Earlier this week, German poker pro Ole Schemion won the first-ever World Poker Tour European Championship Main Event for to secure his first WPT title, €218,435 in prize money and a $15,000 WPT Tournament of Champions ticket.
The tournament was played at Casino Spielbank in Berlin, Germany and drew a field of 339 players, who battled for a share of the massive €1,000,100 prize po[...] Read more » Ole Schemion Wins WPT European Championship
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Many congratulations to Ole Schemion on winning this event and the first prize of $255,352. It is quite remarkable that this takes his career tournament winnings to $13.8 million
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well there you go- another already well known name gets his hands on the title and a quarter of a million on top of the trophy. kinda nice to see a so called household name winning some bigger event, just to confirm that status poker pro does mean sth and not just rookies win major titles
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My most sincere congratulations go out to Ole Schemion on winning the WPT European Championship event. German players are a force to reckon with. You will almost always notice one or more Germans at the top of the payouts.
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another news with a player who wins a live poker tournament. Germans have enough good players, have a good material situation and earns live tournaments every year. This is not abnormal, it's just a beautiful performance. 1st place is very good in this world of poker. Good Job for Ole Schemion.
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When i started reading i thought Schemion was a newbie on these fields, but having his name in third place on the german all-time tourny money list isn't something for a rookie, he's more like a nebula, a starting star, taking in consideration his age. Good for him!
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Another one with a very good prize. Ad the time goes i keep hearing of players that i have never heard of before, with winnings of more than ten millions. This game is gonna make more millionaires in the near future. Will any of them be, a brm member?
Congratulations to Ole Schemion on winning the World Poker Tour European Championship Main Event. It's a very big and prestigious tournament, lots of pros are willing to win such kind of tourney. Also it's good to see Michal Mrakes finishing in top-5. Remember him playing at the final table of the Pokerstars Championship Prague few months ago.
