Leading online poker network iPoker made a successful foray into live events this past weekend with the iPOPS Live in Prague. Over 100 players from across Europe attended the event, which took place from December 9 "´ 11, 2011 at the Ambassador Casino and culminated with over $400,000 in prizes.
Expekt Poker´s Tomas Mitell from Sweden won the iPOPS#4 Tournament, elbowing out 3,383 players in the online stage and 26 finalists in the live final round. In the last hand, Mitell went heads up with Boyle Poker´s Veronique Gourdon from France for almost 4 hours.
Mitell showed: A? (club) K? (club)
Gourdon revealed: J? (heart) J? (club).
The board ran Q? (heart) 8? (club) 9? (diamond) Q? (club) A? (spade) and Mitell took the Showdown, earning a massive $90,550 prize.
Gourdon´s second place title won her an impressive $55,000.
The iPOPS#4 final table was streamed live at William Hill, Parimatch, Titan Poker and Winmedia as famous Irish poker legend Padraig Parkinson commentated on the action.
The winner of the iPOPS Live €770 NLH FO main event was Titan Poker´s Robin Van Den Heuvel from the Netherlands. Van Den Heuvel took home an impressive €17,388 after cutting a deal with Parimatch Poker´s Igor Arkhipov from Russia.
"We would like to congratulate the winners of iPOPS Live and to thank everyone who participated," said Asaf Younger, the iPoker network manager. "The event and the location met all of our expectations and we hope to follow up with an even bigger line up of live tournaments next year."
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