Adrian Mateos won the first event at the EPT series in Prague. Adrian Mateos came out on top of a field of 61 entries in Event #1: €10,300 No-Limit Hold’em. The prize pool of the tournament was € 591,700, which was shared by 8 players. For the first place Adrian Mateos received € 177,500. It will be recorded as Mateos’ sixth PokerStars EPT victory to add to an already impressive poker resume. Mateos captured the EPT Monte Carlo Main Event title back in 2015 for a seven-figure payday along with the 2017 €50,000 8-Max in Monte Carlo for over €900,000. With this win, Mateos will close in on the $20 million career earnings mark which is impressive in its own right.
Mateos battled with Yakuba heads-up, who held the chip lead for the better part of the day. However, Mateos started the heads-up match with a two-to-one chip lead and never relinquished it. It was a surprising and abrupt end to the match after Mateos turned two pair. Yakuba turned a flush draw with two overcards to the board and still called off the last of his chips on the river with just king-high. For second place Anton received € 128,400, this is the largest prize in his career. Anton mostly plays online, but he has demonstrated that he can compete with some of the best players in a live game.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize (EUR) | Prize (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adrian Mateos | Spain | €177,500 | $196,304 |
| 2 | Anton Yakuba | Russia | €128,400 | $142,003 |
| 3 | Derek Ip | Hong Kong | €82,840 | $91,616 |
| 4 | Vladimir Troyanovskiy | Russia | €62,720 | $69,365 |
| 5 | Bertrand Grospellier | France | €48,520 | $53,660 |
| 6 | Tsugunari Toma | Japan | €37,870 | $41,882 |
| 7 | Orpen Kisacikoglu | Turkey | €30,180 | $33,377 |
| 8 | Arsenii Karmatckii | Russia | €23,670 | $26,178 |
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