We have three PokerStars World Championship of Poker (WCOOP) results to bring you up to speed on, all of which resulted in a second WCOOP triumph for each last man seated.
We start with Ludovic Geilich.
The Scotsman, wore his partypoker patch with pride, as he outlasted a 94-entrant field in Event #10 {H}: $10,300 No Limit Hold’em 8-Max High Roller for $238,966. It’s the second time Geilich has won a WCOOP title with the words’ high roller’ in the event headline. In 2016, the partypoker pro beat 93-entrants in a $21,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Max High Roller for $462,182.
The final day of the two-day event lasted less than six hours, and as you can see from the results, Geilich had to overcome a final table brimming with some of the most talented No-Limit Hold’em players in the world.
Final Table Results
Ludovic Geilich – $238,966
Ole Schemion – $184,676
Chris Hunichen – $142,719
Mikita Badziakouski – $110,295
Thomas Muehloecker – $85,237
Timothy Adams – $65,872
Filipe Oliveira – $50,907
Fishbones11 – $39,341
Pieter Aerts – $31,510
Niklas Astedt Wins Event #39 (H): $5,200 No Limit Hold’em Progressive KO, High Roller
Niklas Astedt also binked a second WCOOP title.
The Swedish online star won Event #39 (H): $5,200 No Limit Hold’em Progressive KO, High Roller for $201,055, and in doing so prevented Gleb Tremzin from winning his fifth WCOOP title.
Astedt has been on the top of the online multi-table tournament (MTT) world several times (as ranked by PocketFives) and has accrued more than $21m in online earnings, supplemented by a big win in August, defeating 100-entrants in a $10,300 event in the PokerStars Stadium Series for $230,434.70.
From one multiple PocketFives World #1 to another, and Andras Nemeth collected the second WCOOP title of his career. Both of them came within a week of each other. Firstly he topped a field of 294-entrants to win the $530+R 8-max event for $79,655.48, and then he went on and won the $5,200 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Max High Roller for $140,506.
Nemeth conquered high stakes Pot Limit Omaha star, Richard Gryko, heads-up, for the title. Laszlo Bujtas, Joao Vieira and Shaun Deeb also featured on the final table.
Final Table Results
Andras Nemeth – $140,506
Richard Gryko – $107,761
Laszlo Bujtas – $82,648
Us_Alex – $63,387
Aku1206 – $48,614
Joao ‘Naza114’ Vieira – $37,285
Shaun ‘shaundeeb’ Deeb – $28,596
Alex Foxen
partypoker’s High Roller Club continued unabated on Tuesday night, and once again the Global Poker Index (GPI) World #1, glued his perpetual perfection onto the results page.
Alex Foxen took down the 49-entrant $1,050, $50k GTD Mix-Max Warm-Up for $20,000, and finished runner-up to Andras Nemeth in the $1,050 6-Max Knockout.
Only one other player exceeds the 1,000 point mark on the leaderboard. Rok Gostisa finished fifth in the $1,050 Mix-Max, fourth in the $2,600 Mix-Max, and sixth in the $530 6-Max Turbo Knockout. The Slovenian trails Foxen by 39-points.
Breaking into the top five is Artur Martirosian, winning the 40-entrant $5,000, $200k GTD Main Event for $81,500, beating Rob Yong, heads-up. The Russian also featured on the final table of the $1,050 Mix-Mix, finishing third.
Here are the results in full.
$5,000, $200k GTD Main Event
40-entrants
Results
Artur Martirosian – $81,500
Rob Yong – $53,000
Joao Vieira – $33,000
Timothy Adams – $20,000
Jans Arends – $12,500
$2,600, $75k GTD Mix-Max 2nd Chance
32-entrants
Results
Vyacheslav Buldygin – $36,000
Ali Imsirovic – $23,578.88
Niklas Astedt – $12,000
Rok Gostisa – $8,421.12
$1,050, $50k GTD 6-Max Knockout
50-entrants
Results
Andras Nemeth – $12,812.50+$7,478.03
Alex Foxen – $250+$7,473
Alejandro Muriel – $1,687.50+$3,796.97
Ivan Gabrieli – $750+$2,628.67
Jans Arends – $1,187.50+$2,044.52
Simon Mattsson – $1,625+$1,578.81
$1,050, $50k GTD Mix-Max Warm-Up
49-entrants
Results
Alex Foxen – $20,000
Barry Hutter – $12,797.25
Artur Martirosian – $6,500
Mark Davis – $4,500
Rok Gostisa – $3,500
Tuen Mulder – $2,702.75
$530, $25k GTD 6-Max Turbo Knockout
44-entrants
Results
Tyler Goatcher – $4,312.50+$4,187.71
Arsenii Karmatckii – $2,312.50+$4,184.88
Preben Stokkan – $1,125+$2,126.30
Sergii Denisov – $625+$1,472.05
Guillermo Gordo – $1,125+$1,144.93
Rok Gostisa – $250+$884.13
Leaderboard
Alex Foxen – 1197
Rok Gostisa – 1158
Timothy Adams – 922
Luke Reeves – 899
Artur Martirosian – 885
It’s time to catch up on the results from the GGPoker High Roller action, and the biggest winner earned his crust taking down the lowest buy-in event I will cover.
Lester “mon$terDad’ Edoc conquered a field of 687-entrants in the $500 buy-in, $2m GTD High Roller MILLION$ event. Edoc beat ‘Lucky_Luke1’ in heads-up action to take the title and top prize of $285,646. Featuring on the final table were recognised high stakes regs such as Simon Higgins (5th) and Ivan “Negriin’ Luca (6th).
Results
Lester “mon$terDad’ Edoc – $285,646.
Lucky_Luke1 – $203,618
Supermoustache – $145,146
00COEL – $103,465
Simon Higgins – $73,753
Ivan “Negriin’ Luca – $52,573
ExoticJoe – $37,476
THEfaryboy – $26,714
Luis “ CurrihoMaluko” Faria – $19,042
Bryn High Rollers
Timothy Adams had a good week, taking down the 19-entrant $25,000 event for $240,741.89, while also taking the most significant prize ($84,022.91) in one of the two $10,000 games that played out. Ali Imsirovic took the top prize of $55,059.38 after cutting a deal with Schindler in the other $10k buy-in event.
Schindler had an outstanding week concerning in the money (ITM) finishes. The American finished ITM eight times and won four of them. Another player who featured heavily is Chris Brewer with six ITM finishes and two wins.
Here are the results.
Bryn’s High Roller $25,000 No Limit Hold’em
19-entrants
Results
Timothy Adams – $240,741.89
Laurynas Levinskas – $145,629.43
Mikita Badziakouski – $74,378.68
Bryn’s High Roller $10,000 No Limit Hold’em
20-entrants
Results
Jake Schindler – $78,659.75*
Timothy Adams – $84,022.91*
Chris Brewer – $31,317.34
*Indicates a heads-up deal
Bryn’s High Roller $10,000 No Limit Hold’em
10-entrants
Results
Ali Imsirovic – $55,059.38*
Jake Schindler – $41,940.62*
*Indicates a heads-up deal
Bryn’s High Roller $5,000 No Limit Hold’em
17-entrants
Results
Chris Brewer – $52,487.50
Alex Foxen – $28,262.50
Bryn’s High Roller $5,000 No Limit Hold’em
15-entrants
Results
Allinbox905 – $46,312.50
Jake Schindler – $24,937.50
Bryn’s High Roller $5,000 No Limit Hold’em
4-entrants
Results
Chris Brewer – $19,000
Beat Ali Imsirovic heads-up.
Bryn’s High Roller $5,000 No Limit Hold’em
14-entrants
Results
Jake Schindler – $43,225
Chris Brewer – $23,275
Bryn’s High Roller $5,000 No Limit Hold’em
29-entrants
Results
Golden snitch – $64,294.41
David Peters – $38,058.71
Alex Foxen – $23,390.87
Andras Nemeth – $14,376.01
Bryn’s High Roller $5,000 No Limit Hold’em
3-entrants
Results
Jake Schindler – $14,250
Beat Alex Foxen, heads-up.
Bryn’s High Roller $5,000 No Limit Hold’em
11-entrants
Results
Allinbox905 – $33,962.50
Chris Brewer – $18,287.50
Bryn’s High Roller $5,000 No Limit Hold’em
18-entrants
Results
Jake Schindler – $33,495.48*
Ali Imsirovic – $52,004.52*
*Indicates a heads-up deal
Bryn’s High Roller $5,000 No Limit Hold’em
13-entrants
Results
Ali Imsirovic – $40,137.50
Allinbox905 – $21,612.50
The Blade Results
The former PocketFives World #1, Andras Nemeth, faired well in the Blade action winning the 111-entrant Blade Mulligan for $120,755.41 and finishing runner-up to Viacheslav Buldygin in the Closer. Buldygin had an excellent run in the Blade events, making the final table of all three of them, finishing eighth in the Prime, second in the Mulligan and winning the Closer.
Here are the results.
High Rollers Blade Prime $5k
121-entrants
Results
ButtonSmashingMonkey – $125,977.09
Jake Schindler – $95,829.04
Dan Smith – $72,895.88
DanBiz – $55,450.90
KeijoKonvehti – $42,180.73
Timothy Nuter – $32,086.33
Sergi Reixach – $24,407.62
Viacheslav Buldygin – $18,565.55
High Rollers Blade Mulligan $5k
111-entrants
Results
Andras Nemeth – $120,755.41
Viacheslav Buldygin – $90,925.15
Ali Imsirovic – $68,463.93
Mikita Badziakouski – $51,551.28
Jake Schindler – $38,816.56
Dnegking – $29,227.68
Dan Smith – $22,007.57
George Wolff – $16,571.04
High Rollers Blade Closer $5k
50-entrants
Results
Viacheslav Buldygin – $95,537.39
Andras Nemeth – $58,745
Oasis – $39,457.47
Chris Brewer – $26,502.55
Isaac Haxton – $17,801.07
Chad Eveslage – $11,956.52
If you have spent the past month knocking back Kingfishers from the carcasses of coconuts while grinding the World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) Online Series at GGPoker, then there will be a funereal gloominess about you, today.
It’s over, for now.
While I am positive that this event will clone itself like a sea anemone, GGPoker continues to melt high roller hearts, WSOP or no WSOP.
The final event of the WSOPC created one of the most substantial prizes on the Internet this week. Of the 9,291-entrants who made the perilous journey through the misty mountains of Day 1 of the $1,000 buy-in, $5m GTD WSOPC Main Event, 1.494 made it through to Day 2, by which time the $9,291,000 prize pool dwarfed the $5m guarantee.
The winner hailed from Germany.
‘schimmelgodx’ collected $1,271,217.69 after beating ‘Biereux’ in heads-up action. Juan Pardo Dominguez went deeper than any other high roller, finishing fourth for $430,022.47, and these stars of the top strata followed him: Artur Martirosian (12th), Alexandros Kolonias (19th), Joao Vieira (31st), and Daniel Dvoress (32nd).
Here are the results
Results
schimmelgodx – $1,271,217.69
Biereux – $885,746.81
Igutu – $617,164.03
Juan Pardo Dominguez – $430,022.47
TepuseenFD – $299,627.33
CoRoNaTi – $208,771.57
MaillouL – $145,466.38
wy77 – $101,356.30
Before, during and after this magnificent moment, GGPoker kept churning out the high roller action like London horizons churn out cumulus.
Isaac Haxton took down the most significant chunk of change, topping a 60-entrant field in a $25,000 No Limit Hold’em event for $456,764.45, after beating Linus Loeliger, heads-up. There were also wins for Matthias Eibinger at the $10,000 level, and victories for Dario Sammartino, Laurynas Levinskas, Alex Foxen, Adrian Mateos, Jake Schindler, Mikita Badziakouski, and Kristen Bicknell at the $5,000 level. Andras Nemeth won the only high buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha event, taking down a $5,000.
Here are the Results:
$25,000 No Limit Hold’em
60-entrants
Results
Isaac Haxton – $456,764.45
Linus Loeliger – $287,450.12
Deepdarkwood – $217,470.47
Sub-Zero – $164,527.25
Alexandros Kolonias – $124,473.13
Ali Imsirovic – $94,170.11
Artur Martirosian – $71,244.43
George Wolff – $53,900.04
$10,000 No Limit Hold’em
84-entrants
Results
Matthias Eibinger – $198,735.16
Dario Sammartino – $151,387.06
pDNA – $115,319.62
Linus Loeliger – $87,845.13
Jake Schindler – $66,916.34
Nator – $50,973.72
Isaac Baron – $38,829.45
Timothy Adams – $29,578.46
George Wolff – $26,767.56
$5,000 Pot Limit Omaha
38-entrants
Results
Andras Nemeth – $76,998.40
Andreas Torbergsen – $45,494.62
coronita – $28,636.32
Magicmaster69 – $18,024.96
20BigWhale20 – $11,345.70
$5,000 No Limit Hold’em
112-entrants
Results
Dario Sammartino – $121,843.29
Samuel Vousden – $91,774.30
Alex Foxen – $69,080.73
Pascal Hartmann – $52,015.71
Matthias Eibinger – $39,166.26
Alexnadros Kolonias – $29,490.99
Timothy Adams – $22,205.83
cliffbooth – $16,720.33
Trashdawg – $14,748.26
$5,000 No Limit Hold’em
58-entrants
Results
Laurynas Levinskas – $95,443.37
Trashdawg – $58,329.65
David Peters – $42,108.05
Jake Schindler – $30,397.70
Kristen Bicknell – $21,944.04
Pascal Hartmann – $15,841.36
Jonathan Van Fleet – $11,435.83
$5,000 No Limit Hold’em
22-entrants
Results
Alex Foxen – $54,601.25
Tonythetiger – $33,029.35
Ali Imsirovic – $16,869.39
$5,000 No Limit Hold’em
67-entrants
Results
Adrian Mateos – $68,710.30*
Nick Petrangelo – $77,308.85*
Luuk Gieles – $45,737.48
Dan Smith – $35,761.27
Sam Greenwood – $27,961.06
HogFish333 – $21,862.21
George Wolff – $17,093.65
Artur Martirosian – $13,365.19
David Peters – $10,449.99
*Indicates a heads-up deal
$5,000 No Limit Hold’em
65-entrants
Results
Jake Schindler – $95,936.10
Adrian Mateos – $60,374.30
Ali Imsirovic – $45,676.19
Dan Smith – $34,556.31
Porsche911sp – $26,143.59
Sergi Reixach – $19,778.92
BigWhale20 – $14,963.75
Sam Greenwood – $11,320.84
$5,000 No Limit Hold’em
66-entrants
Results
Mikita Badziakouski – $97,412.04
Rui Ferreira – $61,303.13
Vamossuerte – $46,378.90
Adrian Mateos – $35,087.95
Alexandros Kolonias – $26,545.80
TheProfessional – $20,083.21
Jake Schindler – $15,193.96
Pascal Hartmann – $11,495.01
$5,000 No Limit Hold’em
44-entrants
Results
TheProfessional – $89,156.02
Jake Schindler – $52,677.99
AndyAtTheBike – $33,157.85
Pascal Hartmann – $20,871.01
Fedor Holz – $13,137.13
$5,000 No Limit Hold’em
122-entrants
Results
Kristen Bicknell – $88,387.40*
Alex Foxen – $99,929.86*
Isaac Baron – $108,820.35*
Ami Barer – $55,909.17
Michael Addamo – $42,529.38
DanBiz – $32,351.51
Dnegking – $24,609.33
Adiemeerci – $18,719.99
Andras Nemeth – $14,240.05
*Indicates a threeway deal
PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker
The final day of the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) saw Steve ‘Mr. Tim Caum’ O’Dwyer come close to winning his third title of the series.
O’Dwyer finished runner-up to the partypoker pro Joao ‘IneedMassari’ Simão in Event #120: $2,100 No Limit Hold’em Sunday Warm-Up Special Edition.
The event attracted 418-entrants, and the former PocketFives World #1 earned $150,546.78 for his victory. O’Dwyer collected $112,819.20 for his second-place finish.
O’Dwyer won a $25,000 No Limit Hold’em event for $521,598, and a $10,300 event for $241,956 – the first time he has earned SCOOP honours a year after winning a World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) title for the first time.
As the Hungarian nation continues to feel the pressure of Viktor Orbán’s ‘State of Danger,’ one of their most venerable citizens, Mr Andras Nemeth, is casting his own state of danger over the Poker Masters Online Series.
The 2020 Poker Masters Online Series has unlocked nine gates in a scheduled 30-event maze, and Nemeth has the championship lead after making his third and fourth final table amid an apple-cider sweet fifth day of action.
Nemeth, who won Event #5, finished second in Event #8: $10,300 NLHE, and fifth in Event #9: $10,300 NLHE to lead to take a 118-point lead into Day 5, with the wind at his back. It’s worth noting that the Hungarian star warmed up for this one by finishing runner-up in the Irish Open Main Event for €325,423.
partypoker ambassador, Joni Jouhkimainen, defeated Nemeth, heads-up, to take the title and $254,800 in Event #5: $10,300 NLHE, for his second in the money (ITM) finish of the series and he also came into this one in fine fettle after winning a couple of POWERFEST titles in March.
Outside of the top two, Juan Pardo Dominguez became the first player to make money in four events, Alex Foxen recorded his second cash, as did Elias Talvitie, who had now earned the most money with $572,250 banked in two games.
Here are the results in full.
Results
Joni Jouhkimainen – $254,800
Andras Nemeth – $182,000
Sergi Reixach – $130,000
Elias Talvitie – $91,000
Juan Pardo Dominguez – $67,600
Timothy Adams – $52,000
Alex Foxen – $41,600
Dario Sammartino – $33,800
Chris Hunichen – $26,000
Joao Vieira – $26,000
Carlos Sanchez – $26,000
Simon Pederson – $26,000
Benjamin Rolle – $20,800
Sami Kelopuro – $20,800
Mike Watson – $20,800
Rui Ferreira – $20,800
Pascal Lefrancois Wins Event #9: $10,300 NLHE
From a Finn to a French-Canadian, and the World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner, Pascal Lefrancois, placed his stamp on the Poker Masters by taking down Event #9: $10,300 NLHE. LeFrancois likes peddling his wares in partypoker events. In 2018, he won the MILLIONS Grand Final in Barcelona for $2.1m.
The tournament lured 78-entrants onto the virtual event, and Justin Bonomo pushed Lefrancois the hardest. The one-time All-Time Money Earner finished second for $152,100. Lefrancois collected $243,988 for the win, his third six-figure online score, and his most meaty. In December, Lefrancois won a 69-entrant $10,300 High Roller on PokerStars for $186,237, and in 2008 he won the Sunday Warm-Up on Stars for $101,250.
Joining Juan Pardo Dominguez in the four score record books are Nemeth, Pauli Ayras and Timothy Adams.
Here are the results.
Results
Pascal Lefrancois – $243,988
Justin Bonomo – $152,100
Kristen Bicknell – $93,600
Fedor Holz – $68,250
Andras Nemeth – $48,750
Dario Sammartino – $33,150
Ioannis Angelou-Konstas – $25,350
Jake Schindler – $25,350
Timothy Adams – $25,350
Alexandros Kolonias – $21,370
Ian Engel – $21,370
Pauli Ayras – $21,370
Poker Masters Online Championship Standings
Andras Nemeth – $515,879 (511pts)
Pauli Ayras – $394,492 (393)
Elias Talvitie – $572,250 (380)
Alex Foxen – $351,277 (352 pts)
Sergi Rexiach $480,865 (347)
It was a case of pistols at noon and 1 pm on Day 2 of the event that’s currently occupying the minds of the high stakes brethren and those taking a shot.
The 2020 Poker Masters Online, created by Poker Central, and hosted by partypoker, has blazed through two more events with its riding crop in hand and a healthy turnout to boot.
Event #4: $10,300 No-Limit Hold’em (NLHE) enticed 102 players to the virtual baize, making it the most substantial field size of the opening quartet. The $1,020,000 in prize money is the second-largest loot behind the $1,375,000 raised in Event #1 (a $25,000 event).
The heads-up battle for the title saw Mike Watson with a dagger strapped to his thigh, and Sam Greenwood holding the pepper spray. Of the Canadians, Watson was making his first in the money (ITM) finish of the series. It was Greenwood’s second.
Watson chopped down the Greenwood to take the title, but a runner-up finish keeps the twin in the Poker Masters Championship Standing Top 5.
The win moves Watson’s all-time online tournament earnings to within a nostril hair of $5m, and it’s his second most significant score trailing the $280,238.52 Watson banked for winning the $10,300 Eight-Game Championship at the 2016 World Championships of Online Poker (WCOOP) at PokerStars.
Here are the ITM results.
Results
Mike Watson – $249,900
Sam Greenwood – $178,500
Jorryt van Hoof – $127,500
Orpen Kisacikoglu – $89,250
Wiktor Malinowski – $66,300
Karim Khayat – $51,000
Patrick Leonard – $40,800
Pauli Ayras – $33,150
Zachary Clark – $25,500
Darrell Goh – $25,500
Alexander Kolonias – $25,500
Matthias Eibinger – $25,500
Andras Nemeth – $20,400
Vicent Bosca Ramon – $20,400
Simo Mattsson – $20,400
Simon Pedersen – $20,400
Andras Nemeth Wins Event #5: $10,300 NLHE
The second event of the day (see above) attracted 83-entrants like toddlers in wellies to a puddle and raised $830,000 in prize money.
Orpen Kisacikoglu made money for the second successive time, finishing runner-up to the eventual winner, Andras Nemeth. Kisacikoglu ends the day fifth in the Poker Masters Championship Leaderboard.
To have a Poker Masters Online without a few results from Nemeth is unfathomable. He is a former PocketFives World #1, and in the past few years has been picking up six-figure scores both online and live with the speed and grace of one of Fagin’s pickpockets.
Nemeth collected $259,629 for the win and will have added incentive to don the Purple Jacket after coming so close to Australian Poker Open glory, losing out to Stephen Chidwick in the final stages of the series earlier in the year.
Here are the results in full.
Results
Andras Nemeth – $259,629
Orpen Kisacikoglu – $161,850
Eelis Parssinen – $99,600
Fedor Holz – $72,625
Dan Shak – $51,875
Sami Kelopuro – $35,275
Christoph Vogelsang – $26,975
Carlos Sanchez – $26,975
Joni Jouhkimainen – $26,975
Sergi Reixach – $27,740
Artur Martirosian – $27,740
Ian Engel – $27,740
The Global Poker Index (GPI) World #1, Alex Foxen, didn’t make money in either event, but still tops the leaderboard thanks to his victory in Event #3. Nemeth, Greenwood and Kisacikoglu make their presence felt in the top five, and Elias Talvitie holds onto his #2 berth after winning the opening event.
Poker Masters Online Championship Standings
Alex Foxen – $309,677 (310 pts)
Elias Talvitie – $481,250 (289)
Andras Nemeth – $285,129 (280)
Sam Greenwood – $302,250 (253)
Orpen Kisacikoglu – $251,100 (251)
Australian Poker Open
The Australian Poker Open (APO) reached the business end of proceedings after Luc Greenwood took down the penultimate event: the 35-entrant Event #6: AUD 50,000 No-Limit Hold’em (NLHE), for $427,928.
With only the AUD 100,000 NLHE Main Event remaining, five players are in with a shot of winning the Championship and AUD 50,000 first prize. Leading the way is Andras Nemeth, who picked up a third-place finish in the AUD 50,000, his fourth in the money (ITM) finish throughout six events.
Joining Nemeth in the hunt for the APO Championship is the former US Poker Open winner, Stephen Chidwick, Event #1: AUD 10,000 NLHE winner, Mike Watson, Event #4: AUD 25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha (PLO) winner, Farid Jattin, and Greenwood.
The win is only Greenwood’s third on the live tournament circuit, and his second in Open events after winning a £10,500 NLHE event at the British Poker Open (BPO) in London in September. Greenwood has now earned $4.4m in live tournament earnings. He made the APO leaderboard courtesy of his big cash in this event and finishing ninth in Event #1: AUD 10,000 NLHE.
Let’s take a look at Greenwood’s revolutionary march to the top.
Nutshell Action
Life is imbalanced for Michael Addamo, right now. But in a good way. The Australian Poker Hall of Fame recently honoured him at the Aussie Millions with the Young Achiever Award. Addamo then went on to win the AUD 50,000 NLHE Challenge, but he wasn’t able to win this one. Addamo got it in chasing the nut flush draw, and Greenwood’s top pair stuck like glue.
The day began with Chino Rheem at the helm, but it’s been a series of close-runs, minus cigars, for the controversial star. Rheem moved all-in over a Greenwood open, holding A2o, and Greenwood called and killed Rheem’s hopes of a win with AJo.
Greenwood entered the three-handed phase with a big chip lead, and it grew even more oppressive when he eliminated the APO Championship leader, Andras Nemeth in third place. Nemeth started ahead with KdJd up against Greenwood’s 8d5d. Still, Greenwood came from behind to river a straight, taking out his third successive opponent. Nemeth had the consolation of stretching his lead at the top of the Championship leaderboard courtesy of his ITM finish.
Greenwood went into his heads-up battle with Mikita Badziakouski with an enormous chip advantage, and he needed it. The Belarusian, who had earned $26.1m playing live tournaments, had refused to be beaten in 12-heads-up matches stretching back into 2017 when he lost against Timothy Adams in the €50,000 NLHE at the PokerStars Championship Prague. Badziakouski’s title challenge ended when he ran J3o into the KdQd of Greenwood.
“I really love the game, and I just try to play my best every single day, even if it’s just for small stakes online,” Greenwood told Poker Central reporters after his win. “I always try to focus on how well I played versus how much money I won or lost. If you’re playing poker professionally, it’s more important that you really enjoy the game no matter what stakes you’re playing for rather than getting just excited about the money.”
ITM Results
Luc Greenwood – $427,928
Mikita Badziakouski – $307,403
Andras Nemeth – $189,171
Chino Rheem – $118,232
Michael Addamo – $94,586
Australian Poker Open Standings
Andras Nemeth – 630 points
Stephen Chidwick – 510
Mike Watson – 450
Luc Greenwood – 360
Farid Jattin – 360
Only this quintet of players can win the APO Championship with the only event left on the roster, the AUD 100,000 NLHE Challenge.
In the early 1980s, when Pablo Escobar ruled Colombia, he bought a range of exotic animals to create a zoo. During the collapse of Escobar’s drug empire in the late 80s early 90s, most of the animals ended up in the red right hand of the local zoos.
All except four hippos.
Today, those four hippos have grown to a crash of 80, and zoologists are calling them an ‘invasive species’, as their poo is turning the lakes and rivers into an ecological disaster.
Another product of Colombia who is fast becoming an ‘ecological disaster’, and an ‘invasive species’, is Farid Jattin. The Global Poker Index (GPI) Latin American Player of the Year (PoY) and Colombian patriot, has just taken down Event #4: AUD 25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha (PLO) at the Australian Poker Open (APO) in The Star Gold Coast in Queensland.
Jattin’s ninth win of his career comes hot on the Nikes of winning the 169-entrant AUD 25,000 No-Limit Hold’em (NLHE) Challenge, and finishing 7/59 in the AUD 25,000 PLO, both at the Aussie Millions.
Poker Central scribe, Remko Rinkema called Jattin’s final table display a ‘clinic.’ Jattin eliminated all four players in the time it would have taken Carlos Valderama to win a football game. Jattin didn’t hide from Rinkema’s praise calling his performance ‘flawless.’
Let’s take a look at the flawless clinic.
The Nutshell Action
The event attracted 29-entrants, and Alex Foxen became the first person to make a profit when he exited in fifth place. The current GPI World #1 and the reigning PoY was on the foul end of a three-way all-in that saw George Wolff triple-up with aces. Jattin’s stack took a hit, holding kings, and Foxen, who finished runner-up to Kahle Burns in the AUD 100,000 NLHE Challenge at the Aussie Millions, couldn’t muster anything more than a raggedy ace-suited hand.
Foxen’s elimination guaranteed that Andras Nemeth would spend the night at the head of the APO leaderboard, but his AA66 failed to beat Jattin’s ace-jack-eight-six double suited, and the Hungarian had to settle for fourth place.
Third place went to Wolff when ten-ten-eight-six lost to Jattin’s king-nine-six-deuce, after flopping a pair of kings, leaving Joni Jouhkimainen to face Jattin, heads-up, with a 350k to 4m chip deficit. The final hand saw king-jack-six-three beat jack-seven-six-five when Jattin hit two pair on the river. Despite losing heads-up, Jouhkimainen’s finish puts himself in with a shot of the APO title. The Finn is in fine form finishing 4/59 in the AUD 25,000 PLO at the Aussie Millions, and finishing 43/820 in the Main Event. Jouhkimainen also finished 4/95 in the $10,300 NLHE High Roller in the partypoker MILLIONS UK a few weeks back.
Jattin won the event, but it’s Nemeth who leads the APO charge. The Hungarian has now cashed in three of the first four events, finishing sixth in the AUD 10,000 NLHE, and winning the AUD 10,000 PLO.
The Star Gold Coast is ground zero, and we’ve just had another explosion of activity, with Andras Nemeth taking down the 43-entrant Event #2: AUD 10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha (PLO) at the Australian Poker Open (APO).
Given the fact that mother nature has decided to burn the face off most of Australia these past few weeks, it’s not top of the ‘Places to Live’ list for many people.
The Hungarian star is not in that camp.
After securing the third live tournament win of his career, Nemeth waxed lyrical on the virtues of Australian life, suggesting if it weren’t so far away from Budapest, he would live there.
That distance is 9.6k miles, and Nemeth is glad he made the trip. It’s his second final table of the APO after finishing sixth in Event #1: AUD 10,000 No-Limit Hold ’em (NLHE), and you can be sure he will be pressing for full APO honours.
Nemeth defeated Najeem Ajez in heads-up action. Ajez had a decent Aussie Millons cashing three-times, and making two final tables, including 3/59 in the AUD 25,000 PLO for $136,840 – the most significant score of his career.
Let’s see how the pair came to lock horns in this one.
The Nutshell Action
Erik Seidel came into the APO on the back of a final table appearance at the Aussie Millions Main Event. Seidel had a great chance to win that event, and he’s given himself a shot of having a run at the APO, after eking onto the scoreboard with a sixth-place finish. The New Yorker went out after running jack-ten-seven-four rainbow into the pocket kings of Ajez.
Sean Winter had an outstanding 2019, and when there’s a Poker Central event, it seems Winter is in tow. The top man finished fifth in this one after running his pocket kings into the double-suited queens and nines of Mike Watson, with the Canadian finding a flush.
Joni Jouhkimainen is a dab hand at the four-card game and finished in fourth place after running ace-king-eight-six into the queen-ten-eight-four double-suited of Ayez. Two pair on the turn for Ajez, sending the Finn into a prism of pain.
After eliminating the partypoker pro, Ayez held a commanding lead three-handed against Nemeth and Watson with 2.6m chips v 655,000 and 985,000. Still, the Event #1 winner, took the chip lead, before Nemeth put together a run that his ancestors would have been proud of to snatch it from him. Nemeth then ousted Watson when his two-pair hand held against an open-ender.
Twice, Ayez came within a single card of winning Event #2, and twice the Poker Gods went to the Hungarians’ rescue. The final plotline arrived when kings beat a suited ace hand to hand Nemeth the victory.
2018 has been a fine vintage for Andras Nemeth. The Hungarian pro has been grinding for as long as I have been out of nappies, but something has clicked this year.
Four months after winning the $25,000 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller in the PokerStars World Championships of Online Poker (WCOOP) for a career-best score of $576,087, he has just gone one better.
Nemeth topped a field of 95 entrants to win the €25,000 Single-Day High Roller at the PokerStars European Poker Tour Barcelona for a career-high €605,600, after beating the in-form Wai Leong Chan in a short heads-up match.
You have to go way back to 2009 for Nemeth’s previous best score, when he finished fourth in a €6,200 buy-in event at the Master Classics of Poker in Amsterdam, although he did secure a €108,250 payday for finishing 2/737 in a €1k event in this casino back in 2013.
Chan came into EPT Barcelona in fine fettle.
He cashed in four Triton Poker Series events in Montenegro and Jeju including placing runner-up to Mikita Badziakouski in the Jeju Main Event earning $3.5m. A few days later he finished third in the Triton Poker Series High Roller as part of partypoker MILLIONS Russia for another $472,315. Chan might not be filling up his trophy cabinet, but his bank balance is swelling.
Let’s see how these two got to the end zone.
Level 3: 1000/1500/1500
The Finnish star, Juha Helppi, was the first player to bust.
No details.
Just a name, and an empty chair.
Michael Dyer, James Chen, Moam Makavy, and Dario Sammartino joined Helppi in the ‘should I buy back in’ club.
Helppi did buy back in.
Level 4: 1000/2000/2000
Romain Lewis, Igor Yarovshevskyy, Dominykas Karmazinas, and Byron Kaverman lost every single one of their chips.
Level 5: 1000/2500/2500
Bryn Kenney, Oleh Olekotskyi and Kazuhiko Yotsushika left a table without anything in their rack.
The Barcelona and Spain star Gerard Pique bought-in.
Kenney lost his second and final bullet. Sylvain Loosli, Pavlo Kolinkovskyi, Behzad Ahadpour, Sergio Aido, and Nick Petrangelo lost their first.
Level 6: 1500/3000/3000
Pique lost a life in a hand against Louis Nyberg AJ<AK.
Jean-Noel Thorel took the chip lead after eliminating Luc Greenwood. The pair got it in on the turn with both holding top pair; only Thorel’s had the mightiest kick. Greenwood rebought.
Level 7: 2000/4000/4000
Alex Komaromi, Ramin Hajiyev, Jean Ferreira and Jacob Reffeldt Rasmussen all busted. Sergio Aido lost his second bullet.
Mikita Badziakouski sent Chan Wei Leong to the rail when the pair got it in 33>AK. Badziakouski beat Leong heads-up to win the $5.2m first prize in the Triton Poker Series Main Event Jeju recently.
Stephen Chidwick and Luc Greenwood left the tournament area after losing their second bullets.
Level 8: 2500/5000/5000
Kristina Holst, Sam Greenwood and Matt Moss all left. Aaron Been doubled through Dan Smith KK>AQ. Badziakouski ate every single one of Pauli Ayras’ chips QQ>86o.
Ivan Luca, Juha Helppi, Nick Petrangelo and Henrik Hecklen all busted in this level.
Level 9: 3000/6000/6000
Igor Yaroshevskyy eliminated Mark Teltscher when his AQ rivered an ace against pocket fives, all-in, pre-flop.
Level 10: 4000/8000/8000
The souls of Timothy Adams, Patrik Antonius, Pauli Ayras, Tsugunari Toma, Dan Shak and Jan-Mikael Kesänen extinguished in this level.
Been took care of Daniel Negreanu when his AK beat the crap out of A3 all-in, pre-flop for all the marbles.
Chin Wei Lim’s AK beat the QQ of Nyberg to send the Swede back whence he came.
Level 11: 5000/10000/10000
Taylor Black, Ryan Riess, Linus Loeliger, Ivan Leow, Michael Soyza, Fabrice Maltez, Alberto Lapena, and Shyngis Satubayev were left twiddling their thumbs in this level.
The prize pool is confirmed:
13 players receive a minimum €45,620.
Here are the top five positions:
€605,600
€420,800
€278,280
€217,820
€175,600
Neither Jack Salter, Farid Jattin, Yaroshevskyy or Loosli would get a sniff.
Level 12: 6000/12000/12000
23 players remained.
Orpen Kisacikoglu is the first to go.
Andras Nemeth leads.
Level 13: 8000/16000/16000
Dan Smith eliminated Lucas Reeves when his AQ beat A8 all-in, pre-flop. Joao Vieira also busted in this level. Vladimir Troyanovskiy eliminated the in-form Alex Foxen QQ>QJo. And Seth Davies took out the €100k Super High Roller winner, Badziakouski A9>QJ to take the chip lead.
Pascal LeFrancois sent Fan Zhang to the rail when his pocket sixes won a race against AK. The outstanding Matthias Eibinger found aces to crush Sam Greenwood’s 97ss on a Ks7c6s flop. The turn and river bricked, and Greenwood was out.
Kaverman doubled through Been AT>A7.
Thorel moved into the chip lead after eliminating Murad Akhunov AK>QQ, after flopping a king.
Level 15: 10000/25000/25000
Hand for hand action on the bubble.
Eibinger busted Been 99>ATo, and we were on the stone cold bubble.
Level 16: 15000/30000/30000
Eibinger put a smile on everyone’s face when he took out Juan Pardo Dominguez in a brutal beat A8cc>AA. The Austrian hitting runner-runner clubs to break the Spaniard’s heart, and send everyone into the money.
Level 17: 20000/40000/40000
Nemeth took out Davies AK>KQ. Salman Behbehani and his A7o couldn’t beat the pocket fives of Eibinger or the KTcc of Chan, all-in, pre-flop. And Nemeth took another scalp when his pocket fives bested the KQs of LeFrancois.
Michel Dattani doubled through Nemeth AQ>AJ.
Nemeth got some of those back after busting Dan Smith Q6>A2 after Troyanovskiy had taken most of his chips AA>22.
We had our final table.
Level 18: 250000/50000/50000 The Final Table
Matthias Eibinger – 2,150,000
Andras Nemeth – 1,950,000
Chin Wei Lim – 1,050,000
Wai Leong Chan – 825,000
Jean-Noel Thorel – 825,000
Vladimir Troyanovskiy – 820,000
Michel Dattani – 800,000
Sean Winter – 650,000
Byron Kaverman – 470,000
Kaverman hit runner-runner straight cards for his KT to beat the AK of Lim. Thorel ousted Winter 88>KQs. And Lim’s pocket fours were far better than Troyanovskiy’s pocket threes.
Level 19: 30000/60000/60000
Eibinger eliminated Dattani in seventh place when his 86h beat A9o, after turning a straight. Kaverman sent Thorel to the cash desk in sixth when his A7 beat K5 and the American grabbed more chips when he doubled through Chan AJ>K5s.
Level 20: 40000/80000/80000
Nemeth doubled through Chan KJs>22 after rivering a king.
Level 21: 50000/100000/100000
Nemeth’s pocket kings were too strong for the A6dd of Lim.
Kaverman did it again, this time doubling through Eibinger K5s>JTs, but Chan left him crippled when 88 beat AQ, leaving Kaverman with 105,000.
Level 22 60000/120000/120000
Kaverman was all-in whether he liked it or not and his QT couldn’t beat Chan’s A8hh. Kaverman left with €217,820, and a fourth-place finish on his resume.
And then Chan picked up some much-needed chips for his heads-up battle with Nemeth after eliminating Eibinger AQ>JT. The Austrian has had a sterling series making the final table in the four most significant events.
Heads-Up Chip Counts
Nemeth: 6,100,000
Chan: 3,400,000
Chan pulled level through a series of pots before Nemeth ended his revival in brutal circumstances. The pair got it in with Nemeth holding A2o, and Chan holding the rockets, only for the Hungarian to river a wheel to cement his victory.
