Bjorn Verbakel Wins World Series of Poker Europe €550 Pot-Limit Omaha Event

The second bracelet occasion of the 2021 World Series of Poker Europe was the €550 buy-in pot-limit Omaha event. A complete of 623 entries have been made by the point that registration closed, constructing a complete prize pool of €295,925 ($332,531 USD). After three full days of motion, Dutch participant Bjorn Verbakel emerged victorious with the title, his first gold bracelet, and the highest prize of €59,250 ($66,360 USD).

In addition to all that, the 34-year-old businessman from Beek en Donk, Netherlands was additionally awarded 420 Card Player Player of the Year factors for the win. This was his first POY-qualified closing desk exhibiting of 2021.

The closing day of this occasion started with eight gamers remaining, with Verbakel in second chip place behind two-time bracelet winner Martin Kabrhel. The two chip leaders clashed in a single of the primary fingers of the day, with Kabrhel’s river bluff with missed flush and straight attracts receiving a name froim Verbakel’s flopped set of sixes. Verbakel took a commanding lead after the hand, whereas Kabrhel slid towards the underside finish of the chip counts.

Kabrhel was in the end the primary participant to be eradicated on the closing desk, together with his pocket queens and a queen-high flush draw failing to outrun the journey aces of Verbakel. Kabrhel earned €5,494 ($6,153 USD) because the eighth-place finisher.

Mikkel Plum’s pocket aces have been overwhelmed by the double-suited center rundown with an ace of Zhao Feng. Feng flopped a straight and backdoored sixes full of eights to safe the second knockout of the day. Plum earned €7,200 ($8,064 USD) for his seventh-place exhibiting.

Tobias Peters’ run on this occasion got here to an finish when his OkayJ107 failed to enhance towards the pocket tens and pocket nines of Richard Toth. A pair of tens remained the very best hand by the river and Peters settled for €9,615 ($10,769 USD).

Alfredo Meister doubled up Ken Beckers and was left with simply greater than huge blind after the hand. He was eradicated in fifth place within the following hand (€13,078 / $14,647 USD).

Verbakel was the participant who had taken the final of Meister’s stack. He backed that knockout up by busting Richard Toth in fourth place (€18,111 / $20,284 USD). Toth was in tough form together with his J1086 and a flop of Okay84. Verbakel confirmed AOkay98 for prime two pair. The 2 on the flip left Toth drawing useless, and the ten on the river sealed the deal.

Ken Beckers obtained all-in preflop with 7643 up towards the AA85 of Verbakel. The board got here down QJ76J. Beckers took the lead on the flip with two pair, solely to have the board counterfeit him on the river. He secured €25,530 ($28,594 USD) because the third-place finisher.

With that Verbakel took greater than a 2:1 chip benefit into heads-up play with Zhao Feng. He prolonged that lead even additional by the point the ultimate hand of the occasion was dealt. Verbakel raised to 900,000 on the button with AAQ3 and Feng referred to as from the massive blind with 7532. The flop got here down Okay76. Feng moved all-in together with his flopped pair and a gutshot straight draw. Verbakel referred to as together with his overpair, which shortly improved to a set of aces on the A flip. The 8 on the river locked up the pot and the title for Verbakel, with Feng incomes €36,617 ($41,011 USD) because the runner-up.

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

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