2012 EPT Barcelona Champion Mikalai Pobal is August’s Poker Player of the Month

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Quadjacks.com has named 2012 EPT Barcelona champion Mikalai Pobal as their August Poker Player of the Month.

The Belarus-born player managed to beat out Finnish online poker phenom Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies to take the EPT honor last month. 

Pobal’s points total beat out a trio of WPT winners from August: Josh Hale (Legends of Poker), Anthony Gregg (WPT Parx Open) and the #2 overall ranked player Marvin Rettenmaier (WPT Merit Classic), Quadjacks.com reports.

AUGUST TOP 10


135 MIKALAI POBAL


131 JOSH HALE


130 ANTHONY GREGG


128 MARVIN RETTENMAIER


121 AARON MASSEY


120 LORENZO SABATO


110 ILARI SAHAMIES “ZIIGMUND”


109 ELTORNA GANT


102 SAMAD RAZAVI


101 LAURENT POLITO

- Ace King, Gambling911.com

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