Canadian wins EPT seat from PokerListings.com

January 24, 2008

The playing field may have been small, but it wasn’t an easy feat for xzenit to walk away with a European Poker Tour Prague seat at Hollywood Poker recently.

The freeroll was hosted exclusively for poker players who signed up at Hollywood Poker through PokerListings.com, and it saw 26 players take to the table to try to earn the seat.

To qualify for the freeroll, players had to place in the top four of one of the weekly $1,000 freerolls for PokerListings.com players leading up to the tournament. That limited the playing field to at most 32 players.

For xzenit, a 21-year-old college student living in Quebec, Canada, it was obvious the resulting playing field was going to be tough.

“We were 26 players at first in the freeroll, and they were paying top four players,” he said. “So I knew it was going to be pretty tough against these players, because they were all top-four finishers in different tourneys.”

However, xzenit is no slouch at the poker table either. He said he’s been playing poker for more than a year now.

“I didn’t know anything about the game,” xzenit said of his beginning in poker. “I saw [an advertisement] and decided to try it. At first, it was just for fun, but it changed over time.”

Canadian wins EPT seat from PokerListings.com

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