Ole Schemion Wins 2016 EPT Grand Final €100,000 Super High Roller for €1.6 Million

The 2016 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final €100,000 Super High Roller final table started with eight players, all in the money after Mike McDonald bubbled the event the night before. Guaranteed €236,750, they were all eying the €1,775,500 first-place prize.

Paul Newey started out with 250,000, the original amount of the starting stack that become just five big blinds. He doubled the first two hands and was right back in it, however, leaving the role of short stack to Ivan Luca. The Argentinian pro, known online under the moniker “Negriin”, would eventually be the first to go. He found jacks and no way of escaping against Mustapha Kanit’s queens. The two got it in before the flop and the board improved neither.

Next in line at the payout desk would be Sam Greenwood. He slowplayed kings and ended up hurt against Kanit’s rivered straight with the good ol’ nine-deuce.

“I played this hand really stupidly,” said Greenwood, before paying his neighbor off.

Not much later, down to just four big blinds, he pushed with seven-five suited, only to get called by Kanit with the dominating . Again, no help for the dominated, and the tournament was down another player.

With seven remaining, Kanit made the laydown of the tournament. Ole Schemion raised holding kings and was three-bet by Igor Kurganov who had king-queen. Kanit then four-bet with queens, but he folded to Schemion’s shove after Kurganov laid down his hand as well.

Schemion won some, not as much as he could have, but did show down a nice hand not much later. He called down Ali Reza Fatehi with just ace-high in …

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