After his elimination, Darren Rabanowich went to the Mystery Bounty treasure chest to try his luck with the SIX bounties he collected, hoping to score that sweet sweet €100,000.
Unfortunately, after all six attempts, he could not walk away with the grand prize but was able to take home the €10,000 bounty.
With only 8 bounties left (1-€100,000 1-€1,000 6-€500), four players still remain. With Gianluca Bernadini holding the most with three, things could get very interesting down the stretch, especially with the allure of that €100,000 bounty still floating around.
Gianluca Bernardini moved all in for 4,150,000 effective in the small blind. Mikolaj Zawadzki looked at his first card and said "first card good" before looking at his second card and calling for his tournament life.
Mikolaj Zawadzki:
Gianluca Bernardini:
Zawadzki was ahead with his pocket queens. The board ran out which gave him the double and left Bernardini with around 500,000.
A few hands later Bernardini moved all in for his last 450,000 from the cutoff. He was called by Tobias Peters in the big blind.
Gianluca Bernardini:
Tobias Peters:
Peters was ahead but the board came which put Bernardini in the driving seat. The turn came the which gave Bernardini two pair but gave Peters a gutshot. Peters called for the ten on the river and it came when the hit the board to eliminate the Italian in fourth place for €40,240.
Play was paused after the elimination of Gianluca Bernardini where players drew bounties. There were 4 draws. Bernardini pulled a €1,000 first. Then there were three more draws with them all being €500.
This means there is still three mystery bounties left. There is two €500 bounty and the grand bounty of €100,000.
Mikolaj Zawadzki moved all in from the small blind and Yordy Bakker in the big blind picked up a stack of chips and held them in the air dramatically.
"He's going to call," Zawadzki joked to his rail, "all in, call, just watch."
"All in ,call just watch," Bakker repeated, mocking Zawadzki in a comical voice as he still held the chips in the air.
Suddenly he slammed them on the table in a call, putting himself at risk.
Yordi Bakker:
Mikolaj Zawadzki:
The was in the window to give Bakker a pair of kings but the full flop was to give Zawadzki a set of fours, a gut punch for Bakker. The rest of the board ran out to secure Zawadzki's victory and eliminated Bakker in third place for a payout of €63,764.
Mikolaj Zawadzki moved all in from the small blind and Tobias Peters called for about 4,300,000 remaining.
Tobias Peters:
Mikolaj Zawadzki:
The flop came to pair the ace and give Peters a broadway draw. The turn was the and Peters was drawing only to a jack to survive but the river was the and Zawadzki was confirmed as the champion.
After defeating Tobias Peters in a heads-up battle, Mikolaj Zawadzki emerged victorious and is awarded with the coveted spade trophy and the first-place prize of €95,418.
Stay tuned for a full recap of the day's action along with a winner's interview.
PokerNews caught up with Zawadzki after his win to talk about his poker career. Zawadzki was joined by his rail which included Mateusz Moolhuizen who cheered him on throughout the final stages of the final table. Zawadzki said this is his biggest live tournament win but said he's had bigger scores online. Zawadzki said he'd swung between mid-stakes and high-stakes tournaments online with an average buy-in of $200 as well as playing cash games online.
€1,650 Mystery Final Table Results
Place
Player
Country
Prize
1
Mikolaj Zawadzki
Poland
€95,418
2
Tobias Peters
Netherlands
€83,498
3
Yordy Bakker
Netherlands
€63,764
4
Gianluca Bernardini
Italy
€40,240
5
Darren Rabinowitz
United States
€30,560
6
Christophe Devaux
France
€23,810
7
Emrah Yildiz
United Kingdom
€18,310
8
Lessa Calheiros Quintella
Brazil
€14,090
9
Mathias Duarte
Uruguay
€10,840
Action of the Day
The day started with 99 players remaining with them all being in the money and bounties being activated. Players dropped fast and Yassine El Ouahdanicollected five bounties before the first break. He tried his luck at the break and managed to secure the €75,000 bounty early in the day.
However the €100,000 eluded the players and was still up for grabs by the time of the final table. Before the later stages of the tournament Jason Wheeler was eliminated (27th- €3,480) as well as Julio Ribeiro(23rd- €4,010) who was eliminated in brutal fashion as Ezequiel Waigel rivered a set of sevens against his pocket aces.
The final started with the elimination of Mathias Duarte (9th-€10,840) who got in trouble when he slow played pocket queens against Zawadzki who turned a straight. The chips went in on the river and Duarte was eliminated. Next out was Lessa Calheiros Quintella (8th-€14,090) who started the final table second in chips but was second eliminated when his ace-queen couldn't hold against Gianluca Bernardini's queen-ten.
Emrah Yildiz lost a flip against Bernardini to be eliminated in seventh place for €18,310. Christophe Devaux (6th- €23,810) soon followed as the Frenchman as he shipped five big blind in from under the gun with jack-seven only to run into the queens of Zawadzki and the ace-jack of Bernardini to be eliminated in sixth.
Darren Rabinowitz (5th- €30,560) had been hoarding bounties all day as he saved up six before his ace-six lost to Bernardini's nine-five. Rabinowitz claimed his six bounties but was disappointed to not get his hands on the €100,000 grand prize.
Italian Bernardini (4th- €40,240) was next out in fourth when he shipped king-nine from the cutoff only to run into the queens of Zawadzki to be eliminated.
Play stopped as players drew for bounties but the €100,000 still remained. There were long talks of a deal where the remaining players who decided to ICM chop the regular prize pool as well as agreeing a gentleman's agreement to split the remaining €102,000 mystery bounty prize pool. The final three were left to play for the remaining €12,680 as well as the trophy.
Three-handed play lasted a while before Yordi Bakker (3rd- €63,764) called off Zawadzki's shove from the small blind with king-seven. He was up against Zawadzki's pocket fours and failed to hit to be eliminated in third.
Bakker's elimination set up a heads-up battle between Zawadzki and Peters. The pair battled on until Zawadzki pushed all in from the small blind and Peters called in the big. Zawadzki's ace-four held against Peters' king-ten to claim the title and his biggest live cash to date.
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