Costing €100,000 to play, this weekend’s EPT Monte Carlo High Roller saw some of the biggest players in the world take each other in a bid to win the $2.4 million top prize. When the dust settled, long-time PokerStake seller Enrico Camosci got extremely unlucky to fall short in seventh place for a score of $417,000 as Albert Daher outlasted the two most successful tournament poker players of all time in a race to the finish line.

European Record in EPT High Rollers

With a total of 76 entries, the €100,000-entry High Roller event was a record-breaker in European Poker Tour terms. The biggest field also meant the best players, and only 11 of them were able to make money from the event. Of those, three cashed but missed out on the final table, with American pro Byron Kaverman (11^th) and Turkish player Orpen Kisacikoglu (10^th) both winning the equivalent of $213,150.

It was a German player who bubbled the final table, with the talented Tom Fuchs falling just short of the lights and cameras to go with the action.  He busted in ninth place for a or $266,500 in ninth place and that set the final eight in place, with the eventual winner Albert Daher the chip leader.

No sooner had the final table players found their seas was one of them standing up and offering fist bumps. Dutch GGMillion$ winner Teun Mulder moved all-in with ace-jack but ran into the pocket aces of Daher, and they held with ease to reduce the field to seven, Mulder making $333,000 in eighth place.

Camosci Runs Out of Luck

With seven players left, PokerStake seller Enrico Camosci was the unlucky player to leave the party. With pocket kings, the Italian was all-in pre-flop but although he got a caller in Daher with the ace-jack, an ace landed on the flop to set Camosci behind. No miraculous comeback came on turn and river and just like that, the Italian was out, collecting $417,000 but falling short of his ultimate goal.

The Polish player Wiktor Malinowski was the next to go, cashing for $521,000 when his ace-four lost to Bryn Kenney’s king-queen, the All-Time Money List leader overtaking the Pole to put himself in pole position for a comeback victory. The Belarussian Artsiom Lasouski soon fell in fifth place for $655,500, his own king-jack unable to catch up with Albert Daher’s ace-six to reduce the field to four.

Dropping to just 975,000 chips, Kenney moved all-in ace-king but was outrun by his direct rival at the top of the All-Time Money List, Stephen Chidwick, whose queen-jack flopped top pair and faded Kenney’s out cards to send play three-handed. It was a rare hand between the two men battling hardest in the race to become the first player to reach $100m in live tournament earnings.

Chidwick Falls Just Short

Leonardo Drago was the next player to go as he joined his countryman Camosci on the rail. All-in with pocket deuces, he fell to Chidwick’s pocket eights as the British player roared into the final duel. He still faced a big deficit, however, and while Drago collected $1,108,000 in third place, an imbalanced heads-up began.

Daher had control and Chidwick needed a hand to double up with. All-in with king-eight, he was delighted to be flipping against the pocket fours belonging to Daher, but the flop was a nightmare, coming Q-9-4, killing Chidwick’s hopes almost stone dead. The Brit needed runner-runner help to survive but a three on the turn saw the poker great drawing dead to the river as runner-up for a score worth $1,551,000.

For Daher, it was his first victory of this size after winning $25,000-entry events on the EPT in 2018 and 2023. The latter was in Monte Carlo, so it was a happy return to the Monaco province for the latest European Poker Tour champion as he claimed the $2,404,000 top prize.

“It always feels great to just run super-hot and hit every flop,” Daher told Joe Stapleton (above) at the event’s conclusion. “I’ve never been this lucky in my life, so it was a really good time. Once you start a poker career, it’s pretty hard to predict where you’re gonna go. I’m happy to have reached that level.”

EPT Monte Carlo 2026 €100,000 High Roller for One Drop Final Table Results:
Place	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Albert Daher	Lebanon	$2,404,000
2nd	Stephen Chidwick	United Kingdom	$1,551,000
3rd	Leonardo Drago	Italy	$1,108,000
4th	Bryn Kenney	United States	$852,000
5th	Artsiom Lasouski	Belarus	$655,500
6th	Wiktor Malinowski	Poland	$521,000
7th	Enrico Camosci	Italy	$417,000
8th	Teun Mulder	Netherlands	$333,000

Photography by Danny Maxwell for EPT Monte Carlo and PokerStars.