Mikalai Pobal has won 2019 EPT Prague, and earned his second EPT championship. Mikalai Pobal wins 2019 EPT Prague for €1 million. Mikalai Pobal was the best at the €5,300 EPT Prague Main Event on last week, becoming just the second player to win an EPT Main Event for a second time.
In winning the tournament, Pobal defeated Norbert Szecsi (€598,880) heads-up along with a field of 1,154 entries over six plays. For the victory, Pobal takes home a €1,005,600 first-place prize. Also present at the final table were Richard Da Rocha (€421,450), Gaby Livshitz (€316,780) and Tomas Paiva (€241,230).
Pobal’s previous European Poker Tour win came during the 2012 EPT Barcelona Main Event. In that event, he also took home a prize of just over €1 million – €1,007,550. Those two victories have accounted for the vast majority of Pobal’s live tournament winnings. Mikalai is currently 16th in GPI ranking 2019 for Belarus.
| GPI | Belarus | Player | Team | Score | ||
| #218 | #1 | Nikita “Mikita” Bodyakovskiy | 2,071.36 pts | |||
| #344 | #2 | Vadzim Lipauka | 1,833.22 pts | |||
| #637 | #3 | Ihar Soika | 1,553.10 pts | |||
| #753 | #4 | Andrey Konopelko | 1,474.19 pts | |||
| #924 | #5 | Kiryl Radzivonau | 1,367.04 pts | |||
| #1061 | #6 | Aleksei Ivanov | 1,302.02 pts | |||
| #1109 | #7 | Vladimir Lappo | 1,278.21 pts | |||
| #1562 | #8 | Sergey Chudopal | 1,116.68 pts | |||
| #1614 | #9 | Mikalai Vaskaboinikau | 1,099.25 pts | |||
| #2517 | #10 | Alex “Diesel” Bolotin | 890.77 pts | |||
| #2540 | #11 | Maksim Shornikau | 887.32 pts | |||
| #2594 | #12 | Аndrei Makavets | 878.17 pts | |||
| #2679 | #13 | Kirill Denisenko | 867.27 pts | |||
| #2715 | #14 | Valeriy Yantsevich | 862.68 pts | |||
| #2968 | #15 | Maryna Khatskevich | 824.45 pts | |||
| #3111 | #16 | Mikalai Pobal | 804.37 pts | |||
| #3308 | #17 | Yury Masliankou | 781.34 pts | |||
| #3312 | #18 | Nikita Myshkin | 780.67 pts | |||
| #3447 | #19 | Siarhei Narozhny | 766.09 pts | |||
| #3755 | #20 | Aleksandr Shilko | 735.48 pts | |||
