Japan's Sho Homma Banks Huge €454,385 Score at PokerStars EPT Prague
Between September 2021 and June 2025, Japanese poker player Sho Homma had amassed $288,845 in live tournament earnings. His best result came in February 2025, when he finished 10th in the $3,500 World Poker Tour (WPT) Cambodia Championship, earning $38,500. Now Homma can boast of a €454,385 ($529,136) prize after he took down the €2,700 PokerStars Open High Roller at the European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague festival.
A field of 1,115 entrants created a €2,703,875 prize pool shared by the top 167 finishers. Seasoned grinders, including Tobias Leknes, Davidi Kitai, James Akenhead, Tobias Peters, Richard Trigg, Benjamin Chalot, Timothy Chung, and Jon Kyte, all saw a return on their investment.
Payouts started at €4,200, with each of the final table's nine players guaranteed to take home at least €42,060 for their efforts.
€2,700 PokerStars Open High Roller Final Table Results
| Rank | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sho Homma | Japan | €454,385 |
| 2 | Pasi Sormunen | Finland | €284,130 |
| 3 | Vahe Martirosyan | Armenia | €202,950 |
| 4 | Murilo Garcia Pedroso | Brazil | €156,120 |
| 5 | Alan Ferraro | Argentina | €120,090 |
| 6 | Petar Kalev | Bulgaria | €92,370 |
| 7 | Tomas Bulksas | Latvia | €71,070 |
| 8 | Mario Navarro | Spain | €54,660 |
| 9 | Luca Guglielmoni | Italy | €42,060 |
Italian Luca Guglielmoni, fresh from cashing in the €5,300 EPT Malta Main Event in October, busted in ninth for €42,060, the second-largest score of his career.
Spain's Mario Navarro and Latvia's Tomas Bulksas also secured career-best payouts when they collected €54,660 and €71,070 for their eighth and seventh-place finishes, respectively.
Sixth place and €92,370, the last five-figure prize of this tournament, went to Petar Kalev. You may recall that Kalev finished eighth in the 2023 edition of the $25,000 PokerStars Players Championship (PSPC), which came with a €621,300 haul.
The first of five six-figure sums, namely €120,090, is now nestled in the bankroll of Argentina's Alan Ferraro. This was the second $100,000+ prize the Argentinian has enjoyed in his career; he now has live tournament earnings approaching $1 million.
It has been quite a couple of months for Murilo Garcia Pedroso. After cashing three times at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe, including a third-place finish in the €10,350 Main Event that earned him €525,000, Pedroso collected €156,120 in this event after coming unstuck in fourth place.
A cool €202,950, a new career-high, went to Armenia's Vahe Martirosyan. Those with good memories will likely remember that Martirosyan was the fourth-place finisher in the EPT Sochi Main Event back in March 2018, a result that earned him $153,630.
Heads-up pitted Japan's Homma against Finland's Pasi Sormunen, the latter finishing fifth in the 2013 edition of the €5,300 EPT Barcelona Main Event. No deal was struck despite a €170,255 difference in prize money. The lack of a deal meant Sormunen had to make do with a €284,130 consolation prize after losing the one-on-one battle with Homma, who scooped a career-defining €454,385.
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