Prague – European Poker Tournaments
Dates
Season Four – 10 – 14 December 2007
Venue
The Gold Prague Poker Room is located inside the Hilton Prague Hotel which is situated within the centre of this gorgeous city with its magnificent architecture dating back to medieval times. The venue is a 15 minute walk from both the Old Square and the famed Wenceslas Square.
Getting there
The venue is situated just 200m from the Metro Station Florenc.
Contact Details
The Gold Prague Poker Room, Hilton Prague Hotel, Pobrezni 1, Prague, Czech Republic 18600
Telephone – +420 002 561 223
Email – fabric@goldenpraguepoker.cz
Structure
For the structure of EPT Prague please go to our 'Structures of the European Poker Tour' page.
Results
The first EPT event ever to be held in the Czech capital was won by 28 year old Parisian, Arnaud Mattern. The heads-up went right down to the wire but the Frenchman got the better of his Italian rival, Gino 'El Diablo' Alacqua, to claim his maiden EPT win and €708 400.
The tournament was very well represented by over 550 players form 36 countries around the globe, but it took a complete rookie, and a backgammon champ to boot, to clinch the big one. Mattern joins two other Frenchmen who have triumphed at the EPT since its inception in 2004 - Jan Boubli who won EPT Barcelona Season 2 and Pascal eptpascal.html who claimed EPT Vienna in the inaugural season.
Conrad Brunner, PokerStars' Head of Communications, EMEA, said: "For a new event, the Prague EPT has been an outstanding success. Europe's top players have put on a real show, and great credit must go to Mattern for winning against a top class field. Mattern's victory in Prague catapults him to the top of the French EPT leader board."
Mattern had AK, and paired the king on the turn, beating the hapless Italian who carried a Q10. Alacqua, a 46 year old antique dealer who has already won a major event this year – the Campione d'Italia Main Event - and was runner-up at the 2006 Italian Championship claims he came to Prague to find love, but instead he walked away with a very tidy €407 300 for his efforts at the table.
"This is the best result I've ever had. I did win the French Backgammon Championship but that was only €5,000! It was a very tough final table and, during the heads-up, Gino picked up a lot of good cards but I just picked my spot and my good hands stood up," said Mattern.
Final Table
- Arnaud Mattern (France) - €708 400
- Gino Alacqua (Italy) – €407 300
- Kristian Kjondal (Norway) – €235 300
- Juha Lauttmaas (Finland) – €182 200
- Markus Gosler (Austria) – €151 800
- Nedzib Suman (Switzerland) – €119 000
- Dag Palovic (Slovakia) – €93 600
- Mikhail Norinder (Switzerland) – €63 200
- Johannes Strassman (Germany) - €39 200
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