Liv Boeree Wins EPT San Remo

The PokerStars European Poker Tour in San Remo reached the final table, and Liv Boeree won the €1.25 million and the EPT title after defeating Jakob Carlsson in heads-up.

The European Poker Tour in San Remo sponsored by PokerStars played its final table on Wednesday, when 8 players sat down to play for the €1.25 million first place prize.

This was the largest EPT to date, as 1,240 players registered for this event, generating a prize pool of more than €6 million.

Jakob Carlsson started the day as chip leader with a stack of more than 13 million chips, while the second largest stack was a little over the 5 million mark.

Here is how the final table seating looked like at the start of the day:

• Seat 1: Claudio Piceci - 4,460,000
• Seat 2: Alexey Rybin - 1,890,000
• Seat 3: Atanas Gueorguiev - 2,520,000
• Seat 4: Jakob Carlsson - 13,525,000
• Seat 5: Giuseppe Diep - 1,830,000
• Seat 6: Liv Boeree - 3,440,000
• Seat 7: Toni Pettersson - 5,035,000
• Seat 8: Michael Piper - 4,600,000

Liv Boeree and Jakob Carlsson heads-up

Photo source: PokerStarsBlog

The play eventually reached the heads-up phase, and the initial chip leader Jakob Carlsson faced Liv Boeree (pictured right) for the €1,250,000 prize, the EPT trophy and a seat at the EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final which will start on the 25th of April.

Boeree had a stack of 23,215,000 while Carlsson was sitting at 13,965,000 when the heads-up started, but Boeree later on, she increased her lead even further.

In the final hand of the event, Boeree raised from the small blind with and Carlsson went all in holding . Boeree called and the board came and Jakob Carlsson was out in second place, earning €750,000.

"I can't believe I won", Liv Boeree told PokerStarsBlog. "This is incredible. Everyone today played so good. Jakob was the one person I didn't want to get heads-up against, he's such a good player. But I ran well and I played good."

Let's take a look at the final table payout:

EPT San Remo Final Table Results
Rank	Name	Prize
1st	Liv Boeree	€1,250,000
2nd	Jakob Carlsson	€750,000
3rd	Toni Pettersson	€420,000
4th	Michael Piper	€345,000
5th	Alexey Rybin	€270,000
6th	Giuseppe Diep	€210,000
7th	Claudio Piceci	€150,000
8th	Atanas Gueorguiev	€90,000