blakjak19, an online poker professional from Cyprus has won the 3/29/16 Super Tuesday event for $104,706. The $1,050 No Limit Hold’em event took place on PokerStars and attracted 615 entrants, generating a cash prize pool of $615,000 (bested $425K guarantee), out of which top 72 places were paid.
The runner up of the weekly evenet was United Kingdom’s Christopher “NigDawG” Brammer, who did played well and added $96,706 to his account. Brazilian Joao “jricardosc” Fernandes (Last year’s winner) was the third position holder among 615 players and took home an impressive $62,730.
The game began on its scheduled time on Tuesday and was a success because of 615 entries. It took more than 6 hours to decide top 72 places of the event (Money Makers), and more than 10 hours to finalize about the final table players of this particular event.
Final table was decided, which included some of the top poker professionals and previous winners such as:-
blakjak19(458,394 chips), Hasseh922(368,307), Joao “jricardosc” Fernandes (Brazilian and last year winner with 237,268), Philipp “philbort” Gruissemof Malta (312,396), UK’s Christopher “NigDawG” Brammer ( another winner with 724,902), German Neffeltorf (119,690), TTPlayer18(365,180), Russian registr24(354,917) and uwinho312 (133,94610).
The first one to hit the rail was German uwinho312, because of TTPlayer18’s queens. He eliminated to ninth place for $9,409. Just after a couple of hand Philipp “philbort” Gruissem of Malta got eliminated to eighth position and got $13,837 as winning share.
Russian registr24 was at seventh position. He was in a clash with blakjak19 and got out to seventh for $19, 987, whereas the sixth and fifth position were for Hasseh922 ($26,137) and TTPlayer18 ($33,210).
The four handed game remained among Neffeltorf (fourth for $47,355), Joao “jricardosc” Fernandes for third place for $62,730,“NigDawG” and blakjak19.
After some more hands the heads up was set among top two players of the match and they were like blakjak19 and UK’s Christopher “NigDawG” Brammer. blakjak19 was leading with 1.3 Million chip and at last hand blakjak19 had A♣J♥, meanwhile NigDawG: A♥8♣. The board for the same was 5♣3♠T♣,, meaning it was blakjak19 of Cyprus who won the title along with the first prize of amount $104,706 and Christopher “NigDawG” Brammer of united Kingdom played well and secured second position with total winning share of amount $96,706.