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EPT Warsaw won by Joao Barbosa

The Warsaw leg of the European Poker Tour has been won by Portugal’s João Barbosa after a tough final table battle in Poland yesterday.

All eyes were on Team Pokerstars Professional Dario Minieri as the final table got underway in Warsaw yesterday afternoon. Minieri has been in sparkling form in 2008 and was the red hot favourite to add to his impressive cashes with the EPT Poland title.

It wasn’t to be, however, for Minieri. The young Italian star eventually succumbed in 3rd place for a €123,162 pay day as Portuguese pro’ João Barbosa went on the rampage.

Barbosa has really put Portuguese poker on the European map with his victory. A €367,141 winner’s cheque and the prestigious EPT Warsaw title will have been reason enough for man y poker players to celebrate, however, João Barbosa turned 26 years old on the day of his victory. €367,141 will buy an awfully big birthday cake for the young man from Porto.

Barbosa faced Nico Behling, from Germany, in the heads up encounter. The cards certainly fell Barbosa’s way throughout and in the final hand Behling found himself all in with against the of Barbosa. The board fell to seal Behling’s fate and 2nd place.

24 players walked away with a profit from their 21,000 Zloty (€4,000) investment in Warsaw. The full list of payouts looked like this:

1st - Joao Barbosa, Portugal, €367,141
2nd - Nico Behling, Germany, €205,270
3rd - Dario Minieri, Italy, Team PokerStars Pro, €123,162
4th - Atanas Gueorgeuiev, Bulgaria, PokerStars qualifier, €87,973
5th - Arnaud Mattern, France, €72,724
6th - Sergey Shcherbatskiy, PokerStars qualifier, €57,476
7th - Andrea Benelli, Italy, €45,746
8th - Ludovic Lacay, France, €32,843
9th - Michael Muheim, Switzerland, PokerStars qualifier, €21,114
10th - Uffe Holm, Denmark, €21,114
11th - Eduard Kapitonov, Russia, PokerStars player, €16,422
12th - Brian Jensen, Denmark, €16,422
13th - Roland de Wolfe, UK, €14,076
14th - Moises Parrilla, Spain, €14,076
15th - Patric Martensson, Sweden, €10,557
16th - Isabelle Mercier, Canada, Team PokerStars Pro, €10,557
17th - Juan Manuel Pastor, Spain, PokerStars sponsored player, €7,038
18th - Mika Puro, Finland, PokerStars sponsored player, €7,038
19th - Kevin Macphee, USA, PokerStars player, €7,038
20th - Christoffer Egemo, Denmark, €7,038
21st - Stefan Rotach - Switzerland, PokerStars qualifier, €7,038
22nd - Julien Lang Van, France, PokerStars sponsored player, €7,038
23rd - Marty Smyth, Ireland, €7,038
24th - Josh Gould, UK, €7,038

The next stop for the European Poker Tour is Prague on December 9th.

By Paul Sandells - November 20th 2008

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