May 2-3
Total wins on Bryn Kenney's Hendon Mob resume dating back to his first at EPT Prague in 2011.
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1ST
Albert Daher
€2,055,000
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2ND
Stephen Chidwick
€1,325,700
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3RD
Leonardo Drago
€947,000
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4TH
Bryn Kenney
€728,500
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5TH
Artsiom Lasouski
€560,300
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6TH
Wiktor Malinowski
€445,400
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7TH
Enrico Camosci
€356,400
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8TH
Teun Mulder
€284,900
Bryn Kenney has won more money playing tournament poker than anyone on the planet.
Stephen Chidwick has earned the second most money playing tournament poker.
On Sunday they both clashed at the final table of the EPT High Roller for One Drop, a €100,000 buy-in in the regular series of nosebleed tournaments that supports the One Drop charity programs. The field of 76 players raised over €250K for the charity, drawing the largest field ever seen for a six-figure buy-in at the EPT.
It was the exactly the type of six-figure buy-in that pushed poker's all-time money race into the $80 million territory in the first place, and a prime opportunity for some movement at the top of the list.
Kenney ladders, Daher dominates
Kenney entered the final day as the shortest stack of the eight remaining players, trailing regular cast members from the EPT like Teun Mulder, Enrico Camosci, Albert Daher, and leader Wiktor 'Limitless' Malinowski. Chidwick, meanwhile, started in the middle of the pack.
The difference between Kenney and Chidwick was just short of $4 million, and Chidwick could have taken a big bite out of it with a win. What ended up happening was closer to a wash, as Chidwick came up just short while Kenney laddered up to a decent payday.
The big winner was Daher, who chipped up early when Mulder ran ace-jack into his pocket aces and then again when Camosci tried it with the same hand against his pocket kings.
Chip leader Malinowski didn't stay up there for long and his freefall ended in eighth place in a hand against Kenney, who got off the bottom of the chip charts in a hurry for a sustainable ladder-up. Daher stepped in shortly after for his third elimination against Lasouski, who couldn't beat him with king-jack suited.
Kenney was still alive in four-handed after starting with the short stack, but that's where it ended. His queens ran into Daher's well-flopped tens and then an all-in shove set up a final confrontation with his all-time money list rival.
Chidwick had raised with 
and Kenney shoved the last of his stack with 
. It was all bad news for Kenney as the board ran out with 
and put the all-time leader away in fourth place.
Daher had a big lead in three-handed play with Chidwick in second and well ahead of remaining short stack Drago. Drago, who kept his head down throughout the day, tried to get it in with deuces but Chidwick sent him home with pocket eights.
That left Chidwick and Daher, with Daher ahead by a three-to-one margin. Daher extended the lead slowly and then all at once when Chidwick shoved the last of his 10 big blinds with . Daher called with and flopped a to make the set that won the tournament.
The movement on the all-time money list ended up being small, but every dollar counts on Chidwick's quest to pass Kenney.
EPT Monte Carlo now turns its eyes on the Main Event, which starts on Monday with a full schedule planned through May 11. Tune in to the PokerStars YouTube channel for live coverage throughout the week from the French Riviera.
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