888 Weekly: Nitsche Celebrates Third-Place WSOP Finish, Tallinn to Host 888Live Event
The newest addition to Team 888Poker's Ambassador line-up, Dominik Nitsche, finished third in the 2015 World Series of Poker Event #25: $5,000 Eight-handed No Limit Hold'em earlier this week.
Nitsche, who comes from Germany, took home $220,657 for that finish, narrowly losing out to first-place finisher and bracelet winner Jeffrey Tomlinson, who took home $567,724. The event had 493 players and generated a prize pool of £2,317,100.
Following his latest win Nitsche said: "There wasn't much more I could have done today. I'm pretty excited with my third place finish."
His plans for the rest of the WSOP? "$1k no-limit events - I'm usually quite good at those. Two of my bracelets are in $1k events. They're my specialty."
Sweden's Sofia Lövgren Hunts WSOP Cash
Another Team 888Poker Ambassador, Sofia Lövgren, is also in Las Vegas, and she is barely halfway through her list of scheduled events. Unfortunately, she busted her first event, the Event #16: $1,500 "Millionaire Maker" No-Limit Hold'em KxKx vs. AxAx, but Lovgren has a whole host of events left to enter leading up to the Main Event on July 6. These include the $1,000 Ladies Event and Event #61: $1,111 "Little One for One Drop" No-Limit Hold'em.
Lovgren cashed in the Ladies Event three years ago and will be looking to build on an earlier cash this series when she finished 178th in the Event #20: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em.
888Live Local to Kick Off in Tallinn on June 26
Later this month 888Live heads to the Estonian capital of Tallinn for its tenth Live Local Series of 2015. The tournament runs from June 26-28 and will be held at Tallinn's distinguished Casino Olympic, the city's largest and busiest casino.
Tallinn has been the site of many prominent poker events in the past and is one of Europe's most charming historical tourist spots. The event will offer a €20,000 GTD prize pool and is expected to attract a range of diverse players, especially from Scandinavia and Eastern Europe.
Read also: Discover One of Europe's Best Kept Secrets With the Next 888Live Local
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Based in the United Kingdom, Will started working for PokerNews as a freelance live reporter in 2015 and joined the full-time staff in 2019. He graduated from the University of Kent in 2017 with a B.A. in German. He also holds an NCTJ Diploma in Sports Journalism.
