After winning the EPT Grand Final High Roller event and €525,000 a few days ago, ElkY also won the €10,000 + €300 NL Turbo High Roller tournament for €153,000 yesterday.
ElkY tweeted ""Won the 10k turbo @ EPT Madrid for 153k€. Tournament of champions tomorrow, 2 in a row for the 1st time?"
This latest cash pushes Grospellier to nearly $8 million in live tournament winnings.Brian Hastings, primarily an online high stakes PLO player, finally made his first live cash by taking second in the EPT Madrid's €5,000 Heads-Up side event. Hastings collected €46,200 for finishing second losing a tough heads-up match to fellow American Andrew "luckychewy" Lichtenberger, who took home €70,000.
In the Champion of Champions event, the 50 former EPT champions each began play today with 100,000 chips with rapid-fire 20 minute levels taking to ensure a single winner later Friday night where €100,000 in future EPT buy-ins will go to the top four finishers.
1st place - EPT8 Passport worth €50,000
2nd place - EPT8 Passport worth €25,000
3rd place - EPT8 Passport worth €15,000
4th place - EPT8 Passport worth €10,000
Notable players entered:
- Rob Hollink
- Pascal Perrault
- Brandon Schaefer
- Alexander Stevic
- Jeff Williams
- Mats Iremark
- Jan Boubli
- Peter Jepsen
- Andreas Hoivold
- Roland de Wolfe
- Thang Duc Nguyen
- Vicky Coren
- Bjorn-Erik Glenne
- Glen Chorny
- Jason Mercier
- Michael Schulze
- Tim Vance
- Mike McDonald
- Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier
- Arnaud Mattern
- Joseph Mouawad
- Pieter de Korver
- Constant Rijkenberg
- Sandra Naujoks
- Jens Kyllönen
- João Barbosa
- Will Fry
- Nicolas Chouity
- Liv Boeree
- Anton Wigg
- Jan Skampa
- Antonio Matias
- Christophe Benzimra
- Aaron Gustavson
- Carter Phillips
- Galen Hall
- Roberto Romanello
- Kent Lundmark
- Michael Eiler
- David Vamplew
- Kevin Stani
- Ben Wilinofsky
- Vladimir Geshkenbein
- Noah Boeken
- Maxim Lykov
- and others
