Dermot Blain Wins Stacked €5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Tournament
Level 9
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
According to PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker Ambassador and APPT Macau champion Dermot Blain won the €5,000 No-Limit Hold'em tournament for €200,900 on Wednesday after beating Russian player Aslan Daurov in heads-up play. The tournament attracted 187 entries and generated a prize pool of €906,950 that was distributed to the top 27 players.
Blain, ranked #5 in Ireland, is an EPT regular and now has more than $1.75 million in life tournament winnings. The $541,100 he earned in his Macau victory back in 2009 was the start of a sensational live poker career which includes a fifth-place finish in the 2011 WSOP Europe Cannes Main Event in for €275,000.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Dermot Blain | Ireland | €200,900 |
| 2nd | Aslan Daurov | Russia | €135,600 |
| 3rd | Patrick Bruel | France | €93,350 |
| 4th | David Vamplew | UK | €76,100 |
| 5th | Thomas Muhlocker | Austria | €60,600 |
| 6th | Georgios Karakousis | Greece | €46,600 |
| 7th | Max Greenwood | Canada | €33,900 |
| 8th | Mike McDonald | Canada | €24,600 |