On Monday, Leo Tran won the partypoker WPT National Rozvadov €1,100 Main Event for €75,000. Tran topped a field of 339 entries at King’s Casino Rozvadov for his largest career score.
Prior to this event, Tran had just one cash on record that came from May 2016, worth €1,600. Less than three full months later, he can now call himself a WPT National champion.
Tran defeated Harmjan Poel in heads-up play after the two battled for approximately an hour and a half. The final hand occurred when the money went in on the turn of a board that read 
. Tran held the 
, and Poel had the 
. Thanks to a river ten, Tran earned the title.
partypoker WPT National Rozvadov Final Table
1st: Leo Tran – €75,000
2nd: Harmjan Poel – €51,166
3rd: JC Strider – €31,954
4th: Daniel Schumacher – €23,767
5th: Itay Bernshtein – €17,924
6th: Markus Hofer – €14,623
7th: Patrick Beuter – €12,148
8th: Ishay Vodka – €9,573
9th: Vitek Pešta – €7,295
Patrick Marquardt placed 10th, scoring a payday of €5,315. His finish allowed him to win the partypoker last-longer promotion. Marquardt outlasted the other 64 competitors in the promotion and earned an additional €1,100 in prize money.
The top 36 finishers reached the money in WPT National Rozvadov. Martin Kabrhel, third on the Czech Republic’s all-time money list according to the Hendon Mob database, placed 19th for €3,268, and Vojtech Ruzicka squeaked into the money with a min-cash worth €2,245.
Next up for the WPT National schedule is Montreal, with an event at Playground Poker Club to take place Aug. 19-25, 2016. The event comes with a CAD 400,000 guaranteed prize pool and a CAD 600 buy-in. If you’re looking to follow in the footsteps of Leo Tran and become a WPT National champion, we’ll see you there!
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