Poker has become a worldwide phenomenon in the past few years and the European Poker Tour is a great example of that. Sponsored by the Poker Stars download, the brand continues to grow and recently held their very first event in Greece. Loutraki saw 336 players show up over two Day 1’s at €4,400 a piece. After all was said and done first place topped out at €347,000.

The very first finisher at the final table was German pro Mario Puccini, better known as Pokerccini in the online arena. He got in the last of his money with KQ suited against A8 offsuit but was unable to connect. He busted in 8th place.

Shortly after Puccini busted, a huge pot ensued. Pierre Mothes opened, which was met by a reraise from Hauke Heseding. The reraise, however, was then met by a four bet reraise all-in by Andras Kovacs. You never see this kind of action playing Craps online!

Mothes folded and Heseding made the call with QQ. He was against the AK suited of Kovacs. Going into the river Kovacs had overcards and a flush draw, but he just couldn’t get there. This means that he was done in 6th place.

Mothes was destined to hit the rail as well, since his top two pair was no good against the flopped flush of Zimnan Ziyard. He had to settle for 5th place.

Heseding got it in once again in a big coinflip situation with AQ against the 77 of Florian Schleps. Heseding’s hot streak continued as the flop came down Q5Q. The turn 5 sealed it and Schleps was finished in 4th place.

The Greek cheering section had their man in John Taramas holding strong with three left. However he was unable to go any further than that as he jammed in his last chips with 97 suited and was called by Heseding’s AT offsuit. The QJT rainbow left Taramas with just the final four eights in the deck as his outs. Taramas missed his small chance and was ousted in 3rd place.

Ziyard and Heseding settled into what turned out to be quite the exciting heads-up battle. However, it was not to be for Heseding as he made a gigantic bluff on the river against Ziyard and was covered by less than one big blind. That left Zimnan Ziyard the champion of the very first Greek EPT.

1 – Zimnan Ziyard – €347,000
2 – Hauke Heseding – €221,800
3 – John Taramas – €134,400
4 – Florian Schleps – €100,800
5 – Pierre Mothes – €67,200
6 – Andras Kovacs – €53,700
7 – Charalampos Kapernopoulos – €40,300
8 – Mario Puccini – €27,000

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