WPT Online Series: Sam Greenwood & Pascal Hartmann Conquer the High Rollers

The action is getting intense at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Online Series that’s well underway at partypoker. The series that offers a massive $35 Million guaranteed across 10 Championship events and a long lineup of side events was earlier scheduled to take place from May 10 to 26. The series was preponed by a week and commenced on May 3.

Event #1 Opener $5,200 NLHE was taken down by Argentina’s Leo Fernandez for $409,628.98. At least a dozen more events have since named champions. Among the most prominent names to have won titles recently include Canada’s Sam Greenwood and Austria’s Pascal Hartmann.

Greenwood, who is arguably one of the world’s most accomplished NLHE players, outran a 105-player field to take down Event #11 $10,300 High Roller. Greenwood defeated celebrated pro Matthias Eibinger heads-up to bank $257,250!

Incidentally Greenwood also narrowly missed the final table in Event #14 $25,500 Super High Roller, finishing ninth for $61,250. The eight-handed final table resumes on May 8 and will soon declare a champion who will grab a hefty $600,250 in prize money.

The first of the featured High Roller tourneys on the schedule, Event #09 $5,200 High Roller $1M GTD, saw Pascal Hartman winning the title. Hartmann was among the 225 contenders in the fray, and he outlasted a star-studded final table that featured the likes of Christoph Vogelsang, Kristen Bicknell, Mikita Badziakouski, former Handball pro Wiktor Malinowski and Farid Jattin. Hartmann eventually struck a deal with Bulgarian icon Dimitar Danchev to lock in the title and the top prize of $205,826.

Besides Greenwood and Hartmann, Ola Amundsgaard (Event #6 $5,200 PLO High Roller for $117,115.59) and Guillaume Nolet (Event #8 $2,100 6-Max Bounty Hunter for $113,874) are other prominent winners at the series so far.

Presently, both the WPT Super 50 $1M GTD and the WPT500 $2M GTD are underway and done with five of their 10 starting flights. We are fast heading to the most awaited tournament of the series, the $3,200 buy-in Main Event $5 Million GTD WPT Online Championship that kicks off on Sunday, May 10. The event will name a champion on May 20.

Event #11: $10,300 High Roller

Canadian superstar Sam Greenwood has won Event #11 $10,300 High Roller for a whopping $257,250!

The tournament drew 105 entries, which included many high roller regs, and the nine-handed final table was formed towards the end of the opening day.

Day 2 resumed on Thursday, where Greenwood stormed past several bigwigs, including Timothy Adams, Artur Martirosian, to eventually reach the heads-up play with Matthias Eibinger. Greenwood was the last one standing after his full house of eights, and kings got the better of Eibinger`s pocket sixes.

WPT even tweeted the final hand of the tournament.

🇨🇦@SamGreenwoodRIO wins the #WPTOnline High Roller for $257,250! Watch the final hand from the action on @partypoker.

Tune in to watch the live stream of the $25,500/$2 million guaranteed Super High Roller playing now 🤑 https://t.co/rbaiv04tTN pic.twitter.com/u7whCQoz2b

— World Poker Tour (@WPT) May 7, 2020

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Final Table Results (USD)

1. Sam Greenwood – $257,250
2. Matthias Eibinger – $183,750
3. Rui Ferreira – $131,250
4. Jorma Nuutien – $91,875
5. Alexandru Papazian – $68,250
6. Timothy Adams – $52,500
7. Joni Jouhkimainen – $42,000
8. Pauli Ayras – $34,125

Event #09: $5,200 High Roller $1M GTD Recap

The ninth event on the WPT Online schedule was the $5,200 buy-in High Roller $1 Million GTD. The tournament attracted 225 entries generating a $1,125,000 prize pool. Only 16 made it to Day 2 that took place on May 7.

Farid Jattin and Wiktor Malinowski were the first quick casualties on the final table, both knocked out by eventual runner-up Dimitar Danchev at one go.

Hartmann dispatched Kristen Bicknell in sixth place before Danchev claimed his next victim in Mikita Badziakouski.

With Christoph Vogelsang and Alberto Meran hitting the rail next, the fight for the title came down on Danchev and Hartmann. With a heads-up ICM deal in place, it took only a few hands for Hartmann, who was chip leading at the time the deal was made, to emerge as the champion!

Final Table Results (USD)

1. Pascal Hartmann – $205,826.53*
2. Dimitar Danchev – $190,060.98*
3. Alberto Meran – $118,687.50
4. Christoph Vogelsang – $87,750
5. Mikita Badziakouski – $61,875
6. Kristen Bicknell – $47,250
7. Wiktor Malinowski – $34,875
8. Farid Jattin – $25,875

*denotes heads-up deal

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