Oleg Vasylchenko Wins partypoker WPT Prague Main Event for €132,200 (including WPT Tournament of Champions seat)!

Dec 6, 2016

Oleg VasylchenkoAfter a dramatic final day of play, we have a winner! Oleg Vasylchenko toppled Russian Anton Petrov after just eight heads-up hands to take the €132,200 top prize including the ToC seat, after grinding into a lead very quickly then triumphing against his long-time friend.

The day started brightly, with play active from the beginning. Our eventual champion Oleg Vasylchenko took a big chip lead into the action, starting with over 1.5 million in chips:

Final Table Chip Counts:

Seat Player Country Chips
1 Oleg Vasylchenko Ukraine 1,595,000
2 Prebben Stokkan Norway 468,000
3 Romain Lewis France 668,000
4 Martin Kabrhel Czech Republic 465,000
5 Tonio Roder Germany 1,150,000
6 Anton Petrov Russia 704,000

The first player to depart was  Norway’s Prebben Stokkan. He never got much higher than the stack he started with, and eventually found himself short enough to move all-in with Heart 10Heart 9 but was called by Romain Lewis’ pocket aces and they held to eliminate Stokkan.

Anton Petrov was short-stack but  managed to find a miracle when at risk with pocket fours against the home town player, Martin Kabrhel’s pocket nines. A four on the turn sent Kabrhel short himself, and he eventually busted in 5th place when his move with king-high walked into the icy wall of Romain Lewis’ pocket queens.

Next to depart was Lewis himself, who check-raised all-in on a flop with bottom pair and was called by Tonio Roder’s middle pair which held.

With three players remaining, Tonio Roder himself got short quickest and was a little unfortunate to bust when his eight paired the flop as did Vasylchenko’s, but Roder’s kicker of an ace was outdone when Vasylchenko turned the flush to send play heads-up.

Heads-up lasted only a few hands, after Vasylchenko put his initial lead to good use, winning five of the first six hands to establish a decent gap. Then came that top-pair versus two-pair cooler and we had a new WPT Champions Club member – the Ukrainian Oleg Vasylchenko. He will go to the Tournament of Champions the proud winner here in Prague but from everyone here in the Czech Republic, thanks for reading as the final progressed and we look forward to seeing you at a future stop on the World Poker Tour!

Final Table Results:

Seat Player Country Prize 
1st Oleg Vasylchenko Ukraine €132,200*
2nd Anton Petrov Russia €82,000
3rd Tonio Roder Germany €52,500
4th Romain Lewis France €39,120
5th Martin Kabrhel Czech Republic €29,410
6th Prebben Stokkan Norway €23,520

* Includes WPT Tournament of Champions seat worth $15,000.

 

 

 

 

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