Traian Bostan Wins Record-Breaking 2016 Unibet Open Bucharest (€100,000)

The biggest ever Unibet Open Main Event has determined a winner and it was local player Traian Bostan who completed a Cinderella-story to come back from less than four big blinds and emerge victoriously. A total of 603 players ponied up the buy-in of €1,100 to participate in the popular live tournament series in the Romanian capital of Bucharest, and it was Bostan who lifted the trophy in the Grand Ballroom of the stunning JW Marriott Bucharest Grand Hotel.

The final day saw 15 hopefuls return to the tables with Eli Heath in the lead. The Brit made it all the way to heads-up and eventually finished runner-up after a fierce duel for the title and payday of €100,000. While the home country made for the majority of participants, it was still impressive to see seven Romanians reach the final table. Dan Murariu’s attempt of making further history was halted in sixth place, it was the seventh final table of the two-time Unibet Open champion.

The first casualty of the final day was Nikita Malinovskiy who returned as one of the top five stacks. After losing some smaller pots, Murariu cracked his pocket queens with king-queen making a runner runner straight. The next hand, short stack William Hens shoved with ace-ten suited and Malinovskiy called all in from the small blind with king-nine suited. Neither player hit anything and ace-high scooped the pot for Hens.

Cristian Dan joined the short stacks early on and three-bet shoved with ace-jack in the second level of the day. He failed to improve against the pocket eights of Heath and made his way to the pay-out desk. Soon after, he was joined on the rail by Martin Wendt who called all-in with pocket deuces after a shove by Calusaru with ace-queen. An ace appeared on the flop and the Dane was eliminated in 13th place.

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