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Date Event/Tournament Place Winnings: Sep 17, '20: $3,200 No-Limit Hold'em Heads Up (256 max) $500K GTD 2019/2020 WPT World Online Championships: 10.
Monte Carlo saw the first major contest of Pokerstars’ European Poker Tour finish with Sylvain Loosli leaving behind 70 entrants, defeating Georgios Kitsios and earning a fifth victory in his career.
- Sylvain Loosli became one of these players in 2013 when he reached the final table of the World Series of Poker Main Event. Respected online cash game specialist, Sylvain has played poker professionally since 2006 and reached the final of the biggest tournament in world poker at just his first attempt.
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The Frenchman’s path was not an easy one though. Day 1 ended with Erik Seidel in the lead. This New York-based player already has a few impressive wins to his name himself. In 2015, he won the €100,000 Super High Roller for € 2,015,000. From the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel tables he has taken $3,203,628, which is a sum only eight other players can boast to have exceeded.
Even though Seidel appeared at the final table as well, it was no longer in the lead. That was taken by Charlie Carrel, a UK player whose achievements include a victory in the €25,500 High Roller of 2015 in which he defeated 215 entrants to earn his best personal score of €1,114,000, and another win in the €5,300 No-Limit Hold’em event in 2016 where after beating 148 entrants he gained €172,300.
Seth Davies was another player who earned themselves a place at the final table. He won the $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller in Las Vegas just a few weeks ago and since Christmas he has made appearance at five final tables.
The above mentioned players were joined for a final by Portuguese Winamax Pro, João Vieira, and Greek Georgios Kitsios. The final table seat draw was as follows:
- Seat 1: Georgios Kitsios = 433,000
- Seat 2: Sylvain Loosli = 182,000
- Seat 3: Charlie Carrel = 1,499,000
- Seat 4: João Vieira = 258,000
- Seat 5: Erik Seidel = 337,000
- Seat 6: Seth Davies = 791,000
Day 3: The Final Table
First one to leave the final day play was João Vieira, who shipped all in for just over 200,000 on the button after Charlie Carrel opened to 24,000 in the cutoff. However, Vieira’s AJ was no match for Carrel’s AK and so Carrel took the pot and the contest was over for Vieira.
Erik Seidel was the next one to run out of luck and yet again it was Carrel who sent him home. He raised up from the cutoff and Seidel, who was on the short stack, moved all in for roughly 175,000 on the button. Unable to connect in any way though, Carrel dominated him with pocket nines.
However, this was where Carrel’s rocketing ride has come to an end. First, the chip lead was wrestled away from him by Kitsios. Carrel raised to 35,000 on the button and Kitsios defended the big blind. After the flop AcKc5h, Kitsios checked, Carrel continued for 22,000 and Kitsios check-raised to 68,000. Carrel called. Next came turn of 9h and 4d on the river. Both players checked and Kitsios went for a bet of 200,000. Carrel had to reach into his first time bank of the tournament. With two pairs of 5s and 4s, Kitsios was happy to come out victorious.
Sylvain Loosli followed where Kitsios has left off and even though he was the one at risk for 248,000, he out-flopped Carrel ‘s pocket aces by making two pair. With Jh on the turn he improved to full house and the river 7 sealed Loosli’s double up.
In the end, it was Kitsios again who ended Carrel’s suffering. Carrel opened to 35,000 in the cutoff, then called Kitsios’ three-bet of 115,000 in the small blind. Without looking at the flop, which was KcQc9d, Kitsios led out for 80,000. Carrel went all in for about 445,000 and Kitsios snap-called. Carrel’s flush draw was not enough to beat Kitsios’ pocket aces. With both turn and river coming up spades where Carrel needed crosses, it was time for the Englishman to leave the table.
Last three players remained. Kitsios reduced the number by eliminating Seth Davies. He opened to 60,000 on the button and Seth Davies called from the big blind. The flop showed 9s8s2c. Kitsios bet 55,000 and Davies check-called. After the turn of 7s, Davies checked, while Kitsios went for a bet of another 90,000. Davies called. On the river was Jc. Davies checked once again. Kitsios decided to go all in and Davies called his last 605,000 chips. With 10c9h for rivered straight Davies couldn’t beat Kitsios’ Ks5s for a flush and thus he left with a third place, while Kitsios entered the heads-up finale.
The Big Finale
The battle went back and forth and each player could boast serious chip lead at different points. Loosli got ahead when he earned the maximum value after flopping triple eights with pocket Ah8d. On the other side, Kitsios doubled up with A3o overpowering Loosli’s KJss. The scales were tipped when Loosli extracted another maximum value, now from the second pair.
After that the die was cast. In what was to become the final hand of the contest, Kitsios bet his 15 big blind stack on king-five but it was not enough to dominate Loosli’s ace-five. And so making a flush by the river, Loosli topped off the tournament with a win after about 6 hours on Day 3.
Below is the summary of the ITM finishes.
- 1. Sylvain Loosli = €198,610
- 2. Georgios Kitsios = €142,590
- 3. Seth Davies = €92,590
- 4. Charlie Carrel = €69,940
- 5. Erik Seidel = €54,320
- 6. João Vieira = €42,100
- 7. Ole Schemion = €33,270
- 8. Thomas Muehloecker = €25,800
- 9. Pablo Melogno = €19,690
The Rising Star
Sylvain Loosli, born in France but currently living in England, has been steadily coming up lately and the Monte Carlo victory brings his all-time winnings to $7.4 million. Having won five times in total, four of them came from PokerStars live events. He can also boast three wins in three years: he dominated the €50,000 Super High Roller at EPT Barcelona in 2015, defeating 99 entrants and claiming the €1,224,000 first prize; a year later he defeated 36 entrants and walked away with the €57,530 first prize in a €10,200 No-Limit Hold’em Turbo; and finally, back in Barcelona after beating 111 entrants, he won the €10,300 Pot-Limit Omaha (PLO) at the PokerStars Championships.
As for Monte Carlo, this was Loosli’s second time at the final table. In 2017 he finished 3rd out of 60 in the €10,300 Pot-Limit Omaha during the PokerStars Championships.
Source:https://calvinayre.com/2019/04/29/poker/sylvain-loosli-wins-the-e10k-high-roller-at-ept-monte-carlo/
With 17 players left in this tournament Dzmitry Urbanovich was the recipient of a full double up with kings against the queens of Jason Les. That cooler gave him the chip lead and although his stack at that point only amounted to what would be an average stack with seven players left, it seemed as if was his tournament to lose at that point and that the Pole was set fair to go one better than he did in the same event at the EPT Grand Final back in May.
But just as in Monaco, Urbanovich fell at the final hurdle here in Barcelona as Sylvain Loosli became the first Frenchman to win a Super High Roller title. Tonight the 2013 November Niner he has a shiny trophy to take back to France along with €1,224,000. It's a victory that was unexpected, not because of Loosli's poker ability, but because of the size of Loosli's stack. He returned today in sixth place of the nine remaining combatants and never troubled the upper echelons of the chip counts or took the chip lead until heads-up play began.
By that point Loosli could have taken the view that he was freerolling as he'd got it in bad and doubled three times whilst play was six handed or more, been as low as 3.8 big blinds with seven players left and was the basement dweller when play was four-handed and three-handed. Having dodged all those bullets he may well have been of the belief that his name was already on the trophy (do we have an EPT trophy engraver?). 'I've been playing a lot of these tournaments for the last few years so I just know it's never over,' he told the PokerStars Blog. 'Even if you're down to a few big blinds sometimes you get lucky a lot. That's tournament poker. You just have to hold on to your chips and keep focusing on your game.'
When Loosli took care of the impressive Christoph Vogelsang in third place he had a slim lead going into heads-up play and if there's been a weakness in Urbanovich's armour in these big buy-in tournaments it's come at this stage of the tournament. In quick order Loosli stretched out to a two to one chip lead. It was one way traffic until Urbanovich doubled back to parity (threes against K♥T♣) but it was to be short lived.
A big hand in which Loosli check-raised all-in on the river reduced Urbanovich to 20 big blinds. 'In the heads-up match I check-raised all-in on the river against Dzmitry and I turned my hand into a bluff. I might have had the best hand, I'm not sure. I feel like I was representing a big hand and decided to put my tournament at risk at this point,' said Loosli of that pivotal pot.
The final hand came when Urbanovich shoved with J♦T♠ and Loosli called with pocket fives. A five on the turn gave Loosli a set and the title. 'It's been a rollercoaster,' said the Frenchman after the dust had settled. 'The final table was filled with great players. You had to fight to win every single pot. It was so tough and I had to play my best.'
The win is Loosli's biggest result since his fourth place finish in the WSOP Main Event in 2013. 'It's a different the Main Event, which was amazing,' he said. 'But this is a win and you play poker to win tournaments and titles.'
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As for Urbanovich, it was another near miss to winning a Super High Roller title. Whilst the history books will show that he finished second again, the manner of this runner-up finish in comparison to Monaco was markedly different. There he stumbled to the final table as the second shortest stack and wore a suit for the occasion, here he was third in the overnight chip counts, wasn't even in his seat when play began and came dressed in shorts and a hooded sweatshirt.
When he did show up he quickly set about adding to his stack and was chip leader when the official final table began. He retained that position - or was close to it - for the entire final table and it's easy to forget that he's barely 20 having celebrated that birthday in May. Whilst he may not have won, the reigning EPT Player of the Year has laid down a big marker for the season ahead.
In one of those strange quirks of tournament rules we had our final table when play started at 12.30 local time only we didn't. Final tables on the EPT are, as standard, eight handed, but nine remained. All were seated around the one table but one more player would have to be eliminated before the official final table photos could be taken.
It took 80 minutes for that to happen but Byron Kaverman would ultimately be the first to go. He was the shortest stack when play began, nines into the kings of Ivan Luca did the most damage before Urbanovich dealt the fatal blow, although that doesn't tell the whole story.
The next exit would come far quicker, like London buses some would say, and it was the last remaining Englishman who was sent on his way. Paul Newey is starting to become a regular fixture at the final table of these events but there was nothing he could do when the poker gods decided it was ace-king's turn to win the classic race against his queens.
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Newey hopped into the Main Event and the next player out would be one of only two players to have pulled off the Main Event and Super High Roller EPT double (the other is Martin Finger). Steve O'Dwyer's record in high roller events is simply ridiculous and he again put up another solid showing. His exit hand was, like Newey's, a case of a big pair against two overcards. His 16.45 big blind three-bet shove with pocket jacks was called by Ivan Luca who held A♠K♠, a king on the flop sent O'Dwyer to the payout desk to collect €221,000.
Luca would be next to feel the hangman's noose. Along with Urbanovich the Argentinian player had been the breakout star of Season 11 of the EPT and like the Pole he's quickly gone about showing it was no fluke. His rollercoaster of a final table came to an end when he ran pocket sixes into the pocket tens of Urbanovich. The two have struck up something of a friendship, or at least a mutual appreciation, as they were seen bumping fists on a couple of occasions at the final table.
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It remains to be seen if Michael Egan has a big a impact on the tour as Luca has in the past nine months, but the Australian has fired a decent opening salvo. The start of day chip leader had a tough seat to the left of Urbanovich and Christoph Vogelsang who were both well stacked and couldn't get anything going. He busted in fifth place when his A♥T♠ didn't get there against Urbanovich's A♠J♥. A €358,900 payday is his best yet.
The four players headed off to dinner but when play resumed Urbanovich was nowhere to be seen. A few hands later JC Alvarado was probably wishing he'd missed the first few hands as he went from second in chips to out in just five minutes. First he doubled up Vogelsang with J♠7♦ against pocket tens and he then lost the rest to Loosli. Fourth place was good for €446,800
At this juncture Vogelsang and Loosli were all but level in chips but over the next 25 minutes Loosli would loosen those chips from the German before dealing the knockout blow. The two players saw a J♠A♥T♥ flop and Vogelsang check-raised all-in with Q♣8♠. Loosli made a quick call with A♣8♠ and held on the 3♦ turn and 8♦ river.
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That hand gave Loosli a slight chip lead and the platform on which to build his victory.
EPT12 Barcelona - Super High Roller
Buy-in: €48,500+€1,500
Entries: 85
Re-entry: 14
Total entries: 99
Prize pool: €4,753,485
1st.Sylvain Loosli (France) €1,224,000
2nd.Dzmitry Urbanovich (Poland) €841,500
3rd.Christoph Vogelsang (Germany) €551,485
4th.JC Alvarado (Mexico) €446,800
5th.Michael Egan (Australia) €358,900
6th.Ivan Luca (Argentina) €280,500
7th.Steve O'Dwyer (Ireland) €221,000
8th.Paul Newey (United Kingdom) €168,700
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