March 11 2012, Donnie Peters
The 2012 PokerStars.net Asian Pacific Poker Tour Seoul Main Event has come to an end. Andrew Kim, from the USA, emerged victorious over the 268-player field. After a deal was made, Kim earned KRW145,000,000 for the win.
When the third and final day began, 16 players remained. After a few hours of play, the field was down to nine and the final table was set. Things had moved along steadily for the first part of the day and the first elimination at the final table was 2012 Aussie Millions runner-up Kenneth Wong.
During Level 21 with the blinds at 8,000/16,000/2,000, Wong was all in preflop with versus Vincent Rubianes’
. The flop, turn and river ran out
, and Rubianes sent Wong out the door in ninth place.
He was followed out the door by start-of-the-day chip leader Daisuke Endo, who fell at the hands of Germany’s Moritz Ortmann. Somehow, someway, Ortmann and Endo got all the money in on the flop with Moritz holding
to Endo’s
. The turn was the
and the river the
. Ortmann finished with a flush and Endo held just jack high, which meant he was headed out the door in eighth place.
After Endo’s elimination, Taewook Kwon fell in seventh and then Jose Severino in sixth. Severino went out during Level 23 with the blinds at 12,000/24,000/4,000.
Severino moved all in with and ran into Ortmann’s
. A quick and painless run of the cards sent Severino out the door as the dealer spread the
.
In fifth place, Sasa Zorc was eliminated and that left just four players. Joining Kim, Rubianes and Ortmann was Rafael Rodrigo. The group struck a deal based on the chip counts and left KRW35,000,000 to be awarded to the eventual champion. From there, Ortmann fell in fourth place and then Rodrigo in third, leaving Rubianes and Kim heads up for the title. When the duel began, Kim had the edge with 3.005 million in chips to Rubianes’ 2.12 million.
For nearly all of the heads-up match, Kim seemed to be in control. He picked his spots well and chipped away at Rubianes steadily. When the final hand came up, all of the money went in preflop with Kim holding to Rubianes’
. An ace flopped to put Kim in the lead and he held from there to take the victory. For his runner-up effort, Rubianes was left with the amount he settled for in the deal, pocketing KRW90,500,000.
2012 APPT Seoul Final Table Payouts
*1 | Andrew Kim | 145,000,000 |
*2 | Vincent Rubianes | 90,500,000 |
*3 | Rafael Rodrigo | 94,500,000 |
*4 | Moritz Ortmann | 106,000,000 |
5 | Sasa Zorc | 43,000,000 |
6 | Jose Severino | 34,000,000 |
7 | Taewook Kwon | 27,000,000 |
8 | Daisuke Endo | 21,400,000 |
9 | Kenneth Wong | 15,889,600 |
*Denotes four-way deal with KRW35,000,000 awarded to the winner.
With the completion of the event, that wraps up PokerNews’ coverage of the 2012 APPT Seoul. It was another great event run by PokerStars and also the staff at the Paradise Casino Walkerhill. Congratulations to Andrew Kim for his win and to all the other winners as well.
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April 09 2011, Chris Hall
The final 24 players of the PokerStars.net European Poker Tour Berlin returned Saturday for the penultimate day of play. The field was led by Daniel Pidun with 2.429 million, just ahead of Max Heinzelmann and PokerStars Online Qualifier Ben Wilinofsky. After about nine hours of play, however, Wilinofsky emerged with the chip lead and will be leading the final tablists on Sunday.
Wilinofsky made all the early running on the feature table winning a race with jacks against Gerado Muro’s , and then never needed to look back. He then eliminated Markus Grewe, getting the German to move all-in on a flop of
with
when the Canadian youngster had flopped a set of nines. Without much trouble, Wilinofsky had almost doubled his stack in just one level and was the first player to surpass the 4 million mark.
Meanwhile on the other table, Team PokerStars Pro Henrique Pinho had an rough start, losing a chunk of his stack in the very first hand of the day, when he doubled up Jonas Gutteck with , no good against the German player’s
. Pinho was eliminated in 20th place, his best ever finish, when his
came unstuck against Max Heinzelmann’s
in a pot worth about 1.2 million chips.
Heizelmann gradually began to dominate the outer table in a similar way to Wilinofsky’s total control of the TV table. Heizelmann opened a lot of pots and it became hard for others, such as double EPT runner-up Martin Jacobson, and the end of Day 2 chip leader Fabrice Soulier, to get a foothold.
Konstantin Puchkov, who placed third at EPT Barcelona was eliminated in 17th place, when he ran pocket eights into Jonas Gutteck’s pocket aces, while Jeffrey Hakim quickly followed him out of the door in 16th. Kristijonas Andrulis, who won two side events in Tallinn and another in Vilamoura, went out in 12th place after he lost a race to Martin Jacobson. Jacobson has managed to make his third final table of this EPT season alone, an incredible feat in its own right, but he must be thinking that this should be his time.
Just before the dinner break, Fabrice Soulier was knocked out in 11th. He committed his stack with on a
flop against Vadzim Kursevich’s
but the board bricked out with the
turn and
river and a very disappointed Frenchman was sent to the rail.
Refreshed and rejuvenated after a 90-minute break, the final ten players returned to play. Ten minutes later, after Cuello Jorge Mariano’s push with was called by Heinzelmann’s
and failed to spike, we were down to a single table.
The final table bubble can be a long and drawn out affair, lasting several hours as a dynamic sets in and players vie for control of the table.
Not this time.
It only took 15 minutes for Armin Mette to be dealt when former chip leader Daniel Pidun had picked up
and the two didn’t take long to put all the chips into the middle. Pidun was covered and it looked dead and buried when the flop came
but it got very interesting on the
turn. Pidun just needed the board to pair to complete a miraculous comeback but the river was the
and the German was our final-table bubbler.
EPT Berlin Final Table
1 | Maximilian Heinzelmann | 4,970,000 | Germany |
2 | Martin Jacobson | 2,085,000 | Sweden |
3 | Vadzim Kursevich | 4,345,000 | Belarus |
4 | Darren Kramer | 2,235,000 | South Africa |
5 | Armin Mette | 2,125,000 | Germany |
6 | Joep Van den Bijgaart | 1,060,000 | Netherlands |
7 | Ben Wilinofsky | 5,225,000 | Canada |
8 | Jonas Gutteck | 1,025,000 | Germany |
It’s set to be an exiting climax Sunday. Can Wilinofsky make his first ever live cash an EPT victory? Could Martin Jacobson, on his third EPT final table this season, finally break his duck? For the answers to all these questions, tune into the Live Reporting page for the EPT Berlin final table coverage beginning at 12 p.m. CEST (0300 PDT).
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