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Dario Sammartino looks at Hossein Ensan as they play a hand at the final table of the World Series of Poker main event. (AP Photo/John Locher)Source:AP
Germany’s Hossein Ensan outlasted Italy’s Dario Sammartino and Canada’s Alex Livingston to claim the $10 million title at the 50th World Series of Poker Main Event in Las Vegas.
The 55-year-old native of Iran who immigrated to Germany 30 years ago became the oldest world poker champion in 20 years when he won the 301st hand at the final table to finish off Sammartino after nearly eight hours of play.
It was quite the climax. Ensan — who had 345.5 million in chips to Sammartino’s 169.5 million before the final hand — raised pre-flop with pocket kings but his opponent called with 8-4 spades.
The flop was 10 of spades, two of diamonds and six of spades, leaving Sammartino one spade away from a flush. The turn was a nine of clubs, which opened the possibility of a straight for the Italian if the river was a seven.
After 100 hands of heads up poker against Ensan, Sammartino decided to go all-in. There were 12 outs that would have saved him — any spade or a seven.
In dramatic scenes, both men walked away from the table as the river — a queen of clubs — was drawn. Ensan had won.
Kings hold and Hossein Ensan wins the 2019 @WSOP Main Event for $10,000,000! 🇩🇪🥇💰 pic.twitter.com/bIX0setWs3
— Poker Central (@PokerCentral) July 17, 2019It’s the first time since 2014 the winner has come from outside the United States and third time ever the title has gone to an Iranian-born competitor. “Unbelievable,” said Ensan, who now lives in Greven, Germany.
He was making his first appearance in the Main Event with a previous total of $2.67 million in career earnings.
“I am so happy. I thank my fans at home in Germany, also in Iran and my fans, my buddies here. This is the best feeling in my life,” he said, after claiming the winning hand when Sammartino pushed his chips all in at 1.24am at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip.
Ensan, wearing a white crew neck T-shirt with poker sponsor patches, and Sammartino in a black tuxedo exchanged numerous smiles and a congratulatory fist bump at one point in the good-natured contest down the stretch.
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Sammartino, 32, who is originallyfrom Naples and now lives in Vienna, Austria, won $6 million for second place in the 11-day tournament that began July 3 with a field of 8569 — the second largest field in the 50-year history of the event.
He was bidding to become its first Italian-born champion and now has won more than $8 million in his professional poker career.
Hossein Ensan poses with the bracelet after winning the World Series of Poker main event. (AP Photo/John Locher)Source:AP
Livingston, 32, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, pocketed $4 million for third. The former chess champion who studied economics at Tufts University outside Boston finished 13th in the 2013 World Series of Poker and now has $4.65 million in career earnings in the event.
Garry Gates of Henderson, Nevada, a survivor of the 2017 mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip, took home $3 million for finishing fourth the night before.
Kevin Maahs of Chicago got $2.2 million for fifth. Sydney’s Warwick Mirzikinian was the highest ranked Australian in 20th overall, pocketing $324,650.
Ensan, who also won a diamond-encrusted gold bracelet, entered the final night with a commanding lead holding 60 per cent of the chips in play among the three international finalists.
Sammartino took the lead briefly for the first time late Tuesday more than three hours into the final round — bringing his fans in “Super Dario” T-shirts to their feet — and Livingston was eliminated about 15 minutes later.
But Esan stormed back to take the lead about 90 minutes later and never looked back on his way to becoming the oldest champion since Noel Furlong won the title in 1999 at age 62.
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It was the first time in 27 years a native Iranian has won. Mansour Matloubi won in 1990 and Hamid Dastmalchi in 1992.
Bovada Poker´s annual tournament series will take place between 1st and 31st March, with an extra $108,000 guaranteed special event scheduled for this Sunday.
Bovada Poker´s annual tournament series will take place between 1st and 31st March, with an extra $108,000 guaranteed special event scheduled for this Sunday.
U.S.-based fans of valuable online poker tournaments have not been starved of opportunities recently due to the Winning Poker Network´s OSS Cub3d series. However, at the start of March, OSS Cub3d enters its “Bigger” high rollers leg – pricing many players out of the action. Fortunately, an alternative exists in the form of Bovada Poker´s Black Diamond Poker Open series (BDPO) which gets underway on Friday 1st March and runs through until Sunday 31st March.
Although the eighth edition of BDPO does not feature so many valuable tournaments as the Winning Poker Network´s equivalent, players will have the opportunity to compete in more than 130 events throughout March at Bovada Poker (review); which, between them, will see more than $4 million on the tables. Furthermore, players looking for an early piece of Black Diamond action have a special warm up event to look forward to this coming Sunday offering a $108,000 prize pool (GTD).
BDPO Schedule Released Next Monday
The actual BDPO schedule will not be common knowledge until next week, but what we know so far is that the series will include the regular mix of Hold´em and Omaha tournaments with a wide range of buy-ins. In addition to a Main Event with a prize pool guarantee of $300,000 on Sunday 31st March, the site will be hosting an $88,000 Mini Main Event two hours earlier. The regular Sunday $100K tournaments are also having their guarantees increased throughout the series.
As usual, the series will be supported by a comprehensive satellite schedule consisting of satellites, sub-satellites, and Sit & Go qualifiers – with a two-stage Sit & Go Steps program launching next week that feeds into the BDPO Main Event. There will also be the popular “Cheap Seats” sub-satellites running around the clock, with buy-ins starting at $1.00 to give players of all bankroll levels the opportunity to qualify for a big event.
Black Diamond Special Event this Sunday
Ahead of the schedule being released, Bovada Poker has scheduled a BDPO warm up event on Sunday (24th February) in place of the regular $100K tournament. The event will start eight minutes later than usual at 4:08pm (all times ET), and will be guaranteed for $108,000 – the frequent references to the number eight throughout the series representing the eighth time Bovada Poker has run a Black Diamond Poker Open series.
The tournament will have the regular buy-in of $162, but when players sit down at the table, they will find an extra 2,000 chips in their stacks (12,000 instead of the usual 10,000 chips). Although the tournament structure will be no different from the regular Sunday $100K tournament, late registration is being extended by a couple of levels to mid-way through Level 17. However, players leaving it until the last minute to enter will find their chip stacks are only worth the equivalent of six Big Blinds.
BDPO Special Supported by a Host of Satellites
Players looking to maximize the value from this Sunday´s tournament should head to the Bovada Poker tournament lobby and use the filter to find the satellites for the BDPO event. Direct satellites run throughout the day with buy-ins ranging from $7.70 to $22.00. There will also be some cheaper sub satellites available with buy-ins of $1.00 that feed into a $17.00 satellite for the main event. These are already proving to be popular, so visit Bovada Poker today before the satellite lobby gets too congested.
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