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Live: $25,000 WPT World Championship
Upcoming: $100,000 WPT Super High Roller
| Earnings | $160,477 |
| Cashes | 3 |
| Final Tables | 1 |
| Titles | 0 |
| Tournaments Played | 13 |
Est. Current Chipcount
Est. Average Chipcount
0
Current Chipleader
-
Day 3
994,000
Day 4
3,930,000
Day 1-A
4th
Level 25: 15,000-30,000, 5,000 ante
Ognjen Sekularac raises to 60,000 and everyone folds.
Level 25: 15,000-30,000, 5,000 ante
Seat 1: Morten Christensen - 2,540,000
Morten Christensen was our Day 2 chip leader and the latest in a long list of Danish poker players to shake up the European game. He has high hopes of following in the footsteps of Jannick Wrang, Frederik Jensen and Mickey Petersen, all of whom have won major European titles in recent months.
Christensen is 27 years of age and qualified for WPT Vienna through the online satellite qualification route. He is a relatively inexperienced live player with only three cashes to date, so this final table performance is his greatest achievement to date.
Seat 2: Norbert Szecsi - 1,710,000
Norbert Szecsi is 21-years of age and hails from Hungary where he is a student. This is his first ever WPT event and he has no significant live cashes on his resume. He has only been playing poker for one year and so this is an amazing achievement for the man who loves his sport.
His favourite TV show is the Trueman Show and he will get to experience a little bit of that phenomenon during this final table.
Seat 3: Konstantin Tolokno - 1,085,000
Every competiion has a rock, a player who proves that you can be patient, wait for big hands and manoeuvre yourself through fields as large as 396 players and reach the final table. In the final day's play he was the least active player, by a mile, and yet people kept paying him off, which is how he survived with over one million in chips.
Tolokno is the most mature player at this final table aged 38 and he has been playing poker for 8 years.
Seat 4: Goswin Siemsen - 875,000
Goswin Siemsen was our Day 3 chip leader and eeks through to our final table with the shortest stack on view. Siemsen, who was wears his trademark woolly hat, counts Viktor Blom as his favourite player and Finnish Chinese Poker as his favourite game.
This is Seimsen's first WPT event and first significant cash.
Seat 5: Ognjen Sekularac - 3,430,000
Ognjen Sekularac is a regular on the European poker circuit who has amassed over $450,000 in live tournament winnings, but interestingly, his two previous WPT cashes have come in events held Stateside. He is by far the most experienced player at the final table and is also our chip leader.
Sekularac is the owner of a sports betting company and has gambling running through his veins. He has been playing poker for 3-years and says that his great achievement to date is still coming. Maybe that will change after today?
Seat 6: Ben Wilinofsky - 2,270,000
It has been one hell of a week for Ben Wilinofsky. It started amazing, went South pretty quickly but now stands at the precipice of greatness. He managed to navigate his way through a host of amazing pros to qualify for the WPT Special Event PartyPoker Premier League V but then it all went wrong. Wilinofsky had a terrible run of situations that resulted in him finishing bottom of the group.
But during WPT Vienna his luck has turned. Although an amazing player in his own right, the former EPT Berlin champion and winner of over $2.7 million online, will be the first to admit that the poker Gods were shining on him yesterday. Wilinofsky found himself needing a miracle, on several occasions, and dealers delivered each time.
Sekularac might have all of the chips but Wilinofky is the only player who has the experience of sitting down at a final table of a major event and ending it with all the chips.
Level 25: 15,000-30,000, 5,000 ante
WPT Vienna Day 4 is over and our final table is set. It has taken us five days to break 396 players down to the final six and the man with the sizeable advantage is European circuit regular Ognjen Sekularac. Sekularac, who has two WPT cashes to his name, will start the final table with 3,930,000 in chips.
Here is the seat draw:
Seat 1: Morten Christensen - 2,540,000
Seat 2: Norbert Szecsi - 1,210,000
Seat 3: Konstantin Tolokno - 1,085,000
Seat 4: Goswin Siemsen - 875,000
Seat 5: Ognjen Sekularac - 3,930,000
Seat 6: Benjamin Wilinofsky - 2,270,000
The play will commence at 13:00 (CET) and all of the action will be streamed live with a 15-minute delay right here at WPT.com. Alternatively you can join the live updates as we take you from start to finish and the crowning of the newest WPT Champions Club member.
Level 25: 15,000-30,000, 5,000 ante
Ognjen Sekularac raises to 65,000 under the gun, Manuel Mutke shoves for 550,000 in the cutoff and Sekularac calls.
Sekularac: K
J
Mutke: T
T
Board: Q
J 6 2 K
So Mutke leaves the competition and there isn't even a murmur from the seven remaining players.
Sekularac ~ 3,000,000
Level 25: 15,000-30,000, 5,000 ante
Ognjen Sekularac raises to 60,000 in early position and Ben Wilinofsky three-bets to 160,000 in the next seat. The action folds back around to Sekularac and he four-bets to 315,000 and Wilinofsky calls.
Flop: A 8 5
Sekularac bets 220,000, Wilinofsky folds and Sekularac shows him Q 4 for the bluff.
Sekularac ~ 2,900,000
Wilinofsky ~ 2,000,000
Level 24: 12,000-24,000, 4,000 ante
Goswin Seimsen raises to 50,000 under the gun, Morten Christensen calls next door, Norbert Szecsi also calls in the hijack before Ognjen Sekularac gets interested from the small blind. He asks Christensen how much he is playing before three-betting to 172,000. Seimsen folds but Christensen moves all-in causing Szecsi to also fold. Back to Sekularac and he asks for a count and the total is 773,000.
"You show if I fold…my friend?" Sekularac asks Christensen who remains unmoved.
Eventually Sekularac folds and we move on to the next hand.
Christensen ~ 1,030,000
Sekularac ~ 2,370,000
Level 24: 12,000-24,000, 4,000 ante
Ognjen Sekularac raises to 51,000 in the hijack seat, Ben Wilinofsky calls in the cutoff before Goswin Seimsen three-bets from the button to the tune of 165,000. Sekularac folds and Wilinofsky peels one off and they head to the flop.
Flop: A K 3
Wilinofsky check-calls a 100,000 Seimsen bet and then takes his earphones out and gets observant.
Turn: T
Both players check.
River: 7
Wilinofsky bets 400,000 and Seimsen tanks for a long time before folding. Wilinofskiy shows him the T and scopps the pot.
Wilinofsky ~ 2,200,000
Seimsen ~ 1,180,000
Level 24: 12,000-24,000, 4,000 ante
Manuel Mutke raises to 52,000 in early position and Ognjen Sekularac three-bets on the button making it 122,000 to play. Back to the aggressive Mutke, and this time he keeps his four-bet in his pocket and calls instead.
Flop: K 5 5
Mutke check-folds to a 76,000 Sekularac bet.
Sekularac ~ 2,500,000
Mutke ~ 1,580,000
Level 24: 12,000-24,000, 4,000 ante
Ognjen Sekularac raises to 51,000 in the cutoff and Morten Christensen defends his big blind.
Flop: 8 5 2
Both players check.
Turn: 5
Christensen check-calls a 55,000 Sekularac bet.
River: 3
This time Christensen leads for 101,000 and Sekularac makes the call. When the hands are turned over it is Sekularac who scoops the pot with A A and Christensen didn't, holding 8 6.
Sekularac ~ 2,370,000
Christensen ~ 1,000,000
Level 23: 10,000-20,000, 3,000 ante
Ognjen Sekularac raises to 51,000 in the hijack, Ben Wilinofsky three-bets to 158,000 in the cutoff and Sekularac folds. Then he raises to 44,000 and this time Manuel Mutke three-bets to 105,000 and once again Sekularac folds.
