Dinesh Alt takes €69,120 for first place in Hamburg
Dinesh Alt is the most recent champion at the Eureka Poker Tour, becoming the primary man from Switzerland to take a title at the tour that snakes through mainland Europe, and adding an incredible live victory to the TCOOP Main Event that he won under his online moniker "NastyMinder".
"Everything happened it's worthwhile to win a tournament," Alt said after his victory. That included having a girlfriend on a piece trip to Hamburg this week, which gave Alt reason to come back to northern Germany within the first place.
Alt took his seat on Day 1B this week, becoming the primary of a flurry of familiar faces to reach at the second starting day. For a while, he was sat on a table with Charlie Carrel, George Danzer and David Yan, all of whom are regulars on the highest-stakes tables within the world, but none of whom was still involved when the tournament reached its business end today.
The 25-year-old from Bern, Switzerland, was the shortest stack within the room when 22 players came back yesterday, but managed to duck and weave his approach to today's final, then land his punches at exactly the right moments.
"When I USED TO BE short, I waited for good spots," he said. "THE GREAT spots came and that i won every flip since then."
He was especially ruthless during a short lived heads-up battle against Ercan Atmaca, a Dutch player living in Germany, when Alt picked off all Atmaca's bluffs and was seemingly always ahead when he committed big portions of his stack.
Atmaca ended up moving all in with J♥5♠ at the final hand. Alt made a shrewd call with A♣2♦ and it held up. Alt takes €69,120 for the win, having refused to speak about a deal. Atmaca takes €43,790 for second.
Standing room only because the final table gets under way
The final table had an unusual dynamic at its start, with only 12 big blinds separating the most important stack from the shortest and nobody with the luxurious to play anything but a potentially tournament-defining pot.
Walid Abdi-Ali was the primary to surge up the leader board, profiting often from Erik Scheidt. But then Alt, who have been the fast stack for long periods, took it out on Abdi-Ali and put his own charge into motion.
Ismet Oral sat most of this out, with the shortest stack for the longest period, and it was proven to be a sensible strategy. He's going to have known that the dam must burst soon and was careful that it didn't sweep him away first.
The unfortunate man to first hit the rail turned out to be Marcel Schauenburg, whose other claim to fame this week was that he had played day-after-day. Three players within the field used their full allocation of potential buy-ins, firing on Days 1A, 1B and 1C. Schauenburg was the one one to make it to Day 4, but couldn't hoist the trophy.
He lost a huge flip with A♣Q♣ against Scheidt's pocket twos, after which Alt picked up the last shrapnel. Schauenburg won €15,590 for sixth.
Marcel Schauenburg eliminated
Such was the subtle nature of all this that despite benefiting from Schauenburg's misery, Scheidt was the following man out. He lost a flip with pocket fives when Oral's J♠T♥ made a straight. That sent Scheidt on the lookout for €20,260 from the second one Eureka Poker Tour final table of his career.
But lo and behold, Oral couldn't make those chips last very long. He tried to push Alt off an ace pre-flop with a large small-blind shove, but Alt made a shrewd call and the A♣6♥ stayed strong against Oral's K♣Q♦.
Oral had laddered up a few spots and took €25,600 for fourth.
Ismet Oral: Laddered to fourth
After playing for greater than two-and-a-half hours without an elimination, we quickly saw three in 20 minutes. After which another one immediately after the primary break of the day.
Abdi-Ali had slumped to short stack once they went three handed and got it in with K♦4♣. Atmaca made the best call along with his A♣J♠ and it stayed good.
Walid Abdi-Ali: Career high third place
That left the stacks evenly balanced when heads-up play began, but Alt's superior guile quickly paid dividends. He won a bit of chips when both players flopped a couple and turned two pair. And Alt could then afford to double up Atmaca when K♠J♠ beat J♦T♥.
But with Atmaca appearing to tire within the face of Alt's relentless precision, they went at it for the last time at around 7:10pm local time. Alt, as ever, was good.
Ercan Atmaca: Heads up defeat
Take a glance in the course of the live updates page for details of the way all of it went down.
Next up within the PokerStars universe is UKIPT Birmingham, which starts on Wednesday. Jake Cody, Liv Boeree and a tender man named Chris Moneymaker are booked to play within the last ever event under the UKIPT branding. Head to Birmingham to enroll in them.
Goodnight from Hamburg!
Eureka6 Hamburg Main Event
Dates: September 28-October 3Buy-in: €1,000+€100Entries: 367 (327 uniques, plus 40 re-entries)Prize pool: €355,990
| 1 | Dinesh Alt | Switzerland | €69,120 | |
| 2 | Ercan Atmaca | Netherlands | €43,790 | |
| 3 | Walid Abdi-Ali | Germany | €31,650 | |
| 4 | Ismet Oral | Germany | €25,600 | |
| 5 | Erik Scheidt | Germany | PokerStars qualifier | €20,260 |
| 6 | Marcel Schauenburg | Germany | €15,590 |
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