Hungary’s Gergo Nagy has taken down EPT €10,200 Pot-Limit Omaha after making an epic comeback from the brink of elimination with a four big blind stack.
The event attracted a total of 106 entries, creating a prize pool of €1,028,200.
This €268,600 win takes Nagy’s career total up to a respectable $1,422,439, only a couple of weeks after he scooped his biggest live cash of $431,100 with a second place in the $50,000 PLO at Super High Roller Bowl Series Cyprus
Action Recap
After a vigorous Day 1, there were only 15 players remaining when the action resumed for Day 2. This marked the line where all players were guaranteed a prize of at least €17,800.
When the bell rang, there was no hanging around and no mistaking that this was short stacked PLO and not its slower cousin NL hold’em.
Theo Jorgensen, Alexander Petersen, Yuriy Boyko and Tor Ivarsson all disappeared from proceedings as quick as a flash when the all-ins didn’t go their way.
Patrick Kennedy was the man on the move in the early rounds, seemingly unable to lose a pot.
By the time of the final table, Kennedy had more than one third of the chips in play, while five of his opponents were on life support with less than 15 big blinds to play with.
So it was no surprise that the Brit was the first man to start sending players home. Christopher Philippou was first and Youness Barakat rivered a miracle card to save his skin in the same hand.
At this point, Nagy had only been surviving with his short stack but now his recovery was getting underway.
A double-up through Jorryt van Hoof all but sent the Dutchman home and then Mark Buckley lost most of his stack to the Hungarian. And then Kennedy’s aces came unstuck again Nagy’s set of nine’s.
Only an hour after the final nine players met at the feature table, Nagy had gone from last place with four big blinds to holding the chip lead.
Mark Buckley soon left the table in seventh and then Mike Watson fell foul of a typical PLO bad run out to end his run in sixth.
Only two hands later, Slade Fisher and Youness Barakat were walking away, too.
With only three players left, all eyes were on Finnish online specialist Henri Puustinen who had been dodging bullets the whole day, somehow navigating his small stack towards survival.
It was Kennedy who ended the Finn’s hopes after flopping the nut flush to leave Puustinen drawing dead.
When heads-up play started, Kennedy held almost a 2:1 chip lead over Nagy, and this quickly became 3:1.
This was Nagy’s queue to fight back once again and he soon began picking up decent size pots without having to go to a showdown. A good sign.
The momentum clearly shifted when Nagy found a straight on the turn and got paid by Kenney’s trip fives. Nagy was now leading the way, albeit by a slim margin.
But slim was enough because after that crucial hand Kennedy seemingly wilted, completely unable to get anything going until an all-in pre-flop race saw Nagy crowned as an EPT champion.
EPT €10,200 Pot-Limit Omaha Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize (EUR) |
| 1 | Gergo Nagy | Hungary | €268,600 |
| 2 | Patrick Kennedy | United Kingdom | €173,300 |
| 3 | Henri Puustinen | Finland | €123,500 |
| 4 | Youness Barakat | Italy | €95,200 |
| 5 | Slade Fisher | New Zealand | €73,250 |
| 6 | Mike Watson | Canada | €56,350 |
| 7 | Mark Buckley | Ireland | €45,050 |
| 8 | Jorryt van Hoof | Netherlands | €36,050 |
| 9 | Christopher Philippou | Cyprus | €30,050 |
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