One week in the past, Jovan Kenjic shined below the spotlights of EPT Monte-Carlo, ending in fourth place of the €5,300 Fundamental Occasion for €340,500. After this ultimate desk, he flew to the Benefit Royal Diamond Lodge in Northern Cyprus, hoping for extra deepruns. However greater than one other deeprun, he grew to become the brand new champion of the $10,400 Mediterranean Poker Social gathering Excessive Curler.
Out of a discipline of 159 entrants, he bagged a giant stack on the finish of Day 1 and managed to make his method to the ultimate desk on Day 2. And after a “harder ultimate desk than in Monte-Carlo,” he lifted the trophy and received $365,000, his new greatest money. His final opponent, Aleksandr Kirichenko, goes again dwelling with $250,000 for his second place.
$10,400 Mediterranean Poker Social gathering Excessive Curler
Winner’s Response
Surrounded by his mates, Jovan Kenjic could not cease smiling when he posed for the winners images. “It feels excellent to lastly shut a event like this. To win a reside event in poker is a as soon as in a lifetime factor,” he mentioned a couple of minutes after he received the event.
His as soon as in a lifetime victory virtually occurred final week in Monte-Carlo when he reached the ultimate desk. However the future winner Derk van Luijk was on his manner, and Kenjic’s event got here to finish in fourth place for €340,500 after a flip with ace-king towards jacks.
Right here in Cyprus, he managed to carry all of the substances collectively to lastly take the primary place. “As we speak I received all-ins and in Monte-Carlo I misplaced, mainly that is it” he defined, earlier than going into extra particulars: “I simply had higher playing cards. I used to be good at all-ins, good at bluffing and good at bluff catching. That is what I wanted to do to win the event.”
After he received greater than €700,000 in two tournaments, what might Kenjic hope for extra sooner or later? “I hope I will go to Vegas however I’ve to sort things earlier than. If not I will play on-line and examine” he mentioned, earlier than becoming a member of his mates to have fun his victory.
Day 2 Motion
33 gamers out of the 159 entrants got here again on Day 2 of the $10,400 MPP Excessive Curler with the $365,000 first-place prize of their minds. Nonetheless, the primary purpose of the day was to discover a spot within the 23 locations within the cash. However gamers like Weiran Pu, Jon Vallinas Santos or Boris Kolev failed to achieve these locations, as they have been shortly eradicated.
After Damir Zhugralin misplaced a flip to be despatched to the rail, 24 gamers ultimately began to the hand for hand play, and particularly Ehsan Amiri who doubled up not as soon as however twice on the bubble. On the identical time, Aleksandr Zubov folded, hoping for an elimination. However sooner or later, he was compelled to go all-in from the massive blind and was eradicated by Timo Kamphues‘ aces to develop into the bubble-boy of the event.
As soon as within the cash, Andrey Pateychuk (twenty third) misplaced with ace-jack towards Aleksandr Kirichenko’s ace-king to win the minimal cash-prize of $17,000. He was adopted by Radoslav Stoyanov (twenty second, $17,000), Roman Gadzhiev (twenty first, $18,500), Igor Pihela Jr (twentieth, $18,500), Nikita Kuznetcov (nineteenth, $18,500), Ermanno Di Nicola (18th, $21,500) and David Miscikowski (seventeenth, $21,500) who have been all eradicated… in lower than quarter-hour!
Left with only a few blinds after Kamphues doubled up towards him, Gleb Tremzin was eradicated shortly after the two-table redraw (sixteenth, $21,500). Samuel Ju (fifteenth, $25,000), then Viktor Ustimov (14th, $25,000), and Mehdi Chaoui (thirteenth, $25,000) did not final for much longer within the event. All of them had brief stacks, which wasn’t the case for Anatolii Gusev, who was on his method to win a giant pot with queens. Nonetheless, Michel Molenaar hit a set on the river with nines to ship him to the rail.
After a brand new break, one desk grew to become the function desk, and many of the motion occurred there with the eliminations of Kamphues (eleventh, $29,000) and Anatoly Nikitin (tenth, $29,000), who misplaced the flip for the ultimate desk.
The 9 final gamers sat across the ultimate desk after a brief dinner break, nevertheless it took greater than an hour to see the primary eliminations. However a single one wasn’t sufficient, so each Stoyan Madanzhiev (eighth, $45,000) and Ehsan Amiri (ninth Place, $34,400) have been eradicated on the identical time by Kirichenko’s two pair. Shortest stack after the double elimination, Dmitry Zakharov could not do a lot towards Molenaar’s queens and he completed in seventh place for $58,000. Anvar Muratov (sixth, $75,000) was much more unfortunate, as he discovered a set on the flip when Kirichenko hit a straight.
Nikita Kalinin was subsequent to go to the cashier (fifth, $95,000), and he was joined by Michel Molenaar (4th, $122,000), who began the day because the chip chief. He let Marcin Dziubdziela, Jovan Kenjic and Aleksandr Kirichenko play for the win, however Dziubdziela (third, $165,000) was out of the race after Kenjic known as his stack on the flop and hit two pair on the flip.
Kirichenki and Kenjic remained, and so they began the final duel with even stacks. However Kenjic shortly too the lead and even had a primary alternative to win the event. Kirichenko doubled up, so the playing cards went on their backs once more a number of fingers later. And this time, Kenjic was in a position to ship Kirichenko to the rail to win the event.
