Wsop Europe 2019
2019 Schedule Being Finalized with Expected 10 Gold Bracelet Events. LAS VEGAS/ROZVADOV, Czech Republic – Feb. 7, 2019 – It’s time to Save the Date(s) in your calendar for WSOP Europe (WSOPE), returning to King’s Resort Rozvadov for the third consecutive year, with the central Europe locale and venue playing host for the 2019 edition this Fall. World Series of Poker Europe Results. Oct-13-2019 thru Nov-04-2019 2019 World Series of Poker Europe King's Resort Oct-09-2018 thru Nov-02-2018 2018 World Series of Poker Europe King's Resort Oct-18-2017 thru Nov-10-2017 2017 World Series of Poker Europe King's Resort.
Alexandros Kolonias is the 2019 World Series of Poker Europe €10,350 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event champion. The 32-year-old Greek poker pro outlasted a field of 541 entries to secure his first WSOP gold bracelet and the top prize of $1,258,383 USD.
“I still haven’t figured it out in my mind what actually happened. I am really happy about the way I played in the beginning,” Kolonias told WSOP reporters after coming out on top. “One level was not so good when we had four left, but things worked out for me.”
Kolonias is primarily focused on online poker, and has reportedly cashed for more than $3 million under the screen name “mexican222”. While live tournament poker has been less of a focus for him, he has now managed to accumulate career earnings in excess of $3.6 million, making him the highest-earning Greek player of all time.
In addition to the bracelet and the money, Kolonias was also awarded 2,100 Card Player Player of the Year points as the champion of this event. This was his second final table of the year, having placed fourth in the partypoker LIVE! MILLIONS North America main event for $273,800 USD and 1,050 points back in May. As a result of this latest win, Kolonias has climbed into 37th place in the 2019 POY race standings, which are sponsored by Global Poker.
This year’s running drew the second-largest turnout in WSOPE main event history, behind only the 593 entries made in 2011. The 541 entries made this year saw the prize pool grow to €5,139,500 ($5,710,087 USD), with the top 82 finishers making the money.
The official final table was nine-handed, but play continued on the penultimate day of the event until just six players remained. WSOP bracelet winner Julien Martini was knocked out in seventh place, earning $146,539 USD for his fourth final-table finish of the year. Martini finished runner-up in the record-breaking $25,000 buy-in PokerStars NL Hold’em Players Championship in January for $2,974,000. He now sits in 22nd place on the POY race leaderboard.
When the final table began it was 2015 Card Player Player of the Year winner Anthony Zinno who sat in the chip lead. The two-time bracelet winner and three-time World Poker Tour main event champion began the day with 84 big blinds, while Kolonias was the next largest stack with 61 big blinds.
The first player to hit the rail was 2017 WSOP $1,000 no-limit hold’em turbo bounty event winner Rifat Palevic. He shoved his last 10 or so big blinds with K2 when it folded to him in the small blind. Anh Do woke up with QQ and called from the big blind. Palevic failed to improve and was eliminated in sixth place, earning $197,770 USD.
Despite scoring that first knockout, Do was the next to fall. He lost a big pot with pocket queens losing out to the pocket jacks of 2019 WSOP main event runner-up Dario Sammartino. Do was left quite short and was eliminated not long after, running K9 into the pocket kings of Claas Segebrecht.
Sammartino’s run came to an end when he got his last 7.5 or so big blinds in with AK against the J10 of Segebrecht. A jack-high flop gave Segebrecht the lead and he never looked back. The Italian poker pro earned $379,289 USD for his fourth final-table finish of 2019. He also took home 1,050 POY points, enough to see him climb into 7th place in the overall POY rankings, with 4,800 total points and more than $6.6 million in earnings.
Anthony Zinno fell just short of securing his third career bracelet. The American poker pro three-bet shoved from the big blind for around 13 big blinds with A9. Kolonias had opened J10 from the button and made the call. The QJ68K runout gave Kolonias the winning pair of jacks to send Zinno to the rail with $538,673 USD as the the third-place finisher. He surged into 15th place in the POY race after banking 1,400 points. This was his seventh final table of 2019.
With that Kolonias took just shy of a 3:2 chip lead into heads up play with Claas Segebrecht. In the end, it came down to a preflop coinflip. Kolonias raised to 1,200,000 from the small blind with the AK. Segebrecht three-bet shoved for 23,200,000 from the big blind with 33. Kolonias called and the board came down KQ2J5 to give Kolonias an ace-high flush to secure the pot and the title. Segebrecht earned $777,709 USD as the runner-up.
Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded at the final table:
| Place | Player | Payout | POY Points |
| 1 | Alexandros Kolonias | $1,258,383 | 2100 |
| 2 | Claas Segebrecht | $777,709 | 1750 |
| 3 | Anthony Zinno | $538,673 | 1400 |
| 4 | Dario Sammartino | $379,289 | 1050 |
| 5 | Anh Do | $271,565 | 875 |
| 6 | Rifat Palevic | $197,770 | 700 |
| 7 | Julien Martini | $146,539 | 525 |
| 8 | Jakob Madsen | $110,506 | 350 |
| 9 | Marek Blasko | $84,840 | 175 |
Winner photo provided by WSOP.
Shaun Deeb was eliminated today in 11th place in the final event of the 2019 World Series of Poker Europe, meaning Daniel Negreanu has clinched his third career World Series of Poker Player of the Year title.
A finish of fifth place or better in today's Event #15: €550 Colossus No-Limit Hold'em would have been enough for Deeb to surpass Negreanu and win his second straight WSOP POY, but his knockout just shy of the final table means he'll have to settle for a third-place finish behind Negreanu and Robert Campbell in second.
2019 WSOP POY Top 10
Here's the final Top 10, per the WSOP's last official update:
| Place | Player | 2019 WSOP POY Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daniel Negreanu | 4,074.88 |
| 2 | Robert Campbell | 3,961.31 |
| 3 | Shaun Deeb | 3,917.32 |
| 4 | Anthony Zinno | 3,322.00 |
| 5 | Phillip Hui | 3,186.17 |
| 6 | Dan Zack | 3,126.13 |
| 7 | Dario Sammartino | 3,091.03 |
| 8 | Chris Ferguson | 2,997.10 |
| 9 | Kahle Burns | 2,983.37 |
| 10 | Dash Dudley | 2,860.79 |
Negreanu and Campbell also both cashed in the Colossus at Rozvadov to help secure those top two spots. For Negreanu, it was his seventh cash of the WSOPE and 24th World Series of Poker cash overall this year counting those he collected in Las Vegas during the summer.
Negreanu's 24 cashes included five final tables and two runner-up finishes, but no bracelets to add to the six he's previously won.
| Series | Event | Finish (Entries) | Cash | 2019 WSOP POY Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WSOP | $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty (#2) | 6th (of 204) | $52,099 | 379.7 |
| $600 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack (#9) | 485th (of 6,150) | $1,257 | 57.9 | |
| $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw (#13) | 29th (of 296) | $2,780 | 44.6 | |
| $600 Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack (#25) | 381st (of 2,577) | $875 | 51.9 | |
| $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed (#31) | 106th (of 754) | $4,514 | 54.7 | |
| $1,000 Double-Stack No-Limit Hold'em (#34) | 523rd (of 6,214) | $2,164 | 62.0 | |
| $600 WSOP.com Online NLHE Knockout Bounty (#38) | 46th (of 1,224) | $1,652 | 190.4 | |
| $10,000 Seven-Card Stud (#41) | 2nd (of 88) | $151,700 | 488.3 | |
| $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Super Turbo Bounty (#56) | 155th (of 1,867) | $1,762 | 56.1 | |
| $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi/Lo 8 or Better (#60) | 152nd (of 1,117) | $2,330 | 52.6 | |
| $10,000 Razz (#62) | 5th (of 116) | $69,223 | 379.1 | |
| $1,500 Limit Hold'em (#66) | 20th (of 541) | $4,360 | 192.3 | |
| $1,000 WSOP.com Online NLHE Championship (#68) | 36th (of 1,750) | $4,734 | 213.1 | |
| $3,200 WSOP.com Online NLHE High Roller (#74) | 72nd (of 593) | $6,310 | 53.8 | |
| $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Bounty (#78) | 42nd (of 1,130) | $3,553 | 210.8 | |
| $100,000 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller (#83) | 2nd (of 99) | $1,725,838 | 630.2 | |
| $3,000 H.O.R.S.E. (#87) | 36th (of 301) | $4,734 | 48.7 | |
| WSOPE | €550 Pot-Limit Omaha, 8-Handed (#2) | 59th (of 476) | €787 ($869) | 41.5 |
| €25,500 Short Deck High Roller NLHE (#6) | 16th (of 111) | €39,943 ($41,847) | 56.4 | |
| €25,500 Platinum High Roller NLHE (#8) | 10th (of 83) | €48,929 ($54,680) | 217.7 | |
| €1,650 Pot-Limit Omaha/No-Limit Hold'em Mix (#9) | 37th (of 279) | €2,392 ($2,673) | 44.6 | |
| €25,500 Mixed Games Championship (#10) | 6th (of 45) | €54,287 ($60,655) | 352.9 | |
| €2,200 Pot-Limit Omaha (#11) | 20th (of 271) | €4,127 ($4,605) | 92.2 | |
| €550 Colossus No-Limit Hold'em (#15) | 195th (of 2,738) | €2,036 ($2,275) | 103.3 | |
| TOTALS | $2,207,489 | 4,074.88 |
At the start of his latest VLOG from the Czech Republic (before everything had been decided), Negreanu detailed his WSOP stats for the year and how those winnings represented over a million dollars in profit all told. He also added some further comments about the Player of the Year race. Take a look:
When Negreanu won his first WSOP Player of the Year title in 2004, that year he won one bracelet, made five final tables, and had six cashes worth $346,280. When he won his second in 2013, he won two bracelets, made four final tables, and cashed 10 times for $2,414,304 total.
About the 2019 WSOP Player of the Year
After changing the way POY points were calculated prior to last year, the WSOP has kept the same formula to determine this year's winner. The formula is 'loosely based' on the one employed to calculate WSOP Circuit rankings, with modifiers based on buy-ins and field sizes.
At the time, the WSOP explained the changes had been made 'to better reward bracelet winners and players who run deep, while still rewarding consistency.' A couple of differences from the pre-2018 system include a bigger gap between points earned from first- and second-place finishes, and min-cashes being worth relatively less than was the case before.
Here's an information sheet provided by the WSOP that provides further details regarding the 2019 WSOP Player of the Year.
During the 2019 WSOP players earned points in 84 of the 'open' bracelet events. The WSOP Europe schedule was expanded to 15 bracelet events, with all of them counting toward the Player of the Year exceptEvent #4: €250,000 Super High Roller No-Limit Hold'em.
You can see the entire Top 100 over the WSOP Player of the Year page.
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