Be Right Back
The tournament is on a short 10-minute break
The tournament is on a short 10-minute break
Level: 24
Blinds: 25,000/50,000
Ante: 5,000
He went from almost nothing to a monster chip lead and then back again. Keven Stammen's heads-up performance was impressive, but it finally ended with Benny Spindler's pocket aces crushing Stammen's pocket sevens.
Spinlder raised to 100,000 before the flop and Stammen three-bet all in. Spindler snap called and flipped the best starting hand.
Spindler:
Stammen:
Stammen needed the two remaining sevens in the deck to hit the board, but none of them came on the flop as the dealer opened . The turn brought and Stammen got up from his seat to congratulate his opponent. The on the river didn't change anything and Keven Stammen finished the tournament in second place and will collect €200,000 in prize money.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Benny Spindler |
4,200,000
880,000
|
880,000 |
Keven Stammen | Busted |
The 2012 PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Sanremo €10,000 High Roller has wrapped up, and emerging victorious was Benny Spindler to add to his EPT trophy case.
This victory marks Spindler's second EPT High Roller title, and third EPT title. He won the EPT Tallinn High Roller in 2011, and he also won the EPT London Main Event that same year. To claim this title, Spindler had to defeat a very tough final table, and endure a five-hour heads-up match with second-place finisher Keven Stammen.
Spindler began the day second in chips to Joel Nordkvist, but the Swede wound up finishing in third place. When the final duel began, Spindler held the chip lead with 3.409 million in chips to Stammen's 791,000.
After some battling back from Stammen, followed by a double up, the two were much closer to even and talks of a deal surfaced. After some jockeying of the numbers, the two agreed to do a deal where Spindler would take €223,000, Stammen would take €200,000, and then there was €30,000 left for the winner. Well, that winner wound up being Spindler to give him a total score of €253,000.
On the final hand, Stammen moved all in with the — a very good hand for heads-up play — but Spindler had picked up the mother of all hands with the . He even had Stammen's suits dominated. The board ran out to eliminate Stammen and give Spindler the title.
For his win, Spindler earned €253,000, the gorgeous trophy and the magnificent Shamballa Jewells bracelet.
Final Table Results
Place | Player | Prize |
---|---|---|
1 | Benny Spindler | €253,000 |
2 | Keven Stammen | €200,000 |
3 | Joel Nordkvist | €98,500 |
4 | Joseph Cheong | €74,100 |
5 | Kent Roed | €57,600 |
6 | Philipp Gruissem | €41,200 |
7 | Igor Kurganov | €32,900 |
8 | Igor Yaroshevskyy | €24,700 |
€10,000 High Roller
Day 3 Completed