The Dublin edition of this tournament went on until gone 5am. On the Grand Final in Monaco, play needed to be paused and restarted tomorrow as a result of how late it bumped into the morning. But here in Malta, it took just below 12 hours of play for us to search out our €10K Single Re-entry champion. His name is Jakub 'Olorionek' Michalak, he final tabled the WCOOP Main Event this year, and he's now €178,403 richer. Here's the way it all went down.
Jakub Michalak - your latest Malta champ
We had a complete of 64 players pony up the €10K, while 20 of these fired another bullet, making a total prize pool of €814,800. Just 11 players got paid, but in comparison to previous editions of this single day tournament we reached the cash relatively quickly.
Rewinding back to the beginning of the day, Max Silver was the primary double casualty. He fired two bullets and was out on both before the tip of Level 4. Mikita Badziakouski, Connor Drinan, Dario Sammartino, Nick Petrangelo, Jean-Noel Thorel, Alexandros Kolonias, and Sam Greenwood are only some of folks that re-entered. Greenwood's second bullet was an especially short ordeal - out and in in around 30 minutes.
One of the numerous 'man of the moment' players in poker at the moment is New Zealand's David Yan. On the end of September he enjoyed a deep run within the Eureka6 Hamburg Main Event (16th - €3,880), which he was only playing as it was on his approach to a tournament in Berlin. He went and won that one for € 124,635. Then Yan turned up in Malta and took down the €25K Super High Roller for €465,800. However, it wasn't his day today. He got unlucky to bust when his ace-ten was outdrawn by Charlie Carrel's ace-eight.
The players took a 75-minute dinner break around 7:30pm and just 17 players returned. Scott Seiver had the chip lead with 850,000 and blinds at 8K/16K, good for 53 big blinds. Remember that in a sooner or later turbo, this wasn't the deepest stacked event. Seiver's nearest competitors were Italy's Rocco Palumbo (840,000), followed by Pratyush Buddiga (810,000) - who entered this event with just 20 minutes left of registration for a 12 big blind stack.
Another cash for O'Dwyer
Last year's winner of this event in Malta was Mr Steve O'Dwyer, and the 'Irishman' got off to a super start today winning four-bet pots with abandon. He rode that wave right into the money, eventually busting in 10th place for €20,400. However, Romania's Pasquale Grimaldi wouldn't be capable of earn a dime, suffering a brutal flush over flush to Charlie Carrel which crippled him and would see him make a muted exit within the next hand for a 12th place finish.
Grim for Grimaldi
Diego Zeiter was the following to bust, followed by O'Dwyer, which meant we had our final table of nine. Here's how they stacked up:
1. Behzad Ahadpour - 525,0002. Rocco Palumbo - 660,0003. Pratyush Buddiga - 1.38 million4. Morten Mortensen - 285,0005. Jakub Michalak - 1.31 million6. Scott Seiver - 975,0007. Orpen Kisacikoglu - 305,0008. Charlie Carrel - 2.44 million9. Adrian Mateos - 520,000
Morten Mortensen wouldn't last too long, getting it in with sixes against Scott Seiver's nines and never catching any help.
With eight left Rocco Palumbo managed to double up, meaning the fast stacks became Adrian Mateos and the thrill loving guy from Iran via New York, Behzad Ahadpour. This guy was truly the life and soul of this tournament, enjoying reckless abandon - from raising and playing pots having only seen one among his cards, to looking to re-arrange his flights home on the table once he came upon another €10K tournament was going down tomorrow.
Ahadpour would get pretty lucky to treble up through Pratyush Buddiga and eliminate Adrian Mateos. It was a three-way all-in pre-flop and Buddiga had queens, Ahadpour had tens, and Mateos had ace-queen. A 10 at the river sent the Spaniard out and halved Buddiga's stack.
Adios Mateos
Buddiga's luck wouldn't improve and he'd be the following man out. He shoved over Ahadpour's raise with pocket sixes and was called by the king-queen, and a queen at the turn saw his chips ship Ahadpour's way.
Bye bye Buddiga
That took us right down to six, where it truly became the Behzad Ahadpour show. His demise was pretty entertaining to mention the least; first, he doubled up Jakub Michalak. Then he doubled up Rocco Palumbo; then Ahadpour open shoved and was called by Scott Seiver with ace-ten. "I'm in order that tired, I MUST go," said Ahadpour, showing the ten-eight. However, he wasn't going just yet. An eight appeared at the turn to double him up, hurting Seiver's chances within the process. Then finally Ahadpour was all-in with the eight-five against Michalak's pocket fives on an 8♣5♠T♦ flop. JUST A LITTLE bad luck, sure, but Ahadpour wasn't dissapointed when was eliminated. Heck, he even got a round of applause from the table and the rail!
Behzad Ahadpour - very entertaining
Scott Seiver and Orpen Kisacikoglu would go away us next. Jakub Michalak's ace-six sucked out against Seiver's pocket jacks by hitting an ace, then Kisacikoglu was all-in for 3 big blinds with nine-six and couldn't beat Charlie Carrel's king-queen. After which there have been three.
Kisacikoglu fell in 4th
It was time to talk about a deal. Charlie Carrel had the chip lead with 3.66 million, playing Jakub Michalav's 2.905 million and Rocco Palumbo's 1.735 million. They cut an ICM deal that gave Carrel the lion's share and kept €17,475, the trophy, and the distinction still to play for.
After a couple of chips had passed back and forth, Charlie Carrel's chances were struck down when he called Rocco Palumbo's three-bet shove with ace-seven and was up against ace-queen. He couldn't find any help and a hand or two later he was out.
Carrel won in Dublin, but finished third here
Palumbo had the lead going into heads-up but things weren't going his way. He got coolered in a single hand when his two pair was beaten by Michalav's bigger two pair, then lost a string of small pots to bring his stack quite low. He did make one brilliant call though to provide himself a fighting chance; he called three barrels (the third of which was an all-in bet) with only a pair of fives on an A♥5♠2♦T♠6♣ board and was right, as Michalav had king-queen for air.
But after all it came all the way down to a race. Deuces for Michalav, king-nine for Palumbo, the ducks held up and we had ourselves a winner.
Congratulations to our latest EPT13 Malta champion, Poland's Jakub Michalav.
Michalav and friends, including Sebastian Malec
EPT13 Malta €10,000 NLHE Single Re-entry 8 Handed
Dates: October 24, 2016Players: 64Re-entries: 20Prize pool: €814,800
* Indicates a deal was made
| 1 | Jakab Michalak | Poland | 178,403* | |
| 2 | Rocco Palumbo | Italy | 138,763* | |
| 3 | Charlie Carrel | United Kingdom | 170,754* | |
| 4 | Orpen Kisacikoglu | Turkey | 80,250 | |
| 5 | Scott Seiver | USA | 63,550 | |
| 6 | Bahzad Ahadpour | Iran | 49,700 | |
| 7 | Pratyush Buddiga | USA | 39,100 | |
| 8 | Adrian Mateos | Spain | 30,550 | |
| 9 | Morten Mortensen | Denmark | 23,200 | |
| 10 | Steve O'Dwyer | Ireland | 20,400 | |
| 11 | Diego Zeiter | Germany | 20,400 |
Jack Stanton is a contract contributor to the PokerStars Blog. Photos by Jules Pochy and Manuel Kovsca.
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