The English Poker Open was my fourth heads up. I lost the first three.

FABIAN Quoss has won the English Poker Open.

The 28-year-old German pocketed more than £220,000 at Mayfair's Palm Beach Casino after defeating Dutchman Sebastian Crul heads-up.

An impressive 193 players had paid the £3,500 buy-in to the event, generating a whopping prize pool of £675,000.

Afterwards, Quoss - who finished 7th in the recent WPT London Main Event - said: "I’ve finally won a tournament!

"It’s my fourth heads up and I’ve lost the first three.

"The final table had a pretty high level of play, even compared to my WPT final table. It was pretty tough.”

Lots of big names turned up for the tournament, including poker sex bomb Liv Boeree who finished 12th and Phil Laak in 18th - both of whom got paid.

Quoss, from Nuremberg, won the tense heads-up battle when he found AsQd in the hole. Crul, 18, doubled the big blind on the button and Quoss re-raised for 163,000.

When his rival announced another re-raise, to 410,000, the German moved all-in and was snap-called.

Crul showed Ac5c and the board came Ad Kh 8h 3d 6d, meaning Quoss's bigger Ace held good crowning him King of the English Poker Open 2010 and handing him the George Trophy.



English Poker Open 2010

Final Results



1st Fabian Quoss £220,650

2nd Sebastian Crul £129,000

3rd Mathew Frankland £77,400

4th Felipe Ramos £54,300

5th Andrew Brennan £40,750

6th Brent Lehring £30,550

7th Mark Norman £23,750

8th Salman Behbehani £17,000

9th Stephen Chimelski £13,600

10th Soap Song £9,500