Inaugural 2023 EPT Paris has crowned a winner at the Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile. Out of 1,606 players that entered the €5,300 Main Event, it was t…
Inaugural 2023 EPT Paris has crowned a winner at the Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile. Out of 1,606 players that entered the €5,300 Main Event, it was t…
Inaugural 2023 EPT Paris has crowned a winner at the Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile. Out of 1,606 players that entered the €5,300 Main Event, it was the online qualifier Razvan Belea who raised a trophy for the win and picked up a €1,170,000 money prize along the way, beating Peter Jorgne in heads-up.
The Romanian was the chip leader at the start of Day 5 when 15 players were left, at the start of the Final Table and at the start of the Day 6 with 5 players left, so it’s a much-deserved win as he plowed through the Sunday’s final table. RazvyQQ as he goes online, is a strong online tournament player with close to $400,000 profit. He qualified on PokerStars through $530 buy-in satellite.
“This is unreal,” Belea said in an interview after his win. “It’s all I ever dreamed of since I started playing poker. I was watching EPTs and now I am a champion. I don’t know what to say, I’m a bit emotional. I followed my dream from the beginning, studied a lot, a lot of hours behind the computer. Everything is possible.”
Third place finisher was Fabrice Bigot, who won the WPT Prime Paris just a few weeks before the start of European Poker Tour. He upgraded his €177,240 money prize to €535,850.
Place | Player | Country | Prize |
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1 | Razvan Belea | Romania | €1,170,000 |
2 | Peter Jorgne | Sweden | €780,100 |
3 | Fabrice Bigot | France | €535,850 |
4 | Brian Delaney | United Kingdom | €412,200 |
5 | Henri Kasper | Estonia | €317,050 |
6 | Konstantin Held | Germany | €244,000 |
7 | Denzel Spekman | Netherlands | €187,650 |
8 | Johan Schultz-Pedersen | Denmark | €144,300 |
9 | Mehdi Chaoui | Morocco | €111,000 |