Kevin Stani EPT 7 Winner

August 11-16 at Tallinn has started seventh season European Poker Tour... 420 players took part in the € 4,250 main event. The winner of the tournament was Kevin Staniwho won € 400,000, a seat in the EPT Grand Final and 800 points in his fight for the EPT Player of the Year title this season.

Kevin Stani, a 27-year-old Business Administration graduate, has been playing poker for 7 years and has had a series of good results, both live and online:
6th place - $10'000 at WCOOP 2009 + $134'000;
1st place - Sunday 500 + $108'00;
127th place - WSOP + $57'000.

Kevin was one of the last players to qualify for EPT Tallinn, taking his place in the $530 satellite on PokerStars, just four days before the event kicked off.

22-year-old student finished second at EPT Tallinn Konstantin Bilyauer, for whom this tournament was only the second major event in his poker career. Konstantin knocked out Team PokerStars Pro players on the way to € 250,000 in prize money - Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier and Ivan Demidov.

French player of Team PokerStars Pro was disappointed Arnaud Matternwho missed his chance to make history by becoming the first two-time EPT champion. Mattern, who finished first in EPT Prague in Season 4, finished 5th on EPT Warsaw in Season 5, finished third in Tallinn with € 160,000 in prize money.

PokerStars Qualified Dmitry Vitkindwho won his seat in the $22 rebuy satellite at PokerStars finished 4 and went home with € 120,000 in prize money.

Buy-in: €4’250
Participants: 420
Prize fund: €1’596’000
Prize places: 56

1st place - Kevin Stani + €400’000
2nd place - Konstantin Bilyauer + €250’000
3rd place - Arnaud Mattern + €160’000
4th place - Dmitry Vitkind + €120’000
5th place - Mikko Jaatinen + €80’000
6th place - Steven van zadelhoff + €63’000
7th place - Nicolo calia + €47’000
8th place - Bassam Elnajjar + €32’000
9th place - Jonathan Weekes + €25’000