This final table of six started with three Romanians, two Israelis, and one Bulgarian. AN AREA winner getting victory on their home soil seemed likely right from the beginning of the tournament, as Romanians truly love their poker and came out in force for this festival. 

But it wasn't to be. Within the end, it was the 2 players from Israel - Avishai Shitrit and Moshe Eliyahu (who was celebrating his 28th birthday today) - who would find themselves heads-up. The 2 are friends, and feature been chatting and routing for each other for the past two days.

In the duel it didn't take long for Shitrit to grind down Eliyahu as he came into the one-on-one match with greater than a five-to-one chip lead. But it surely still took an ideal sick hand to finish it - we'll get to that later. 

First, meet your winner of the primary ever Eureka tournament in Bucharest, or Romania for that matter: 30-year-old poker pro Avishai Shitrit. Here's how the day played out.

Avishai Shitrit (left) with runner-up Moshe Eliyahu

Final table time

Six players returned today, and here's how they stacked up on the beginning:

       PLAYER COUNTRY STATUS CHIP COUNTS

Yasen Dichev	Bulgaria		3900000
Jozsef Liszkovics	Romania	PokerStars Player	2750000
Moshe Eliyahu	Israel		2690000
Razvan Costinel Belea	Romania	PokerStars Player	2450000
Avishai Shitrit	Israel		1730000
Carmen Zainescu	Romania		690000

Popular local pro Carmen Zainescu came in because the short stack, and she'd be the primary player to go away us. She jammed over an open from Romania's Jozsef Liszkovics with Ace-eight and was called by his Ace-Queen. The kicker held up and she or he hit the rail in sixth for €22,860.

Zainescu says goodbye

Shitrit began to gain momentum during five-handed play, climbing the chip counts after doubling through Liszkovics. However, the true chip lead flipped so much today - mainly between Dichev, Eliyahu, and Liszkovics.

Romania's Razvan Belea never really got a hold in this final. In fact, in a single hand he even called the clock on himself! He was eliminated by Liszkovics after his Ace-nine was out-flopped by his countrymen's King-Queen. For fifth, he pocketed €29,200.

Razvan Belea

Yasen Dichev will be the next to fall, although you actually couldn't see it coming. Dichev proved himself a high quality player time and time again; from leading initially and end of Day 3 to creating some fantastic calls and plays here today. However, he got a bit frisky when he four-bet jammed pocket nines for 2.95 million over an open from Eliyahu and lift from Liszkovics, the latter of which called with pocket Queens. The women held up and Dichev collected €37,070 for fourth.

Dichev played well but fell in fourth

Liszkovics led the way in which at this point, but Shitrit got stronger by taking chips from Eliyahu. He eventually took the chip lead, and right before Jozsef Liszkovics was eliminated in third here's how the chip counts looked:

Avishai Shitrit - 7.85 millionJozsef Liszkovics - 4.5 millionMoshe Eliyahu - 1.8 million 

The biggest pot of the tournament came about three-handed, and it was also the person who would get us heads-up. Liszkovics started the hand with a button open to 200,000 and Avishai Shitrit called from the massive blind. The flop came the J♠4♠A♥ and Shitrit check-called a c-bet of 150,000, before also check-calling a chance of 500,000 at the 3♠ turn.

Finally the 2♠ landed at the river, bringing four spades to the flush. Shitrit took his time and led out for two million, and upon getting an actual count Liszkovics moved all-in. Shitrit snap-called with the A♠6♦ for the nut flush, while Liszkovics had the K♠7♦ for second best. He won €47,910 for third, and we were then heads-up.

Romania's Jozsef Liszkovics

  PLAYER COUNTRY STATUS CHIP COUNTS

Avishai Shitrit	Israel		12,560,000
Moshe Eliyahu	Israel		1,765,000

As you'll be able to see, Shitrit had an enormous chip lead, and soon after heads-up play began he'd whittled Eliyahu's stack all the way down to not up to a million.

In the overall hand - that sick hand I told you about earlier - Shitrit made it 200,000 at the button and Eliyahu called. The flop came the 5♣3♣6♦ and Eliyahu checked, allowing Shitrit to continue for 150,000, which was called. The turn was the K♦ and Eliyahu checked again only to look Shitrit bet 300,000.

At this point Eliyahu moved all-in for around 700,000 total and Shitrit snap-called, turning over the 4♣7♥ for the nut straight. Eliyahu had also flopped a straight along with his 2♦4♦, but he had the low end and prefer that it was over.

Shitrit and his rail

The birthday boy Moshe Eliyahu may not have gotten the existing he really wanted, however €66,950 isn't bad by any means.

But how did our champion feel? "IT IS A wonderful achievement," Shitrit told the PokerStars Blog. "AFTER I made the overall table, I DID NOT expect to win it. It was very quick from yesterday. We went all the way down to six players within the blink of a watch and it feels incredible that I won it now!" 

For winning the primary Eureka6 Bucharest, Avishai Shitrit takes home €107,350. Congratulations to him, and thanks for reading during the last week. 

YEAR OF ROMANIA.

Eureka6 Bucharest results Entrants: 579Total prize pool: €561,630Places paid: 87 

1. Avishai Shitrit (Israel) €107,3502. Moshe Eliyahu (Israel) €66,9503. Jozsef Liszkovics (Romania) €47,9104. Yasen Dichev (Bulgaria) €37,0705. Razvan Belea (Romania) €29,2006. Carmen Zainescu (Romania) €22,860

All photos by Tomáš Stacha. Many way to Jan Kores.

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Jack Stanton is a contract contributor to the PokerStars Blog.

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