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It was a 13-day festival that set a new entry record for a single tournament here in Lichtenstein.
Hundreds, indeed over a thousand, of players battling it out at the tables for a fortnight, a guaranteed prize pool of 1 million Swiss francs that was far exceeded, and a splendid atmosphere in the enchanting setting of the Grand Casino Liechtenstein. In short: The Wolf Millionaire Main Event.
Out of 1,211 physical players, after a 4-way deal, @positive_chi managed to excel by taking home a first coin of CHF128,490:
‘It's an indescribable thrill,’ says the winner, hot on his heels. Since the event was advertised, I've wished to win it and it happened for real!’
And now let's go through all the highlights of the final table together, elimination by elimination, remembering that you can review the entire action in streaming on our YouTube channel right here ⤵️
The finalists
Here are the nine finalists with their respective starting stacks:
Besnik Lalinovci 28,850,000
Denis Zimmermann 15,200,000
@positiv_chi 13,450,000
Lukas Gonzalez 12,300,000
Guest 9,500,000
Leandro 9,500,000
Andreas Fröhli 7,675,000
EasyCall91 7,075,000
Christian Hertel 4,575,000
Payout
PLACE | PAYOUT |
1 | 201.570CHF |
2 | 115.390CHF |
3 | 75.400CHF |
4 | 53.230CHF |
5 | 39.280CHF |
6 | 30.890CHF |
7 | 24.150CHF |
8 | 16.860CHF |
9 | 13.820CHF |
Besnik Lalinovci is the 9th-place finisher
Blinds 300K/600K, ante 600K
Lalinovci opens from UTG1 with 7♠️ 7♦️ (18M stack) to 1.2M. Zimmermann from BTN (12M stack) 3-bets 3.5M. Lalinovci goes all in, and Zimmermann snap-calls.
BOARD: 2♦️ 9♣️ 4♣️ 8♠️ K♦️
A few hands later, we came to the epilogue: Gonzalez opens from BTN (stack 11M) with A ♠️ 10♠️, Lalinovci from SB with 10♣️ 9♣️ (stack 7M) goes all-in, and Gonzalez calls.
BOARD: K♥️ 4♥️ 8♣️ 10♦️ K♠️
Besnik Lalinovci is the 9th place finisher and collects a prize of CHF13,820.
Christian Hertel finishes in 8th place
Blinds 400K/800K, ante 800K
Leandro opens from the HJ (6.4M stack) with K♥️ J♠️, Hertel defends from the BB with 2♦️ 2 ♣️ (3M stack) and on the flop K♦️ 3 ♠️ 4♦️ donk-shoved his remaining 5 BB finding Leandro's instant call.
TURN: K♠️
RIVER: Q♣️
Christian Hertel folded in 8th place and took home CHF16,860.
Andreas Fröhli eliminated in 7th place
Blinds 400K/800K, ante 800K
Left with just 6BB Fröhli finds himself in a blind war against Gonzalez and raises 2.9M, leaving 1.2M behind with 9♠️ 6♦️ Gonzalez (17M stack) decides to take a gamble with 8♣️ 7♥️ and goes all-in. Fröhli calls, and it's a showdown.
BOARD: Q♥️ 7♠️ 8♥️ 2♥️ 6♠️
Andreas Fröhli has to settle for 7th place for CHF 24,150.
The six survivors now discuss a deal by checking the numbers with the Tournament Director.
6-way deal? No thanks
The survivors initially decided to split half of the remaining prize pool by ICM, leaving the proportions unchanged for the other half. This is how the first half should have been divided according to ICM.
Seat 1 Guest 34,680
Seat 2 EasyCall91 38,507
Seat 3 Leandro 36,960
Seat 5 @positiv_chi 35,387
Seat 6 Denis Zimmermann 56,439
Seat 7 Lukas Gonzalez 55,905
After about 45 minutes of waiting, however, the deal fell through and play continued with the payout unchanged.
Here is the stack situation when play resumed:
Zimmermann 25BB
Gonzalez 24BB
Leandro 11BB
Easycall91 10BB
Guest 9BB
@positiv_chi 8BB
Leandro is the 6th-place finisher
Blinds 600K/1.2M, ante 1.2M
Positiv_chi doubles up against Leandro, who from CO goes straight all-in with J♦️ J♣️ showing up at the showdown with K♦️ K♣️.
BOARD: K♥️ 3♥️ Q♣️ 9♠️ 9♦️
Left with just one and a half blinds, Leandro from UTG with 6♥️ 4 ♠️ goes all-in, finding Zimmermann's flat from CO with 6♦️5♦️ and Ospite from SB with 9♦️ 7♠️. The action goes check-to-check until the river, and Zimmermann scoops the pot.
BOARD: J♠️ K♣️ Q♣️ 5♥️ 8♠️
Leandro folds in 6th position for CHF30,890, and Zimmermann reinforces his lead by raising to 39M, about 32BB.
EasyCall91 closes in 5th place
Blinds 600K/1.2M, ante 1.2M
It was a fatal blinds war for EasyCall91, who, on the shove from SB of Guest (18M stack) with Q♣️ 8♥️, decided to call with K♣️ 5♥️ (4.5M stack).
BOARD: Q♥️ 6♣️ 9♠️ 8♣️ 9♦️
EasyCall91 comes out in 5th place and takes home CHF39,280. The 4 survivors ask for a break to discuss a deal again.
Here is the situation with 4 left:
@positiv_chi 34BB
Guest 20BB
Zimmermann 20BB
Gonzalez 14BB
4-way deal
After further discussion, the four survivors decided to deal like this: CHF 100,700 each and payout steps modelled on the (approximately) CHF 40,000 remaining.
CHF128,490
CHF110,700
CHF105,700
CHF100,700
Lukas Gonzalez finishes the race in 4th place
Blinds 800K/1.6M, ante 1.6M
@positiv_chi (stack 19M) opens with J♠️ 10♠️ from BTN, Gonzalez defends from BB with Q♦️ 9♣️ (stack 15M).
FLOP: 10♥️ 7♠️ 8♦️
@positiv_chi c-bets 5M, Gonzalez thinks about it and goes all-in for 15M, and his opponent calls
TURN: 8♥️
RIVER: 4♥️
Lukas Gonzalez is the fourth-place finisher for CHF100,700, while @positiv_chi is leading the count with a substantial lead over his opponents.
Denis Zimmermann ends up in third place
Blinds 1.3M/2.5M, ante 2.5M
Denis Zimmermann open-shoves from BTN with 9♠️ 7♠️ for about 14x, SB folds but @positiv_chi finds himself with 10♠️ 10♦️ from BB, and we go to showdown.
BOARD: 3♣️ A♥️ 5♣️ Q♣️ 3♦️
Denis Zimmermann is in third place for CHF105,700.
@positiv_who wins the Main Event, Ospite runner-up
Blinds 1.3M/2.5M, ante 2.5M
@positiv_chi opens from BTN with Q♦️J♥️ (83M stack) and Guest defends with J♦️ 10♣️ (23M stack).
FLOP: 10♥️ 9♠️ 6♣️ check to check
TURN: K♦️ Checks Guest, @positiv_chi bets 4M, Guest calls.
RIVER: 10♠️ Guest goes all-in for 13M, @positiv_chi calls, and it's game over!
Results
1 🇪🇸 @POSITIV_CHI CHF128,490 (after deal)
2 🇮🇹 OSPITE CHF110,700 (after deal)
3 🇨🇭 DENIS CIMMERMANN CHF105,700 (after deal)
4 🇪🇸 LUKAS GONZALEZ CHF100,700 (after deal)
5 🇦🇹 EASYCALL91 CHF39,280
6 🇨🇭 LEANDRO CHF30,890
7 🇨🇭 ANDREAS FRÖHLI CHF24,150
8 🇩🇪 CHRISTIAN HERTEL CHF16,860
9 🇨🇭 BESNIK LALINOVCI CHF13,820
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