PPT Final: Winner Vanessa Selbst Takes Home EUR1.3 million

Selbst takes down Raphael Kroll in exciting finale

Palm Beach Casino in Cannes, France this weekend hosted the Partouche Poker Tour Main Event Final Table, with American Vanessa Selbst and Raphaël Kroll. The first prize of EUR1.3 million went to Selbst, who beat Kroll heads up, winning the largest single tournament prize in her career so far which put her on the third position on the women's all-time money list behind Kathy Liebert and Annie Duke.

The following is the sum up of the PPT main event:

1 Vanessa Selbst Euro 1,300 000

2 Raphaël Kroll Euro 800,000

3 Fabrice Soulier Euro 500,000

4 Mickael Etelapera Euro 360.000

5 Ibrahim Raouf Euro 300,000

6 Soren Konsgaard Euro 240,000

7 Cyril André Euro 187,500

8 Tobias Reinkemeier Euro 110,300

Prior to the final table, one of the players, a former WPT Spanish Championship winner Ali Tekintamgac, was disqualified on charges that he used confederates posing as members of the media to gain an unfair advantage over his competitors.

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