Toms Fuchs has won the $50,000 NLH High Roller at the WSOP Paradise for $1,292,000, cementing his arrival in the high roller community.
The Austrian has had a stellar year with five great cashes in $10,000+ events as a newcomer. Now it looks like he is here to stay.
Only last month he scored $762,000 at Triton Monte Carlo for a career best prize, now he’s gone and done it again.
He also came close in the $100,000 Triton Main Event earlier this month. $296,500 for 13th place was a second best score.
In his Winners interview, Fuchs said:
“When you start playing, you always dream about the bracelet. I can’t even fully realize that I won it yet, but it’s just amazing.
“I feel overwhelmed. This is one of my first high roller tournaments where I made the final table, and to be able to play it with Fedor and Muehloecker, getting to play with my friends, it’s crazy.”
Action Recap
As Day 2 began, 29 late entries joined the fray, bumping the field up to 130 in total. The prize pool was $6,500,000 to be paid out to the top 20 finishers.
There were plenty of big names vying for the title but many of them didn’t even come close to a min-cash of $105,370.
Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Bryn Kenney, Ike Haxton, and Kristen Foxen were just a few.
The action was piping hot from the get-go with knockouts coming thick and fast. Come bubble time, Fuchs managed to get paid with pocket aces, setting himself up well for the final stages.
Chris Hunichen was the unlucky soul to just miss out on a payday. Three-betting queens all-in will usually lead to some joy but when Artur Martirosian woke up with aces the money bubble burst and Big Huni was on his way to the rail.
Fedor Holz was the man in charge at this point. It didn’t take him long to start weaponising his big stack and knock a few players out , including Martirosian and Ben Tollerene.
Daniel Dvoress ended Day 1 with the chip lead but he was out in 12th place, narrowly missing out on a final table appearance.
Holz’s sun run didn’t continue into the final table stage, falling down to third with Leonard Maue taking over the lead.
Punnat Punsri was first to bust, coming off worse in a race against Holz. But then play calmed down with nobody leaving for a few levels.
This was the period where Fuchs really made his mark on the tournament, soon taking over the lead and extending it to the point he had double the chips of second place.
Santhosh Suvarna broke the deadlock, busting in eighth, closely followed by Fuchs dealing with Felipe Boianovsky, Holz, James Hopkins, and Maue.
This furious blitz left only the podium finishers still in action.
But Fuchs wasn’t finished!
Fuchs jammed for about 15 big blinds effective with Q♠ 9♠ and Moonho Seo folded. Thomas Muehloecker called off his last 15 big blinds with A♦ Q♣
The board ran out 10♣ K♦ 3♠ A♠ J♠ and it was time for heads-up play.
Sadly for those watching, this was never likely to be a classic match. From the 39,000,000 chips in play, Fuchs held 32,600,000 of them.
Seo did get one double-up but only a few hands later it was the Korean’s A♠ K♥ up against the Austrian’s 4♦ 4♥
The flop came 10♣ A♣ 4♠ giving Seo top pair but his opponent a set. The turn was the 8♠ followed by the 5♣ and Thomas Fuchs was a high roller champion in possession of his first WSOP bracelet.
WSOP Paradise $50,000 No Limit Hold’em Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize (USD) |
| 1 | Tom Fuchs | Austria | $1,292,000 |
| 2 | Moonho Seo | South Korea | $996,200 |
| 3 | Thomas Muehloecker | Austria | $768,170 |
| 4 | Leonard Maue | Germany | $592,340 |
| 5 | James Hopkins | Australia | $456,760 |
| 6 | Fedor Holz | Germany | $352,210 |
| 7 | Felipe Boianovsky | Brazil | $271,590 |
| 8 | Santhosh Suvarna | India | $209,420 |
| 9 | Punnat Punsri | Thailand | $161,480 |
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