British player Will Fry from Nottingham, England, won the first European Poker Tour event held in Budapest, Hungary, cashing €595,839.  The final table had several seasoned pros including Albert Iverson, Martin Jacobsen, and Gina Alacqua and featured players from European countries such as Denmark, Romania, Italy, U.K, and Sweden.  It was ultimately Will Fry who captured the first place and the glory.  With a prize pool of over two million euro, this was a tense tournament with heated action on all sides, lasting four hours of passionate poker.  Zoltan Toth of Hungary started the day as Chip leader, but took a hit to his stack, relinquishing the lead to Ciprian Hrisca of Romania. 

The day started when Ciprian Hrisca opened for sixty thousand, only to get called by Zoltan Toth.  The flop was 7-6-2, inducing a check-raise from Toth which was called.  The turn was another check-call.  Finally, on the river of the ace of spades, there was check-check with the Romanian taking the pot with Ah 10d.  Martin Jacobsen subsequently doubled up when his K-K was looked up by Alacqua's radically inferior J- 9 of hearts.  The flop brought Qd -10d-2d-8d and the river was 7.  This was the double-up of Martin Jacobsn.  Jonny Lodden of Norway was subsequently eliminated in eighth place for €53,200 when he opened for fifty-five thousand, and got called by Zoltan Toth and Jacobsen.  The flop brought Jd-8s-2d and a three-way all-in that was won by Martin Jacobsen's 10d-7d when the turn and the river brought 7h-9c, beating Toth's Ad-Kd and Lodden's King Kong (K-K).  With this hand, Martin doubled up to almost 2 million chips and captured the chip lead from Hrisca.  Toth was subsequently eliminated in 7^th place for €78,736 when he shoved all-in with 6-2 and was looked up by the Q-10 of Alacqa, which held up on the board 8-4-3-Q-3.  Iverson then captured a big pot when he called in the small blind and Danish chip leader Jacobsen bet out $30K on a 5-4-6 flop, only to get check-raised by Iverson to eighty-five thousand, then re-raised to $230K.  He was called and then check-called again $110,000 on the 9c turn.  The river brought a 10c and Iverson bet $175 K, prompting a fold from Jacobsen, who probably had a straight of flush draw of some kind. 

Gino Alacqua was eliminated in sixth place for €100,016, when he went all-in and was called by Hrisca and Iverson.  They checked-down a board of Jh-8s-10h-Js-9h, only to reveal an A-A for Iverson, A-Q for Hrisca, and A -10 for Alacqua. Hrisca thus won a large pot and chip lead.  Next, Marino Serenelli was eliminated in fifth won €127,680 when he raised-called one-hundred thirty fiver thousand bet from Fry, and then check-called ninety-thousand bet from Fry on the flop, and all-in on the turn, to reveal a board of 7-Q-6-2-7 which Fry took down with his J-6.  Iversen was next eliminated in fourth for €153,216 when his all-in was called by the pocket eights of Fry and 9-7 suited proved no match for it on a board of 5d-Kc-10s-7h-6c.  Martin Jacobsen was next eliminated in third place for €197,904 when he checked the limp of Hrisca, and checked the flop, then check-called one-hundred thousand and an all-in on the river to reveal his two pair with 8-10 badly trailing the flush of Hrisca with 10 2 of h on a board of 6h-Kh-3c-8h-Ks.  It was down to heads-up with Ciprian Hrisca having the massive chip lead with 3.4 million against Fry's 1.85 million.  The final hand pitted Hrisca's A-6 vs. Fry's J-J, the board brought Qs-6c-10d-Kc-Qc and no help for Hrisca.  Hrisca won second place and €342,608, leaving Fry the victor with his €595,839 prize and boasting rights to the title of Budepest EPT Champion.

EPT Budapest Final results:

1. William Fry - €595,839
2. Ciprian Hrisca - €342,608
3. Martin Jacobson - €197,904
4. Albert Iverson - €153,216
5. Marino Serenelli - €127,680
6. Gino Alacqua - €100,016
7. Zoltan Toth - €78,736
8. Johnny Lodden - €53,200