monte Carlo April 30 to Could 10. Purchase-ins ranged from €330 all the way in which as much as the tremendous excessive curler occasion’s €100,000 — with all kinds of buy-ins between.
After all, a number of effectively title professionals discovered their manner on prime of the fields — identical to they at all times do.
Germany’s Christofer Nguyen had a incredible EPT Monte Carlo, making three remaining tables successful a complete of €2.4 million ($2.7 million). He was the winner of the €100,000 Tremendous Excessive Curler occasion for €2 million ($2.2 million). He additionally gained €50,100 ($56,923) for a fifth-place end within the €10,000 knockout occasion, and in addition banked a third-place end within the €50,000 tremendous excessive curler occasion for €352,000 ($398,772).
Jesse Lonis additionally had a strong sequence, making three remaining tables for a €631,902 complete ($714,155). Most of that got here by successful the €30,000 Tremendous Excessive Curler Heat-up for €449,802 ($508, 000). He practically gained a €10,200 no-limit occasion, however stalled in second-place money of €143,600 ($161,947). He began this run by ending sixth within the €10,000 knock-out occasion for €38,500 ($43,743).
He’ll quickly extra into the $16 million lifetime complete neighborhood.
One other common on the high-roller event path was David Peters, who was the 25,000 occasion for 409,412 ($464,112). He additionally completed sixth for €25,900 ($29,509) within the €10,000 thriller bounty occasion. He now has 9 finishes in ninth-place or 9 or higher in 2025. This was his first win of the 12 months.
