Paulo "paulinhoo00" Brombin got it in good with ace-eight against king-queen for Dani "danipesis" Palau, but a king came on the river and Brombin bubbled the final table for almost $5K in combined prizes.
Caio "sombra97" Mayrinck raised early, and Marc-Andre "FrenchDawg" Ladouceur shoved the small blind with jacks. Mayrinck called with ace-jack and spiked an ace on the flop to knock out the Canadian in 9th place. Ladouceur took nearly $4,500 in bounties in addition to the prize money.
Bruno Senra "bscluiz" Condé shoved more than 5M from the button and Ognyan "cocojamb0" Dimov called off to race with king-queen over jacks. Dimov hit the queen on the flop, and held for the bounty. Condé won $4,564 in bounties in addition to prizes.
"tretbootlion" run of good luck ended when they got it in with the best of it, shoving kings into the ace-eight of Ognyan "cocojamb0" Dimov. Dimov spiked an ace on the flop though and took it down.
Caio "sombra97" Mayrinck raised the cutoff, and Dani "danipesis" Palau reraised the button to 3M. Mayrinck shoved and Palau called with jacks and the big stack against ace-queen. The jacks held, and Mayrinck won almost $15K in combined prizes.
Dani "danipesis" Palau raised to 1.68M from the button, and "Gamblitz_13" called from the small blind to the flop of . "Gamblitz_13" check-called for 2.8M and they both checked the turn. "Gamblitz_13" potted the river, then called off when Palau raised.
Dani "danipesis" Palau:
"Gamblitz_13":
Board:
"Gamblitz_13" turned Broadway, but Palau rivered the boat for the win. "Gamblitz_13" won $3,680 in bounties as well as the prizes.
"wimmaz" was very short stacked when heads up began, and they doubled up once when their ace-queen held against a suited gapper, but ultimately, they ran ace-ten of hearts into queens. The actually rivered the heart flush, but Dani "danipesis" Palau had already turned a full house. "wimmaz" added $2,996 in bounty cash to their better than $35K prize.
The final hand has been dealt in EPT Online 19: $530 NLHE [8-Max], and Dani "danipesis" Palau emerged the winner. Playing under the Mexican flag, Palau made it through a 1,000 entry field, collecting more then $36,000 in bounties along the way to the $35,401 top prize.
Palau had a small lead to start the final table, but dropped to third for bit. They quickly chipped up again to take the lead though, and from that point on, they dominated the table, never losing the lead and eliminating 5 of the other eight players on the final table.
Final Table Results
Place
Name
Country
Bounty
Prize
1
Dani "danipesis" Palau
Mexico
$36,451
$35,401
2
wimmaz
Belgium
$2,995
$35,401
3
Gamblitz_13
Netherlands
$3,680
$21,467
4
Ognyan "cocojamb0" Dimov
Bulgaria
$11,981
$15,514
5
Caio "sombra97" Mayrinck
Brazil
$4,239
$11,212
6
tretbootlion
Austria
$3,078
$8,103
7
Bruno Senra "bscluiz" Condé
Brazil
$4,564
$5,856
8
99dm84
Bosnia and Herzegovina
$1,039
$4,233
9
Marc-Andre "FrenchDawg" Ladouceur
Canada
$4,453
$3,400
Tournament Recap
EPT Online 19: $530 NLHE [8-Max] got underway yesterday at 2:05 p.m. eastern time, and it quickly filled up to the 1,000 entry maximum. From there, they played down toward the 119 paid spots, and it was a race whether they'd hit the money before the six and three quarter hours scheduled for Day 1 expired. When Day 1 ended, they hadn't quite made the money. Instead, they ended the day on the stone bubble, with 120 players left in action.
It only took a few hands on Day 2 to burst the bubble. Jans "Graftekkel" Arends was the unfortunate bubble player, but action took off from there. It took about three and a half hours to play down to the final two tables and another hour till the final table was set. Among the players to fall on the way to the final table was PokerStars Team Online member Arlie "Prince Pablo" Shaban. He made it to 48th place for about $1,700 in combined wins.
After a brief hiccup at the start, Palau dominated the final table play. After Caio "sombra97" Mayrinck scored the first final table bounty taking out Marc-Andre "FrenchDawg" Ladouceur, Palau got there with a four-card flush to take their first bounty from the final table.
Ognyan "cocojamb0" Dimov took out the next two players, but after that, Palau went on a run, eliminating the rest of the field. "Gamblitz_13" made a valiant effort to fight back three-handed, but eventually ran Broadway into Palau's rivered boat to end in third place.
"wimmaz" was in rough shape, getting to heads up at a 7:1 disadvantage in chips. They managed to double up once when their ace-queen held against a suited gapper, but ultimately ran into the Palau steam roller, rivering a flush after Palau turned a full house.