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On Sunday, the Pedro Poker Tour at the Montesino entered its grand final. The programme included the decision at the Main Event, as well as two other tournaments.
76 players went into the final of the Main Event at 2 pm. Plenty of action at the tables made sure that the final table was reached at 9:30 pm.
2019 Pedro Poker Tour (PPT) will be held on the 9th till 13th January, 2019 at Montesino Poker in Austria. The World Poker Tour is headed to Austria today for the WPT Vienna. Last year this stop set a record for the best attendance in a European WPT tournament with. Yesterday the Main Event of t he Pedro Poker Tour started in the Montesino. 142 players made a successful start with 27 re-entries. 17 participants could qualify for the final on Sunday. They have already won at least the Mincash of € 500. Among others Sebastian Langrock, Dimitrios Nanos, Konstantinos Nanos and Andrej Desset were present. 'World Poker Tour Vienna 2015 will be one of the biggest events ever held at the Montesino Poker Club with combined estimated prize pools up to €2,500,000,' commented Karl Novak, CEO of the.
Desset dominates the final table
The final table was completely dominated by Andrej Desset. First, two players from Israel had to clear their chairs with smaller stacks. Desset then destroyed Danilo Fustic's aces in a duel between two big stacks. A little later he was able to send Jozsef Meszaros, the second bigstack, to the rail by hitting a straight on the river against his set.
After so much action, he had more than half of the chips with five remaining players, but then lost one pot after the other and was even the short stack at the final table. Desset fought his way back and doubled twice against Vasile Runcan. So he made it into the heads-up against Mario Knezevic.
There the two fought a long fight and only after about one and a half hours the decisive hand happened. On this board Q-9-2-6-3 all chips went into the middle, after there had already been flop and turn action. Desset opened 9-3 for two pairs, Mario showed the pair ladies for the triplet and won the tournament and a prize money of € 30,500.
Decision in the last side-events
At the end of the Pedro Poker Tour in the Montesino two more tournaments took place yesterday.
At the Turbo Knockout 72 players started and bought 39 re-entries. € 3,552 went into the pot, which was divided among the first twelve. After a bubble deal, Franz Lang also collected prize money of € 60 in 13th place. After a deal of the last three players in the tournament, Felix Bittorf won and was pleased about a prize money of € 713.
At the NLH Bigstack Event, 157 players registered and bought 58 re-entries. The guaranteed prize pool of € 10,000 grew up to € 18,275. The first 22 places were thus paid, but after a bubble deal, Nika Tavartkiladze also collected a prize money of € 200 on place 23. Rade Danilovic took the victory after a deal of the last three and was happy about € 3,490.
All photos of the day can be found in our photo gallery. Andreas Lettmayer reported on the action from the Montesino in his Live report.
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Results Main Event and Side Events
Yesterday in the Montesino the last flights of the Pedro Poker Tour Main Events took place. The rush to the poker tables ensured that the guaranteed prize pool of € 150,000 was clearly exceeded.
In the afternoon 202 players bought in (39 re-entries), followed by the Turbo Heat with 92 (12 re-entries) and the Hyperturbo in the evening with 51 poker fans(4 re-entries).
Altogether, the tournament recorded a total of 791 entries, which corresponds to a prize pool of € 174,020. 79 players qualified for the final. Three players have achieved a multi-qualification and are each entitled to a € 1,500 bonus. In the final a prize money of € 500 is ensured for each of the finalists, € 30,500 are waiting for the winner.
Yesterday no one could reach the massive chip leader Manuel Blaschke. He is still leading with 2,214,000 chips, ahead of Yair Naustein with 1,335,000 and A.T. with 1,200,000 chips. The final will take place today on Sunday at 2 pm and the blinds start with 6k/12k.
All photos of the day can be found in our photo gallery.The Live Report by Andreas Lettmayer brings all the action straight from Montesino.
The programme today
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Today, in addition to the final of the Main Event, there will be a NLH High Noon Turbo Knockout at noon (€ 70,- buy-in, 20 minute levels, 15,000 chips) and a NLH Big Stack Tournament at 5 pm (€ 99,- buy-in, 25 minute levels, 30,000 chips, € 10,000 guaranteed).
