Oliver Weis Continues Career Year With European Poker Tour Cyprus Main Event Triumph

This yr on the event circuit has been the perfect one but for Germany’s Oliver Weis. The 32-year-old has recorded the 2 largest dwell victories of his profession in 2024, each for seven-figure paydays. He additionally secured his first World Sequence of Poker gold bracelet, taking down the $5,000 brief deck throughout the WSOP On-line sequence.

Weis’ most up-to-date triumph noticed him outlast a area of 1,284 entries within the 2024 European Poker Tour Cyprus $5,300 buy-in no-limit maintain’em major occasion. He secured $1,030,000 because the champion, which was $17,817 shy of a brand new prime rating. For now the $1,047,816 he earned because the EPT Paris €10,300 buy-in champion again in February of this yr will stay his largest payday.

This newest seven-figure windfall grew Weis’ recorded earnings to greater than $5.2 million. Roughly half of that prize cash has been earned in 2024.

“I’m very glad. It is a robust grind,” Weis informed PokerStars TV’s Joe Stapleton within the winner’s interview.

Weis now sits in thirteenth place within the Card Participant Participant of the 12 months race standings introduced by World Poker. This newest win added 1,920 POY factors to his hail, bringing the full on the yr to 4,940. He has two POY-qualified wins and two extra final-table finishes.

The sturdy turnout for this occasion resulted in a $6,227,400 prize pool. The highest 191 finishers made the cash, with huge names like two-time bracelet winner Artur Martirosian (99th), EPT champion Nicolas Chouity (forty eighth), Biao Ding (thirty ninth), latest WSOP On-line major occasion fifth-place finisher Diogo Coelho (forty fifth), Victoria Livschitz (forty fourth), Fahredin Mustafov (thirty second), two-time bracelet winner Santhosh Suvarna (twenty first), Timo Kamphues (ninth), and 2023 runner-up of this occasion Andrea Dato (eighth) all operating deep.

The ultimate day started with Weis within the lead and simply six contenders remaining. Sweden’s Anton Wigg was the primary to fall. The 2010 EPT Copenhagen champion misplaced a traditional preflop race with pocket tens in opposition to the A-Okay of Mikhail Shalamov to complete sixth ($208,720). This was the fourth-largest rating of Wigg’s profession. He now has almost $4.9 million in lifetime earnings.

Bobby James’ run got here to an finish when he ran Okay-Q into the A-J Georgios Tsouloftas. Neither participant related with the nine-high runout and James was eradicated in fifth place ($271,400). This was by far the biggest dwell event displaying but for the British poker participant.

Ukraine’s Andriy Lyubovetskiy was eradicated in fourth place when he made a hero name for his event life with a rivered pair of deuces. Weis had moved all-in on the tip with prime two pair, which earned him the pot and the knockout. Lyubovetskiy headed to the payout window to gather his $353,100. This was his third-largest rating. The 2-time bracelet winner now has greater than $2.9 million in recorded cashes to his identify.

The subsequent huge showdown noticed Tsouloftas limp in from the small blind for 200,000 complete with A10. Russia’s Mikhail Shalamov moved all-in from the massive blind for five,375,000 with A7 and Tsouloftas referred to as. The board got here down 10827Q and Tsouloftas gained with a pair of tens and an ace kicker. Shalamov earned his first dwell six-figure rating ($459,000) because the third place finisher.

That arrange the prolonged heads-up showdown between Tsouloftas and Weis. The previous began with 29,075,000 to play with, whereas Weis had 9,425,000 when playing cards received again within the air.

The 2 went on to battle for a number of hours, with Weis capable of shut the hole because the night time wore on. He then overtook the lead by selecting off a multi-street bluff from Tsouloftas. Weis then received skinny worth with third pair in opposition to king excessive earlier than selecting off one more bluff to go away Tsouloftas with simply 12 huge blinds.

The chips have been quickly all within the center with Tsouloftas’ Okay2 going through Q7 for Weis. The board got here down 74355 and Weis made sevens and fives to win the pot and the title. Tsouloftas earned $642,300 because the runner-up, a career-best for the Cyprus native.

Here’s a have a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the ultimate desk:

Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors

1
Oliver Weis
$1,030,000
1920

2
Georgios Tsouloftas
$642,300
1600

3
Mikhail Shalamov
$459,000
1280

4
Andrey Lyubovetskiy
$353,100
960

5
Robert James
$271,400
800

6
Anton Wigg
$208,720
640

7
Anton Kraous
$160,500
480

8
Andrea Dato
$123,400
320

9
Timo Kamphues
$94,940
160

Photograph credit: Rational Mental Holdings Ltd. / Manuel Kovsca.