Avishai Shitrit of Israel has won the first ever Romanian Eureka event and collected €107,350 as first prize. The tournament received 579 players from all around Europe and Romania and generated €561,630 as total prize pool, distributed to top 87 placers. It becomes a great day for the Israeli Avishai Shitrit, who made sure to win the first and inaugural event of Eureka season 6 in Bucharest. Total three Romanians poker players were in the list of top six, which is as follows:-
Avishai Shitrit, A Pro poker player from Israel wins €107,350 at Eureka#6 in Bucharest.
The runner up of the tournament was another Israeli player named Moshe Eliyahu, with total winning share of amount €66,950.
Jozsef Liszkovics of Romania was at the third position, who made €47,910 from the final table of the game.
Yasen Dichev of Bulgaria was at fourth place and added an amount of €37,070
in his main account, whereas the Romanian Razvan Belea with €29,200 was at fifth position. Carmen Zainescu finished to sixth place for an amount €22,860. This was the inaugural poker festival took place in Romain, to which the 30 year old pro poker player from Israel did really well. He played outstanding against the opponents till the end of the game. The final round or heads up round of the game was in between to Isrealy poker players:-
Avishai Shitrit having 12,560,000 chip counts and Moshe Eliyahu having 1,765,000 chip counts. As you can see, there was a hugh difference in between chip co8nts in top two players. It was not an easy job for Eliyahu to maintain the pressure against the winner and countryman Shitrit and got busted to second place after playing a couple more hands in the final round of the game. Though, he was playing well but could only be able to collected €66, 950, whereas the winner takes home €107,350.