2015 PokerStars.com EPT Season 12 Malta

€5,300 Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info

2015 PokerStars.com EPT Season 12 Malta

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
56
Prize
€534,300
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€3,157,350
Entries
651
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000

Natan Chauskin Wins €1,100 IPT7 Malta2 Main Event for €149,560

Level 3 : 100/200, 0 ante
Natan Chauskin
Natan Chauskin

While the PokerNews Live Reporting Team has been busying live reporting the High Rollers and Main Event from the European Poker Tour Malta, another event – the €1,100 IPT7 Malta2 Main Event – wrapped up at the Portomaso Casino.

That tournament attracted 947 participants from 57 countries, which created a prize pool of €918,590 that was distributed to the top 135 players. Among those to cash were Yann Dion (14th - €8,440), Hyunwoo Kang (32nd - €3,550), Gaelle Baumann (34th - €3,550), Matthias De Meulder (77th - €2,210), Luca Pagano (87th - €2,210), Marcin Wydrowski (123rd - €1,810), and Andrea Dato (134th - €1,810).

In the end, it was Natan Chauskin who finished as the last man standing to capture a €149,560 first-place prize, the result of a heads-up deal with EPT regular Govert Metaal, who had actually began the final table as the short stack.

The 27-year-old began the final table as chip leader and rode it all the way to heads-up play. When the deal was struck with Metaal, who was named the Netherland's 2013 Player of the Year, the two agreed to leave €20,000 on the table for the eventual champ, which ended up going to Chauskin along with a shiny new trophy.

"It's not the amount of money that changes my life," Chauskin said after the win. "Plus, I don't play just for the money, I play to become a sportstar, because poker is a sport, where the competition is the most important thing. I will play the EPT Main Event tomorrow and win it too."

According to PokerStars, Chauskin started the pokerbrothers.by coaching website with his friends Mikolai Vaskaboinikau and Jenya Gavrilovich just three months ago. In addition to Chauskin's win, Gavrilovich won the €2,000 NL tournament at EPT Barcelona for €75,300.

IPT7 Malta2 final table results

PlacePlayerCountryPrize
1Natan ChauskinBelarus€149,560*
2Govert MetaalNetherlands€124,000*
3Christopher BrammerUK€72,660
4David GomezSpain€54,570
5Joep RaemaekersUK€42,440
6Tobias GarpSweden€31,420
7James GroganIreland€22,500
8Denis TimofeevRussia€16,030

*denotes a heads-up deal

Here's a look back at the history of the IPT Malta Main Event:

EventField SizeWinnerCountryPrize
IPT2 Malta1385Michal PochlopekPoland€190,000
IPT2 Malta2237Giacomo LoccariniItaly€122,000
IPT3 Malta131Marco FigucciaItaly€82,000
IPT7 Malta11,285Georgios ZisimopoulosGreece€142,205
IPT7 Malta2947Natan ChauskinBelarus€149,560

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