Marius Schneider Wins World Series of Poker Europe €550 Closer Event

The closing occasion on the schedule for the 2024 World Series of Poker Europe was appropriately dubbed the ‘Closer’. The €550 buy-in no-limit maintain’em affair attracted a subject of 473 entries, leading to a prize pool of $229,157. After two days of play, Germany’s Marius Schneider proved to a be a better in his personal proper. He overcome a chip deficit heads-up, double into the lead after which changing his personal benefit into the title in speedy succession.

For the win Schneider earned $48,840 and his first WSOP title. Prior to this win, his high recorded dwell rating had been for simply $1,529. Now, he’s formally a gold bracelet winner. He was additionally awarded 360 Card Player Player of the Year factors for the win.

The second and closing day of play on this occasion noticed 58 gamers return to Kings Resort Rozvadov with a shot on the title, all having locked up not less than a min-cash for making it that far. Schneider was among the many shorter stacks within the subject with simply 16 huge blinds to work with.

Plenty of notables hit the rail as the sphere marched on to the ultimate desk, together with two-time bracelet winners Ilija Savevski (fifty fifth) and Wing Po Liu (53rd), and bracelet winner Sergiu Covrig (seventeenth).

The solely participant among the many closing 9 with prior victories in WSOP occasions was Martin Kabrhel, who was only a few days faraway from successful his third bracelet on this 12 months’s WSOP Europe €50,000 buy-in excessive curler. He finally bowed out in eighth place ($4,246) when his pair and flush draw was unable to outrun the highest pair of Tiberiu Tirca. Kabrhel’s profession earnings now sit at greater than $12.8 million after one other profitable WSOPE sequence.

Schneider received a flip with Q-J suited towards the pocket nines of Ron Jeda (seventh – $5,583) to slender the sphere to 6. Musa Jusaj (sixth – $7,493) quickly adopted Jeda to the rail, with A-10 unable to beat the pocket tens of Ran Shahar.

Despite scoring that knockout, Shahar was finally the subsequent to fall. He obtained all-in with high pair on a five-high board and located himself up towards backside pair and an open-ended straight draw for Schneider. The flip gave Schneider the wheel and he held from there to remove Shahar in fifth place ($10,434).

De Han Kim obtained all-in with A-10 main the J-7 suited of Schneider, however a seven on the flip gave Schneider fourth pair and that ended up being sufficient to win the pot ultimately. Kim walked away with $10,434 because the fourth-place finisher.

Ib Poulsen open shoved the final of his stack with Q10 from the button, solely to recieve a name from a dominating A10 held by Tiberiu Tirca within the huge blind. Neither participant linked with the board and Poulsen settled for $21,423.

With that, Tirca entered heads-up play with 6,400,000 to Schneider’s 5,600,000. The two battled it out for about an hour earlier than the decisive hand of the event arrived. Tirca limped in for 300,000 complete from the button with Ok6 and Schneider raised to 900,000 from the large blind with AOk. Tirca limp-shoved and Schneider referred to as all-in. The board got here down A5252 and Schneider doubled into an enormous lead.

Tirca was left with only a few huge blinds after the hand and was all-in within the subsequent hand with 83 trailing the Ok4 of Schneider. The Ok1087Q runout secured the pot and the title for Schneider, whereas Tirca earned $31,968 because the second-place finisher.

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

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