Pieter De Korver makes epic comeback, wins EPT Monte Carlo!
- Filed under: EPT, High Stakes News, Poker
- Date: May 4,2009
Final table started with Dag Martin Mikkelsen leading the group and after only one player out of the game it seemed like game was all over. Mikkelsen knocked out Peter Traply, who started the final second in chips, and Daniel Zink. At that point Mikkelsen looked like too much to handle for other players.
Then Russian Mikhail Tulchinskiy took the centre stage. He knocked shortstacks Alem Shah and Eric Qu, but Mikkelsen still had a huge lead. Meanwhile, Pieter De Korver (pictured) had only 400,000 left and with blinds at 80,000-160,000 it looked like his tournament was going to end soon.
However, De Korver used his remaining chips well and tripled up with Q-4 and he was back in the game. De Korver started to shove repeatedly and repeatedly won. He completed his remarkable comeback in a hand against Mikkelsen, where the Dane moved all-in against De Korver, but the Dutch was not laying down his full house.
That hand vaulted De Korver to the lead and Mikkelsen was soon eliminated by Matthew Woodward, a PokerStars qualifier from USA. Woodward ousted Tulchinskiy and the heads-up started with De Korver leading only with a slight margin.
The pair battled close to an hour until both player flopped a middle pair and De Korver moved all-in. Woodward made the call only to see that De Korver had better kicker and the victory in his sight, but Woodward had a flush draw to go with his pair. Needless to say that Woodward missed his outs and De Korver was crowned the new EPT Monte Carlo Champion.
Final table payouts of EPT Monte Carlo:
- Pieter de Korver, Holland, €2,300,000
- Matthew Woodward, USA, €1,300,000
- Mikhail Tulchinskiy, Russia, €800,000
- Dag Martin Mikkelsen, Norway, €600,000
- Eric Qu, France, €470,000
- Alem Shah, Germany, €350,000
- Daniel Zink, Germany, €250,000
- Peter Traply, Hungary, €170,000
Source: pokerstarsblog
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