Germany’s Van Hiep Tran Ships the WPTN Rozvadov Main Event at King’s Casino for €68,081

Yesterday, Germany’s Van Hiep Tran outlasted a field of 339 entrants to win the partypoker World Poker Tour National (WPTN) Rozvadov Main Event at King’s Casino Czech Republic for €68,081.

The event easily eclipsed its guarantee of €200,000 with 339 entrants (296 entries + 43 reentries) ponying up the €1,100 buy-in to generate a huge €330,101 prize pool.

The tournament kicked off on August 5 with the first of its two opening days. Players began the day with 30,000 opening chips and were able to rebuy once on each day. Additionally, players that survived Day 1a were allowed to reenter on Day 1b on August 6 and bring their best stack forward when the surviving players returned for action on Day 2 on August 7.

The action whittled down to 19 players to start the final day of action on August 8 with the eventual winner, Tran, holding a commanding chip lead. Soon after play began, one of Czech Republic’s biggest names in poker along with a regular at King’s Casino in Martin Kabrhel was the first player eliminated to bank the 19th place prize of €3,268.

Including Kabrhel, five players from five different countries were eliminated during the first blind level on Day 3, including Germany’s Bernd Alexander Rygol ((18th – €3,730), Spain’s Adrian Quevedo (17th – €3,730), Hungary’s István Nagy (16th – €3,730), and Netherland’s Luuk Krabbe (15th – €4,357).

The international affair continued on as the final table bubble began to approach with players from two more different countries being the next to exit including Poland’s Lukasz Jankowski (14th – €4,357) and Sweden’s …

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