April 2019 Live Poker Tournaments: Highlights and Notable Winners

The European Poker Tour event in Monte Carlo started on April 25, 2019. Serhio Aydo and Jesus Cortes from Spain took the first two places in the 100k tournament, earning seven-figure sums. Two Canadians (S. Greenwood and Dvoress) and two Belarusians (Bodiakovsky and Malinovsky) also made it to the prize pool, with British player Charlie Carrel in between.

In the 50k tournament, Austrian Matthias Eibinger won first place, and GPI rating leader Alex Foxen took second. Russian high roller Alexander Uskov finished fifth, earning $257,610, the largest prize for Russians in April's live tournaments. Timothy Adams won the 25k tournament, with Charlie Carrel finishing fourth and Alex Foxen fifth.

Alexander Orlov won the PLO tournament #5 with a buy-in of 550 euros, earning $11,610. Mikhail Nikolaev finished fifth in the same PLO tournament, earning $4,546. Maxim Panyak finished sixth in an Omaha tournament with a buy-in of 1.1k, earning $8,039. Lithuanian Marius Kudzmanas won a freezeout in no-limit hold'em with a buy-in of 1.1k, earning $47,670. Ukrainian Anton Sergienkov finished tenth, earning $4,085. Artur Martirosyan finished thirteenth in a mass tournament with 897 entries and a buy-in of 1.1k, earning $14,708.