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Deutsch Poker Tour – Miroslav Macho Wins Main Event
Posted by: Jo Martin - Tue, 2012-07-24 12:48
Last weekend saw not only the intensification of the
online tournament action, but also, the second Main Event of the Deutsch Poker tour kicked off. The event took place in the Czech Republic, and it drew a record-breaking starting field of 631 players. The Main Event cost only €155 to enter and it offered a prize-pool of €85,090, which meant that the eventual winner would earn a €17,980 reward.
During the first day of action, most of the registrants perished from the ranks, leaving 147 survivors to return for day 2 to play down to a winner.
Those who returned on Day 2 were obviously hoping to reach the money bubble as quickly and painlessly as possible, but it wasn’t meant to be. The hand-for-hand stage of the battle right before the bursting of the bubble lasted for an hour and a half. None of the short-stacks would go away, and eventually the participants lost all patience. In order to finally burst the bubble, all 51 survivors struck a deal, which paid out 51st place, so the hurdle was finally shoved aside and the action could go on.
With the bubble out of the way, players tore into each-other, and after 3 short levels, the nine-handed final table was reached.
Ivan Kosarko had the most chips going into the final stretch, but Miroslav Macho was armed with quite a few chips as well, besides an epic name.
Peter Bayer was the first victim of the final table: he ran his A,10 into Macho’s pocket jacks and his Main Event run was over.
Robin Kores followed him to the rail shortly, followed in turn by Adam Bazik. The event didn’t have an actual heads-up stage: the three remaining players, Macho, Petr Cozik and Marek Blasko struck a three-way deal, one that didn’t require them to play down to an actual winner at all. Thus Macho picked up the top prize as Blasko settled for €11.9k and Cozik for €8.5k.
