Poker has boomed in the Czech Republic, and many people think that Martin Staszko’s recent success in the World Series of Poker has everything to do with it. A record-breaking 571 players left the potential of a Cake Poker download to participate in WPT Prague, and then an impressive 722 players bought into EPT Prague a short time later. EPT Prague featured a €5.3k buy-in, so the total prize pool was €3.5 million. This created an impressive first place prize of €720k.

A notable that fell just short of the final table was Chris Moorman, a pro known for beating high stakes on the best Euro poker sites. He has also proven himself in the live arena recently, his best cash being a runner up finish in the 2011 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event for €800k.

Nicholas Levi was the chip leader when the final table formed, but his stack suffered an early blow after getting it in with bottom two against David Boyaciyan’s top set. This hand sent Levi’s stack plummeting to the bottom of the chip counts and sent Boyaciyan’s stack to the top.

Levi was in bad shape, but he managed to ladder all the way up to 3rd place. First Mads Wissing busted in 8th place, then Andreas Wiese busted in 7th, and Ari Engel in 6th. Denys Drobyna was the 5th place casualty, getting it in bad with A7s versus Boyaciyan’s AKs. Martin Finger busted Guillem Usero with KK against A8, and then finally busted Levi with AJ against 86.

The 4th and 3rd place busts really helped Finger out as they gave him a 2.5 to 1 chip lead over Boyaciyan going into heads-up action. Despite the chip discrepancy, the two players battled it out for hours. The final hand was, fittingly, a race as Finger got it in with AK versus TT. Boyaciyan couldn’t come back after KK6 flopped, and Finger was the EPT Prague champion!

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