Who Will Win the Biggest-Ever EPT Prague €1,100 Eureka National Main Event?
After four starting flights and three days of play in the €1,100 Eureka Main Event at EPT Prague, a once gargantuan field of 3,155 players has been whittled down to its final nine hopefuls. Each of them has already parlayed their initial investment of €1,100 into at least €32,860, but all eyes are on the €417,820 top prize and accompanying spadie trophy that awaits the winner at the end of the night.
Going into the final day, all eyes will be on PokerStars ambassador Alejandro "Papo MC" Lococo, who amassed a massive pile of 24,075,000 in chips on Day 3 — twice the size of his nearest challengers. Twitch streamer and rapper Lococo, a household name in Latin America with 2.7 million followers on Instagram and over 850,000 on Twitter, instantly gained worldwide poker fame by making the final table of the 2021 WSOP Main Event, ultimately finishing 7th for $1,225,000. Today, on the other side of the pond, he finds himself in a prime position to lift the trophy at the end of the night.
Norway's Jon Kyte (12,825,000) and France's Alexandre Reard (11,900,000) — who had earlier success in Prague and won a bracelet last year — round out the top three, while the rest of the final nine will have to work with 30 or fewer big blinds to try and snatch the title away from one of the big stacks.
€1,100 Eureka Main Event Final Table Chip Counts (In Chip Order)
| Rank | Name | Country | Chip Count | Final Table Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alejandro Lococo | Argentina | 24,075,000 | 60 |
| 2 | Jon Kyte | Norway | 12,825,000 | 32 |
| 3 | Alexandre Reard | France | 11,900,000 | 30 |
| 4 | Bartolomeo Tato | Italy | 10,300,000 | 26 |
| 5 | Ville Jantunen | Finland | 8,950,000 | 22 |
| 6 | Nicolas Cottin | Chile | 7,250,000 | 18 |
| 7 | Jakub Koleckar | Czech Republic | 6,775,000 | 17 |
| 8 | Merijn van Rooij | Netherlands | 6,450,000 | 16 |
| 9 | Yann Nasser | Luxembourg | 6,200,000 | 16 |
Players will return at 12:00 p.m. local time for the final day, picking up the action in Level 35 with blinds at 175,000/350,000 with a 350,000 ante. The biggest-ever Eureka Main Event has drawn 3,155 entries (1,553 unique players competed), with a total prize pool of €3,028,800 divided between the top 469 finishers.
Remaining Payouts
| Place | Prize |
|---|---|
| 1 | € 417,820 |
| 2 | € 249,000 |
| 3 | € 174,130 |
| 4 | € 131,900 |
| 5 | € 99,920 |
| 6 | € 75,690 |
| 7 | € 57,340 |
| 8 | € 43,430 |
| 9 | € 32,860 |
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flop. The turn, however, brought the 
to swing Lococo back into the lead.
, giving both players a king-high straight to chop the pot. Lococo glanced over to his rail and shook his head in disappointment.
. Action folded back to Lococo who thought briefly, then folded what he later said was 
. Reard then snap-called and flipped over his hand to put Tato at risk.
flop brought Tato some help, and if Lococo's claim of folding queen-jack was true, the case 
fell on the turn to give Tato a stranglehold on the hand. The 
to seal Reard's fate, sending him to the rail in 9th place.
flop was fantastic for Kyte, leaving Lococo with just one of the remaining sixes in the deck and a backdoor straight draw. That draw opened up on the 
turn, bringing some concern on the Norwegian's face.
landed and Kyte's aces held for the double-up.
