20 years of the EPT: Trivia quiz. How many can you answer?

September 3, 2024

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by Howard Swains

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Players, media and staff got the chance at EPT Barcelona to test their knowledge of the first 20 years of the European Poker Tour.

James Hartigan hosted a trivia quiz in the Player Lounge featuring some seriously tough brain-teasers, inviting EPT fans to dig deep into their knowledge to try to dredge up some answers.

A team featuring French commentary duo Benny & Yu (Benny Bruneteaux and Julien Brecard) alongside PokerStars Ambassador Nick Walsh prevailed, ahead of a team captained by EPT reg David Docherty and another with David Lappin and Robbie Bull.

EPT Tournament Director Toby Stone and Live Events head Cedric Billot also played, though even their razor-sharp minds found a few of these questions too tricky.

Fancy giving the quiz a go? Here are all the questions asked last night, as well as a few bonus rounds that did not make the cut. We’ll publish the answers over the next couple of days.

EASY TRIVIA

Ten EPT-centred trivia questions. Two points for each correct answer. (Available points: 20)

1. Which is the only city to have hosted an EPT tournament every year since the tour’s inception?
2. Who is the oldest player ever to win an EPT Main Event?
3. Who is the youngest player ever to win an EPT Main Event?
4. Who is the only player to have won an EPT Main Event and the World Series of Poker Main Event?
5. The following players are the only people from their respective countries to win an EPT Main Event. Name the countries. i) Jan Bendik; ii) Jan Skampa; iii) Razvan Belea. (One point for two correct; two points for all three)
6. In 2023, the EPT went to two new venues for the first time. What were they? (One point for each.)
7. Players from which country have won more EPT Main Event titles than any other?
8. What links Max Heinzelmann, Martin Jacobson, Denes Kalo, Marton Czuczor and Pierre Neuville.
9. What was the name given to the two EPT events hosted in ski resorts, where players got the chance to play poker and indulge in winter sports?
10. According to the PokerStars Live commentators, what does “everyone love”?

Razvan Belea is the only EPT champion from which country?

FINAL TABLE PLAYER PROFILES

Each of the following is a description of a player who has made the final table of an EPT Main Event. For two points each, name the player. (Available points: 20)

1. Which EPT final table player is also the host of the British television quiz show Only Connect?
2. Which EPT final table player played 51 times for the England national football team, scoring 11 goals?
3. Which EPT final table player played Beppe Di Marco in the British soap opera Eastenders from 1998-2002?
4. Which EPT final table player went on to play Harvey Monroe in the British soap opera Eastenders from 2021 to present day?
5. Which EPT final table player has given Ted Talks titled Lessons on Decision Making from a Poker Champion and The Dark Side of Competition in AI?
6. Which EPT final table player is also a French rapper and actor, whose songs include J’reviens and Ma rime, and who has starred in the film Heal the Living and the TV show Spiral?
7. Which EPT final table player won the Scripps National Spelling Bee aged 13 in 2002?
8. Which EPT final table player is a former child chess prodigy and the inspiration for a character in the movie Searching for Bobby Fischer?
9. Which EPT final table player is also an actor and singer, who has released seven albums that have gone to No 1 in the French album chart?
10. Which EPT final table player performed a show at the Edinburgh Comedy Fringe Festival titled How to Become a Poker Millionaire (And Still be a Loser)?

Who is this former Spelling Bee champion?

EPT GEOGRAPHY

A few questions about the places we visit on the EPT. (Available points: 18)

1. The town of Portomaso hosted two EPT events. What country is it in?
2. EPT London has been held at four different venues. Name three for one point. Name all four for two points.
3. Five cities have hosted only one EPT Main Event. Name four of them for one point. Name all five for two points.
4. Five countries have held EPT events in more than one city. Name four for one point. Name all five for two points. And there’s another bonus point if you can name the only country to host EPT Main Events in THREE cities.
5. Name the EPT by the venue name (five points on offer):

i) Sports Palace
ii) Olympic Poker Club, Swissotel
iii) Concord Card Casino
iv) Imperial Ballroom, Atlantis
v) Hofburg Palace

6. The following airports are in which EPT cities?

i) Václav Havel Airport
ii) Ferenc Liszt International Airport
iii) Josep Tarradellas-El Prat Airport
iv) Chopin Airport
v) Lynden Pindling Airport

Ian Hamilton won EPT London. But at what venue?

ONLINE SUPERSTARS

Name the EPT Main Event champion from their PokerStars screenname (one point for each) (Available points: 10):

1. Timex
2. TreysFull21
3. ElkY
4. Colisea
5. robinho
6. SirWatts
7. swordfish007
8. hitthehole
9. Mr. Tim Caum
10. Decay

Everyone knows ElkY, but what’s the name on his birth certificate?

BEST GUESS

Only one of the following five questions requires a precise answer. The others need a guess within a certain, specified, range. Two points for each correct answer. (Available points: 10)

1. Exact
   How many two-time Main Event champions have there been in live EPT events (i.e. excluding WhatIfGod, who won EPT Online twice)?
2. Within 5
   How many EPT Main Events had there been without a double champion?
3. Within 50
   What is the biggest number of entries there has ever been in an EPT Main Event?
4. Within 1,000
   What is the distance, in miles or kilometres, between the two EPT venues that are furthest from one another? Clue: these venues are Nassau, in the Bahamas, and Kyiv, Ukraine.
5. Within 1 million
   What is the biggest prize pool ever – in euros – for an EPT Main Event?

Victoria Coren Mitchell was the first EPT double champion. But how long did we have to wait?

WHO SAID IT?

These famous EPT quotes all come from feature table action on the EPT. Two points for each correct answer. (Available points: 12)

1. “It’s always coming seven.”
2. “You call, it’s all over, baby. Like Scotty Nguyen.”
3. “I have a hand that’s impossible to fold, but everything you say makes it slightly possible.”
4. “It’s my tournament life, not my actual life. There’s always another tournament.”
5. “Raise. Sorry, call. No speak English.”
6. “It was nice playing with you, sir. I call.”

One of poker’s great talkers. Who is he, and what did he say?

AMATEUR HOUR

Not all EPT champions are pro players. But can you match the Main Event champion with their stated profession at the time of their win. (Available points: 10)

Career
Pest exterminator
Dentist
Driving instructor
Restaurant owner
Warehouse worker
Stock trader
Doctor
Magazine editor
Backgammon pro
Golf course owner

Champion
Sander Lylloff
Jan Boubli
Duc Thang Nguyen
Jean Montury
Nicolas Dumont
Roland de Wolfe
Lucien Cohen
Piotr Nurzynski
John Dibella
Sebastian Sorensson

What was Piotr Nurzynski’s profession before he became a poker champion?

PARTY POOPERS

Each of the following players won an EPT Main Event by beating an arguably better-known player heads-up. Who was the famous runner-up when each of the following won their titles? One point for each. (Available points: 10)

1. Bjorn-Erik Glenne – EPT Barcelona 2006
2. Dominik Panka – PCA 2014
3. Magnus Petersson – EPT Copenhagen 2007
4. Reuben Peters – EPT Dublin 2007
5. Aaron Gustavson – EPT London 2009
6. Sebastian Pauli – EPT London 2014
7. Sotirios Koutoupas – EPT Deauville 2014
8. Mikalai Pobal – EPT Barcelona 2012
9. Benny Spindler – EPT London 2008
10. David Vamplew – EPT London 2010

Sebastian Pauli denied whom an EPT title?

ANAGRAMS

Here are 10 anagrams of EPT Main Event champions. Unscramble them for one point each:

1. REAL TECHNICOLOR VICTIM
2. STALE AMBIANCES
3. ISNAE MATADOR
4. WEEDY VOTERS
5. AD JOCKEY
6. SMOKE TWAIN
7. PANDA KINK MOI
8. INFIRM GARNET
9. EVE BOILER
10. MATURED NAN ART

Can you unscramble this poker pro’s name?

DIFFICULT TRIVIA

Three points each for answering the following questions. (Available points: 30)

1. Who was the first woman ever to appear at an EPT Main Event final table?
2. And who was the most recent?
3. The Million Pound Showdown was the first High Roller event ever held on the European Poker Tour. It took place in London in 2008 and was won by Jason Mercier. What was the buy-in?
4. Players from which country won three consecutive EPT Main Events in 2012 (Season 8), the only time the same country has produced back-to-back-to-back champions. Bonus point if you can name all three players.
5. No photos or video exists of either Antonio Mathias or Toby Lewis winning their EPT titles. Why? (It’s the same reason for both of them.)
6. Before Barny Boatman won EPT Paris aged 68 this year, who was the oldest EPT Main Event champion?
7. Name the only member of the original Hendon Mob who has not reached an EPT final table?
8. Diego Gomez wore what to the final table of the EPT Prague Main Event in 2012?
9. Ilari Sahamies and Joni Joukamainen wore them and finished second and third. What are they, and who didn’t wear one and won?
10. Name the only players to win EPT Main Events representing the following countries: i) Belgium, ii) Switzerland, iii) Ukraine. One point for each.

Jason Mercier won the Million Pound Showdown. But what was the buy-in?

MORE EPT BARCELONA COVERAGE:

All EPT Barcelona reports
Official EPT site
EPT Barcelona activities calendar