Germany’s Ole Schemion will try to win his first-ever WPT Main Tour title after ending a second consecutive WPT European Championship day as the chip leader and heading the official six-handed final table.
Schemion is one of his homeland’s most successful poker pros. He has won some of the world’s toughest and most prestigious live tournaments, so he certainly has the skills and confidence to win a WPT title.
The first-ever WPT European Championship €3,300 Main Event kicked off on January 10 at Spielbank Berlin. The event attracted a total of 339 entries, who were reduced to just six finalists last night at the host venue. The tournament featured a guaranteed prize pool of €1 million which was split into 43 payouts. Each of the six finalists is guaranteed a minimum cash of €39,010 today, and the winner will leave with a €218,435 payout.
He will also have his name engraved onto the WPT Champions Cup, which keeps the names of all previous WPT Main Tour Main Event winners. Aside from the first-place prize the champion will also lock an entry into the WPT Tournament of Champions, which is set to mark the end of WPT’s current season and will take place at Aria Casinos in Las Vegas in May.
Two Firsts for Schemion
Running so deep into the first-ever WPT European Championship, Schemion did something he has never achieved before. The player has secured his first cash from a WPT Main Tour tournament and has also locked a seat among the final six at a WPT Main Tour tournament. The young German has also the chance to scoop his first WPT title, and thus add another prestigious trophy to his already formidable collection.
Schemion will begin the final day of the Main Event with a total of 2.84 million in chips, good for 94 big blinds. It is important to note that the player began Day 4 of the event on Sunday as the chip leader, and while he may have lost some of his momentum throughout the day, he eventually found himself occupying the top position in the chip counts leaderboard.
Michal Mrakes with 2.64 million (88 big blinds) and Hanyong Kuo with 2.505 million (83 big blinds) are not that far behind from their German colleague. On the other hand, the three afore-mentioned players have massive advantage over their other three opponents. Amjad Nader with 1.095 million (36 big blinds), Michael Behnert with 600,000 (20 big blinds), and Patrice Brandt with 470,000 (15 big blinds) are the other three contenders to round out the official six-handed final table.
Play is set to resume at 3 pm local time, and the remaining players will play down to a winner. With that, the first-ever edition of the WPT European Championship will be concluded after twelve days of action at the host venue Spielbank Berlin in the German capital.
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