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Germany's Dennis Weiss and Czech Michal Schuh win their first WSOPE bracelets
The WSOPE continued yesterday with the NLH Colossus tournament, which had a buy-in of €550 and a guarantee of €1,500,000. The top 14 players here also had a ticket to the WSOPE Main Event worth €10,350.
The Colossus brought in 2,799 entries, 637 less than last year. However, the guaranteed amount was met again and a reward of €161,000 awaited the winner, along with a gold championship bracelet.
16 players made it through to the final day and Georgios Tsouloftas was the leader with a stack of 12,210,000. Georgios was still in the lead when the 9 seat final table was set up.
He knocked out most of his opponents going into heads-up play
The original chipleader eventually finished in third place. Home player Michal Schuh took care of as many as four of his opponents and was opposed by Erik van Hulst in the final heads-up. Michal started the heads-up as chipleader.
The chips moved from side to side and the players exchanged the chipleader position several times. In the end, however, Michal Schuh took the lead and would not let his first WSOP bracelet be taken away from him. On the last hand, Hulst put his entire $10.8 million stack in with K-4, which Michal called with A-J. The flop immediately produced two aces, and Czech player Michal Schuh was the winner of the WSOPE Colossus, taking home €161,000, the gold champions bracelet and a ticket to the WSOPE Main Event. The win brought his lifetime live tournament winnings to over $770,000.
| Place | Country | Name | Payout |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Czechia | Michal Schuh | €171.350 |
| 2. | Netherlands | Erik Van Hulst | €117.350 |
| 3. | Cyprus | Georgios Tsouloftas | €88.350 |
| 4. | Romania | Paul Adrian Runcan | €67.850 |
| 5. | Italy | Vito Branciforte | €53.150 |
| 6. | Czechia | Tomas Krivsky | €42.450 |
| 7. | Germany | Pascal Pflock | €34.650 |
| 8. | Romania | Mousa Awad | €29.050 |
| 9. | Vietnam | Thi Minh Hong Pham | €24.750 |
* WSOPE Main Event tickets worth €10,350 are already included in the table totals
Dennis Weiss dominates 5k PLO
Let's move on to the second tournament that had its final day yesterday, and it was the WSOPE 5k PLO with 141 entries, 61 less than a year ago. Last year there was a prizepool of over €910,000, now it was worth €629,565. A prize of €159,897 awaited the winner.
There were 38 players going into the final day and they were led by Krasimir Yankov from Bulgaria. In second place was German player Amir Mozaffarian. 22 players were able to make it to the ITM and Yankov didn't even make it to the ITM. Amir Mozaffarian fought his way through to the final heads-up where his compatriot Dennis Weiss sat against him.
Dennis Weiss had already started the final table as chipleader, and entered heads-up play with a 2:1 advantage, which he increased to 8:1 just a few hands later. The heads-up lasted only about 20 minutes, after which Dennis Weiss became the champion. In addition to the €159,897 prize, he also won his first WSOPE bracelet. Amir Mozaffarian took home €103,092 for his second place finish. Congratulations.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dennis Weiss | Germany | €159,897 |
| 2 | Amir Mozaffarian | Germany | €103,092 |
| 3 | Nikola Minkov | Bulgaria | €68,791 |
| 4 | Victor Dota | Romania | €47,566 |
| 5 | Jonas Kronwitter | Germany | €34,126 |
| 6 | Krzysztof Magott | Poland | €25,440 |
| 7 | Vazha Kometiani | Georgia | €19,736 |
| 8 | Vakhtang Javakhishvili | Georgia | €15,960 |
Source - Kings Resort, Pokernews, Tomas Stacha, Youtube