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FRENCH BUSINESSMAN CHRISTOPHE BENZIMRA WINS POKERSTARS EPT WARSAW

French businessman Christophe Benzimra beat Italian professional poker player Alfio Battisti heads-up
today to win the EPT Warsaw champion’s title and a first prize of 1,493,170 PLN (approx. €358,644),
and a seat at the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo next year.
Benzima, 47, runs a Plexiglas factory in Bucharest, Romania, and only took up poker three years ago.
He has competed at almost every EPT in the last two years but had yet to cash in a main event. He said:
“I think I was lucky today. I am not a professional player, I play for fun. I really enjoyed it but I’m not
giving up work! I play poker just for the pleasure of it.”
The EPT Warsaw main event at Casino Poland at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, was one of the biggest
poker tournaments ever held in Poland attracting 203 players from around the world each paying 25,000
PLN to create a total prize pool of more than 4.7 million PLN (approx. €1,145,826). It was the fourth time
the EPT has visited the Polish capital.
Runner-up Alfio “aLFiosNob” Battisti, a SuperNova Elite on PokerStars, takes 834,840 PLN (approx.
€200,520) back home to Latina, near Rome in Italy.
Team PokerStars PRO Luca Pagano was eliminated in fourth place for 357,790 PLN (approx. €85,938).
It was a bitter-sweet finish for the 31-year-old Italian who broke all his own records in Warsaw; reaching
a fifth EPT final table and recording his 12th cash finish, but who was disappointed in defeat. Pagano
has now overtaken fellow Team PokerStars PRO Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier to top the EPT all-time
Tournament Leader Board. His best result in terms of money remains his sixth place finish at the
Season 4 Grand Final in Monte Carlo, worth €337,000.
Canadian PokerStars qualifier Clayton Mozdzen, 26, one of 33 players to win their main event seats on
PokerStars, came sixth, earning 233,750 PLN (approx. €56,144). The other four finalists were Ruslan
Prydryk from Ukraine, Russian players Anatoly Gurtovoy and Alexander Klimashin, and the chip leader
at the start of the day Oleksandr Vaserfirer who finished third.
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Among the 24 players to cash were PokerStars Passport winner Shaun Deeb and Polish PokerStars
player Wojciech Polak. Team PokerStars PRO Dario Minieri won the EPT Warsaw high roller event
earning €77,206 (approx. 322,375 PLN).
For blog reports, please see the PokerStars blog and video blogs on PokerStars.tv

The next event of EPT Season 6 is EPT Vilamoura in Portugal from November 17-22, 2009. Satellites
are running now on PokerStars for both Vilamoura and the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in January.
See www.ept.com for further details.

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