Scots poker pro Niall Farrell has plenty to celebrate this weekend, having won Euro 745,287 and a WSOP bracelet in the Euro 25,000 buy-in High Roller at WSOPE at Kings Casino in Rozvadov, with the win qualifying him for a Triple Live Crown accolade after two previous major tourney victories in Malta and Punta Cana competitions.
113 entries were recorded for the No-Limit Hold’em High Roller competition, generating a prize pool worth $2.65 million, with former WSOP main event finalists Ryan Riess, Benjamin Pollak, Antoine Saout, and Sylvain Loosli all in the field and making the final table, which took five hours to produce a winner.
Other formidable players in the field included Stefan Schillhabel, Chris Ferguson, Phil Hellmuth, Mike Leah, Igor Kurganov, Rainer Kempe, Sam Trickett, Adrian Mateos, Ole Schemion, Patrik Antonius, Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Bryn Kenney, Dietrich Fast, Liv Boeree, Sam Grafton, Phillip Gruissem, David Peters, Nick Petrangelo, Anthony Zinno, Davidi Kitai, Mustapha Kanit, and Pierre Neuville.
Of these only Schillhabel survived to the final table.
Farrell faced Ben Pollak in the heads up, which lasted just 13 hands before Farrell was able to eliminate a tough opponent, sending Pollak to the cashier for a runner up prize of Euro 460,622.
Other final table cashes included:
Claas Segebrecht – Euro 321,863
Ryan Reiss – Euro 230,071
Sylvain Loosli – Euro 168,323
Andre Leathem – Euro 126,113
Stefan Schillhabel – Euro 98,819
Antoine Saout – Euro 96,209