Journalist Wins Party Poker European ChallengeTwenty Year-Old Wins €165,520 At Spring Poker Festival in Vienna |
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Peter Gelencser, a 20-year-old trainee journalist from Budapest, Hungary has won the PartyPoker.com European Challenge II at the Concord Card Casino, Vienna. The €3,000 + €150 buy-in main event attracted 172 runners and created a prize pool of €516,000.
Vienna has proved a happy hunting ground for Gelencser who came third in this event last year when it was won by
Croatian Branimir Brunovic.
“I’m very happy,” said the young winner, “I was disappointed not to win last year but to win this time feels fantastic. I was in a strong position going into the final table but couldn’t help but think it would go the same way as last year. Thankfully, it didn’t – I had such fantastic support from the rail and am glad I didn’t let anybody down.”
Gelencser got heads-up as the massive 10:1 chip leader and beat local-pro Josef Klinger heads-up, despite Klinger clawing his way back to almost even in chips, when he rivered a seven for a Jack-high straight.
Bjoern Kaersten, the German winner of the East Versus West team event a few days earlier was the final table bubble boy, exiting in 11th. Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott busted in eighth when his pair of sixes got trumped by chip-leader Alex Leview hit two pair on the flop.
The final table payouts were:
The event was filmed for broadcast in the UK in late summer/early autumn on ITV4 and around the world thereafter. Check PartyPoker.com for satellites into a variety of big buy-in televised events across Europe.
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