PokerStars Players Championship 2019

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The 2019 PokerStars Players Championship was the first edition of this poker tournament . It was played from January 6-10, 2019 at the Atlantis Resort & Casino on Paradise Island and hosted by PokerStars . It was the largest ever 25,000 US dollars worldwide expensive poker tournament.

structure

The tournament in the variant No-Limit Hold'em was the second event on the tournament schedule of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure and had a buy-in of 25,000 US dollars , of which 500 US dollars to the organizer flowed. The event was a pure freeze-out , so players couldn't buy-in again after they were eliminated. The guaranteed prize pool was $ 9 million, with eight million in the regular prize pool and an additional million for the winner. Throughout 2018, a so-called “Platinum Pass” worth 30,000 US dollars could be won at the live tournament series from PokerStars as well as online , which entitles them to participate in the tournament and also covered flight and hotel costs. In addition, celebrities such as Norm MacDonald , Tony Hawk , Paul Pierce , Sergio García and Bruce Buffer played the tournament at the invitation of PokerStars .

A total of 1039 players took part in the tournament. With a prize pool of $ 26.5 million, it was the largest $ 25,000 poker tournament in the world to date, and at the time it was held, it was ranked among the largest poker tournaments ever after 14 main events of the World Series of Poker and the first three events of the Big One for One Drop took 18th place.

In March 2020, the tournament was named "Event of the Year 2019" with a Global Poker Award .

transmission

The tournament, like other PokerStars Caribbean Adventure events , was streamed live in multiple languages ​​on the Twitch and YouTube platforms . The German Stream was of Jens Knossalla and Martin Pott with changing guests as Niklas honor wood and Benjamin role commented.

Results

Tournament course

All players started with a stack of 60,000 chips. On the first day of the tournament, 1,014 players registered, clearly surpassing the previous record for a $ 25,000 tournament that was set up in 2007 with 639 participants at the World Poker Tour in the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas . At the end of the first day there were 745 players left, with British businessman Talal Shakerchi clearly leading the field with 425,300 chips. The registration phase ended at the beginning of the second day of the tournament. There were 181 paid places for the field of 1039 players. The prize pool was just under $ 26.5 million.

The second day of the tournament ended with 207 players remaining. The chip leader was Farid Jattin with 921,000 chips. The money was reached on day 3 and 38 players were still in the tournament at the end of the day. Scott Baumstein went into day four as chip leader with a stack of over 4.2 million chips. With Kristen Bicknell , the last woman dropped out on day 4 in eleventh place, for which she received almost $ 330,000. The day ended with eight players remaining.

German-speaking participants

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Marvin Rettenmaier ($ 27th - $ 126,000)
Felix Schneider ($ 40-69,100)
Christoph Vogelsang ($ 57 - 56,800)
Robert Heidorn ($ 164 .-- 25,450)

The best German-speaking player was Michael Robionek from Gelsenkirchen . He had received a "Platinum Pass" through a freeroll by Canadian poker player Daniel Negreanu . The following German-speaking participants were able to place themselves in the money:

space origin player Prize money (in $ )
021st GermanyGermany Michael Robionek 150,600
027 GermanyGermany Marvin Rettenmaier 126,000
040 GermanyGermany Felix Schneider 069,100
057 GermanyGermany Christoph Vogelsang 056,800
059 GermanyGermany Marius Gierse
113 GermanyGermany Kilian Kramer 039,500
129 GermanyGermany Erik Von Buxhoeveden 035,000
150 AustriaAustria Mario Hofler
164 GermanyGermany Robert Heidorn 025,450
165 AustriaAustria Markus Dürnegger

Final table

Ramón Colillas (2018)

The unofficial final table was reached on the fourth day of the tournament. The official eight-player final table was played on January 10, 2019. With Marc Rivera and Ramón Colillas , two winners of a “Platinum Pass” reached the final table. Scott Baumstein went into the final day as the chip leader .

In the seventh hand, Talal Shakerchi was the first player to leave the table, whose A ♥ A ♣ was inferior to the flush of Martinin's A ♠ Q ♠ . About 30 minutes later, Martini took another player off the table when his A ♥ K ♣ Farid Jattin's A ♠ J ♠ had dominated and was holding Martini's hand. Then the Canadian Marc Perrault was eliminated, who had placed 6 ♣ 3 ♦ all-in with few remaining chips and was beaten by Colillas K ♥ K ♣ . Colillas was also responsible for the next elimination after his 5 ♠ 5 ♥ against 10 ♦ 7 ♦ by Jason Koonce had saved . Baumstein then vacated his post after losing his last chips with A ♥ 9 ♦ against Martinis K ♦ Q ♣ . The latter now had a clear chip lead over the two qualifiers Rivera and Colillas and, after Colillas had doubled his chip stack against Rivera, he took the Philippino out of the tournament with A ♦ K ♥ . In the heads-up , Colillas won an all-in with Q ♣ 5 ♠ against Martinis 9 ♥ 6 ♥ when he was able to improve his hand to a full house with the turn and river against the flopped flush of the French and took the lead with the chip stacks . In the final hand his A ♦ 5 ♠ held against Martinis J ♣ 9 ♣ and the Spaniard secured a prize of 5.1 million US dollars.

space origin player Prize money (in $ )
1 SpainSpain Ramón Colillas 5,100,000
2 FranceFrance Julien Martini 2,974,000
3 PhilippinesPhilippines Marc Rivera 2,168,000
4th United StatesUnited States Scott Baumstein 1,657,000
5 United StatesUnited States Jason Koonce 1,304,000
6th CanadaCanada Marc Perrault 1,012,000
7th ColombiaColombia Farid Jattin 0.746,000
8th United KingdomUnited Kingdom Talal Shakerchi 0.509,000

Web links

Individual evidence

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  18. ↑ Marc Perrault Eliminated in 6th Place ($ 1,012,000) on pokernews.com January 10, 2019, accessed January 11, 2019.
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