Team PokerStars' Sam Grafton Captures the €10,200 Mystery Bounty Title (€145,400)

After nearly 12 hours of play on Day 2, PokerStars ambassador Sam Grafton has topped a field of 74 entries to claim the title in the €10,200 Mystery Bounty event. The 2023 PokerStars EPT presented by Monte-Carlo Casino is well underway now, and the first winner has been crowned, pocketing Grafton a total of €145,400.

Grafton overcame a huge heads-up deficit in order to claim the victory, his first of 2023. Grafton was on the edge of defeat multiple times in his heads-up battle with Sam Greenwood but managed to avoid disaster each and every time. The big turning point for the British poker pro was a two-outer he hit with pocket threes against the pocket jacks of Greenwood. Grafton took a commanding lead after the big double-up and finished the match just moments later.

The two players embraced in a hug after the match, and Grafton admitted that he was very lucky to come out as the winner. "You deserved that one, Sam. Very unlucky, sorry about that." Grafton will take it any way he can as he joked earlier in the day that he was playing with the top 0.1% luckiest players in the world.

 

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It's really impressive that Sam was able to overcome such a challenge and hit that big hand late to swing the match in his favor. You've got to have nerves of steel to close out matches under that kind of pressure. Good for him for holding it together and getting the win in the end.