The World Poker Tour Prague has crowned Andrey Pateychuk as champion, he defeated Adria Balaguer heads-up to win a first prize of €450,000 plus a WPT bracelet to add to his EPT title.
The inaugural World Poker Tour Prague event began the Prague Poker Festival on December 1. In total, Andrey Panteychuk defeated a field of 568 players, winning the largest WPT event ever held in Europe. Here's how it happened:
Welcome to Prague
Ice sculptures welcome the players to WPT Prague at the players' party.
The Royal Flush girls, holding out for a spot on our next Hotshots Top 50.
Ready to shuffle up and deal!
The Main Event
Unfortunately sedrick (left) would bust before the money but vojtar (right) went on to finish 20th for €12,272
Tobias "pokernoob" Reinkemeier (left) scoops a pot; Moritz Kranich (right) ponders.
Final table chip leader Stanislav Kretz building a stack on Day 1B.
The final table
For a full recap of the final table action, click here.
Adria Balaguer with 1.315m in chips
Andrey Pateychuk with 2.31m in chips
Benjamin Pollak with 4.865m in chips
Russell Carson with 725k in chips
Stanislav Kretz with 6.3m in chips
Siguard Eskeland with 1.575m in chips
The road to victory
What they're all playing for. Well, that and €450,000.
The final six at WPT Prague, accompanied by beautiful women, naturally.
Eskeland spiked a queen on the flop against Pateychuk's jacks but the river delivered the Russian.
Heads-up for the WPT Prague title - Adria Balaguer (left) versus Andrey Pateychuk (right)
Pateychuk rivers a wheel to outdo Balaguer's queens in the last hand of WPT Prague.
Andrey Pateychuk, World Poker Tour Prague champion and €450,000 richer!
