After the EPT Season 13 Barcelona €50,000 Super High Roller was completed, it was time for high rollers from around the world to enter the €25,000 Single-Day High Roller, yet another major event to be ever present on the EPT schedule. American poker pro Pratyush Buddiga won the tournament after a little less than 15 hours of play, collecting a €690,275 piece of the money pie.
In fact, Buddiga was not the player to scoop the biggest share of the overall prize pool. Under a three-way deal between the event’s last three survivors, David Yan took €704,755 for being the chip leader at that time and Andrey Shatilov collected a nice payout of €606,020.
Once the remaining portion of the prize pool was distributed to the three remaining players, they decided to play for the tournament trophy. It took them two all-in confrontations to determine the real champion.
During the first all-in hand Shatilov was eliminated and Yan was left with just 460,000 in chips. On the next, and very last hand for the tournament, Buddiga and Yan went all in again with the former holding [9d][7s] against his last opponent’s [8h][4h]. The board ran out [9c][6c][9h][Jd][10d], thus securing Buddiga with the trophy.
This has not been the fist time when the young player scooped a title from the EPT. During Season 11’s Malta stop, Biddiga topped the field of a €2,150 No-Limit Hold’em Turbo Six-Max event to collect a first-place prize of €65,650. With live tournament winnings of a little less than $5 million and multiple in-the-money finishes in some of the world’s most prestigious tournaments, the Colorado-based player is currently one of poker’s big names.
The EPT Season 13 Barcelona €25,000 Single-Day High Roller attracted a record field of 162 entries, 138 unique and 24 re-entries. The generated prize pool amounted to €4,042,500 and was distributed to the top 23 finishers, with minimum payouts starting from €46,900. Originally, the winner was to receive the amount of €939,900. However, as mentioned above, payouts were distributed in a slightly different manner among the last three finishers.
Tobias Reinkemeier from Germany took 4th place in the tournament to collect €347,650. EPT regular Steve O’Dwyer finished 5th, good for €278,900. Alex Komaromi from Uruguay received €216,250 for taking 6th place.
Canadian Parker Talbot scooped a €160,080 payout for finishing 7th. Rounding out the official final table, Sergey Lebedev from Russia collected €117,640. Fedor Holz, who took down the €50,000 Super High Roller a day earlier, 2014 WSOP Main Event champion Martin Jacobson, and UK poker pro Kully Sidhu were among the tournament entries that could not make it to the final table but got their share of the prize pool.
