With the elimination of Saar Wilf in ninth, the general table is about 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 general 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 most important 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 a variety of 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, adequate 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 by and large 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 just a little 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 money once or twice here in Monaco in this festival, including a profit the principle Event where he finished 146th. Two near-misses in high rollers, though, mean he'll be at liberty to say a type of eye-popping prizes up top here, specifically 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 various online scores at GM VALTER on PokerStars, among them an ideal 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 excellent finishes stretching back greater than a year, a time by which he's picked up a minimum of 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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