EPT Main Event | 2007 EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final

04-02-2007 03:08 UTC+1

Steve Jelinek

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Steve Jelinek is a computer guy from Manchester, England. He qualified for the EPT Grand Finale online at PokerStars. He's won a smaller event in England and took second in the Scottish Poker Championships.

July 2006: 1st Place, Newcastle Knockout Festival, Newcastle, £13,850
July 2006: 2nd Place, Scottish Poker Championships, Edinburgh, £23,960
July 2004: 3rd Place, Grosvenor UK Open 2004, Luton, £16,630

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04-02-2007 03:01 UTC+1

Josh Prager

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Josh Prager hails from Yuba City, CA. He's a tennis coach in Northern California. He went deep at the Aussie Millions and also qualified online at PokerStars.

Jan 2007: 41st Place, Aussie Millions, Melbourne, $19,882 US
Jul 2005: 96th, WSOP $1K NL, $77,710

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04-02-2007 03:00 UTC+1

Soren Kongsgaard

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Soren Kongsgaard is from Jutland, Denmark and has cashed in tournaments in four countries. He's won events in Ireland and in France. Inside of six months, he cashed in six events and made six final tables including three victories.

Mar 2007: 6th Place, Asian Poker Classic, Goa, India $48,500
Jan 2007: 1st Place, Scandinavian Open, Copenhagen € 52,700
Jan 2007: 2nd Place, Irish Poker Championships, Dublin, €24,000
Nov 2006: 7th Place Copenhagen Poker Festival, Copenhagen $5,945
Oct 2006: 1st Place, The Hold'em Series 2006, Paris €22,450

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04-02-2007 02:52 UTC+1

Marc Karam

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Marc Karam is from Ottawa, Canada. He's been a rush recently making final tables at the Aussie Millions and the first ever WPT event in Canada. He is also the only player from last year's EPT Grand Finale to make a return appearance at this year's final table. Karam finished 4th last year.

Jan 2007: 6th Place, Aussie Millions, Melbourne, Australia $238,584
Oct 2006: 6th Place, North American Poker Championships, Ontario $150,114
Jul 2006: 45th Place, $2K NL WSOP $9,328
Mar 2006: 4th Place, EPT Grant Final, Monte Carlo € 195,000
Jan 2006: 37th Place, WPT Pokerstars.com Caribbean Adventure, $13,500

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04-02-2007 02:49 UTC+1

Kristian Kjondaln

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Kristian Kjondaln is a popular online player from Oslo, Norway. He plays high stakes online cash games and has a reputation of being a very aggressive player.

Oct 2006: 36th Place, EPT Baden, Austria €6,289

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04-02-2007 02:47 UTC+1

Andy Black

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Andy Black needs no introduction. The Irishman recently made the final table at the Aussie Millions and made the final table at the 2005 WSOP. Black has €21,722 in career total EPT earnings.

Jan 2007: 3rd, 2007 Aussie Millions $556,695
Oct 2006: 15th, EPT Baden, Austria Austria € 5,723
Jul 2006: 11th, WSOP $3K Omaha 8 $11,658
Jul 2006: 25th, WSOP $5K Omaha 8 $7,473
Oct 2005: 20th, EPT The Irish Masters, Dublin $7,240
Jul 2005: 5th, WSOP Main Event, Las Vegas $1,750,000
May 1997: 14th, WSOP Main Event, Las Vegas, $29,680

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04-02-2007 02:43 UTC+1

Ram Vaswani

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Ram Vaswani is part of the Hendon Mob. He's won over $2.4 million in tournaments and is one of the UK's most succesful players. He's won over €277,699 on the EPT and just made his 3rd final table appearance. He's made 6 final tables at the WSOP and won the EPT Irish Open.

EPT1: Copenhagen 2nd €73,598
EPT1: Dublin 1st €93,000
EPT2: Deauville 5th €97,700
EPT2: Copenhagen 18th €7,951
EPT2: London 19th €5,450

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04-02-2007 02:36 UTC+1

Gavin Griffin

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Chicago, IL native, Gavin Griffin was the youngest player to win a WSOP bracelet (at the time he won it in 2004). He most recently made a final table at a WSOP circuit event. He's been focusing on charity work and recently did a 36 mile walk for breast cancer for the Avon Walk For Breast Cancer.

Feb 2007: 3rd WSOP Circuit, San Diego $86,685
May 2004: 1st, $3K PLH WSOP, Las Vegas $270,420

Griffin enters the final table as the chipleader.

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