Late last night, Ann-Roos Callens became the winner of the special QueenRules Ladies Event! Callens defeated Dehlia de Jong heads-up to claim the Unibet QueenRules Ladies Event trophy.
Today, Callens came back to collect said trophy and shoot her winner's photo. We caught up with Callens after the ceremony, who was sporting a big smile.
"It went smooth, real smooth. My good hands remained ahead," she said about the tournament where she held a big stack throughout most of it.
"It took a bit of adjusting to the QueenRules," she mentioned about the special ruleset that has queen outranking the king. "There was one hand where I had pocket queens and another player had ace-king. The flop was king-seven-three, but my hand was still best. That takes time to adjust to."
"I'm part of the Ladies at Unibet Poker facebook group and this is my 4th of 5th Unibet Open. It's nice that it's a smaller event, you recognize people. It's fun!" Callens said with a big smile.
QueenRules Ladies Event
For runner-up De Jong, it was her third second-place at a Unibet Open Ladies Event, making her the proverbial bridesmaid again. Behind Callens and De Jong, Unibet ambassador and host Daiva Byrne claimed the bronze medal. The "Baltic Blonde" was delighted after the event.
"It was a very successful event with 29 runners. With players from 10 different countries, it was a truly international game with a great fun atmosphere, with specially made QueenRules cupcakes and free-flowing prosecco for the participants. The field included some women playing live tournament poker for the very first time, and two of them made it to the final table with one cashing," Byrne smiled.
"Everyone enjoyed the QueenRules concept and, fittingly, Ann won the tournament with a Queen in for €890. We can't wait for the next ladies event in Bucharest, which will be even bigger and just as much fun!"
The Unibet Poker QueenRules Ladies Event attracted a total of 28 runners, with one player reentering to create the total field of 29. Ann-Roos callens won the event for €890, Dehlia de Jong finished runner-up for €500 and Daiva Byrne was third for €380. There were also prices for Unibet Esporter Lisa "STPeach Vannatta and Monika Zukowicz.
Unibet Poker QueenRules Ladies Event Results
Place
Winner
Country
Prize (EUR)
1
Ann-Roos Callens
Belgium
€890
2
Dehlia de Jong
Netherlands
€500
3
Daiva Byrne
Lithuania
€380
4
Lisa "STPeach" Vannatta
Canada
€280
5
Monika Zukowicz
Poland
€220
QueenRules Ladies Event Final Table
Photos courtesy of Tambet Kask & Elena Vareiko / Unibet Open
Frederic Philippe was all in for 54,400 holding and was up against . The board ran out safe for the Frenchman with and he doubled up.
Ilkka Heikkila was all in for 85,400 with and was facing a major sweat against Toby Locke's when the money went in on a flop. The turn and river bricked for Locke and Heikkila scored a big double.
Down to 59,000, Rauno "Estonian Jesus" Tahvonen found in the small blind and raised all in after an open from middle position. His adversary snap-called with and the board didn't bring any help for the Unibet ambassador.
A preflop raising war ensued between start-of-the-day chipleader Daniel Jacobsen and Ian Simpson which had the latter take over the chip lead mantle from the former. After Jacobsen had raised in early position, Simpson was the one to three-bet to 18,500 from the cutoff. Jacobson cut out a four-bet to 42,000, to which Simpson responded with a five-bet to 78,500.
Jacobsen took around twenty seconds before giving up his hand and slipped to 240,000, while Simpson moved up to 280,000.
A short-stacked Tamas Varszegi was all in with his last chips holding against the of Are Pedersen. The board came and Varszegi bowed out early in level 12. Dmytro Gukov was also all in and at risk but doubled up with against the of Roberto Morra.
Meanwhile, Ian Simpson kept the pressure on with a four-bet shove after Ivar Aaberg had three-bet to 18,500 on the button. Aaberg folded and Simpson stacked up some more chips.
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