Ludovic “ludovi333” Geilich, a professional poker and a native of the United Kingdom has done a great job by winning the high Roller event at one of the most prestigious online poker tournament i.e. world championship of online poker 2016.
The event#70 of the tournament was $21,000 buy in Pot Limit Omaha, 6 max, High-Roller, which received 93 entries worldwide (out of which 64 entries were fresh entries, while 29 were re entries) and they generated a whooping prize pool of amount $1,906,500.
Top 9 places of the tournament took home some winning share.
Ludovic “ludovi333” Geilich has done really well in his previous matches as well. Last time he completed his journey being a runner up, playing against alien slayer in a marathon SCOOP battle, but this time he showed that he can do better than that and could even down the title.
The final table of this High Roller took place on day 2 and it was like as follows:-
Canadian Dani “supernova9” Stern was at swat#1 with 191,500 in chips .He already was at final table of Event#36.
Connor “blanconegro” Drinan, the EPT13 Barcelona High Roller and WCOOP 2016 Event #5 champion was at seat#2 with 242,620 in chips.
MITS 304 from Cyprus and the winner of Event #61 or Razz was at seat#3 with total 139,552 in chips.
The triple COOP winner and last week’s WCOOP Triple Draw 2-7 Championship champ Fabrizio “SixthSenSe19” Gonzalez from Uruguay was at seat#4 with 517,301 in chips.
Finland’s Jens “Jeans89” Kyllonen was at Seat#5 with total 272,885 in chips, while the winner of the title i.e. UK’s Ludovic “ludovi333” Geilich was at seat#6 with total 496,142 in chips.
The first player who hit the rail was MITS 304, the winner of event #61, who couldn’t make this, possible this time and got out with $124,840.47, being sixth.
Mexico’s Connor “blanconegro” Drinan, the great online player played really well to collect $162,198.53, being fifth position holder, while Canadian Dani “supernova9” Stern was out from the game with total winning share of amount $210,735, and booked to fourth place.
Top three Places of the Event#70 (High Roller) of WCOOP 2016:-
- Ludovic “ludovi333” Geilich (United Kingdom) $462,182.17
2. Fabrizio “SixthSenSe19” Gonzalez (Uruguay) $355,730.97
3. Jens “Jeans89” Kyllonen (Finland) $273,797.80