Main Event of the World Series of Poker 2019

The Main Event of the World Series of Poker 2019 was the main tournament of the 50th edition of the Poker World Championship in Las Vegas . It was played from July 3 to 16, 2019.

Tournament structure

The Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas

Registration for the main tournament of the World Series of Poker in the No Limit Hold'em variant was spread over the three days from July 3rd to 5th, 2019. Then the game was played until the seventh day of the tournament on July 12th, after which only nine players remained. The final table was played July 14-16, 2019. The entire tournament was played at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas . The total of 8,569 participants, including 350 women, had to pay a buy-in of US $ 10,000 each, and there were 1,286 paid places for them. Best woman was Jill Bryant, who finished 116th for just under 60,000 US dollars.

transmission

The US TV broadcaster ESPN and the paid streaming website PokerGO , in cooperation with Poker Central, broadcast several hours of the tournament live every day.

German-speaking participants

Robert Heidorn (10th - $ 800,000)

Thomas Mühlöcker (771.- $ 18,535)

Christian Christner (784 .- $ 18,535)

Max Altergott (1219 .- $ 15,000)

After Pius Heinz ( 2011 ), Hossein Ensan was the second German to win the main event. The following German-speaking participants were able to place themselves in the money:

space	origin	player	Prize money (in $ )
0001		Hossein Ensan	10,000,000
0010		Robert Heidorn	00.800,000
0013		Viktor Rau	00.600,000
0017th		Enrico Rudelitz	00.400,000
0031		Christopher Ahrens	00.261,430
0033		Thomer Pidun
0044		David Vedral	00.211,945
0066		Tobias Duthweiler	00.117.710
0088		Henning Wendlandt	00.082,365
0114		Thomas Schröpfer	00.059,295
0148		Roland Rokita
0168		Robin Hegele	00.050,855
0185		Elias Gutierrez
0197		Christian Liel
0215		Fabian Scherle
0221		Felix Bleiker
0222		Patrice Brandt
0313		Christian Stratmeyer	00.038,240
0342		Christian Rudolph
0403		Oskar Prehm	00.034,845
0414		Thomas Hambrock
0459		Igor Merda	00.030,780
0460		Manuel Mutke
0499		Ricardo Graells	00.027,390
0542		Artur Koren	00.024,560
0606		Phillip Hartmann	00.022,190
0612		Piet Pape
0644		Homan Mohammadi
0659		Nidal Echaust
0669		Lucas Fritz	00.020,200
0704		Anton Morgenstern
0715		Marius Pospiech
0771		Thomas Mühlöcker	00.018,535
0784		Christian Christner
0790		Simon Welsch
0843		Robert Schulz
0857		Martin Stoller
0867		Andreas Bölling	00.017,135
0895		Sebastian Dornbracht
0901		Rachid Amamou
0971		Kilian Kramer	00.015,970
1002		Fabian Gumz
1103		Stefan Huber	00.015,000
1117		Andreas Wagner
1142		Martin Heubeck
1164		Jan Schwippert
1192		Peyman Luth
1196		Kai Lanser
1210		Hans Joachim Hein
1219		Max Altergott
1273		Patrick Herbert
1285		Roman Lanzerstorfer

Final table

The final table was played July 14-16, 2019. The German-Iranian Hossein Ensan , who lives in Münster , started as the clear chip leader. At 55 years of age, Ensan was also the oldest player at the table, the youngest player was the Briton Nick Marchington , who at 21 years of age was just the minimum age. By reaching the final table, all players were sure to have $ 1 million in prize money. The Serb Miloš Škrbić was the first player to leave the table after his A ♠ J ♥ defeated Kevin Maahs ' A ♣ Q ♥ in a blind battle . A little later Timothy Su had to leave his last chips. He put 3 ♦ 3 ♣ all-in and lost to Ensan's A ♦ J ♠ , who turned his hand into a full house . Less than two hours later, Ensan took Marchington off the table after his K ♣ K ♠ held against Marchington's A ♦ 7 ♣ . The first day of the final ended with the elimination of Zhen Cai , whose A ♠ K ♦ received no help against Maahs' 9 ♣ 9 ♠ . After the first day of the final, Ensan continued to lead the field as chip leader.

At the beginning of the second day of the final, Dario Sammartino was able to double his chip stack with A ♦ J ♠ against Ensan's T ♠ T ♦ . The latter was able to increase his chip lead after a failed bluff by Gates and from then on had more than half of all chips in play in front of him. After around three and a half hours on the second day of the final, Maahs, the first player, was eliminated. His A ♥ T ♥ had received no help against Ensan's 9 ♠ 9 ♥ . A little later Gates also had to vacate his seat, who had run with 6 ♠ 6 ♣ in Alex Livingston's Q ♠ Q ♦ . Then the ninth day of the tournament was over. With three players remaining, Ensan held more than 60 percent of all chips in the game.

On the tenth and final day of the tournament, Sammartino doubled his chip stack early against Ensan, just like the day before. His A ♠ J ♠ made the straight against Ensan's 6 ♥ 6 ♣ on the river . About two hours later there was a new chip leader in Livingston, after he had previously won a few smaller pots. Then Sammartino doubled his chips with T ♠ 6 ♦ against Livingston's K ♦ K ♥ after all chips had gone into the middle on a board of Q ♣ 6 ♥ 4 ♥ T ♣ on the turn . Livingston was now the short stack and had to take more losses; Sammartino took the chip lead for the first time. After about three and a half hours of play on the last day of the tournament, Livingston then lost his last chips to Ensan, who had dominated his A ♣ J ♦ with A ♠ Q ♦ and held. Ensan started the decisive heads-up as a narrow chip leader. There Sammartino quickly took the lead again, which Ensan fought back in the following 45 minutes. Another 50 minutes later, the latter had extended his lead to a 2-1 chip lead. After many small pots, the 301st hand at the final table brought the decision: Sammartino had put his hand 8 ♠ 4 ♠ on the turn all-in on a board of T ♠ 6 ♠ 2 ♦ 9 ♣ and Ensan called with K ♥ K ♣ . The Italian had both a flush and a straight draw but could n't improve his hand with the Q ♣ . After Pius Heinz, Ensan was the second German to win the World Poker Championship in 2011 and secured a bracelet and a prize of 10 million US dollars.

A photo of Sammartino taken by Drew Amato at the final table later won a Global Poker Award as Poker Photo of the Year 2019 .

space	origin	player	Age *	Prize money (in $ )
1		Hossein Ensan	55	10,000,000
2		Dario Sammartino	32	06,000,000
3		Alex Livingston	32	04,000,000
4th		Garry Gates	37	03,000,000
5		Kevin Maahs	27	02,200,000
6th		Zhen Cai	35	01,825,000
7th		Nick Marchington	21st	01,525,000
8th		Timothy Su	25th	01,275,000
9		Miloš Škrbić	30th	01,000,000

^* Age at the start of the final table

Web links

• Main Event of the World Series of Poker 2019 in the Hendon Mob Poker Database
• World Series of Poker 2019 Main Event on the World Series of Poker website

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ Structure on the World Series of Poker website, accessed July 5, 2019 (PDF).
3. ↑ 2019 World Series of Poker: Demographic Breakdown of the Second Largest Field in Main Event History on pokernews.com on July 8, 2019, accessed on July 11, 2019.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Results on the World Series of Poker website, accessed July 7, 2019.
5. ↑ Ensan Leads Race for $ 10 Million at Main Event Final Table, Industry Vet Gates in Second on pokernews.com on July 13, 2019, accessed on July 15, 2019.
6. ↑ Milos Skrbic Eliminated in 9th Place ($ 1,000,000) on pokernews.com on July 15, 2019, accessed on July 15, 2019.
7. ↑ Timothy Su Eliminated in 8th Place ($ 1,250,000) on pokernews.com, July 15, 2019, accessed July 15, 2019.
8. ↑ Nick Marchington Eliminated in 7th Place ($ 1,525,000) on pokernews.com July 15, 2019, accessed July 15, 2019.
9. ↑ Zhen Cai Eliminated in 6th Place ($ 1,850,000) on pokernews.com July 15, 2019, accessed July 15, 2019.
10. ↑ Hossein Ensan Still on Top But Garry Gates Closes In With Five Left in Main Event on pokernews.com on July 15, 2019, accessed on July 15, 2019.
11. ↑ Hands # 57-59: Sammartino Doubles in a Race on pokernews.com from July 16, 2019, accessed on July 16, 2019.
12. ↑ Hands # 66-68: Gates' River Raise Fails; Ensan With More than Half the Chips in Play on pokernews.com on July 16, 2019, accessed on July 16, 2019.
13. ↑ Kevin Maah's Eliminated in 5th Place ($ 2,200,000) on pokernews.com July 16, 2019, accessed July 16, 2019.
14. ↑ Garry Gates Eliminated in 4th Place ($ 3,000,000) on pokernews.com July 16, 2019, accessed July 16, 2019.
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20. ↑ Alex Livingston Eliminated in 3rd Place ($ 4,000,000) on pokernews.com July 17, 2019, accessed July 17, 2019.
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25. ↑ Dario Sammartino Eliminated in 2nd Place ($ 6,000,000) on pokernews.com July 17, 2019, accessed July 17, 2019.
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27. ↑ Ingram, Chidwick & Kerstetter Among 2nd Annual Global Poker Award Winners on pokernews.com on March 7, 2020, accessed on August 3, 2020.