EPT Final won by American Jeff Williams
March 13th, 2006 | Published in Tournaments
So the second season of the European Poker Tour ended over the weekend with the Final in Monte Carlo, and despite a European-dominated final table, the winner of the €900,000 prize was 19 year-old American college student and young Bobby Baldwin look-alike (according to Lee Jones) Jeff Williams.
Brad Willis has a great write up of the event at the Poker Stars blog.
Marcel Luske was an 11/4 favourite going in to the final table, but didn’t have any luck, eventually going out 7th when his pocket 8s were beaten by Marc Karam’s J7 after Karam hit runner-runner 7s on turn and river.
The prize pool of almost €3m was the biggest in European poker history and eleven of the twenty-seven players who finished in the money were British. Best story may be Irish Frequent Player Points qualifier Matthew Davey who went from second to last in chips on the final day to finish 12th, giving him a €33,500 pay day and giving the rest of us hope for next year.