The ACOP High Roller event, held in the City of Dreams, Macau and part of the Asia Pacific Poker Tournament, took 17 hours for its big winner to be announced. His name is Fabian Quoss and he is known to be a high stakes player.
Quoss added $680,129 to his winnings from poker tournaments, which are now amounting to $6.4 million. 2014 has turned out to be quite successful for the player, for the first place at the ACOP event was actually his third significant achievement for the year. Previously, he won the $100,000 Super High Roller Caribbean Adventure, sponsored by PokerStars. What is more, he finished fifth at the Aussie Millions.
A total of 83 players took part in the ACOP High Roller, creating an overall prize pool of $2.5 million. Some poker celebrities, such as Phil Ivey and Sam Trickett, participated in the event as well. However, both Macau regulars dropped out of the competition quite early. Anatoly Filatov was yet another well-known name in the world of poker to take part. It was exactly two months ago that he won the €10,500 High Roller at the WPT event, held in Cyprus. However, he finished seventh at the ACOP, winning $151,097 of the entire prize pool.
On the second and final day of the event a total of 36 players took part with Yu Liang holding the greater part of all chips. Only the last ten left on the table were to be paid. And Andrey Shilatov got the bad luck to be knocked out on the bubble. The Russian was sent home empty-pocketed by his fellow-countryman Anatoly Filatov.
The heads-up play was determined when Rono Lo’s final [Jh][5h]
just could not stand a chance against Yu’s [Ah][Jc]. And when the board showed [6c][9s][8d][Kh][2h], Lo was sent to third position with the total sum of $302,271. Thus, the heads-up was played between Yu and Quoss. The latter’s [Ad][8h]
and the board showing [6h][2h][3h][Kc][Qh]
secured his first place. As for Yu, his second position won him the amount of $453,419.
As previously mentioned, it took more than 17 hours for a winner to be played down. Heath “TassieDevil” Chick, who is known to regularly cover major Asian poker tournaments, shared that it was Lo’s jovial behavior that contributed most to the event’s duration. He believed that the Chinese player did his best to slow down the game both “in terms of […] action and […] speed.”
About Fabian Quoss
The 32-year-old Quoss was born in Nuremberg, Germany. He entered the world of poker when he was a student. Quite soon, his hobby turned into a more serious endeavor. Quoss can boast of numerous victories from various poker tournaments, but his win at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure earlier this year became his first significant accomplishment.
