The Greek philosopher, Aristotle, once said that “quality is not an act, it’s a habit.”
Fellow Grecian, Alexandros Kolonias, made money in both Day 7 events to take the lead at the Poker Masters Online. Both were ‘acts’, but it’s Kolonias’s habits off the felt that’s the backbone for his most recent success.
Event #14: $10,300 No-Limit Hold’em (NLHE) attracted 114-entrants to the felt like discarded In-N-Out boxes to a conspiracy of ravens, and Mustapha Kanit roosted higher than any of them.
There are no weak spokes in Kanit’s online game.
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The $279,300 that Kanit earned for his win is his ninth six-figure score, and only his third-highest rout.
The most significant amount of dosh wired to Kanit’s online account came in 2015 when he won the Spring Championships of Online Poker (SCOOP) Main Event [H] on PokerStars for $1,304,720 (Kanit also won the FTOPS Main Event on Full Tilt in the same year earning $239,400).
Kanit’s second most substantial score came one year earlier when he finished third in a $10,300 NLHE event at the World Championships of Online Poker (WCOOP) on PokerStars for $392,375.
In 2016, Kanit also won the PokerStars Sunday Million for $177,299.79.
The man is a monster.
Kolonias finished runner-up to become the second man to register six in the money (ITM) finishes alongside Timothy Adams (although the pair had more to say before the sun went down).
Other notable finishes include Artur Martirosian claiming his second top-three finish, Mike Watson cashing for the fifth time, Alex Foxen cashing for the fourth time, and the PocketFives World #1, Niklas Astedt, finishing ITM for the first time.
Here are the results.
Results
- Mustapha Kanit – $279,300
- Alexandros Kolonias – $199,500
- Artur Martirosian – $142,500
- Brunno Botteon De Albuquerque – $99,750
- Christoph Vogelsang – $74,100
- Edwin Villalobo Amaya – $57,000
- Simon Pedersen – $45,600
- Alex Foxen – $37,050
- Simon Higgins – $28,500
- Lucas Reeves – $28,500
- Jake Schindler – $28,500
- Christoper Malcolm Fraser – $28,500
- Mike Watson – $22,800
- Nick Petrangelo – $22,800
- Niklas Astedt – $22,800
- Kahle Burns – $22,800
Timothy Adams Wins Event #15: $10,300 NLHE 6-Max
Timothy Adams moved ominously into second place in the Poker Masters Online Championship Leaderboard after taking down Event #15: $10,300 NLHE 6-Max.
The event attracted 78-entrants with Adams ousting Joao Vieira, heads-up, to bank the $243,988 first prize. It’s Adams seventh cash of the series, equal with Kolonias, who finished seventh in this event. Jorryt Van Hoof sits sixth in the Championship race with six ITM finishes, and Alex Foxen and Juan Pardo Dominguez picked up their fifth cashes of the series.
Here are the results.
Results
- Timothy Adams – $243,988.68
- Joao Vieira – $152,100
- Dario Sammartino – $93,600
- Alex Foxen – $68,250
- Ben Heath – $58,750
- Ali Imsirovic – $33,150
- Alexandros Kolonias – $25,350
- Yahia Fahmy – $25,350
- Jorryt Van Hoof – $25,350
- Sami Kelopuro – $21,370
- Elias Talvitie – $21,370
- Juan Pardo Dominguez – $21,270
Championship Leaderboard
- Alexandros Kolonias – (592 pts)
- Timothy Adams – (584)
- Andras Nemeth – (535)
- Alex Foxen – (493)
- Luuk Gieles – (492)