After the 2024 PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague kicked off on December 4, and the €12,300 Cuatro Knockout supplied gamers their second probability after the €10,200 Thriller Bounty to affix the motion in a excessive buy-in occasion forward of this week’s Excessive Rollers.
An intimate 11 entries had been recorded—far fewer than the 62 registrations within the inaugural version final August in Barcelona. In Catalonia, Steve O’Dwyer claimed the spade trophy and got here near attaining back-to-back wins by reaching the heads-up stage right here on the Hilton Prague.
Regardless of being on successful type after education college students in a €5 School Poker Event (that is not a typo within the buy-in) final month, O’Dwyer’s pursuit of one other victory was thwarted by Yauheni Tsiareshchanka, who was topped the champion. Tsiareshchanka claimed the first-place prize of €60,000 and all three €12,000 bounties after eliminating Niklas Astedt in third place and O’Dwyer in second place (€32,525). The third bounty was Tsiareshchanka’s personal bounty.
€12,300 Cuatro Knockout Outcomes
Immediately’s Motion
Removed from the Eureka Most important Occasion’s motion and its 1,211 entries, a smaller group gathered for the €12,300 Cuatro Knockout.
This quantity features a reentry by Steve O’Dwyer, who turned the primary participant eradicated early within the day. He later doubled by way of Mario Navarro, who was despatched to the rail shortly afterward. Scott Margereson suffered an analogous destiny nearly concurrently, bluffing into Yauheni Tsiareshchanka’s set.
Espen Jorstad was the subsequent to fall, working into Viacheslav Buldygin’s pocket aces. This hand propelled Buldygin into the chip lead earlier than the subsequent break. Nonetheless, the next two hours didn’t go as deliberate for him.
First Tsiareshchanka doubled up by way of him with a superior straight. Buldygin managed to double his stack twice within the following arms, however his momentum got here to an finish simply earlier than the dinner break after Tsiareshchanka caught him bluffing. His exit marked the shut of late registration for the match with 4 remaining gamers, as Artsiom Lasouski and Maksim Vaskresenski had been eradicated as nicely.
After the dinner break, it took just a few minutes for Teun Mulder to hit the rail. His king-jack fell to O’Dwyer’s ace-queen, leaving simply three gamers to battle it out with bounties now in play.
Nonetheless, Niklas Astedt didn’t get the prospect to hunt for one, as his flush bumped into the eventual winner’s full home. For “Lena900,” it was a double blow, as he not solely missed out on a bounty however was additionally eradicated on the bubble.
Now within the cash, O’Dwyer began the heads-up play with the shortest stack however shortly took the chip lead. Nonetheless, simply half an hour into the ultimate duel, all of the chips went into the pot, with Tsiareshchanka doubling up with a full home in opposition to O’Dwyer’s two pair.
Left with solely three huge blinds, O’Dwyer managed to save lots of himself as soon as, however on the second try, Tsiareshchanka received the flip and clinched the match victory.
