Round 1 Harry DEMETRIOU def. CHUC Howard LEDERER def. Patrick BRUEL Surinder SUNAR def. Barney BOATMAN Roger HAIRABEDIAN def. Paul TESTUD Patrick BUENO def. Robin KESTON Donat BERNARD def. Erik SEIDEL Mike SEXTON def. Steve ZOLOTOW Sherkha FARNOOD def. Allen CUNNINGHAM Patrick ZEKRI def. David MOSLEY Christen JOHARNSSON def. Larry REYNOLDS John DUTHIE def. Rob HOLLINK Tony G def. Jac ARAMA Jeff LISSANDRO def. Andrew BLOCH Bruno FITOUSSI def. David DevilFish ULLIOTT Jan BOUBLI def. Bruno HADDAD Ram VASWANI def. Eric SAGSTROM Round 2 Harry DEMETRIOU def. Howard LEDERER Roger HAIRABEDIAN def. Surinder SUNAR Donat BERNARD def. Patrick BUENO Mike SEXTON def. Sherkha FARNOOD Christen JOHARNSSON def. Patrick ZEKRI John DUTHIE def. Tony G Bruno FITOUSSI def. Jeff LISSANDRO Jan BOUBLI def. Ram VASWANI Quarter Finals Roger HAIRABEDIAN def. Harry DEMETRIOU Mike SEXTON def. Donat BERNARD John DUTHIE def. Christen JOHARNSSON Jan BOUBLI def. Bruno FITOUSSI Semi- Finals Mike SEXTON def. Roger HAIRABEDIAN John DUTHIE def. Jan BOUBLI Finals Mike SEXTON def. John DUTHIE EFOP HEADS UP CHALLENGE CHAMPION: MIKE SEXTON (USA) - € 65 000

EFOP HEADS UP CHALLENGE

Quickest matches were won by Bruno Fitoussi and Jeff Lissandro, who respectively defeated David DevilFish and Andrew Bloch in less than 12 minutes! Funny situation.. Ram Crazy horse Vaswani enjoyed his match with his challenger, Eric Sagstrom, the King of Ding of internet poker. They must have played thousands of hours heads up on the net to finally find themselves playing heads up for real!

2/11/03

Longest match so far was Ram “Crazy Horse” Vaswani from England playing against Jan “Le Grand” Boubli from France. They started, stopped and restarted again their match three times, for a total of 5 hours! Jan finally won the match, and the battle was worth it, as he also won his Quarter Final match against World Heads Up Champion Bruno Fitoussi. Unfortunately, after another 5 hours combat against John Duthie, this latter finally managed to win the match. Since it lasted so long, the two finalists – Mike SEXTON (USA) – winner of the EFOP European Hold’Em Championship year 2000 - and John DUTHIE (UK) - winner of the first Poker Million tournament to be held in the Isle of Man in year 2000 - commonly decided to play the final heads up match on Friday, February 14th, as it is a break day during the WPT monster event! Good luck to both of them!

2003 Euro Finals of Poker