Dinesh Alt, a player with cashes in some of the world’s most prestigious tournaments, won last night the Eureka Season 6 Hamburg €1,100 Main Event, thus becoming the first Swiss to win a Eureka title. His payout from the event amounted to €69,120. Added to what he had earned from previous tournaments, the player’s total live winnings now amount to more than $500,000.
Day 4 of the Eureka Hamburg Main Event was the last one to be played. It saw six players return at Casino Schenefeld in Hamburg to contend for the title. Alt started as one of the short stacks but as the player himself said in an interview after his victory, “everything happened that [one]
needs to win a tournament.”
Alt entered the Main Event on Day 1B. By the end of Day 2, when there were 22 players left, he was the short stack. Returning for Day 3, he managed to remain on the table and to accumulate a stack that was just enough to secure him with a seat among the final six. The start of the Eureka Hamburg Main Event final day was unusually dynamic. Players had very slight differences in their chip stacks, which certainly promised quite some action.
It took more than two and a half hours before the first elimination occurred. Two others came in quick succession. Three-handed play also did not last long. Thus, it took only several minutes before Alt and Dutch player Ercan Atmaca were the last two men left at the table. They went into two-handed play almost even in chips and it all showed that it would be a rather longish swinging of chips back and forth.
Alt took commanding lead early in the match but Atmaca improved his condition shortly after. The heads-up duel lasted for precisely an hour. On the final hand in play, Atmaca moved all in pre-flop and Alt called after giving it some thought. Atmaca tabled [Jh][5s] against his opponent’s [Ac][2d]. The board ran out [7h][Kh][8s][3c][3d], marking the end of the tournament. Atmaca collected €43,790 for his runner-up finish.
Walid Abdi-Ali from Germany took 3rd place in the event for €31,650. Ismet Oral from Germany finished 4th in the event for €25,600. Erik Scheitd, yet another German among the final six, collected €20,260 for his fifth-place finish. Marcel Schauenburg from Germany took 6th place, good for €15,590.
