Jean-Baptiste Pano Continues Impressive PokerStars EPT Prague Form
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The 2025 PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague festival is nearing its conclusion, but Jean-Baptiste Pano does not want it to end. Earlier this week, Pano finished fourth in the €825 PokerStars Open Cup for a career-best €112,500 score. A few days later, Pano came out on top of the €2,100 No-Limit Hold'em Single Re-Entry event for his first Spadie trophy and another €75,020 in prize money.
Pano's live results date back only to October 2024. Until the EPT Prague festival, Pano had accumulated $42,935 in winnings in the live arena, but he now has more than a quarter of a million dollars on his Hendon Mob profile.
The Frenchman was one of 167 entrants (32 re-entries) in this event. Those buy-ins resulted in a €320,640 prize pool that the top 23 finishers shared.
Jamie Dwan was the first in-the-money casualty, his 23rd-place finish coming with a €3,720 prize. Others who cashed but fell short of a final table appearance included Ognyan Dimov (17th - €4,920), Endrit Geci (15th - €5,660), and Pasi Sormunen (13th - €6,510), the latter finishing second in the €2,700 PokerStars Open High Roller for €284,130 only a couple of days ago.
€2,100 NLHE Single Re-Entry Final Table Results
| Rank | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jean-Baptiste Pano | France | €75,020 |
| 2 | Denis Gergoc | Switzerland | €46,880 |
| 3 | Walter Van Camberg | Belgium | €33,480 |
| 4 | Harel Stern | Israel | €25,760 |
| 5 | Anton Bergstrom | Sweden | €19,810 |
| 6 | Antoine Saout | France | €15,240 |
| 7 | Adam Reynolds | United Kingdom | €12,390 |
| 8 | Ryoji Kusumoto | Japan | €10,320 |
| 9 | Julien Groenendijk | Netherlands | €8,600 |
The final table was a cosmopolitan affair, with representatives from eight different countries seated across the nine seats. Netherlands' Julien Groenendijk was the first to fall, followed by Japan's Ryoji Kusumoto, who recorded his third cash and second final table of this EPT Prague stop.
Adam Reynolds of the United Kingdom busted in seventh, with Antoine Saout, who recently broke through $10 million in winnings, coming unstuck in sixth.
The 2024 EPT Prague Main Event fifth-place finisher, Anton Bergstrom, fell in fifth and will take €19,810 back to his native Sweden. Israel's Harel Stern, who had just €160 in cashes before this event, was eliminated in fourth, a finish good for €25,760.
The tournament progressed to heads-up once Walter Van Camberg of Belgium ran out of steam; he collected €33,480. Heads-up pitted Pano against up-and-coming Swiss star Denis Gergoc in what was essentially a €28,140 one-on-one battle. Pano came out on top and claimed the €75,020 top prize, leaving Gergoc to bank €46,880, which is the third-largest score of his relatively new career.
Full PokerStars EPT Prague Results
The €454,385 that Japan's Sho Homma scooped for his victory in the €2,700 PokerStars Open High Roller is still the largest single prize awarded at the festival thus far. However, that will change once the €5,300 EPT Prague Main Event crowns its champion because that lucky winner will walk away with a cool €1,019,300.
A special mention has to go to Malta-based Italian Enrico Camosci, who has gotten his hands on a brace of titles in high roller events. First, Camosci triumphed in the €20,000 No-Limit Hold'em event for €85,690 and followed that up with a first-place finish in the €25,000 No-Limit Hold'em event for €66,419. There may have only been a combined 11 entrants across those two tournaments, but you can only beat what is in front of you in this game.
Star-Studded Cast Vying for a €1,019,300 Score
PokerNews' attention turns to the €5,300 EPT Prague Main Event, which has progressed to Day 3. The 1,224-strong crowd has been whittled to a more manageable 163, with each of those returnees guaranteed at least €8,350 for their efforts.
India's Paawan Bansal (850,000) is the man to catch at the start of Day 3, closely followed by Terry Jordon (845,000), and Jeffrey Sarwer (816,000). Other big stacks include Tobias Peters (789,000), Ole Schemion (728,000), Ryan Mandara (694,000), and Conor O'Driscoll (540,000).
Also still in the mix are the likes of Uri Gilboa (456,000), Jakub Michalak (439,000), Maria Lampropulos (363,000), Anton Wigg (223,000), Dimitar Danchev (215,000), the aforementioned Enrico Camosci (154,000), and Davidi Kitai (74,000).
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