Vladimir Geshkenbein Wins 2011 PokerStars.net EPT Snowfest! (€390,000)
Vladimir Geshkenbein is the 2011 PokerStars.net EPT Snowfest Champion after he defeated Belgium's Kevin Vandersmissen heads up.
The eight handed final table took ten hours to complete and was full of action from start to finish. Morten Mortensen was the first player to be eliminated, after around 90 minutes of play, his 
outdrawn by the 
of Koen De Visscher.
Half hour later and two players were busted out in quick succession. First Denis Murphy's 
was no good against the 
of Vandersmissen and shortly after Philip Meulyzer pushed the rest of his short stack into the middle with 
and found a caller in the shape of Vandersmissen with 
. Both players made a pair on the 
flop and Meulyzer stayed in front when the 
landed on the turn but Vandersmissen spiked the 
on the river to gift him two pair.
They played five handed for almost two hours until the elimination of Cristian Dragomir. He was left with less than two big blinds when his 
lost to 
with the money going in on a 
flop. The turn was the 
but the river was the 
. He committed the rest of his tiny stack with 
and ran into the of De Visscher.
Four handed play lasted for four hours then the last standing Italian player, Giacomo Maisto moved all in with 
on a 
flop and was called by Geshkenbein with 
The 
turn changed nothing but the 
river sent the Italian to the rail in fourth place.
Koen De Visscher was eliminated half hour later, shoving 20 big bling with 
and not being able to outrun the 
of Geshkenbein. Then came the fina hand, around 15 minutes into heads up play. A raising war between Geshkenbein and Vandersmissen saw the latter all in and at risk with 
against 
of Geshkenbein. The final board ran out 
and it was game over for Vandersmissen, who narrowly missed out on becoming the first-ever Belgian EPT Champion.
Geshkenbein's fans lifted their hero onto their shoulders and he described his victory simply as "awesome." We couldn't have put it better ourselves.
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