Seat 8: Benoît “beubeu08bg“ Gury, 35, Ardennes, France (5,610,000)
Gury discovered poker in 2008 during an evening with friends. He started playing live cash games and, motivated by his success, then started playing on PokerStars. He also started watching a lot of videos, including EPT finals.
Benoit was absolutely passionate about his new hobby and, at the end of 2009 he started playing live tournaments, where he also performed well. But the turning point in his poker career was when he qualified for the 2012 French TV show “Direct Poker” and then won it. He said: “Playing poker on TV, it is very stressful! Everything happens very quickly ... but it's great!”
Gury’s prize was a sponsorship contract with PokerStars.fr worth $100,000 in tickets for EPTs, France Poker Series tourneys and the French Championship of Online Poker. His biggest cash before now was making the final of a PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino EPT Grand Final €1k side event.
*Courtesy of PokerStars