{"id":1190,"date":"2014-03-03T00:09:28","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T00:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2014-03-03T00:09:28","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T00:09:28","slug":"koutoupas-lands-first-for-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/?p=1190","title":{"rendered":"Koutoupas lands first for Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sotirios Koutoupas became Greece&#8217;s first EPT champion when he outlasted 670 players to take the title in Deauville from 26 January to 1 February 2014. <\/p>\n<p>After six exits from the final table at Casino Barriere, Koutoupas faced Eugene Katchalov heads-up for the title.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, it was Katchalov who came up short, unable to stop the awesome momentum of Koutoupas. The 31-year-old Greek player cracked aces twice along the way and came from behind on countless other occasions, including a cruel final hand against Katchalov. But he came to the final table with the chip lead and never surrendered it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was my time now, it was my time to win. I was very lucky today in some situations, but that&#8217;s poker. Everything went well for me,&#8221; said Koutoupas, who collected \u20ac614,000 for his week&#8217;s work. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sotirios Koutoupas became Greece&#8217;s first EPT champion when he outlasted 670 players to take the title in Deauville from 26 January to 1 February 2014. After six exits from the final table at Casino Barriere, Koutoupas faced Eugene Katchalov heads-up for the title. In the end, it was Katchalov who came up short, unable to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-1190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ept"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1192,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions\/1192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}