Euro Finals of Poker - Season 1 - Feb 15, 2003
The World Poker Tour lived up to its name, traveling to Europe
for the first time at the Aviation Club in Paris on February
12th-15th 2003. The buy in was 10,000 Euros ($10,799 US) and
attracted 86 players from around the world.
In this tournament we were introduced to poker pro Allen
Cunningham and the boisterous Tony G. Much of the focus was
lost on the play at the final table, and re-centered on the
Australian until he went out in 5th place.
Cunningham was eliminated in third place, setting up Christer
Johansson and Claude Cohen to battle for the championship
heads up. A classic race situation developed when Cohen moved
all in with Ace-King. Johansson called with pocket sevens.
Cohen failed to improve, then went out on the next hand. Johansson
took home the title and the 500,000 Euro ($566,948 US) payday.
