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Finland's Kai Lehto Conquers Huge PokerStars Open Cup in Prague (€162,000)

The 2025 PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague festival is in full swing, with more than a dozen tournaments already crowning their champions. Finland's Kai Lehto is among those winners, having triumphed in the monster-sized €825 PokerStars Open Cup for €162,000, which happens to be the second-largest live score of his career.

Including re-entries, the €825 PokerStars Open Cup attracted a bumper field of 2,140, creating an impressive €1,540,800 prize pool. The top 321 finishers shared that princely sum, with such luminaries as Vincent Meli, Simon Higgins, and Pavels Spirins seeing a return on their investments.