Tag: Farid Jattin

Tuesday night, and for once, No-Limit Hold’em jumped into the sidecar, leaving Pot-Limit Omaha to drive that Cadillac that Doyle Brunson bangs on about.

The World Poker Tour (WPT) Online Championships continued on partypoker, and Andrew Pantling ended the night as the biggest winner, defeating the 120-entrant field to bank $302,287.20 in Event #22: $10,300 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller.

The last time the poker world caught a sniff of Pantling was at the Triton Million in London during the Summer of 2019, a long time before bats and pangolins conspired to lock us in our homes.

There was no howling to the moon on that night despite eliminating Rick Salomon to take the early chip lead. Pantling eventually drowned, but there was no need for the life raft in this one.

High stakes stars Andras Nemeth, and Jens Kyllonen joined Pantling at the top table, but neither were able to stick their spoon in the jam and figgy pudding.

Results

  1. Andrew Pantling – $302,287.20
  2. Marcello Marigliano – $204,000
  3. Andras Nemeth – $144,000
  4. Marcello Marigliano – $102,000
  5. Jens Kyllonen – $75,000
  6. Gavin Cochrane – $49,800

Farid Jattin Chops Event #23: $2,100 Pot-Limit Omaha

Colombia’s finest poker export, Farid Jattin, narrowly missed out on the title in the $2,100 Pot-Limit Omaha event. The tournament attracted 168-entrants like nerds to a science lab, and Jattin chopped the $140k left up top with Kristoffer Edberg, before losing the heads-up scuffle for the title.

Results

  1. Kristoffer Edberg – $69,086.18*
  2. Farid De Jesus Jattin Jaraba – $68,360.03*
  3. Joao Vieira – $37,800
  4. Maksim Shuts – $27,384
  5. Arvi Vainionkulma – $20,160
  6. Saku Nasman – $13,440

*Agreed upon a deal

Fabio Sperling Wins WPT500

A $50 competition is hardly a high roller, but as its one of the WPT’s flagship tournaments, you can make it an orphan.

The 4,828-entrant field reduced to four hysterically happy hunters before brokering a deal. The heaviest bag went to Fabio Sperling, who banked $281,125.93, and the title.

Results

  1. Fabio Sperling – $281,125.93*
  2. Walter Treccarich – $235,666.74*
  3. Markus Prinz – $202,012.42*
  4. Christopher Putz – $187,289.83*
  5. Philipp Dietrich – $74,785.72
  6. Harutyun Sahakyan – $50,887.12
  7. Daan Mulders – $35,799.62
  8. Giuseppe Vassallo – $23,174.40

There’s good news on the Colombian Uber front.

The controversial taxi service left South America’s third most populous country on Feb 1 after contravening a rule or twelve. Still, they’re back after promising Colombian lawmakers to operate on the right side of that slim divide.

That’s good news for Farid Jattin because when he spills into the streets of Bogata airport, he can have one waiting for him and his recently buddied 200 large.

Jattin is a poker anatomist, right now; taking apart competition after competition with ease. The 2019 Global Poker Index (GPI) Latin American Player of the Year, came into the partypoker MILLIONS South America in Uruguay in a rich coal seam of form after burning a hole through Australia with a win and a sixth in AUD 25k events at the Australian Poker Open (APO), and a win and a seventh in AUD 25 events in the Aussie Millions.

Jattin took down the 84-entrant $10,300 NLHE High Roller Finale in the Punta del Este. The Colombian has now earned $5.6m in live tournaments, with more than $1.1m in the first two months of 2020.

Let’s see how he took it down to Montevideo town.

The Nutshell Action

Luis Gustavo became the first player to leave the final table when his A5o failed to hold against the KTo of Roberto José Sagra after the couple got it in during a button v big blind affair.

Then Farid Jattin found aces to double through the pretty looking JdTd of Michael Del Vecchio.

The former World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) Main Event winner, Jack Sinclair, ended up in the local chip shop when in the first hand after a well-deserved break, Sinclair got it in with AKo versus the pocket jacks of Rodrigo Seiji, and the fish hooks held.

The two-time World Poker Tour (WPT) Main Event champion, Marvin Rettenmaier, took out Michael Del Vecchio like a bible in an atheist convention. Del Vecchio moved all-in holding K9o from under the gun, and Rettenmaier called and won with ATo from the small blind.

Still, ousting Del Vecchio didn’t spur Rettenmaier on to greater things. The German got it in with his AKo well ahead of Seiji’s Kh7h, only for the chip leader to flop a seven to eliminate the man christened ‘Mad’.

Seiji extended his lead at the top of the counts after eliminating Sagra after his pocket rockets burned As8c alive. Still, Jattin ensured the heads-up confrontation with Seiji would begin on an even keel after his pocket aces kicked ten tons of crap out of Hilario Quijada’s pocket deuces.

Three hands settled things for Jattin.

First, he took the vast majority of Seiji’s chips when A6o beat K2o with all of the chips in the middle. Seiji doubled with AQo v 75o, but then the A6o of Jattin beat Q2o to land him the tenth title of his career.

Uber for Jattin.

ITM Results

  1. Farid Jattin – $200,000
  2. Rodrigo Seiji – $129,800
  3. Hilario Quijada – $95,000
  4. Roberto José Sagra – $75,000
  5. Marvin Rettenmnaier – $60,000
  6. Mike Del Vecchio – $50,000
  7. Jack Sinclair – $45,000

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.

ITM Results

  1. Farid Jattin – AUD 290,000
  2. Joni Jouhkimainen – AUD 188,500
  3. George Wolff – AUD 116,000
  4. Andras Nemeth – AUD 72,500
  5. Alex Foxen – AUD $58,000

APO Leaderboard

  1. Andras Nemeth – 480 points
  2. Mike Watson – 450
  3. Joni Jouhkimainen – 330
  4. Timothy Adams – 300
  5. Farid Jattin – 300

Australian Poker Open Remaining Events

Event #5: $25,000 No-Limit Hold’em
Event #6: $50,000 No-Limit Hold’em
Event #7: $100,000 No-Limit Hold’em

If you were playing poker on the Playstation, and you were Latin American, then Farid Jattin would be one of your hot character picks. The 31-year-old from Barranquilla, Colombia, had his best year on the live tournament circuit in 2019, recognised by the Global Poker Index (GPI) awarding him the Latin American Player of the Year (PoY) title.

The weatherman has spoken, and you can expect nothing but heat for the Colombian in the near future.

A year after finishing runner-up to Anton Morgenstern in the AUD 25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha (PLO), and a lost train ticket away from finishing 7/59 in the same tournament, Jattin finally has an Aussie Millions gold ring.

Jattin brought the field of 169-entrants to its knees in the AUD 25,000 No-Limit Hold’em (NLHE) Challenge beneath the poisonous skies of Melbourne to collect the second most significant score of his career ($678,900).

To reach the summit, Colombia’s All-Time #1 Live Tournament Money Earner had to beat George Wolff in heads-up action, but not before the pair agreed upon a heads-up deal.

Like Jattin, 2019 was Wolff’s best year for live tournament consistency, earning a record $1.6m. He won a £10k PLO event at the British Poker Open (BPO) in September, but it’s been his consistency at the top end of these things that’s impressive with five runner-up finishes. A tad more luck on the occasional flop, turn or river, and Wolff would have had more toasts.

Wolff came into this one in fine fettle, finishing 3/37 in a $25k NLHE during the World Poker Tour (WPT) Five Diamond World Poker Classic, and 3/160 in a $3k event at the Venetian, both in December.

It was a final table brimming with quality, making it challenging not to be verbose when it comes to their accomplishments.

I’ll make it short and sweet.

Steve O’Dwyer followed up his 5/37 finish in the $25k NLHE at the MILLIONS UK in Nottingham with a third-place finish here. The GPI Canadian PoY, Sam Greenwood, finished fourth. The former WPT Jeju Champ, Masato Yokosawa finished fifth, the former World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) Main Event winner, Jack Sinclair was sixth, and former Aussie Millions ring winner, Kenney Hallaert, finished seventh.

It’s the second successive calendar year that Jattin has propelled himself out of the starting blocks like a phantom. He finished 7/1039 at the $25,000 NLHE PokerStars Players’ Championship (PSPC) in the Bahamas for $746,000, before a decent outing in Melbourne.

Here are the final table results in full.

Final Table Results

  1. Farid Jattin – $678,900*
  2. George Wolff – $566,832*
  3. Steve O’Dwyer – $322,501
  4. Sam Greenwood – $238,371
  5. Masato Yokosawa – $168,262
  6. Jack Sinclair – $119,185
  7. Kenny Hallaert – $91,142

*Indicates a heads-up deal.