EPT Online 14: $215 NLHE [EPT Online Cup]
Day 2 Completed
2020 PokerStars EPT Online
EPT Online 14: $215 NLHE [EPT Online Cup]
Day: 2
Event Info
Level 42
: 400,000/800,000, 100,000 ante
It would take Dominik "Bounatirou" Nitsche just over six hours to take down the PokerStars EPT Online 14: $215 NLHE [EPT Online Cup] for $82,093 and another EPT Spade trophy. The tournament attracted 2,041 unique players who reentered 792 times to get to a total of 2,833 entries. All those entries created a prize pool of $566,600.
Nitsche has almost $19 million in live tournament cashes and you can add another $6 million on top of that in online results to get him to a total of $25,000,000 in results in the tournament scene. Other familiar players to take a seat at the final table included Tomasz "Sphinx87" Cybulski and Luis "luis_faria" Faria.
PokerStars EPT Online 14: $215 NLHE [EPT Online Cup] Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dominik "Bounatirou" Nitsche | Germany | $82,093 |
| 2 | "acapulcoo" | Poland | $58,517 |
| 3 | "AKecho" | Georgia | $41,713 |
| 4 | "kosilkO" | Belarus | $29,734 |
| 5 | "Dolleman12" | The Netherlands | $21,196 |
| 6 | Tomasz "Sphinx87" Cybulski | Poland | $15,109 |
| 7 | "PTStar86" | The Netherlands | $10,770 |
| 8 | "AlKatzone9" | Germany | $7,677 |
| 9 | Luis "luis_faria" Faria | Portugal | $5,473 |
From 130 players to the Final Table
All players had secured at least $716 but were all looking to climb up the pay ladder but that road wasn't going to be easy. The many hurdles on the road to the final table brought an end to the tournament runs of players like Olli "Er?_Koira" Ikonen, Andrey "ThePateychuk" Pateychuk, Marty "TheLipoFund" Mathis, Elliot "4rebmun" Smith, Ognyan "cocojamb0" Dimov, Luigi "Il-Giuglia" D'Alterio, Manig "swordfish007" Loeser, and Andrey "kot_spartac" Kotelnikov.
Carter "cswidler" Swidler fell in fourteenth place when he ran his kings into the aces of "kosilkO" to get the latter to the the top spot int he chip counts. Nitsche took out "dimitri004" and Pablo "PabloPool12" Roman before Cybulski took out "Lukin Dan" as the final table bubble.
Nitsche Dominates the Final Table
Cybulski took out Faria too soon after the final table started while "AlKatzone9" fell to Nitsche who then crept up to second place in the counts. He kept the pressure on to then take the chip lead and never really looked back much anymore.
He took out Cybulski and "PTStar86" out in the same hand when he found aces. Cybulski's kings and the ace-queen of "PTStar86" couldn't find any help on the board for Nitsche to score the double elimination and own 40% of all the chips in play with five players left in the tournament.
Nitsche kept the pressure on to get to almost 75% of all the chips in play. "Dolleman12" busted to "AKecho". Both "acapulcoo" and "AKecho" both doubled up once before "kosilkO" busted in fourth place to the German. Now he held 80% of all the tournament chips, he doubled up both players several more times before "AKecho" to fall to Nitsche's pocket tens.
With a huge chip lead in his hands, things couldn't go wrong anymore, he kept pushing and in the end, "acapulcoo" called the shove of Nitsche for their last seven big blinds with ace-trey. Nitsche held ten-nine and even though "acapulcoo" turned two pair on the queen-king-queen-trey board, the nine on the river gave Nitsche the higher ones to win the tournament.
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Level 42
: 400,000/800,000, 100,000 ante
Dominik "Bounatirou" Nitsche shoved from the button for "acapulcoo" to call for the 5,611,429 they had behind.
"acapulcoo": 
Dominik "Bounatirou" Nitsche: 
The board ran out 
for Nitsche to river two pair to win the tournament for $82,093 while "acapulcoo" walks away in second place for $58,517.
A recap is to follow.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
141,650,000
5,711,429
|
5,711,429 |
|
Busted |
Level 42
: 400,000/800,000, 100,000 ante
"acapulcoo" called on the button and Dominik "Bounatirou" Nitsche opted to check.
The flop came 
, Nitsche check-raised the 800,000 bet of "acapulcoo" to 2,400,000 and was called.
The turn was the 
, they both checked to the 
on the river. Nitsche bet 3,630,000 and "acapulcoo" called but mucked when Nitsche tabled the 
for top pair.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
135,938,571
11,400,000
|
11,400,000 |
|
|
5,711,429
-11,400,000
|
-11,400,000 |
Level 42
: 400,000/800,000, 100,000 ante
Dominik "Bounatirou" Nitsche raised to 1,600,000 from the button and "AKecho" three-bet shoved from the big blind for 26,270,500 which Nitsche called.
"AKecho": 
Dominik "Bounatirou" Nitsche:
The board ran out 
for Nitsche to flop a set to eliminate "AKecho" in third place.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
124,538,571
28,875,250
|
28,875,250 |
|
|
17,111,429
-83,375
|
-83,375 |
|
Busted |
Level: 42
Blinds: 400,000/800,000
Ante: 100,000
Level 41
: 350,000/700,000, 87,500 ante
Dominik "Bounatirou" Nitsche shoved from the small blind and "acapulcoo" called in the big blind for the 8,466,152 they had behind.
"acapulcoo": 
Dominik "Bounatirou" Nitsche: 
The board ran out 
for "acapulcoo" to stay alive.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
95,663,321
-7,112,527
|
-7,112,527 |
|
|
28,791,875
-1,528,625
|
-1,528,625 |
|
|
17,194,804
8,641,152
|
8,641,152 |
Level 41
: 350,000/700,000, 87,500 ante
Dominik "Bounatirou" Nitsche shoved from the button and "AKecho" called in the big blind for the 14,854,000 they had behind.
"AKecho":
Dominik "Bounatirou" Nitsche: 
The board ran out 
for "AKecho" to flop top pair to double up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
102,775,848
-12,306,000
|
-12,306,000 |
|
|
30,320,500
18,868,500
|
18,868,500 |
|
|
8,553,652
-6,562,500
|
-6,562,500 |
Level 41
: 350,000/700,000, 87,500 ante
Dominik "Bounatirou" Nitsche raised to 1,400,000 from the button and "AKecho" defended their big blind.
The flop came 
, "AKecho" check-called the 921,375 bet of Nitsche.
The turn was the 
, "AKecho" checked again. This time, Nitsche bet 2,890,388 and was called.
The river completed the board with the , "AKecho" checked for the last time. Nitsche bet 9,711,703 and was called. Nitsche tabled the for the straight and the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
115,081,848
12,910,966
|
12,910,966 |
|
|
15,116,152
-1,750,000
|
-1,750,000 |
|
|
11,452,000
-11,160,966
|
-11,160,966 |
Level 41
: 350,000/700,000, 87,500 ante
"AKecho" shoved from the button for 10,825,233 and Dominik "Bounatirou" Nitsche three-bet shoved from the small blind for more for "acapulcoo" to fold.
"AKecho":
Dominik "Bounatirou" Nitsche:
The board ran out for "AKecho" to turn a pair but improve to two pair on the river to stay alive.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
102,170,882
-2,071,733
|
-2,071,733 |
|
|
22,612,966
9,159,233
|
9,159,233 |
|
|
16,866,152
-7,087,500
|
-7,087,500 |