Daher Wins €100K One Drop, Kulev Tops €250K Super High Roller at EPT Monte Carlo

The Lebanese pro defeated poker legend Stephen Chidwick heads-up to claim €2,055,000, moving straight to the top of Lebanon's All-Time Money List in the process.

What makes this win stand out beyond the prize money is the field itself. With 76 entries, the One Drop event attracted the largest turnout at the €100,000 buy-in level in European Poker Tour history.

Across the same festival week, the €250,000 Super High Roller also delivered with 38 entries and a €9,310,000 prize pool, crowning Bulgarian pro Alex Kulev champion for €2,786,332 after a heads-up deal with Bryn Kenney.

With 76 entries including 24 re-entries, the €100K High Roller for One Drop generated a €7,296,000 prize pool and beat out every previous €100K field in EPT history.

The tournament ran May 1 to 3 at the Sporting Monte-Carlo, with Monaco's prestige and the One Drop charitable angle doing exactly what they were designed to do: pull in the biggest names and biggest bankrolls on the European circuit. 

Albert Daher played what he described as the luckiest tournament of his life, and he ran it to perfection. His road to the EPT title included back-to-back deep runs at the seven-figure level: a third-place finish at the December 2025 Triton Invitational was followed up here with the outright win and the trophy. Previous EPT titles at the €25K level in Monte Carlo (2018) and Cyprus (2023) had hinted that the €100K win was already showing on the horizon.

Chidwick's runner-up finish adds €1,325,700 to his career total, pushing him to $78.5 million in live earnings. That leaves him just $3 million behind Bryn Kenney's all-time record of over $84 million, and the $100 million milestone is now a realistic target. Kenney himself finished fourth for €728,500 at this very final table.

While Daher was collecting One Drop honours, Bulgarian pro Alex Kulev was busy writing his own chapter of EPT history at the same Monte Carlo festival.