The inaugural Bratislava Poker Festival was a roaring success, with players of all backgrounds traveling from far and wide to the Card Casino in the Slovakian capital city. Each of the schedule events saw prize pool surpass their guaranteed amount, with more than €1,300,000 won by players across the series.
A cool €102,000 of the total prize money awarded is now in the bank account of Greek grinder Alexandros Dimogiorgis, thanks to him taking down the €550 buy-in Grand Prix Main Event.
The tournament drew in 1,113 entrants, who created a €542,590 prize pool that the top 112 finishers shared.
The guarantee-busting prize pool meant none of the nine players at the final table walked away with less than €11,700 for their efforts. Germany's Dennis Magro, the third-place finisher in the 2022 WSOP Europe Mini Main Event, banked that sum when he fell in ninth.
Czech Republic star Jiri Stana claimed the €14,500 eighth-place prize, before Janos Somogyi of Hungary crashed out in seventh for €18,000. That was Somogyi's first-ever five-figure haul from a live poker tournament.
A cool €102,000 of the total prize money awarded is now in the bank account of Greek grinder Alexandros Dimogiorgis, thanks to him taking down the €550 buy-in Grand Prix Main Event.
The tournament drew in 1,113 entrants, who created a €542,590 prize pool that the top 112 finishers shared.
The guarantee-busting prize pool meant none of the nine players at the final table walked away with less than €11,700 for their efforts. Germany's Dennis Magro, the third-place finisher in the 2022 WSOP Europe Mini Main Event, banked that sum when he fell in ninth.
Czech Republic star Jiri Stana claimed the €14,500 eighth-place prize, before Janos Somogyi of Hungary crashed out in seventh for €18,000. That was Somogyi's first-ever five-figure haul from a live poker tournament.
