[SS] “Here are the career leaders in earnings, cashes, final tables, and titles at the end of the European Poker Tour’s eleventh complete season. { Note: updated below }

EPT Career Earnings

Rank	Player	Earnings
1	Bertrand Grospellier	$5,794,666
2	Jason Mercier	$5,792,782
3	Scott Seiver	$5,681,622
4	Steve O’Dwyer	$5,455,589
5	Mike McDonald	$5,177,101
6	Igor Kurganov	$4,881,439
7	Tobias Reinkemeier	$4,406,326
8	Philipp Gruissem	$4,100,541
9	Martin Finger	$4,087,326
10	Olivier Busquet	$4,065,442

Notes:

• Other notable players in the top 20: Eugene Katchalov (12th: $3,874,218), Daniel Negreanu (14th: $3,703,145), Erik Seidel (17th: $3,555,153), and Daniel Colman (19th: $3,469,849).
• The top three women are Vanessa Selbst (11th: $3,959,891), Victoria Coren Mitchell (55th: $2,062,619) and Liv Boeree (59th: $1,995,160).

EPT Career Cashes

Rank	Player	Cashes
1	Konstantin Puchkov	72
2	Marcin Horecki	47
3	Pierre Neuville	45
4	Jan Bendik	43
5	Roberto Romanello	40
	Bertrand Grospellier
7	Mihails Morozovs	39
8	Rumen Nanev	38
9	Ole Schemion	37
10	Andrew Chen	36
	Alexander Orlov

Notes:

• Romanello and Grospellier are the only players on this list who have won an EPT title.
• Ana Laura Marquez Esteban leads all women with 24 Cashes (tied for 72nd). Florence Allera has 22 (tied for 89th).

EPT Career Final Tables

Rank	Player	Final Tables
1	Konstantin Puchkov	31
2	Ole Schemion	25
3	Marcin Horecki	23
	Juha Helppi
5	Jan Bendik	21
6	Mihails Morozovs	20
	Mike McDonald
	Alexander Orlov
	Bryn Kenney
10	Anton Wigg	19
	Andrew Chen
	Steve O’Dwyer
	Dario Alioto
	Marcel Luske

Notes:

• EPT final tables consist of eight players.
• Despite leading in both Cashes and Final Tables, Konstantin Puchkov ranks only 164nd in Earnings ($1,173,368).
• McDonald, Wigg, and O’Dwyer are the only players on this list who have won an EPT title.
• Vanessa Selbst leads all women with 13 Final Tables (tied for 47th). Victoria Coren Mitchell has 10 (tied for 79th).
• The United States has reached the final table the most times, followed by the United Kingdom and France.

EPT Career Titles

Victoria Coren Mitchell is the only player with two EPT titles, having taken down the EPT London Main Event on September 24, 2006 and the EPT Sanremo Main Event on April 20, 2014.

Notes:

• Sandra Naujoks (2009 EPT German Open) and Liv Boeree (2010 EPT Sanremo) are the only other women to win an EPT main event.
• The United States and United Kingdom are currently tied with 16 winners each, three ahead of Germany.”

[LL] “Epic Poker Tables, Stan!” Leroy the Lion admired.

{ December 28, 2016: Final Update. With the EPT being rebranded as PokerStars Championships in 2017, the above Top Ten tables have been updated one last time below. }

Final EPT Career Earnings

Rank	Player	Earnings
1	Steve O’Dwyer	$9,608,236
2	Ole Schemion	$6,725,657
3	Mike McDonald	$6,461,551
4	Igor Kurganov	$6,349,727
5	Scott Seiver	$6,030,039
6	Mustapha Kanit	$6,001,495
7	Jason Mercier	$5,980,237
8	Bertrand Grospellier	$5,855,951
9	Martin Finger	$5,423,635
10	Bryn Kenney	$5,042,835

Final EPT Career Cashes

Rank	Player	Cashes
1	Konstantin Puchkov	87
2	Pierre Neuville	67
3	Jan Bendik	63
4	Georgios Zisimopoulos	58
5	Marcin Horecki	57
6	Mike McDonald	56
7	Atanas Kavrakov	55
8	Ole Schemion	54
9	Steve O’Dwyer	52
	Andrew Chen

Final EPT Career Final Tables

Rank	Player	Final Tables
1	Konstantin Puchkov	38
2	Ole Schemion	35
3	Steve O’Dwyer	32
4	Tobias Hausen	29
	Marcin Horecki
	Jan Bendik
7	Georgios Zisimopoulos	28
	Alexander Orlov
	Mike McDonald
10	Juha Helppi	27

[SS] “The EPT Grand Final¹ has always had a 10,000-euro buy-in, but its rake has slowly crept up from 0 to 300 to 600 euros”, Stan the Stat continued. “The tournament originally ended the EPT season in March, but that has been in late April or early May since 2009.

European Poker Tour Grand Final Champions

Year	Winner	Prize	Players	Cashed	Runner Up
2005	Rob Hollink	$845,190	211	27	Brandon Schaefer
2006	Jeff Williams	$1,084,037	298	27	Arshad Hussain
2007	Gavin Griffin	$2,434,060	706	64	Marc Karam
2008	Glen Chorny	$3,196,354	842	64	Denes Kalo
2009	Pieter De-Korver	$3,024,167	935	88	Matt Woodward
2010	Nicolas Chouity	$2,263,166	848	128	Josef Klinger
2011	Ivan Freitez-Rosales	$2,226,345	686	104	Torsten Brinkmann
2012	Mohsin Charania	$1,782,343	665	96	Lucille Cailly
2013	Steve O’Dwyer	$1,604,972	531	80	Andrew Pantling
2014	Antonio Buonanno	$1,715,526	650	95	Jack Salter
2015	Adrian Mateos2	$1,211,836	564	79	Muhyedine Fares
2016	Jan Bendik3	$1,096,568	1,098	159	Adrien Allain

Notes:

• Three Americans have won the EPT Grand Final — Williams, Griffin, and Charania — but you could also include O’Dwyer, who moved to Ireland after the major online poker sites shut down in the U.S. on Black Friday. No other country has won more than twice; Hollink and De-Korver both hail from the Netherlands.
• 2007 runner-up Marc Karam is the only player who has reached the final table multiple times, finishing 4th the year before. Ben Grundy almost matched him, finishing 7th in 2005 and bubbling (9th) the following year.⁴
• 2012 runner-up Frenchwoman Lucille Cailly is the only female to make the final table.
• The 2008 event featured the largest first prize in EPT history ($3,196,354), but the following year had the most players (935).
• After paying fewer than 10% of the players from 2006 to 2009, including a low of 7.6% in 2008, the EPT has rewarded about 15% of the field since 2010.

European Poker Tour Grand Final Final Hands

Year	Winner	Hand	Value	Runner Up	Hand	Value	Board
2005	Rob Hollink	J♠8♠	Two Pairs, Jacks and 8s	Brandon Schaefer	K♦7♠	Pair of Kings	K♣9♦5♥8♣J♣
2006	Jeff Williams	A♦T♣	Pair of 7s, Ace Ten-kicker	Arshad Hussain	A♥8♦	Pair of 7s, Ace 9-kicker	5♥9♥7♠7♦3♣
2007	Gavin Griffin	K♦5♣	Two Pairs, Kings and 3s	Marc Karam	7♠4♠	Two Pairs, 4s and 3s	4♦3♣2♠3♥K♥
2008	Glen Chorny	A♥5♥	Two Pairs, Aces and 6s	Denes Kalo	K♥Q♦	Two Pairs, Queens and 6s	A♠Q♠6♠6♣T♦
2009	Pieter De-Korver	9♠6♠	Pair of 6s, Queen Ten 9-kicker	Matt Woodward	6♦4♥	Pair of 6s, Queen Ten 7-kicker	5♥T♥6♥Q♠7♠
2010	Nicolas Chouity	A♦A♣	Pair of Aces	Josef Klinger	8♦8♣	Pair of 8s	K♦T♠9♥4♠Q♣
2011	Ivan Freitez-Rosales	T♦9♦	Pair of 9s	Torsten Brinkmann	A♥K♦	Ace-high	9♠2♠5♥6♦8♣
2012	Mohsin Charania	Q♠Q♥	Two Pairs, Queens and 2s	Lucille Cailly	A♦K♣	Pair of 2s	9♣3♥2♣7♠2♥
2013	Steve O’Dwyer	T♣8♥	Four 8s	Andrew Pantling	K♠5♠	Flush, King-high	J♠8♠8♦4♠8♣
2014	Antonio Buonanno	A♠4♥	Ace-high	Jack Salter	K♦7♦	King-high	J♥9♠2♥Q♦3♠
2015	Adrian Mateos2	A♥8♠	Two Pairs, Queens and 8s	Muhyedine Fares	A♠6♠	Pair of Queens	9♥8♥2♦Q♠Q♣
2016	Jan Bendik3	T♠T♦	Three Tens	Adrien Allain	8♥8♦	Three Eights	A♥8♣4♠T♥3♦

Notes:

• The chips went all-in preflop every year except 2005 (river), 2007 (flop), 2009 (flop), and 2013 (turn).
• The eventual winner got his money in good every time except 2007 (45%), 2011 (40%), and 2013 (23%, hitting a 10-outer on the river). In 2009, De-Korver was ahead on the flop, but Woodward actually had a better chance of winning (44% to 32% with a 24% chance of a push) because of his nine flush outs.”

Footnotes:

1. The season-ending EPT championship was officially called the European Poker Tour Grand Final from 2004 to 2011 but has been referred to as the EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final since 2012.
2. Adrian Mateos took down the 2015 title just hours after this article was posted.
3. Jan Bendik won the final 2016 title on May 6, 2016.
4. Johnny Lodden joined Karam with a third place finish in 2014 and a fourth in 2015.

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