EPT Dortmund main event, €5,000 No-limit Hold'em, 10-14th March 2009

Entrants: 667

Buyin: €5,000

Prizepool: €4,217,088

1. Sandra Naujoks, Germany, €917,000
2. Holger Kanisch, Germany, €533,000
3. Marc Gork, Germany, €307,000
4. Johan Storakers, Sweden, €237,000
5. Mike McDonald, Canada, €197,000
6. Luca Pagano, Italy, €153,000
7. William Thorson, Sweden, €116,500
8. Cengizcan Ulusu, Turkey, €83,500
9. Florian Langmann, Germany, €50,000


Sandra Naujoks, a member of the prestigious PokerStars.de ShootingStar team, has won EPT Dortmund, earning €917,000. The 27-year-old from Dessau is only the second woman to win an EPT title after Victoria Coren, now a Team PokerStars Pro, won in London during season three.Naujoks triumphed in Germany’s biggest ever poker tournament after beating fellow German Holger Kanisch, a 26-year-old economics student from Koblenz.

Germany dominated the €5,300 no limit hold ’em event with 270 players out of a 667-strong field and 31 players cashing from a total of 64.