19% of the Field Participated in the Skrill Last Longer Competition
One name that keeps popping up here at the EPT Prague is Skrill – which isn’t a player, but rather an online payment solutions company that aims to evolve “the way people pay and get paid globally.” Skrill is branded throughout the venue and also have a booth where players can sign up for their popular "Last Longer Competition."
The Skrill Last Longer competition will be held at each stop on this season’s EPT, of which they’re an official sponsor. The promotion is simple – players sign up for the promotion either online (preregistration is available) or at the Skrill booth (which will be present at each stop); don a Skrill patch; and then aim to be the last man or woman standing. The last player remaining will then receive their buy-in back via their Skrill account.
While Skrill is upping the ante for Season 10 with a bigger branding initiative, this isn’t their first appearance on the EPT; as a matter of fact, they were a sponsor of Season 8 and have held previous “Last Longer” promotions.
Here in Prague, 191 players (19% of the total field) signed up for the competition, though only 106 of them made it to Day 2 including Denys Drobyna (Ukraine), the winner of the Last Longer in the EPT Prague Season 8.
Here's the long list of 106 Skrillees still in contention at the start of Day 2.
| Gaetano Dell'aero | Mikhail Marchenko | Marcello Miniucchi | Jason Wheeler | Davide Suriano |
| Rui Sousa | Patrick Serda | Lauri Pesonen | Vishal Pundjabi | Massimo Dicicco |
| Ugnius Simelionis | Liutauras Armanavicius | Steven Van Zadelhoff | Rhys Jones | Tapio Vihakas |
| Scott Augustine | Oleh Okhotskyi | Ramin Hajiyev | Michael Bech Lundsgaard | Slaven Popov |
| Robert Schultz | Martin Stausholm | Toby Lewis | Andrew Hulme | Ben Martin |
| Adrian Piasecki | Jannick Wrang | Erik Scheidt | Sebastian Muller | Anton Bertilsson |
| Mariusz Keosinski | Marinko Skoric | Vazha Kometiani | Desislav Velikov | Dominik Panka |
| Andreas Vlachos | Przemysław Misztela | Thanh Hai Pham | Arsenii Karmatckii | Matej Marinovic |
| Viktor Makeev | Sergiy Seredyuk | Igor Yaroshevs'kyy | Iaroslav Boiko | Tom Hall |
| Marius Pospiech | Dominik Nitsche | Dany Parlares | Kamel Tamer | Manig Loeser |
| Aleksejs Ponakovs | Vicente Delgado | Joe Laming | Vitalijs Zavorotnijs | Milad Oghabianhangar |
| Aleksey Melesh | Dmitrijs Melesh | Edward Kudrjavcev | Slobodan Ruzicic | Ioannis Apostolidis |
| Marian Kubis | [Removed:244] | Karen Sarkisyan | Denys Drobyna | Timo Isotalo |
| Vlad Rosca | Martin Kabrhel | Jordi Riba Corrons | Stefan Ivanov | Lukas Hnizdo |
| Florian Krumpt | Valentino Konakchiev | Dylan Linde | Andrey Grenko | Vyacheslav Stoyanov |
| Maximilian Senft | Igor Izmaylov | Tomasz Chmiel | Andrey Volkov | Marat Begenov |
| Jan Sušický | Piotr Pietrzak | Franz-Josef Breuer | Martin Baláž | Gustavo Lopez Garcia |
| Paul Tedeschi | Bjorn Brost | Pawel Brzeski | Bryan Paris | Sven Krieger |
| Robert Zipf | Ryan Spittles | Simon Deadman | Franco Sonny | Dimitri Holdeew |
| Sotirios Koutoupas | Taylor Von Kriegenbergh | Mikhail Surin | Victor Sheerman | Nihat Karyagdi |
| Kevin MacPhee | Tobias Garp | Robin Ylitalo | Artem Pilkevich | Andrei lazarev |
| Gary Johnson |
The company’s website provides a bit more information on Skrill, which rebranded from Moneybookers back in 2010:
“Skrill has been moving money digitally since 2001. We offer online payment solutions for businesses and consumers, allowing them to pay and get paid globally. Over 36 million account holders already trust Skrill. Our customers can send and receive money worldwide in 200 countries and 40 currencies, securely and at low cost, without revealing their personal financial details. Your business will benefit from our worldwide payment network with over 100 payment options. Whether through a simple one-step integration or a fully-tailored payment solution. Whoever you are, however you like to pay or get paid, trust Skrill to make your online payments simpler, faster and safer.”
Headquartered in London, Skrill is looking to make their presence known in the poker world with a commitment to customer satisfaction through innovation and service. Not only that, they’re looking to be more than just a company by becoming a trusted and respected member of the poker community.
For more information on Skrill, click here.
The PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be keeping an eye on the latest incarnation of the Skrill Last Longer throughout the duration of the EPT Prague Main Event.