Cristophe Benzimra Wins PokerStars EPT Warsaw
TourneyMan on October 26th, 2009
The winner of the 2009 PokerStars EPT Warsaw main event is Cristophe Benzimra, a businessman from France (he operates a Plexiglass factory in Romania). His prize was 358,644 Euros. Stating after his win that he feels he just got lucky and really only plays poker for fun, Benzimra bested a field of 400 players, finishing the tournament by beating poker pro, Alfio Battista of Italy, who had to settle for runner-up.
Benzimra self-description may be too modest when you consider that he has attended most of the PokerStars European Poker Tour events in the past 2 years. He cashed for $26,110 by taking 6th place at last year’s EPT Budapest and $18,604 for taking 17th at this year’s Rendez vous a Paris Spotlight No Limit Holdem Championship.
Team PokerStars Pro Luca Pagano, meanwhile, made his 5th EPT final table and 12th EPT cash at this event.
