EPT Berlin High Roller – Benger Claims Title

The European Poker Tour Berlin is now done and dusted after yesterday saw the completion of both the Main Event and this High Roller event. The successful German stop on the tour once again proved to be hugely popular amongst players and fans alike with huge fields taking part in the many events hosted.

This particular event saw Griffin Benger take home the title and €429,000 first place prize after he managed to overcome a strong final table and defeat Aaron Lim heads up.

Many of you may not know much about Griffin Benger, especially considering he hardly has a live tournament history. In fact before this win he had only ever achieved career earnings of $263,139 at the felt.

However, those of you that follow high stakes poker online will certainly have heard of his screen name “Flush_Entity”. Just from online tournaments alone he has amassed career earnings of more than $4 million and that is without his profits as a cash player. He was in fact regarded as the number one online tournament player a little while back.

In this event he managed to outclass a strong final table that included some poker heavyweights in Max Lykov and Scott Seiver.

He eventually beat Aaron Lim when heads up after going into the session with a clear chip advantage. Despite his opponent managing to double up through him once, it didn’t take too long for the match up to finish.

What’s more is that he did all of this on his birthday!

Couldn’t be happier to win the #EPTBerlinHighroller! Thanks so much for the support guys it truly is a dream come true! #teamivey #teampipe

— Flush_Entity (@GriffinBenger) April 27, 2013

Can’t wait to celebrate tonight with all my closest friends. It’s not every day you win half a mil on your birthday!

— Flush_Entity (@GriffinBenger) April 27, 2013

How It Finished!

1st – Griffin Benger – €429,000

2nd – Aaron Lim – €240,100

3rd – Philippe Ktorza – €144,000

4th – Max Lykov – €102,900

5th – Martin Kabrhel – €82,300

6th – Joni Jouhkimainen – €68,600

7th – James Mitchell – €54,900

8th – Scott Seiver – €41,200

9th – Jan-Peter Jachtmann – €30,300

10th – Ronny Voth – €30,300

11th – AP Phahurat – €27,500

12th – Igor Kurganov – €27,500

13th – Artem Litvinov – €24,700

14th – Gautam Sabharwal – €24,700

15th – David Peters – €22,000

16th – Georgios Karakousis – €22,000