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Stephen Chidwick defeated a battling Bertrand Grospellier heads-up to win the PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague €50,000 Super High Roller for €725,710.

The Frenchman came into heads-up with a huge deficit to make up, but two double-ups saw him put up a fight. However, the day was Chidwick's who walked away with his 16th six-figure or more cash of the year.

Grospellier meanwhile secured his biggest cash in two and a half years, taking his lifetime earnings above $14.5m.

Final Table Results

Winner's Reaction

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Coming into the final table third in chips, Chidwick said that the final table is a 'fun kind of balancing act.'

'You have to change every single hand depending on the stacks,' Chidwick told PokerNews. 'It depends on how people are playing and it's all about trying to get away with as much as you can. It's about getting in a good chip lead position and that's where you want to be at the final table without risking too many chips.'

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Chidwick admitted that he had one eye on the Global Poker Index Player of the Year race.

'It's close at the top, so I hope this will help,' he said. 'I've not had a good record in the big buy-in events at PokerStars festivals. I think this is my first win over 25k at a PokerStars event.

Now over $13m in cashes this year, Chidwick admitted that the cashes will continue to rack up because of the size of the buyins in modern poker.

'I'm always looking to get better year by year, but the biggest difference in recent years is just the size of the buyins.'

Final Day Recap

It didn't take long for the first elimination of the day, with Ben Heath sent packing on just the third hand of the day. Jean-Noel Thorel was the beneficiary, with his sevens holding against Heath's ace-queen to not only eliminate the Brit but also move into the chip lead.

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Thorel seemed in command for large portions of the early going, chipping up to within touching distance of five million in chips before the pivotal hand came against Stephen Chidwick.

Chidwick had turned a full house while Thorel had turned a straight. The pair got it in on the river and Chidwick doubled into the lead to sit with almost six of the eleven million in play.

Thorel in Reverse

Yesterday, Bertrand Grospellier scored successive doubles through Thorel, and it seemed that streak of luck for him in the battles between the Frenchmen would continue. Getting it in dominated with king-queen against Thorel's ace-queen, Grospellier spiked a king on the flop to double up.

A further double from Steve O'Dwyer would push Thorel closer to the exit before O'Dwyer delivered the coup de grâce to send the Frenchman packing in fifth.

Chidwick in Command

O'Dwyer and Grospellier would both trim the lead of Chidwick, but he still led the way at the first break of the day. When the four players resumed, it was Chidwick who padded his chip lead by sending O'Dwyer to the rail. After Chidwick opened with aces, he called a three-bet shove from O'Dwyer who held eights and held to move further ahead.

Adrian Mateos came into the final day as chip leader and had a pretty easy time of it up until now. However, he was next to go. Again it was Chidwick who finished him off, holding queen-jack and turning a jack to best the ace-ten of Mateos.

Heads-up Action

Coming into heads-up, Grospellier held 1.6m to Chidwick's 9.4m in the chips. Grospellier battled away, but that didn't stop Chidwick soon opening an even bigger gap. However, two doubles from Grospellier extended the contest including one where Chidwick rivered the nut flush only for his opponent to turn over a straight flush.

However, with the mounting blinds eventually, the chips had to get in, and all it took was a ten on the turn to seal the victory for Chidwick and for him to add another victory to an already illustrious list of poker achievements.

That concludes PokerNews coverage of the largest buy-in event of the PokerStars EPT Prague festival, but there's still plenty of poker going on, including the EPT Prague Main Event which kicked off earlier today.

Last year, PokerStars dismantled the European Poker Tour (EPT) and regional tours that it owned such as the Latin American Poker Tour and Asia Pacific Poker Tour, reorganizing them into the PokerStars Championship and PokerStars Festival live tournament series. It was clearly an effort to extend the PokerStars brand at the expense of poker tradition and was not received all that positively by the poker community. I wouldn’t go so far as to say that people were outraged – it is just a name, after all – but the EPT had been a favorite of poker players for years and it seemed silly to change things just for branding purposes. Well, it seems that PokerStars has learned its lesson and has decided to reverse course after a year, bringing the European Poker Tour back, along with the Latin American Poker Tour and the Asia Pacific Poker Tour.

Though the EPT was done away with almost certainly for PokerStars branding reasons (I mean, hell, the parent company of PokerStars, Amaya, changed its name to The Stars Group), PokerStars cited geography as the main reason, saying in a press release at the time, “With the European Poker Tour (EPT) outgrowing its European borders, PokerStars is making its biggest live events even bigger, by encompassing key PokerStars sponsored events from around the world and bringing players worldwide the much-loved EPT experience.”

The primary culprit in terms of the EPT extending outside of Europe proper was the ever-popular PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA), held at the beginning of the calendar year in the Bahamas. Clearly the Bahamas is not in Europe, but the PCA was part of the European Poker Tour, so it didn’t really make sense from a name/geography synergistic standpoint. As part of the rebranding, the PCA became PokerStars Championship Bahamas.

But really, who cared? Yeah, I guess once in a while might make fun of a Bahamas event being in the “European” Poker Tour, but whatever. It didn’t matter. It’s not like the World Poker Tour (WPT) was really that globe-spanning up until very recently. For a number of years, it was almost entirely based in the United States. Come to think of it, baseball’s World Series is only contested in North America, too. How horrible!

The signs were already there that PokerStars realized it made a New Coke mistake this summer when it changed the name of PokerStars Bahamas back to PokerStars Caribbean Adventure.

At the time, Eric Hollreiser, PokerStars Director of Corporate Communications, said of the PCA:

We’re reviewing our live events and incorporating player feedback to ensure we’re delivering the highest quality experience and exceeding player expectations whenever possible.

This feedback included suggestions that we restore the PCA name and improve the quality of that event to reflect the great heritage and unique experience that made PCA one of the most-anticipated poker events of the year. We’re restoring the name and reinvigorating the event to ensure it remains a premiere poker festival.

Along with bringing back the European Poker Tour, PokerStars is also launching the PokerStars Players No Limit Hold’em Championship (PSPC), a live, $25,000 buy-in event to debut at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in 2019 (I’ll stop at three uses of the word “PokerStars” – shit, four now – in one sentence, thanks). The idea is that there will be a year-long build-up to the big tournament, that it will be a thing for all PokerStars players, both online and live. It’s pretty vague, frankly, how this differs from any other live $25,000 tournament, but here’s what PokerStars says:

“….we want to make this a celebration of the game, bringing the poker world together in a one-of-a-kind live poker experience, presenting players of all skill levels the chance to win millions of dollars. Read that again, because we mean everyone. Whether you’re a poker rookie, fledgling amateur, established local pro or a bonafide superstar.”

One would presume that the way PokerStars is “presenting players of all skill levels the chance to win millions of dollars” is through satellites over the next year, but the poker room will also be giving out more than 300 “Platinum Passes” which are prize packages which include the $25,000 seat in the PSPC, accommodation at the Atlantis Hotel and Casino Resort in the Bahamas, and $2,000 cash for travel expenses. These Platinum Passes will be distributed at live tournaments as well as online via tournaments, cash games, and promos.

In addition to the $9 million in prize packages it is doling out, PokerStars will also be adding $1 million to the first-place prize of the PSPC.

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