With the elimination of Saar Wilf in ninth, the overall table is ready for the €25K High Roller on the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino European Poker Tour Grand Final. Here is a have a look at the overall eight players who made it this removed from the 231-entry field.
Seat 1: Imad Derwiche, France, 465,000
Derwiche returns to the general table of the €25K EPT Grand Final for a second-straight year here in Monaco, with the Frenchman this time hoping to do one better than his runner-up finish to Charlie Carrell a year ago. Derwiche earned a fab €750,000 for that finish, an amount representing about two-thirds of his career tournament earnings of $1.23 million.
Imad Derwiche
Seat 2: Alexandros Kolonias, Greece, 1,445,000
Greek player Kolonias has only a few live scores on his tournament résumé, the biggest previous coming within the $25K High Roller on the 2015 PCA where he finished 39th. His only other recorded final table was in a €1K event in a Greek Poker Cup series in Loutraki, so he'll hope to make a primary one here. Meanwhile online he's racked up quite a few accomplishments, including earning a SCOOP title in 2014 in a $530+R six-handed NLHE event.
Alexandros Kolonias
Seat 3: Zvi Stern, Israel, 1,485,000
Stern is a 37-year-old poker pro from Israel best known for his November Nine appearance in last fall's 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event where he ultimately finished fifth for a $1,911,423 prize. That represents the majority of his just over $2 million in career tourney earnings, ok for second all-time among Israeli players behind his fellow November Niner Amir Lehavot.
Zvi Stern
Seat 4: Eddy Maksoud, Lebanon, 1,010,000
The Lebanese Maksoud cashed in most cases Event this week (finishing 113th), pushing his career lifetime earnings over the $530K-mark. His biggest career score came from winning the 2013 Merit Winterfest in Kyrenia, good for $135,850.
Eddy Maksoud
Seat 5: Alexandru Papazian, Romania, 1,710,000
Hailing from Romania, Papazian has earned somewhat under $200K lifetime in tournaments thus far, including a few cashes here in Monaco. Last week he made the cash within the €10K High Roller where he finished 19th, and has already ensured a deeper run and larger payday on this one, regardless of where he finishes.
Alexandru Papazian
Seat 6: Max Silver, UK, 2,725,000
British pro Silver has a UKIPT Dublin title under his belt, numerous WSOP and EPT cashes, and greater than $2.3 million in total tournament earnings since 2010. The 25-year-old made the cash once or twice here in Monaco in this festival, including a profit the primary Event where he finished 146th. Two near-misses in high rollers, though, mean he'll be at liberty to assert a type of eye-popping prizes up top here, particularly the €1,197,000 one awaiting the winner.
Max Silver
Seat 7: Rafael Da Silva Moraes, Brazil, 790,000
The lone South American left, Rafael Da Silva Moraes had a breakout year in 2015 earning three cashes on the WSOP, then three more in Brazilian Series of Poker events including a third-place finish within the BSOP High Roller in Sao Paulo in July. Moraes also has a lot of online scores at GM VALTER on PokerStars, among them an excellent Tuesday win in 2014.
Rafael Da Silva Moraes
Seat 8: Anthony Zinno, USA, 1,120,000
With this final-table showing, Boston poker pro Zinno continues a run of wonderful finishes stretching back greater than a year, a time through which he's picked up at least three World Poker Tour titles, a WSOP bracelet, and another €5K event title at EPT12 Malta. He also final-tabled the €10K High Roller here last week, taking sixth, so as to add to his greater than $5.5 million lifetime in tournaments.
Anthony Zinno
And here is what they're playing for...
| 1 | €1,197,000 |
| 2 | €805,900 |
| 3 | €568,200 |
| 4 | €460,700 |
| 5 | €364,500 |
| 6 | €276,750 |
| 7 | €202,050 |
| 8 | €147,710 |
Read More... [Source: PokerStarsBlog.com :: European Poker Tour]
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