Samuel Vousden aka “€urop€an“ has reached Mount Olympus of online tournament players by winning his first bracelet in the prestigious WSOP 2021 Online Event #16: $1,050 WSOP GGMasters HR Freezeout NLH for $274,519.
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Samuel Vousden better known as “€urop€an” online is a force, when it comes to online poker tournaments.
What he was missing so far was a big, prestigious title, but that has changed now as Vousden has won his first WSOP bracelet.
The Finnish high stakes crusher left a huge field of 2,240 players behind him to take home the $274,519 first place prize.
Another big name on the final table was Russian online regular Sergei Denisov, who busted in 6th place for $65,098.
Now the way was free from “€urop€an”, who started the FT only eighth in chips and Sam indeed made it all the way to heads-up play, where he faced Chinese pro Quibing Wang and a 1.5 to 1 chip deficit.
However, Samuel Vousden quickly took control, when heads-up play started scooping back to back pots to take a big chip lead of almost 3 to 1. Soon after Wang open-shoved short with 85 and Vousden called with KQ:
The flush on the turn sealed the deal for Samuel Vousden and by winning a prestigious WSOP bracelet “€urop€an” now officially ranks among the best poker tournaments on the planet.
Radmir Sadirov from Russia wins Event #18: $5,000 Short Deck Championship for $169,111
It was a stacked final table as the three top pros Joao “Naza114” Viera, Daniel Dvoress and Sam Greenwood all had the chance to win their second bracelet.
144 players had generated a nice $684,000 prize pool with a whopping $169,111.
Even though there were much bigger names on the final table, Russian player Radmir Sadirov was the big favourite, since he had a massive chip lead.
In fact, Sadirov held almost as many chips as all his six opponents combined!
Chip counts at the start of the final table:
The top pros, especially Portuguese online legend Joao “Naza114”, who is the biggest online poker tournament winner of all time with an incredible $25.39M in online winnings put up a hard fight.
Viera made it all the way to heads-up play and even was able to convert a 2 to 1 chip deficit into a temporary 2 to 1 chip lead.
Naza’s second WSOP bracelet seemed so close, but then Radmir Sadirov doubled up and took back control. Soon after all the chips went into the middle preflop with the Russian being a massive favourite:
The gutshot on the flop gave Joao Viera four outs, but they didn’t come and Radimir Sadirov is the Champion of WSOP Online 2021 Event #18: $5,000 Short Deck Championship for a staggering $169,111.
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