David Yan: Winner
When David Yan walked right into a Hamburg casino a couple of weeks ago, a couple of people within the press corps thought he had taken a wrong turn. Yan, some of the world's best poker players and an ordinary in High Roller tournaments the sector over, had shown up for a €1,000 event at the Eureka Poker Tour. It didn't appear to fit.
However, it turned out that Yan, who finished 16th in that tournament in Hamburg, was in Germany en path to the arena Series circuit event in Berlin. He continued his run of form by winning it. So it was that Yan returned to his High Roller brethren at EPT Malta this week, and his hot streak shows no signs of cooling.
At around 7pm tonight, Yan completed his second triumph in rather less than a month. This one had a buy-in of €25,000 and a primary prize of €465,800. While you add second place in another High Roller at EPT Barcelona in August, this has turned out to be an excessively profitable trip to Europe for the 23-year-old from New Zealand.
Yan beat Ramin Hajiyev to the title tonight in what ended up being a rapid-fire final, done in not up to five hours. However it can have swung in lots of directions, with each of Oleksii Khoroshenin, Max Silver and Hajiyev having the chip lead at various junctures.
Ramin Hajiyev: Former tennis pro bounced in second
However, it was one-way traffic heads up after Yan had taken chunks from Silver, who went out in third, and he managed to triumph over a narrow initial deficit to Hajiyev. That is the primary time a brand new Zealander has won an important tournament at the EPT, and few might be surprised that it's Yan to take the gold.
Final table players: (l-r) Ole Schemion, Mikita Badziakouski, Oleksii Khoroshenin, Ramin Hajiyev, David Yan, Max Silver.
As you could expect for a tournament with this sort of buy-in, the general table boasted an experienced line-up. None of our final six was exactly a stranger to high stakes and stiff competition. However, even on this esteemed company, Ole Schemion's name stood out: he has won almost about everything there's to win within the high-stakes environment, and was aiming for another high roller top prize--another notch on Casanova's bed post.
But this time, the playboy was given the cold shoulder. He found pocket kings early on, but couldn't get a decision from his shove from Hajiyev. But if he shoved with pocket jacks, Yan was only too happy to present him action with kings. That was the tip of Schemion, adding the most productive a part of €100,000 to his coffers.
Ole Schemion: Out in sixth
Throughout its three days of play, this tournament has veered from moments of frenzied action to long slow downs. We had a three-hour bubble period yesterday, followed by three eliminations in lower than an hour. That continued on the final too, with two-and-a-half hours passing after Schemion's departure before the following man went out.
Mikita Badziakouski may be a person in form. He came to Malta at the back of a second-place finish at a One Drop side event in Monaco--a side event with a €100,000 buy-in and a €500,000 runner-up prize. He also had a score to settle on this event in Malta, having bubbled the High Roller here last year.
He gave the look of suffering the similar fate yesterday, before rallying or even taking the chip lead 10-handed. But his roller coaster hit the buffers in fifth today when he couldn't beat Silver's J♣T♠ along with his A♣K♣. Sometimes the most productive hand doesn't hold.
Mikita Badziakouski: Another form players
At that stage of the game, Silver was doing an excellent job of winning pots with the worst hand, confessing "It's my lucky day." But he then got considering an important flip together with his friend and room-mate Yan that ended up with Yan taking just about all of Silver's hard-earned chips.
It was jacks against A♣Q♣ and the jacks won. That meant that Silver was left perilously short, after which couldn't win with Q♦9♦ against Oleksii Khoroshenin's A♥T♠.
Max Silver: Yan's room-mate took fourth
Khoroshenin were out and in of the chip lead so much during the last couple of days, but just when he might need hoped to push directly to the title, he made a unprecedented mis-step against Hajiyev. Those two had almost the very same sized chip-count--one big blind in it--when Khoroshenin decided to transport all-in with pocket threes.
The problem was that by that point, Hajiyev's A♠T♣ had hit another ten at the turn and Khoroshenin was toast.
Oleksii Khoroshenin: Out in third
Hajiyev headed into the head-up battle with about 400,000 more chips than Yan. However the man from Azerbaijan couldn't win a pot. Yan moved into the lead after which won the primary time they were all-in, coaxing an incredible bluff from Hajiyev after which picking it off brilliantly.
The full details of that hand, and all of the blow-by-blow action that led us there, may also be read at the live coverage page. There has been high drama from begin to finish and it's worth re-living.
"It feels really good," Yan said. "I'm pretty pleased with it. It's tough to explain, nevertheless it feels pretty nice. It's pretty cool."
This festival goes from strength to strength and the principle Event has only just begun. Persist with us all week.
EPT13 Malta €25,000 High Roller
Dates: October 21-23, 2016Players: 46Re-entries: 19Prize pool: €1,592,500
| 1 | David Yan | New Zealand | €465,800 | |
| 2 | Ramin Hajiyev | Azerbaijan | €334,400 | |
| 3 | Oleksii Khoroshenin | Ukraine | €217,400 | |
| 4 | Max Silver | United Kingdom | €164,030 | |
| 5 | Mikita Badziakouski | Belarus | €127,400 | |
| 6 | Ole Schemion | Germany | €98,740 | |
| 7 | Davidi Kitai | Belgium | €78,050 | |
| 8 | Patrick Leonard | United Kingdom | €60,500 | |
| 9 | Adrian Mateos | Spain | €46,180 |
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