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On Monday nine poker players managed to bag a $20,000 Epic Poker League Main Event seat by virtue of reaching the EPL Pro/Am final table. Amongst the nine players who reached the final table of the Epic Poker League Pro/Am were three players who were already eligible to participate in the Main Event (which is only open to a select group of a few hundred poker players, as well as the nine qualifiers from the Pro/Am), the most prominent of which being Phil Hellmuth.

Joining Hellmuth at the final table were EPL members Greg Mueller and Nam Le (who finished 1^st and 2^nd respectively), as well as non-EPL members Andreas Hoivold, Sean Getzwiller, Brandon Meyers, Russell Rosenbum, Jeremy Ausmus and Michael DiVita. Remarkably, Meyers and Getzwiller have qualified to play in the Epic Poker League Main Event at both Pro/Am tournaments thus far, with Meyers turning his first entry into a $70k payday last month.

In order for the Pro/Am to cover the guaranteed nine $20k seats awarded the tournament needs to attract at least 132 entrants. Unfortunately, with the European Poker schedule in full swing and the PokerStars WCOOP running only 97 players made it out for the Pro/Am event, forcing the EPL to add over $50k to the prize-pool.

Even though 1^st through 9^th place would receive the same prize, tournament officials and some of the players decided it was best to play the Pro/Am out to its conclusion because of the Global Poker Index which ranks players based on their tournament success.