Frenchman Wins PokerStars EPT Warsaw Poker Tournament

So, what happens when somebody with good business sense is playing in a poker tournament against someone with good poker sense? We got a little look at how that encounter would turn out during the PokerStars, European Poker Tour, Warsaw event. In the No Limit Texas hold’em main event, French businessman, Christophe Benzimra, came away from this poker tournament as the winner while Italian poker pro, Alfio Battisti, had to settle for the runner up position. Benzimra took a rather offbeat route to the European Poker Tour. He is not like many of the poker pros who either started playing online poker before they were old enough to drive, or are guys who cut their teeth over decades of casino cash games. Benzimra runs a Plexiglas factory in Bucharest, Romania, and hasn’t been playing poker for all that long. In fact only three years separates the day he first sat down to play Texas hold’em, and this ETP poker tournament triumph. Of course the fact that the EPT tournament was a Main Event adds extra luster to the accomplishment. To be fair, this was not his first time participating in an EPT event. He has become a fixture at the PokerStars, European Poker Tour tournaments for the last two years, but this was the first time he has cashed in a Main Event. The win gave the French native €358,644 as a reward for his efforts. This is the sort of thing that may give a lot of players the sort of confidence that would lure them into a life as a professional poker player. But Benzimra is keeping his feet firmly planted on the ground. "I think I was lucky today. I am not a professional player, I play for fun. I really enjoyed it but I'm not giving up work! I play poker just for the pleasure of it." We congratulate Christophe Benzimra on his impressive victory.