Chorny Wins Tourney! Young Canadian wins EPT Grand Final

Chorny Wins Tourney! Young Canadian wins EPT Grand Final

Friday, 18 April 2008

Monte Carlo: the playground for the rich and famous. Thanks to the EPT Grand Final, a new millionaire was created, with Glen Chorny of Canada winning almost $3.2 million for his Grand Final triumph.

Monte Carlo: the playground for the rich and famous. Thanks to the EPT Grand Final, a new millionaire was created, with Glen Chorny of Canada winning almost $3.2 million for his Grand Final triumph.
The final day started early after Day 4 couldn’t find it’s final eight in good time. Instead the remaining ten players were asked to come back two hours earlier than originally scheduled to get the extra play fitted in.
While some fancied the more experience pros such as Esfandiari and Luca Pagano to shine on the biggest European stage of them all, Chorny, the Canadian silently but effectively kept himself barricaded behind his fortress of chips, coming out only to win the occasional pot.
In fact, one half of the ‘more experienced’ duo was knocked out by the other, with Esfandiari moving all in out of the big blind with Ace-Eight, only to be called by the button raise and Ace-Jack of Pagano. The same hand eventually sent the Italian himself out, when Pagano’s A-J was unable to overtake the pocket queens of Denes Kalo.
Only with the elimination of Pagano in sixth did Chorny venture into the fray. Mind you, when he did come along, he tended to bring some big weapons with him, eliminating Martin in fifth spot with pocket jacks against Martin’s Q-T, while his aces had Isaac Baron’s AQ sprawling. That hand sent Baron out in fourth, setting up three way action. Chorny completed his hat-trick when his slowplayed Broadway straight lured Maxime Villemure into taking a misguided stroll to fifth street. Villemure made a worse straight and his final call of the tournament, finishing his EPT final in third.
Chorny’s 10-to-1 chip lead over Denes Kalo was fully converted on only the second hand of heads-up play, with Kalo trying to double up with KQ against the Ace-Five of Chorny. When an ace and queen flopped, Kalo still had five outs, but when the turn paired the six which had come on the flop, Kalo was down to the final two queens, neither of which arrived.
Having got his seat to the final for $700, parlayed Chorny walked away as this season’s EPT Grand Final champion and showing a net profit of $3,197,700. Not a bad investment, Mr Chorny.



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