Casino owner, antique dealer and recreational poker player Leon Tsoukernik of Czech Republic was crowned the winner of the EPT Prague €50,000 Super High Roller on Tuesday after having bested an extremely tough field consisting of many of the world's best tournament players, including poker prodigy Charlie Carrel heads-up. Carrel, 23, and Tsoukernik, 43, seem to have captivated all observers since they ended up at the same table for the first time on Sunday afternoon.
"Less than an hour into their acquaintance, they exchanged heated words over a misunderstanding over an alleged angle shoot. (There was no guilty party.) But since then they played almost non-stop against one another, earning each other's respect. Carrel knocked out Tsoukernik on Day 1, and Tsoukernik bought back in, landing in the exact seat he had left. Tsoukernik then paid €600 for a bottle of whisky and they buried the hatchet over the brown stuff," Howard Swains wrote on PokerStars Blog.
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