European Masters of Poker attracts 311 to Varna, Bulgaria as title and €77,750 goes to Israel
The second leg of the European Masters of Poker (EMOP) was won at the weekend by Reuven Dayan from Israel who came out on top of the 311-strong field to take down the €77,750 first prize.
The €1,100 buy in event was held at the Golden Sands Resort, Varna, Bulgaria from Apr. 15 to 18 and created a total prize pool of €311,000. It attracted players from 18 different countries spanning the globe from Canada to Thailand.
Last month EMOP stopped off in Tallinn and attracted 248 players with Johanna Pyysing who took home €69,440.
The final table payouts for the Varna, Bulgaria, event were:
1. Reuven Dayan (ISR) -- €77,750
2. Matti Lindholm (FIN) -- €46,650
3. Maciej Swicarz (POL) -- €31,100
4. Simeon Naydenon (BUL) -- €18,660
5. Andrei Markov (BUL) -- €14,928
6. Johan Holmgren (SWE) -- €12,440
7. Ami Tayar (ISR) -- €10,574
8. Rade Jovanovski (BUL) -- €8,708
9. Jussi Juurika (FIN) -- €6,842
10. Petar Andonov (BUL) -- €5,598
The next stop on the tour is Prague, Czech Republic from June 25 to 28. Online qualifiers are being held now at Pinnaclesports.com
There are nine daily satellites to the €100 Sunday Main Qualifier and three daily satellites to the €100 Wednesday Main Qualifier. Each package to the EMOP is worth €1,800. The package consists of €1,100 for the tournament buy-in and €700 for travel and hotel expenses. Each Sunday a total of at least six packages are guaranteed in the prize pool and on Wednesdays four packages are guaranteed.
An additional benefit of the European Masters of Poker is the leader board competition where players can win additional prizes beside the regular prize pool. Five percent is taken from each tournaments prize pool and is placed in the leader board prize pool. The top 15 overall players will receive cash prizes after the five first tournaments.