The €550 EPT Cup at the PokerStars European Poker Tour in Barcelona has come to an end with Dariusz Paszkiewicz as the winner. In the EPT Cup, the Pole made a three-way deal with Mickael Vongsonthi and [Removed:388], where he walked away with €157,550 and Vongsonthi and Benzerfa with €147,500 each.
Besides the bragging rights of winning the title, the $30,000 Platinum Pass was still up for grabs for the winner of the EPT Cup, and Paszkiewicz emerged victorious after ousting Vongsonthi heads-up. To make things even worse for Vongsonthi, he also lost the Crazy Pineapple Flipout earlier today heads-up to Rolando Camardese! Although winning €147,500 surely must have compensated for any negative feelings, losing out on the Platinum Pass heads-up both times had to be rough for the Frenchman.
The EPT Cup is always one of the most popular tournaments at the EPT and the 2018 edition in Barcelona was no different. A grand total of 3,287 signed up and took their seats on one of the three starting flights of this two-day tournament. 485 of them would finish in the money with the mincash worth €865, but a three-way bustout between Rocco Palumbo, Felipe Bozzetti Pasqual and Osvaldo Lewis split the last-place prize money three-way.
Notables that cashed included Peter Kamaras (6th - €39,830), Remi Castaignon (12th - €12,400), Antonina Anapolska (26th - €6,240), Erwann Pecheux (46th - €3,910), Julien Sitbon (65th - €3,280), and Dominik Panka (114th - €2,475). Rolando Camardese, who won the Platinum Pass at the start of the day, finished in 116th place (€2,475).
Timothy Adams made it 80,000 to go first to act and found one caller in Ahadpur Khangah in the cutoff. Although there was no action on the flop, that changed on the turn as Adams bet 125,000 and Khangah called. On the river, Adams made it 250,000 to go and Khangah folded.
Byron Kaverman chipped up without showdown and right after, Matthias Eibinger opened the action with a raise to 110,000. Ahadpur Khangah in the small blind called and the flop brought . Khangah checked and called a bet of 110,000.
After the turn, Khangah checked once more and faced a bet of 380,000, which he called after very brief consideration. Khangah then checked the on the river and Eibinger emptied the clip with a bet of 1.0 million. Khangah got out of the way and dropped below 2 million in chips.
On a flop Mikita Badziakouski check-called a bet of 100,000 from Matthias Eibinger.
The pair checked the turn and the river was the . Badziakouski checked and Eibinger bet 330,000 just as his time bank was running out. Badziakouski thought before calling.
Eibinger showed for king-high and Badziakouski won the pot with for a pair of eights.
Matthias Eibinger raised it up to 110,000 first to act and Benjamin Pollak three-bet all in for 230,000.
"Guys, finally, the chips are in," the Frenchman said and Cary Katz said "good luck" once he had folded in the small blind. Timothy Adams in the big blind reraised to 375,000 and Pollak stood up from his chair. Eibinger was still to act and took two time banks before electing to call.
The flop was checked and Adams also checked the on the turn. Eibinger's shot clock ran down to one second when he frantically placed a bet of 240,000, which forced out Adams.
Benjamin Pollak:
Matthias Eibinger:
The on the river was a blank and Pollak secured the triple up.
Matthias Eibinger opened to 110,000 from under the gun. Mikita Badziakouski called on the button and Cary Katz three-bet all in for 1,105,000. Eibinger used up one time extension before folding, before a clearly conflicted Badziakouski used up two time extensions before folding.
In the final minutes of the night, Ahadpur Khangah limped in and Matthias Eibinger in the big blind checked his option. There was no betting action on the flop and the turn. Eibinger checked and Khangah bet 115,000, the Austrian called and mucked when he was shown the by Khangah.
The last hand of the night brought a raise to 525 by Benjamin Pollak in the small blind and Byron Kaverman in the big blind had a decision.
"I will show you," Pollak said and stood up from his chair. Kaverman used one time bank and folded, he was shown the .