Frenchman Sebastien Ta was the player to emerge victorious in the bwin.be WPT National Brussels €1,200 Main Event, which took place from February 25-28 at Grand Casino Brussels – Viage. Ta collected the amount of €100,000, his best live cash so far, and the tournament trophy.
Including last night’s victory, the player’s live tournament winnings now amount to $163,964. Prior to his first place in the bwin.be WPT National Brussels €1,200 Main Event, Ta scored a seventh-place finish in the 2015 PMU.fr WPT National Cannes €1,200 Main Event to scoop a payout of €15,300.
The bwin.be WPT National Brussels €1,200 Main Event attracted a field of 457 entries who generated a prize pool of €487,619. The players who eventually took the top 54 positions received a share of the money. Lowest payouts amounted to €2,250.
The Main Event’s official eight-handed final table was reached around 4 pm local time on February 28. It started with Greek Maria Lampropoulou as the chip leader. She held a total of 6,770,000 at the beginning of eight-handed action. Ta was sixth in chips at that point with 1,085,000.
Mark Roovers from the Netherlands was the first to leave the final table. He was eliminated in 8th place by Lampropoulou to collect the amount of €12,529. Belgium’s Vincent Verdickt was the next to go after he could not hold up against Ta. The player received €16,380 for finishing 7th in the tournament.
Walter Buss from Belgium was then eliminated in 6th place by Tobias Peters. The Belgian’s share of the prize pool amounted to €20,200. Jeffrey Brouwer from the Netherlands was the next to hit the rail. His 5th place secured him with a payout of €24,520. Samuel Meunier from France finished 4th in the event, good for €32,100. Tobias Peters, yet another Dutch player at the final table, was eliminated in 3rd place to collect €43,300 of the prize pool.
Thus, Lampropoulou and Ta were the last remaining players at the table. At the beginning of the heads-up match, the female player held almost 3 times more chips than her opponent.
It took a little less than two hours of play for the name of the champion to be determined. On what turned out to be the last hand in play, Ta moved all in on a board of [Jc][4h][7s] and Lampropoulou called, turning [As][Ah]. Ta tabled [Jh][Jd]. Both the turn and the river were of no help to Lampropoulou and she had to settle for the runner-up finish and the amount of €68,200.
