Cates Beats Troyanovskiy to Snag EPT12 Prague 8-Game Trophy
A couple days back, Dan "Jungleman" Cates has beaten Russian EPT regular Vladimir Troyanovskiy — who is playing in this tournament — heads up to take down the EPT12 Prague €5,000 8-Game tourney. Cates has now added another €26,675 to his total live tournament winnings of $3.2 million.
Troyanovskiy took €16,005 for second with German player Tobias Hausen finishing third for €10,670. Cates’ best live result to date came in Season 10 when he was runner-up to Dan Colman in the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino EPT Grand Final Super High Roller for €1,283,700. There were only 11 players in the Prague 8-Game, but it was a stacked field including EPT Player of the Year Dzmitry Urbanovich, Jussi Nevanlinna, Stephen Chidwick and WPT Player of the Year Anthony Zinno.