On Saturday, longtime PocketFiver David Davidp18Peters (pictured) started the weekend by winning the European Poker Tour Malta High Roller Event, which had a €10,000 buy-in, and earned €597,000. It’s the biggest cash of his poker career. PocketFives has tracked three online scores for Peters that have passed $100,000.

Peters entered heads-up play against Ivan Luca with a 2:1 chip lead and although a deal was discussed, nothing came to fruition. The tournament had 235 players, its prize pool swelled to €2.9 million, and the top 39 players finished in the money. Peters proudly Tweeted when all was said and done, “I won with no chop for my biggest score ever! Thanks everyone for the support!”

Here’s how the EPT Malta Final Table paid out. There were seven countries represented:

1st Place: David Peters – €597,000
2nd Place: Ivan Luca – €397,000
3rd Place: Viacheslav Goryachev – €290,500
4th Place: Artem Metalidi – €234,500
5th Place: Charles Carrel – €183,800
6th Place: Nick Petrangelo – €139,000
7th Place: Igor Yaroshevskyy – €102,000
8th Place: Sylvain Loosli – €75,000

Peters won a WCOOP Second Chance event last September for $172,000, his largest online score to date. He chopped an FTOPS eventfive years ago for $152,000 and won the Full Tilt$1K Monday in 2008 for another $110,000. He has multiple victories in $215 tournaments on PokerStars over the years and won the Full Tilt Sunday Major last year, pocketing $36,000.

Prior to this, Peters’ largest live score came after a win in the Bellagio Cup in 2013 for $355,000. The same year, he finished fourth in the WSOP Europe High Roller Event for $203,000 and took down the EPT Prague High Roller Event for $179,000. He just passed $5 million in career live tournament winnings, according to the Hendon Mob, and is #151 on poker’s all-time money list.

Peters has been a member of PocketFives since 2006. Congrats to Peters on his EPT win!

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