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European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo
Josh Arieh made a great European Poker Tour debut with a 29th place finish
After being at or near the top of the chip count during the past three days of play at the European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo, Bodog pro Josh Arieh finally saw his tournament life come to an end early on day four when his pocket nines failed to hold up against his opponent’s J-10. The 29th place finish for Arieh earned him a cash of €26,550.
The EPT Grand Final was the two-time WSOP bracelet winner’s first ever EPT event, and with a field of 706 players, each who bought in at 10,000 Euros, the tournament became the richest poker event ever held outside the USA with a total prize pool of €6,636,400 ($8,821,000) up for grabs.
While Arieh has focused most of his poker efforts lately playing online poker at Bodog rather than in live tournaments, he was in top form in Monte Carlo and let his presence be known almost immediately among the international field that included many of America’s best and brightest and the ever growing contingency of young Scandinavians who continue to dominate the European poker scene.
On day one, Arieh finished among the leaders, and he carried that momentum into day two, becoming the chipleader mid-day and finishing that evening with the second biggest stack. By the third day, Arieh was clearly one of the favorites but a late hit to his stack put him in jeopardy heading into day four. Feeling the need to make a move early on yesterday, Arieh made an unfortunate play against pocket aces, and with his stack below 100,000, he soon found himself all-in preflop with pocket nines. Denmark’s Phillip Hilm gave him the call with J-10, and a flop of Q-9-3 gave Arieh false hope as he setted his nines but giving Hilm the open-ended draw, which the Dane hit when an 8 came on the turn.
Europe’s biggest tournament is now down to the final table with just eight players remaining and some big names still in the hunt for the €1,825,010 first prize, including current chipleader Gavin Griffin of the U.S., top Irish pro Andy Black, Canadian Marc Karam, England’s Ram Vaswani and noted Scandinavian player Soren Kongsgaard.
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