Alessandro Pichierri Wins World Series of Poker Europe €25,000 Buy-In GGMillion€ Event

Alessandro Pichierri is now a multi-time World Series of Poker title winner. The Italian took down the 2024 WSOP Europe €25,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em GGMillion€ occasion, besting a discipline of 38 entries within the high-stakes affair to earn $372,849 and his second bracelet. His first got here again in 2021, when he took down the €3,000 no-limit maintain’em ‘Closer’ occasion at this similar venue throughout that 12 months’s WSOP Europe.

Thanks to this newest win, Pichierri turned simply the second Italian participant to have earned a number of bracelets. The first is four-time bracelet winner Max Pescatori.

Pichierri now has almost $1.6 million in recorded match earnings, with this being his largest rating but. Prior to this, the $165,769 he took residence alongside along with his first bracelet was his prime payday.

In addition to the cash and the {hardware}, Pichierri additionally secured 336 Card Player Player of the Year factors. He now has 1,004 complete factors throughout three final-table finishes, sufficient to maneuver inside the highest 600 within the 2024 POY standings offered by Global Poker.

This occasion ran over the course of two days inside Kings Resort Rozvadov within the Czech Republic. Late registration was obtainable all the best way into the early hours of day 2. The last turnout of 38 entries resulted in a prize pool that fell simply brief of surpassing the €1,000,000 assure. The prime six finishers cashed, with greater than $1.1 million to be paid out amongst them when rendered in US {dollars}.

By the time the ultimate desk was set, bracelet winner and World Poker Tour champion Alex Foxen had claimed the chip lead, whereas Pichierri was within the center of the pack.

The first knockout on the last desk pitted Orpen Kisacikoglu’s pocket fives in opposition to the A-Q suited of Salih Atac. The flip gave Atac a queen-high straight, and a clean on the river noticed Kisacikoglu despatched to the rail in ninth place.

Viktor Blom was the following to fall, with a preflop cooler costing him the rest of his stack. The high-stakes participant, identified to many as ‘Isildur1’ on-line, ran pocket queens into the pocket aces of Pichierri. The board modified notjing and Blom was knocked out in eighth place.

Samuel Ju additionally bought the final of his stack in preflop with a monster holding (A-Okay), solely to search out himself trailing in opposition to the most important monster of all: pocket aces. Atac’s pair averted thew unhealthy beat and Ju was eradicated out on the cash bubble, making certain that the remaining six gamers all cashed for at the very least $72,150.

That sum was in the end awarded to Sirzat Hissou, who bought all-in with a flush draw traling the 2 pair of Leon Tsoukernik. The river introduced a coronary heart to fill Hissou’s flush, nevertheless it additionally improved Tsoukernik to a full home.

After Hissou departed in sixth place, the following key conflict noticed yet one more participant run into pocket aces. This time it was Tom-Aksel Bedell, along with his A-6 shove from the small blind receiving a name from the pocket rockets of Tsoukernik within the large blind. Bedell picked up the nut flush draw on the flip to make it fascinating, however a brick on the top noticed him eradicated in fifth place ($83,805).

The subsequent bustout was the outcome of, you guessed it, one other preflop cooler. Tsoukernik bought all-in with pocket queens and was up in opposition to pocket kings for Foxen. The board ran out clear and Tsoukernik settled for $109,002 because the fourth-place finisher.

Foxen then eradicated Atac, three-bet shoving from the massive blind with A10 over the button open by Atac with OkayJ. The board got here down A4363 and Atac’s run got here to an finish in third place ($157,065).

Heads-up play started with Foxen sitting with 15,000,000 to 4,000,000 for Pichierri. The first all-in and name of the ultimate showdown was a calssic race, with A-9 in opposition to pocket eights. The pair held for Pichierri to slender the hole significantly. Not lengthy after that, he overtook the lead after which started to stretch a bonus of his personal.

In the ultimate hand, Foxen limped from the button for 200,000 complete with Q10 and known as a elevate to 800,000 from Pichierri, who held QQ out of the massive blind. The flop got here down 1063 to provide Foxen prime pair. Pichierri wager 900,000 along with his overpair and Foxen raised to 2,100,000. Pichierri three-bet to 4,000,000 and Foxen jammed for 7,325,000. Pichierri made the decision and was in implausible form to shut out the win. The 7 on the flip and seven had been no assist for Foxen and he was eradicated in second place ($248,529). The American now has greater than $33.5 million in profession cashes to his identify.

Here is a take a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the last desk:

Photo credit score: WSOP, Kings Resort / Tomas Stacha.