To Daher is to Dream: EPT Monte Carlo €100k High Roller for One Drop Crowns Champion

It was the biggest €100,000 buy-in event in European Poker Tour historical past, and in Monte Carlo it was Albert Daher topped champion.

He defeated poker legend Stephen Chidwick heads-up at a star-studded last desk within the EPT Monte Carlo €100,000 Excessive Curler for One Drop to win €2,055,000, shifting atop Lebanon’s All-Time Cash Checklist within the course of.

And after €25,000 EPT Excessive Curler titles in Monte Carlo in 2018, and Cyprus in 2023, Daher lastly has a €100,000 title to his identify.

€100,000 EPT Excessive Curler for One Drop Closing Desk Outcomes

Winner’s Response

The outcome additionally sees Daher report back-to-back seven-figure scores after a third-place end in final December’s Triton Invitational, however this time it comes with a shiny new trophy.

“It at all times feels nice to only run tremendous scorching and hit each flop,” he instructed Joe Stapleton following his victory. “I’ve by no means been this fortunate in my life, so it was a extremely good time.”

December wasn’t the one time Daher missed out on a WSOP bracelet, last tabling the $50,000 Poker Gamers Championship final 12 months, in addition to a runner-up outcome within the $25,000 H.O.R.S.E. a 12 months prior. His first recorded money got here in 2011, and he mirrored on the journey he is had in poker up to now.

“When you begin a poker profession, it is fairly arduous to foretell the place you are gonna go. I am glad to have reached that degree.”

The event additionally raised cash for the One Drop Basis, which focuses on enhancing international entry to protected water, with €228,000 for the group.

“It is at all times good to assist charity. And One Drop has been a charity that helps poker. All of us love these One Drop tournaments and I am glad to assist it,” mentioned Daher.”

Closing Desk Motion

Wiktor Malinowski led the ultimate eight gamers into the ultimate desk, with Bryn Kenney sitting because the shortest stack. Nevertheless, it was Teun Mulder who departed in eighth place after operating his A♥J♦ into the A♠A♦ of Daher.

That elimination, mixed with Daher additionally sending Enrico Camosci to the rail, noticed Daher transfer atop the counts having began third. He by no means relinquished his chip lead.

Kenney had managed to remain alive, thanks partly to a two-outer with tens towards Artsiom Lasouski’s aces, and he would finally ship start-of-day chip chief Malinowski out in sixth.

Nevertheless, Daher was unstoppable, sending Lasouski out in fifth. He was adopted out the door by Kenney, who moved nearer to $82 million in profession earnings together with his fourth-place end.

Evaluate that with third-place finisher Leonardo Drago, who virtually tripled his profession earnings together with his $1.1 million money on this occasion. He ran his 2♠2♣ into the 8♦8♥ of Stephen Chidwick, however it wasn’t sufficient for Chidwick to take the lead into heads-up, with Daher forward 3:1 in chips.

And there wasn’t even a sniff of a comeback, with Daher expertly shutting the door on Chidwick who nonetheless recorded the seventeenth seven-figure rating of his profession, as Daher closed out victory with a flip.

Primarily based in the UK, Will began working for PokerNews as a contract dwell reporter in 2015 and joined the full-time employees in 2019. He now works as Managing Editor.

He graduated from the College of Kent in 2017 with a B.A. in German. He additionally holds an NCTJ Diploma in Sports activities Journalism.