It took a bit less than 15 hours of play until just one player remained in this year's €25k Single Day High Roller in Barcelona, Spain. US poker pro Pratyush Buddiga bested an extremely tough field of 162 players to claim the title and $690,275 in prize money!
Once the final table was down to its last three players (David Yan, Adrey Shatilov and Buddiga) a deal was made. All three players decided to move all in every hand and let the poker gods determine who the champion would be. It only took 2 hands of all-in's before a winner had been crowned...
1st hand:
Shatilov 6
5
Buddiga 8
5
Yan KJ
The board ran out JA99
6 and Buddiga took home the pot with a rivered flush. Shatilov was eliminated and Yan was left with only 460,000 in chips.
2nd hand:
Buddiga 97
Yan 84
The 969J10 board meant that Buddiga was the winner, however, Yan still took home the biggest slice of the prize pool (€704,755) thanks to the 3-handed deal. Buddiga now has close to $5 millon in lifetime tournament earnings. His biggest win was a 3rd place finish in the 2014 APPT Super High Roller for $844,571.
Final table results:
1 Pratyush Buddiga United States €690,275
2 David Yan New Zealand €704,755
3 Andrey Shatilov Russia €606,020
4 Tobias Reinkemeier Germany €347,650
5 Steve O'Dwyer Ireland €278,900
6 Alex Komaromi Uruguay €216,250
7 Parker Talbot Canada €160,080
8 Sergey Lebedev Russia €117,640
source: http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/en/blog/tournaments/ept/season_13/ept_barcelona/25k_single_day_hr/2016/-ept13-barcelona-25k-single-day-high-rol-162910.shtml
