RPT Kiev in 2013 Started with a Rush

In the Ukrainian capital began this year's first big poker tournament - RPT Kiev Poker Festival, which takes place in the framework of a number of series , including this traditional RPT Kiev , as well as two " exit " of Event - ESPT and LPT ( Lebanese Poker Tour ) .

According to another tradition, the early days of the poker festival brought us a series of satellites to major tournaments and crowned start - Ukrainian Open poker with very democratic buy-in of € 250 bounty mode.

As a result, start left 246 participants who for two days ( although initially it was planned to play for only one day , but the high number of participants changed the plans of the organizers ) , found out the winner of the tournament , which, though not an official championship , but also competitors of a similar level does not yet have .

And became the champion Sergei Davydov, who won the heads-up in Chulpan Garaeva. For winning the tournament Sergey got 7,500 euros out of a total prize fund of 31,000 euros. Note that the prizes were just 27 players.

Final Table Payouts:

1. Sergei Davydov             € 7,500

2. CHulpan Garayev          € 4,900

3. Ruslan Nazarenko         € 3,900

4. Alisher Mamadiyarov    € 3,400

5. Roman Afanassenko     € 2,450

6. Sergey Menshikov        € 1,700

7. Kirill Izotov                  € 1,050

8. Bagrat Agopyan           € 850

9. Sergey Klimenko         € 600

Malta awaits finalists:

After graduating from Ukrainian championship in Kiev it was time series ESPT (European Synchronized Poker Tour), which will debut on the CIS space, but in Europe is quite famous brand.

Represent the series as a whole and lead poker festival, was invited by a famous Italian poker figure Nicola Raffaele Di Maria, with whom he came and a number of European players, particularly solid poker troops arrived from Italy.

Feature of this tournament is that it is held simultaneously in several European countries (this year 10 - Ukraine, Czech Republic, Austria, Slovenia, Montenegro, Italy, Spain, Morocco, Malta and San Marino).

And in this case consists of six stages, each of which, in turn, is divided into two competitions - qualifying and, a month later, the final total for the best players.

Thus, using a modest buy-in - 550 euro - formed a significant prize fund for the final tournament, which has already exhibited a guarantee of 300 thousand euros.

No wonder that Kiev was the hype surrounding the tournament ESPT. This year 's series finale will be held in late February in Malta , and many participants in the tournament would gladly went there , which provided 309 registrations for the two starting days .

Under the terms of the series in the final part out 3% of participants qualifying stage , therefore , the road to Malta provided only final table (9 people ), although the area ITM starts with 31 th place .

While payouts to players from the 31st to 10th place are formed only by 'local' fees, and therefore they were very modest.

But back to those nine participants who failed to qualify for Malta. Surprisingly, but was not among them guests from abroad, but managed to get a tour to Malta two prominent "pro" team Jokerteam - Dmitry Vitkind Garik Yaroshevskii.

Apart from them in pursuit of the final prize will go solid 7 more less known to the general public players?

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