Jake Cody Wins EPT Deauville

The winds of poker are definitely sailing in the direction of the young gun, what with 21-year-old Joe Cada winning the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event (to name just one example). And now another 21-year-old has taken a top poker title, in this case Jake Cody winning the 2010 EPT Deauville event of the PokerStars European Poker Tour.

Hailing from Rochdale, Jake Cody is known in online poker as neverbluff67 and is notorious for his MTT (that’s multi-table tournament) success. This was his first live European Poker Tour event, which he decided to enter after cashing in the recent 2010 UK & Ireland Poker Tour event in Galway (UKIPT Galway). He also recently won $198,000 is an online poker score.

He took the title for the EPT event in France this year from a playing field of 768 opponents, including 2009 WSOP Main Event winner Peter Eastgate, and 13 former European Poker Tour champs. Ultimately it came down to Cody, Mike “Timex” McDonald and Teodor Caraba. Cody began the final table second in chips, but quickly lost much of them and had to fight his way back up. McDonald was first of the final three to bust out, leaving Teodor Caraba to take the €516,000 second place prize and Jake Cody to take the €847,000 first prize.

Along with the prize money, Cody also won a free seat in the EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final.

PokerStars is always running satellites and qualifiers into upcoming EPT (and UKIPT) events.