Jeremy Routier Frenchman Jeremy Routier has won the £2,200 United Kingdom & Ireland Poker Tour High Roller for £249,460 after defeating online crusher Roman Hrabec in heads-up play at the PokerStars European Poker Tour London at the Hilton Park Lane hotel.
Routier defeated a field of 701 entries to claim his first EPT title. This is the Frenchman’s second six figures score and biggest after €100,000 back in 2018 in his native France. After a long and gruelling final table Routier defeated online professional Hrabec heads ups taking advantage of the two-to-one chip lead he had going all in. Hrabec has almost $10,000,000 in online earnings but was unable to secure his first live tournament win. Roman Hrabec Would Not Win His First Big Live Tournament It was a grueling final day as 105 players returned for Day 2. The tournament featured over 700 entries which generated a prizepool of £1,345,920.
Many notable players returned for Day 2 but many big names fell early including the man of EPT Barcelona Francisco Benitez (89th £3,670) who wouldn’t add to his four final tables from the last EPT stop. Other notables who were eliminated were PokerStars TeamPro’s Parker Talbot (49th- £4,850) and Alejandro Lococo (28th- £6,400).
Other notable action which commenced before the final table included Leon Sturm (22nd- £8,460) triple barrel bluffing to be eliminated at the hands of Laszlo Molnar who flopped two pair. Gary Miller (11th -£18,540) who also eliminated as he flopped top pair and got it in against Neves’s pocket aces . Laszlo Molnar (10th- £18,540) was the final table bubble boy as he shoved ace six from the short stack only to run into Ian Gascoigne’s pocket queens to be eliminated. Winner’s Reaction
PokerNews asked Routier about his poker background after his first EPT win. Routier said he is a recreational player who works as a web designer for a french social media network and that he travels to EPT’s with his wife and two children on holidays. He also said he plays in a weekly €500 tournament every week in Paris where he lives.
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