Orpen Kisacikoglu And Daniel Dvoress Win High Rollers At EPT Monte Carlo

While the 2026 PokerStars European Poker Tour Monte Carlo main event drives towards its finale, a handful of high rollers have made the most of some high-stakes side-event action at the Sporting Monte-Carlo casino.

A few players managed to double up on final tables. Alex Kulev added another significant cash and final table to his recent €250,000 super high roller victory. Daniel Dvoress won a €25,000 high roller and final tabled a €50,000 high roller; Juan Pardo and Isaac Haxton made both of those final tables as well.

Orpen Kisacikoglu, who finished fifth in the €250,000 super high roller won by Kulev, ultimately won the €50,000 buy-in event in question. As the final days of the 2026 EPT Monte Carlo festival wind down, here’s how the two most recent high rollers have played out.

€50,000 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller

The second of two €50,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em events at the 2026 EPT Monte Carlo festival drew 41 entries and produced a $2,327,025 prize pool. Of the six players who eventually finished in the money, five made multiple final tables at EPT Monte Carlo thus far.

Orpen Kisacikoglu of Turkey walked away with the spade trophy and the $802,866 first-place prize in the end. He defeated Kelvin Kerber of Brazil heads-up to secure his third career PokerStars spade trophy. The WSOP bracelet winner and Triton champion now has over $24.5 million in lifetime live tournament earnings.

This win earned Kisacikoglu 510 Card Player Player of the Year points. After his second cash at EPT Monte Carlo, Kisacikoglu now sits inside the top 500 on the yearlong POY leaderboard presented by CoinPoker.

Alex Kulev jumped up to 24th in the POY standings, following his fourth-place finish. Isaac Haxton, who went out in sixth, rose into the number six spot in the POY race courtesy of his back-to-back high roller final tables. Just a couple of days earlier, he placed fourth in the €25,000 buy-in covered in the second half of this article.

Final Table Results

€25,000 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller

Daniel Dvoress has eight career seven-figure tournament cashes, 17 wins, and just shy of $55 million in total lifetime earnings. He tacked on two significant results in just a few days of play at EPT Monte Carlo.

The Canadian high roller took down a €25,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament for $456,927, following a heads-up deal with American Ben Tollerene. A few days later, Dvoress placed fifth in the €50,000 for another six-figure score. He is now 20th in the POY standings, and Tollerene is not far behind him, at 26th.

There were 64 total entries in this tournament, making for a total prize pool of $1,797,869. Nine players cashed, with Haxton (4th) and Pardo (7th) starting their back-to-back runs in this tournament. Adrian Mateos (5th) also managed a final table run.

Final Table Results

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