In the tournament No Limit Holdem 852 players took part in the rebuys. The buy-in to the online poker tournament was $530, 1011 rebuys and 658 add-ons were made by the players, resulting in the total prize pool amounting to $1'260'500. The main prize of the tournament is $211'133.
The tournament was attended by Andre Akkari, Bertrand Grospellier, Dario Minieri, Victor Ramdin, Chris Moneymaker, Alex Kravchenko and many other poker stars.
The final table looked like this:
1: grunter321 — 1,247,525
2: AceOfSpade11 — 3,212,254
3: DuckU — 3,000,127
4: PiKappRaider — 2,442,144
5: isuckoutonu — 1,305,742
6: Roothlus — 1,508,208
First to leave the final table Roothluswhich went to bank with pocket jacks, but a pair of queens at PiKappRaider sent Roothlus 6th in the competition.
The next player to leave the final table was grunter321... With hand J J grunter321 moves all of his chips to the center of the table, his opponent AceOfSpade11 accepts a bet while holding a pair of pocket kings. Eventually grunter321 takes the fifth place - $56'722 prize money.
Isuckoutonu goes all-in with T TO against T TO at DuckU... Board opened 3 7 2 6 T and Isuckoutonu goes to 4th place - $81'932
With hand 5 5 DuckU goes all-in on the board T 6 3 TO 10. PiKappRaider opens his hand with a pair of eights. For third place DuckU received $119'747.
The chip count ratio before the final was as follows:
PiKappRaider — 8,456,478
AceOfSpade11 — 4,259,522
After 15 minutes of heads-up, it was all over. Advantage PiKappRaider could not but affect - on the flop IN 7 9after a series of raises and calls, players go to bank. The rivals had PiKappRaider — IN 9, at AceOfSpade11 — IN 10... The tour opens 5and on the river T and PiKappRaider with two pairs wins the poker tournament.