After 10 grueling days of around 12 hours per day of play, a winner has now emerged in Event #73: $10,000 NLHE Main Event - World Championship of the 2019 WSOP at the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
With a buy-in of $10,000 and the player entries reaching 8,569 in total, the entire prizepool built up $80,548,600, with the last man standing to get the lion's share of a whopping $10 million!
On Sunday, July 14, Day 8 of the 2019 WSOP $10,000 Main Event kicked off at 6:30pm local time.
2019 WSOP: Event #73: $10,000 NLHE MAIN EVENT Schedule: July 3 to July 16, 2019 Venue: Rio All-Suites Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas Buy-in: $10,000 Prizepool: $80,548,600 Total Entries: 8,569 Remaining: 5
Hossein Ensan, 51, was unknown to most people in the poker world before winning an EPT Seniors Event in Barcelona last year. He used some of his winnings to a live satellite that eventually took him to the EPT Barcelona Main Event in which he finished in third place. Then he finished 6th in the EPT Malta Main Event a few months later.
A big congratulations to Andre Lettau, the winner of the richest Main Event (100th) in European Poker Tour history! Lettau, a 27-year-old online pro from Germany, entered the final table in the middle of the chip counts. After several hours of play, he the other two remaining players struck a deal (Hossein Ensan €652,667, Lettau €704,058 and Sam Phillips €1,021,275) that left €90,000 and the title to play for.
The recording-breaking field of 1,496 players has been narrowed down to a final table of eight after five intensive days of play. Out front is a German named Hossein Ensan who won Event #3 of this festival 10 days ago for €4,535, the biggest live cash of his career.
Hossein Ensan, 51, was unknown to most people in the poker world before winning an EPT Seniors Event in Barcelona last year. He used some of his winnings to a live satellite that eventually took him to the EPT Barcelona Main Event in which he finished in third place. Then he finished 6th in the EPT Malta Main Event a few months later.
The recording-breaking field of 1,496 players has been narrowed down to a final table of eight after five intensive days of play. Out front is a German named Hossein Ensan who won Event #3 of this festival 10 days ago for €4,535, the biggest live cash of his career.
