Tag: Matthias Eibinger

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

  1. schimmelgodx – $1,271,217.69
  2. Biereux – $885,746.81
  3. Igutu – $617,164.03
  4. Juan Pardo Dominguez – $430,022.47
  5. TepuseenFD – $299,627.33
  6. CoRoNaTi – $208,771.57
  7. MaillouL – $145,466.38
  8. 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

  1. Isaac Haxton – $456,764.45
  2. Linus Loeliger – $287,450.12
  3. Deepdarkwood – $217,470.47
  4. Sub-Zero – $164,527.25
  5. Alexandros Kolonias – $124,473.13
  6. Ali Imsirovic – $94,170.11
  7. Artur Martirosian – $71,244.43
  8. George Wolff – $53,900.04

$10,000 No Limit Hold’em

84-entrants

Results

  1. Matthias Eibinger – $198,735.16
  2. Dario Sammartino – $151,387.06
  3. pDNA – $115,319.62
  4. Linus Loeliger – $87,845.13
  5. Jake Schindler – $66,916.34
  6. Nator – $50,973.72
  7. Isaac Baron – $38,829.45
  8. Timothy Adams – $29,578.46
  9. George Wolff – $26,767.56

$5,000 Pot Limit Omaha

38-entrants

Results

  1. Andras Nemeth – $76,998.40
  2. Andreas Torbergsen – $45,494.62
  3. coronita – $28,636.32
  4. Magicmaster69 – $18,024.96
  5. 20BigWhale20 – $11,345.70

$5,000 No Limit Hold’em

112-entrants

Results

  1. Dario Sammartino – $121,843.29
  2. Samuel Vousden – $91,774.30
  3. Alex Foxen – $69,080.73
  4. Pascal Hartmann – $52,015.71
  5. Matthias Eibinger – $39,166.26
  6. Alexnadros Kolonias – $29,490.99
  7. Timothy Adams – $22,205.83
  8. cliffbooth – $16,720.33
  9. Trashdawg – $14,748.26

$5,000 No Limit Hold’em

58-entrants

Results

  1. Laurynas Levinskas – $95,443.37
  2. Trashdawg – $58,329.65
  3. David Peters – $42,108.05
  4. Jake Schindler – $30,397.70
  5. Kristen Bicknell – $21,944.04
  6. Pascal Hartmann – $15,841.36
  7. Jonathan Van Fleet – $11,435.83

$5,000 No Limit Hold’em

22-entrants

Results

  1. Alex Foxen – $54,601.25
  2. Tonythetiger – $33,029.35
  3. Ali Imsirovic – $16,869.39

$5,000 No Limit Hold’em

67-entrants

Results

  1. Adrian Mateos – $68,710.30*
  2. Nick Petrangelo – $77,308.85*
  3. Luuk Gieles – $45,737.48
  4. Dan Smith – $35,761.27
  5. Sam Greenwood – $27,961.06
  6. HogFish333 – $21,862.21
  7. George Wolff – $17,093.65
  8. Artur Martirosian – $13,365.19
  9. David Peters – $10,449.99

*Indicates a heads-up deal

$5,000 No Limit Hold’em

65-entrants

Results

  1. Jake Schindler – $95,936.10
  2. Adrian Mateos – $60,374.30
  3. Ali Imsirovic – $45,676.19
  4. Dan Smith – $34,556.31
  5. Porsche911sp – $26,143.59
  6. Sergi Reixach – $19,778.92
  7. BigWhale20 – $14,963.75
  8. Sam Greenwood – $11,320.84

$5,000 No Limit Hold’em

66-entrants

Results

  1. Mikita Badziakouski – $97,412.04
  2. Rui Ferreira – $61,303.13
  3. Vamossuerte – $46,378.90
  4. Adrian Mateos – $35,087.95
  5. Alexandros Kolonias – $26,545.80
  6. TheProfessional – $20,083.21
  7. Jake Schindler – $15,193.96
  8. Pascal Hartmann – $11,495.01

$5,000 No Limit Hold’em

44-entrants

Results

  1. TheProfessional – $89,156.02
  2. Jake Schindler – $52,677.99
  3. AndyAtTheBike – $33,157.85
  4. Pascal Hartmann – $20,871.01
  5. Fedor Holz – $13,137.13

$5,000 No Limit Hold’em

122-entrants

Results

  1. Kristen Bicknell – $88,387.40*
  2. Alex Foxen – $99,929.86*
  3. Isaac Baron – $108,820.35*
  4. Ami Barer – $55,909.17
  5. Michael Addamo – $42,529.38
  6. DanBiz – $32,351.51
  7. Dnegking – $24,609.33
  8. Adiemeerci – $18,719.99
  9. 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.

Viktor Blom is currently hurtling across the Super High Roller Bowl Online (SHRBO) on partypoker like a scud missile.

The online cash game legend has now won three SHRBO titles, and finished second on two other occasions after pummeling the 55-entrant field into hyperspace in Event #21: $10,300 No Limit Hold’em.

Blom slapped his white glove across the face of Isaac Haxton during heads-up action, eventually emerging from the duel without a hole in his body. Blom also won Event #9: $10,300 for $213,750 and Event #14: $25,500 for $407,500, and is the overwhelming favourite to win the $102,000 seat into the SHRBO Main Event.

One man destined to be spilling vermilion in that Main Event is Matthias Eibinger. The Austrian star subjugated 70-entrants in Event #19: $10,300 No Limit Hold’em 48-hours after winning the $5,200 No Limit Hold’em, Midweek Freeze, Six Max at the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) for $111,703.80. Eibinger collected $217,000 for his SHRBO win.

The third title of the day went to Sam Greenwood. The exquisite Canadian crushed a field of 42-entrants to win Event #20: $25,500 Super High Roller. Christoph Vogelsang finished runner-up in that one, with Vyacheslav Buldygin, third.

Here are the results.

Event #19: $10,300 No Limit Hold’em 6-Max

70-entrants

Results

  1. Matthias Eibinger – $217,000
  2. Artur Martirosian – $150,500
  3. Kristen Bicknell – $98,000
  4. Joao Vieira – $63,000
  5. Mikita Badziakouski – $49,000
  6. Sergi Lloveras Reixach – $40,250
  7. Christopher Malcolm Fraser- $33,250
  8. Dan Smtih – $26,250

Event #20: $25,500 Super High Roller

42-entrants

Results

  1. Sam Greenwood – $399,000
  2. Christoph Vogelsang – $262,500
  3. Vyacheslav Buldygin – $168,000
  4. Nick Petrangelo – $94,500
  5. Timothy Adams – $73,500
  6. David Peters – $52,500

Event #21: $10,300 No Limit Hold’em

55-entrants

Results

  1. Viktor Blom – $195,250
  2. Isaac Haxton – $130,625
  3. Stephen O’Dwyer – $83,875
  4. Mikita Badziakouski – $52,625
  5. Timothy Adams – $35,750
  6. Jake Schindler – $27,500
  7. Ali Imsirovic – $23,375
Mike Watson

Had it not been for the Michael Phelps like-performance of Connor ‘blanconegro’ Drinan during the PokerStars Spring Championships of Online Poker (SCOOP) (his swimming and not his poker performances), Michael ‘SirWatts’ Watson would have blipped on more radar screens.

He’s blipping today.

The Canadian High Roller took down the third win of the series, and all three have been in different disciplines, demonstrating the incredible quality and diversity of this genius.

Watson vanquished 148-entrants in Event #113: $1,050 6+ Hold’em to claim the $29,997.02 first prize after beating ‘GODofHU’ in heads-up action. He adds the 6+ Hold’em title to Event #51: $1,0500 No Limit 2-7 Single Draw, and Event #66: $2,100 No Limit Hold’em. Watson has now won six career SCOOP titles.

Michael ‘iambest2’ Eibinger also secured a victory before we all settled down to watch the mayhem on CNN this past weekend. The Austrian star defeated 96-entrants in Event #105: $5,200 No Limit Hold’em Midweek Freeze Six Max. The win earned Eibinger $111,703.80 game points, and he will need them with the Super High Roller Bowl Online (SHRBO) submerging most people’s bankrolls deeper than they usually go.

Here are the results.

Event #105: $5,200 No Limit Hold’em Midweek Freeze Six Max

Entrants – 96

Results

  1. Matthias ‘iambest2’ Eibinger – $111,703.80
  2. Simon ‘Igorkarkarof’ Ronnow – $88,064.44
  3. Giorgos ‘Geokarak’ Karakousis – $67,612.03
  4. FouEnculePL – $51,909.50
  5. great dant – $39,853.52
  6. shuhpat – $30,598.03

Event #113: $1,050 6+ Hold’em

Entrants – 148

Results

  1. Mike “SirWatts” Watson – $29,997.02
  2. GODofHU – $22,831.67
  3. Bo$$ D4wg – $17,377.98
  4. Hatrick1991 – $13,226.98
  5. sry2good4u – $10,067.50
  6. Zapahzamazki – $7,662.72

The poker community has whizzed fervently through 360- SCOOP tournaments like a London cabbie with ‘The Knowledge.’ The series has seen 2,662,376 entrants compete, and the total prize money stands at $175,717,483 with 11-events left to run.

As the great asphalt desert of the Las Vegas Strip prepares to step into the unknown, poker’s hierarchy doesn’t have to venture out of the house just yet.

Poker Central’s Super High Roller Bowl Online continues to pepper partypoker’s poker platform, and Justin Bonomo emerged as the big winner on Day 5.

The one-time winningest live multi-table tournament (MTT) aficionado in history emerged triumphant in Event #11: $25,500 No Limit Hold’em. Bonomo conquered a field of 72-entrants to win the $622,634.40 first prize and moves into fifth place on the preliminary leaderboard.

Vicent Bosca Ramon and Ludovic Geilich also experienced the uncanny synchronicity that accompanies any tournament win in poker. Ramon took down the 77-entrant field in Event #10: $10,300 No Limit Hold’em Six Max. The Spaniard sits in 7th place on the leaderboard after recording his third cash of the series. Geilich outlasted a 69-entrant field in the other $10,300 No Limit Hold’em encounter, his first in the money (ITM) finish of the series.

There was no dearth of near misses for Matthias Eibinger. The Austrian finished ITM in all three events, coming closest in Event #10, losing to Ramon, heads-up for the title.

Kristen Bicknell, Wiktor Malinowski, Luuk Gieles, Andrii Novak, and Ali Imsirovic each finished ITM in two events. Daniel Dvoress also finished ITM in Event #11, enough to see him rise to third in the overall rankings behind Viktor Blom and Dan Smith neither of whom made their mark.

Here are the day’s results.

Event #10: $10,300 No Limit Hold’em Six Max

77-entrants

Results

  1. Vicent Bosca Ramon – $240,860.62
  2. Matthias Eibinger – $150,150
  3. Luuk Gieles – $92,400
  4. Wiktor Malinowski – $67,375
  5. Michael Watson – $48,125
  6. Nick Petrangelo – $32,725
  7. Andrii Novak – $25,025
  8. Markus Leikkonen – $25,025
  9. Rok Gostisa – $25,025
  10. Kristen Bicknell – $21,096
  11. Ali Imsirovic – $21,096
  12. Rob Lipkin – $21,096

Event #11: $25,500 No Limit Hold’em

72-entrants

Results

  1. Justin Bonomo – $622,634.40
  2. Artur Martirosian – $405,000
  3. Matthias Eibinger – $216,000
  4. Salahaddin Bedir – $162,000
  5. Wiktor Malinowski – $117,000
  6. Ali Imsirovic – $81,000
  7. Michael Addamo – $65,455
  8. Daniel Dvoress – $65,455
  9. Mikita Badziakouski – $65,455

Event #12: $10,000 No Limit Hold’em

69-entrants

Results

  1. Ludovic Geilich – $238,676.52
  2. Alexandros Kolonias – $155,250
  3. Seth Davies – $82,800
  4. Andrii Novak – $62,100
  5. Giuseppe Iadisernia – $44,850
  6. Jonathan Van Fleet – $31,050
  7. Luuk Gieles – $25,091
  8. Kristen Bicknell – $25,091
  9. Matthias Eibinger – $25,091

Leaderboard Standings

  1. Viktor Blom 625 points
  2. Dan Smith – 511
  3. Daniel Dvoress – 471
  4. Alex Foxen – 402
  5. Justin Bonomo – 397

“Put a towel underneath your door?”
It was an odd request.
“Why?”
“The snake.”
“What snake?”
Then he showed me the longest-arsed python I had ever seen in my life. It lived in a plastic tube and could kill me in my sleep hence the towel.
He was a strange cookie: a firefighter.
He took great delight in showing me his bedroom, and it was deathly cold. The window was wide open — the cold night air sneaking in, hiding underneath his covers.
“Why do you have the window open?”
“I am a firefighter. I need the cold.”
“But what if someone climbs through your window?”
“Oh, they won’t do that,” he said, producing a big gun.
I only stayed one night, and I haven’t thought about him until Matthias Eibinger won another high roller and a vision interrupted my thoughts of high stakes poker players placing towels beneath casino doors in an attempt to keep him out.

Matthias Eibinger Wins The €50k Super High Roller.

Matthias Eibinger
The €50k Super High Roller attracted 40-entrants (30 unique, and ten with a little extra cash to splash the dash), six more than 2017 when Timothy Adams took the title, €555,000 first prize and a bouquet.
It was a spiffing final table with quality players jutting out all over like decades-old gravestones in a long-forgotten cemetery — players of the ilk of the 2017 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) Main Event winner, Charlie Carrel, one half of the mighty Greenwood twins in Luc, and a man experiencing the heater of his life, Andras Nemeth.
But before I wax lyrical about the awesome Austrian, it’s worth mentioning the mighty Moldovan. Pavel Plesuv flew into Prague after winning the World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Rock ‘N’ Roller Open Main Event, and then proceeded to make the final table of every high roller that EPT Prague ushered in his direction.
Nemeth, Plesuv, Greenwood and Carrel are top players, but it was Eibinger who continued his incredible 2018 with the win. The Austrian beat Nemeth in a hard-fought and fortunate heads-up match, which in truth, the Hungarian would have closed out had it not been for the Poker Gods repeatedly kicking him in the balls with Eibinger out for the count.
The victory is Eibinger’s third of the year, including taking down the $52,000 event during ARIA Fall Madness for $575,000, and a $25k at the same venue in the summer for $300,000. Eibinger also tore through the PokerStars’ EPT in Barcelona earlier this year cashing in five big buy-in events collecting $1.5m.
Here are the final table results:
Final Table Results
1. Matthias Eibinger – €653,000
2. Andras Nemeth – €451,350
3. Liang Xu – €288,090
4. Pavel Plesuv – €220,870
5. Luc Greenwood – €172,850
6. Charlie Carrel – €134,440

Thomas Boivin and Corentin Ropert Win €25k Events via Live Satellites

Sitting on the EPT Prague undercard was two €25,000 High Rollers and players who qualified for the events via live satellites won them both turning a speculative effort into a mammoth amount of money.
The first event saw 46-entrants (36 unique, ten re-entries) create the first prize of €375,520, and that money now sits in a bank account belonging to Thomas Boivin.
The Belgian defeated a final table that included the WPT Champion Pavel Plesuv, the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) €25k High Roller winner, Michael Addamo, and the high stakes regular, Orpen Kisacikoglu.
But it was the presence of Steve O’Dwyer that caught most people’s attention. O’Dwyer is one of four players (David Peters, Adrian Mateos and Justin Bonomo) capable of stopping Alex Foxen from taking down the 2018 Global Poker Index (GPI) Player of the Year (PoY) award, but the American only bagged 248.25 GPI points with 319.21 points going to the Belgian. That said it was another remarkable run for a man who has now won more than $6.4m in 2018.
It’s the third tournament win of Boivin’s career after conquering a field of 2,887-entrants in a $1,100 Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) DeepStack event at The Venetian for $352,153 in 2016, and battering 516-entrants in an AUD 1,200 No-Limit Hold’em Six-Max event at the 2017 Aussie Millions for $88,195. Boivin’s win sees his all-time live tournament earnings shift to $2,127,693 putting him sixth in his the Belgium rankings behind Davidi Kitai, Pierre Neuville, Kenny Hallaert, Michael Gathy and Bart Lybaert.
Here are the final table results:
Final Table Results
1. Thomas Boivin – €375,520
2. Steve O’Dwyer – €259,550
3. Orpen Kisacikoglu – €165,670
4. Michael Addamo – €127,010
5. Pavel Plesuv – €99,400
6. Stefan Huber – €77,310
Corentin Ropert told reporters that his EPT Prague experience was so awful he considered spending the night in his room watching movies on Netflix. Instead, inspired by Boivin’s victory, the Frenchman dragged his sorry arse to the poker room to compete in a live satellite for the €25k and ended up winning the lot.
The field size was slightly smaller than the first €25k with 34-entrants (29 unique, five re-entries) carving out a €277,560 first prize, and Ropert beat the Japanese player Tsugunari Toma, heads-up, to take the title.
It’s the second victory of Ropert’s career, and they have come in the last two events the Frenchman has finished in the money (in October he beat 149-entrants in a €1k event in Divonne Les Bains to take the €30,336 first prize). This win was more than double his combined efforts of the previous five years.
Michael Addamo made his second EPT Prague final table, Plesuv made his third, and there was also an appearance from the high rolling Russian born Dietrich Fast.
Final Table Results
1. Corentin Ropert – €277,560
2. Tsugunary Toma – €191,840
3. Michael Addamo – €122,450
4. Dietrich Fast – €93,880
5. Norbert Szecsi – €73,470
6. Pavel Plesuv – €57,140

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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:

  1. €605,600
  2. €420,800
  3. €278,280
  4. €217,820
  5. €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

  1. Matthias Eibinger – 2,150,000
  2. Andras Nemeth – 1,950,000
  3. Chin Wei Lim – 1,050,000
  4. Wai Leong Chan – 825,000
  5. Jean-Noel Thorel – 825,000
  6. Vladimir Troyanovskiy – 820,000
  7. Michel Dattani – 800,000
  8. Sean Winter – 650,000
  9. 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.

Final Table Results

  1. Andras Nemeth – €605,600
  2. Wai Leong Chan – €420,800
  3. Matthias Eibinger – €278,280
  4. Byron Kaverman – €217,820
  5. Chin Wei Lim – €175,600
  6. Jean-Noel Thorel – €136,860
  7. Michel Dattani – €108,350
  8. Vladimir Troyanovskiy – €84,400
  9. Sean Winter – €63,900