Like Coldplay preparing to play Yellow to a packed house, the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) is preparing to enter their curtain falling phase of the event, and that means a hive of activity for our high rollers.
Leon Tsoukernik and those that crack the live tournament whip within the corridors of power at the World Series of Poker (WSOP), pencilled two events into the 2018 WSOPE calendar.
1. €25,500 No-Limit Hold’em.
2. €100,000 No-Limit Hold’em.
Once seven events had passed into the ether, the organisers knew there was a thirst for more high stakes action. Bobby Baldwin and the Las Vegas tribe were in town, as were Paul Phua, Richard Yong and the rest of the Short-Deck crew, and rather than have a dance off; they wedged three more big buy-in events between dessert and the wafer-thin mints.
Here are the results for two of those events.
Michael Addamo Wins Event #8: €25,500 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller
Event #8: €25,500 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller attracted 133-entrants, tripling the €1m Guarantee, and the last person with a bum glued to a seat was Michael Addamo.
The Australian star became the second player of 2018 to win a WSOP bracelet on both sides of the pond, joining Hanh Tran and Timur Margolin who achieved the same feat earlier in the series.
Like a top of the range mower, it doesn’t matter the size of the field, Addamo is capable of taking it down as proven by his first WSOP bracelet win in the summer when he defeated 1,637-entrants to win the $2,620 No-Limit Hold’em Marathon for $653,581.
Back to this one, and Addamo defeated the German star Christian Rudolph (otherwise known as Unknown Player on The Hendon Mob), in a long arse grind of a heads-up match that saw both players trade the lead before Addamo got the job done at 6 am when his AQ improved to beat the pocket sevens of the German star.
The victory is Addamo’s seventh live tournament win, and the €848,702 currently flying down an electrical wire is the most significant chunk of electronic cash he has ever won.
Addamo has now won $3.1m playing live tournaments.
Final Table Results
1. Michael Addamo – €848,702
2. Christian Rudolph – €524,532
3. Benjamin Pollak – €370,219
4. Mikita Badziakouski – €266,767
5. Dominik Nitsche – €196,328
6. Winfred Yu – €147,642
7, James Romero – €113,505
8. Manig Loeser – €89,253
20-players finished ITM including the Austrian powerhouse Matthias Eibinger (9th), the Canadian star Timothy Adams (10th) and the 2016 Super High Roller Bowl winner, Rainer Kemper (13th).
Mikita Badziakouski Does it Again.
The first of three non-bracelet high rollers is also in the bag, and the numbers weren’t great.
Mikita Badziakouski conquered a field of 15-entrants (nine unique, six re-entries) to win the €25,500 No-Limit Hold’em Short-Deck event, beating Ivan Leow, heads-up.
Given the shortage of meat, those were the only two people to bank any money in the event. Badziakouski’s 2018 run has been insane, netting $12,964,213 in live tournaments, second only to Justin Bonomo ($25,143,935). Leow is the most in-form high stakes No-Limit Hold’em Short-Deck live tournament player in the world, so it was a nice scalp for the Belarusian.
Here are the results:
ITM Results
1. Mikita Badziakouski – €213,750
2. Ivan Leow – €142,500
Other players competing in the event included Richard Yong, Paul Phua, Winfred Yu, Wai Kin Yong, Wai Leong Chan and Leon Tsoukernik.
Two high rollers remain.
Here they are:
1. €50,000 No-Limit Hold’em, Oct 31
2. €100,000 No-Limit Hold’em: LEON’s High Roller, Oct 30-31