William Kassouf and Patrick Serda Chop €10,300 EPT Prague High Roller

The last ever European Poker Tour €10,300 High Roller has come to an end, and it was a record-breaking one here at the Hilton Hotel in Prague. A total of 407 entries smashed the result of last year in the Czech capital. When it was all settled William Kassouf posed for the winner photos, while Patrick Serda took home the first prize cash of €719,000 after the two made a deal at the final table.

Serda held a four-to-one chip lead over Kassouf, but the duo eventually agreed on a deal that saw Serda take home the lion’s share of the prize pool so Kassouf could celebrate his birthday with the trophy and the title. Kassouf receives €532,500, the honor of being the last ever EPT High Roller champion and the winner picture as part of the deal.

Final Result EPT13 Prague High Roller

*denotes deal

The first level saw two casualties in EPT12 Grand Final High Roller champion Alexandru Papazian and Steven Thompson Vila. Papazian first lost a big flip with ace-jack against the pocket nines of Patrick Serda and bowed out one hand later.

Paul Hoefer and Vlado Banicevic followed next. Hoefer called the blind-on-blind shove of Adrian Mateos with king-ten suited and Mateos only had nine-six suited, but a six appeared on the flop. Banicevic called all in out of the big blind when Mateos opened and Viliyan Petleshkov three-bet shoved the button. Mateos folded, Petleshkov had nine-ten suited and Banicevic pocket queens. The flop gave Banicevic middle set and the Bulgarian a flush draw, a third on the heart completed the flush.

Oliver Weis and Viacheslav Goryachev were the next to fall and the last two tables were set. Glib Kovtunov started the day second in chips, but eventually had to settle for 16th place. Kovtunov flat-called a raise by Serda on the button with ace-jack and spiked top pair, then called down three …

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