France was destined to not win on Sunday. The soccer workforce couldn’t do it within the World Cup remaining towards Argentina, and Antoine Saout couldn’t do it towards Jordan Saccucci within the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague predominant occasion.
Poker gamers on the European Poker Tour Prague predominant occasion. Jordan Saccucci took down the event and a prize of just about $1 million (Picture: Winamax)
This €5,300 (US$5,620) predominant occasion reached 1,267 entries final week, breaking the earlier document for this iconic cease on the EPT within the Czech capital.
Saturday was the primary day of the ultimate desk, decreasing the sphere to only 4 gamers by the tip of the day. It was a day wherein Spain’s Javier Gómez Zapatero noticed his goals busted, dropping from championship contender to spectator as he exited in eighth for €126,700 (US$134,390).
Operating Out the Playing cards
The final 4 survivors met on Sunday on the Hilton Lodge to combat for the highest prize. Regardless of a $6.55-million prize pool, none left with seven figures of their pocket.
Saccucci, Saout, Istvan Pilhofer, and Jun Obara had been the celebs of Day 6 of the occasion. Saccucci began in entrance, adopted intently by Hungary’s Pilhofer, then Saout. Obara, who traveled all the way in which from Japan for the occasion, trailed from the beginning and by no means had an opportunity to achieve floor.
As the ultimate 4 gamers sat down for the motion, Obara virtually instantly hit the rails. He fell within the first hand when his Ok-J misplaced to Saccucci’s pocket Kings.
Three-handed play began evenly, and the trio swapped chips forwards and backwards. However, little by little, the Hungarian started to bleed till he was the quick stack. Saout shoved with pocket deuces, and Pilhofer responded together with his A-9.
No assist got here on the board because the Frenchman hit a set after which a full home on the river. Pilhofer’s run was over, though he left the sport $494,025 richer. Earlier than that, he had solely received about $22K in reside poker, in accordance with Hendon Mob.
Let’s Make a Deal
The ultimate duel started with Saccucci and Saout, with 19.4 million and 18.3 million chips, respectively. They lower a deal that allowed every of them to take dwelling $840K and to play out the remained of the occasion for the glory and the title.
Saccucci instantly took benefit and elevated his stack. With virtually a 2-to-1 chip lead, he completed off his opponent in type.
It was A-3 for the eventual winner taking over 6-6, and the 2 raised the stakes earlier than any playing cards hit the board. Lastly, they had been all-in preflop, however Saout wouldn’t discover any assist. The flop got here 4-3-3, giving his opponent a set, which was adopted by consecutive 9s on the flip and river for the boat.
That allowed Saccucci to say the remaining $118,913 that was on the desk, in addition to the title. He received slightly below $1 million in complete and pushed his profession earnings into seven figures. Hendon Mob has his reside earnings at $1.329 million since he started on the reside circuit virtually seven years in the past.
DNegs Falls Brief
Within the US, the World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship was going down with Daniel Negreanu desperately searching for a deep run. DNegs is aware of dangerous beats, although, and he suffered one other on Sunday.
In his remaining hand, Negreanu had pocket deuces. When he hit a set on the flop, he will need to have thought he was in good situation. A ten on the flip paired the ten that got here out with the deuce, which led DNegs’ opponent, Lucas Foster, to go all-in.
Negreanu needed to be completely happy. He was a full home and a assured win. Nonetheless, Foster wasn’t finished. He had pocket Kings, with one probability to drag off a victory.
The river introduced the unthinkable – a King, giving Foster a greater full home and Negreanu a killer headache. Nonetheless, he took dwelling $176,200, so it wasn’t a whole loss.
The larger defeat shouldn’t be having the ability to choose up sufficient money to achieve the highest of the charts. He’s second behind Carlos Mortensen on the all-time WPT cash record and wanted to see a remaining desk to have the ability to take over.
