Les efforts de Sylvain Loosli en Pot Limit Omaha semblent payer.
Troisième du PLO High Roller 10.400€ du PokerStars Championship Monte-Carlo, le Team Pro Winamax s'impose à Barcelona pour son premier succès de 2017 et sa quatrième victoire sur le grand circuit. La deuxième en Catalogne où il avait remporté le 50.000€ en août 2015 pour 1 million avant d'en atteindre encore la finale en 2016.
Sylvain Loosli triomphe après un court dernier duel contre Pedro Zagalo avec qui il a dealé. Le Français aux 6 millions de dollars de gains domine un field de 111 entrants, il avait terminé runner-up d'un side PLO à 5000€ sur l'EPT Dublin 2016.
Le November Niner WSOP 2013 encaisse 236 400€ pour ses efforts, le runner-up 231 400€. Les deux hommes ont joué le trophée et 10.000€. Zagalo était légèrement en tête au moment de l'accord, il avait débuté la finale avec le tiers des jetons en circulation du tournoi.
Zagalo a éliminé Eder Campana (8e) puis Oliver Weiss (6e) pour garder l'avantage et encaisser la moitié des jetons du tournoi. Loosli a alors doublé sur le Portugais à 5 left histoire de fendre l'armure. Après les sorties de Norbert Szecsi et Shyngis Satubayev, Loosli n'était plus si loin au chipcount.
Le Français a mal commencé le head's up, tombant à 50 blindes alors que son opposant en avait presque 4 fois plus. Mais Sylvain a mis la machine en route et commencé à empiler les pots avant d'attraper son adversaire en bluff avec top set.
C'est à ce moment là que le duo a entamé les discussions financières. Le Français a confié à PokerNews que bien qu'il considère le PLO head's up comme "son meilleur jeu", il voulait "réduire la variance". Chipleader au moment de l'accord, le tricolore a donc lâché quelques euros.
Peu après le deal, Sylvain Loosli va s'emparer des commandes du tournoi lors d'un coup où tout va partir au milieu au tournant. Avec Top deux paires et tirage couleur max, il va garder l'avantage sur les deux paires inférieures et un double tirage quinte par le ventre. Zagalo ne reviendra jamais...
Official Final Table Results
Place
Joueur
Pays
Prix
1
Sylvain Loosli
France
€236,400*
2
Pedro Zagalo
Portugal
€231,400*
3
Shyngis Satubayev
Kazakhstan
€124,900
4
Norbert Szecsi
Hungary
€101,300
5
Mandy Calara
USA
€81,300
6
Oliver Weis
Germany
€63,500
7
Jan Suchanek
Czech Republic
€50,100
8
Eder Campana
Brazil
€38,200
*deal
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Pedro Zagalo got all the way down to about 250,000 but crawled back to 600,000 or so through the accumulation of small pots.
The two finally played a big pot when Sylvain Loosli limped and called 90,000. The flop prompted a pot-sized bet and then a shove from Loosli. Zagalo stuck the rest in.
Loosli:
Zagalo:
Zagalo's set was good against top two, but a hit on the river after the turn, giving Loosli kings full and the tournament.
Sylvain Loosli potted on the button and called a repot to 216,000. Pedro Zagalo put in a continuation-bet of 275,000 on the flop. Loosli called. The turn brought a and a bet of 982,000, the size of the pot. Loosli immediately jammed for just under 1 million more. Zagalo used a time extension but decided he couldn't fold.
Zagalo:
Loosli:
Loosli had a monster with top two and the nut flush draw. Zagalo had a few outs but the wasn't one of them. Loosli has nearly all of the chips now after starting well down when heads-up play began.
Shyngis Satubayev opened for 45,000 on the button and Pedro Zagalo announced a pot-sized raise in the small blind. Satubayev repotted for what turned out to be 485,000. Zagalo peeled, and they saw a flop. Zagalo checked and snap-called the last 486,000.
Zagalo:
Satubayev:
Zagalo had outflopped his foe with two pair, and the runout kept him best.
The final two players agreed to a short bathroom break.
After defending his big blind from a Pedro Zagalo raise, Mandy Calara check-raised pot when Zagalo continuation bet 90,000 on the flop. Zagalo said he was all in, so the two ran it with Calara at risk for about 550,000.
Calara:
Zagalo:
Calara had a monster draw but his hearts were no good as Zagalo was drawing to the nut flush and had the winner for the moment with ace-high. That changed on the turn, which paired Calara. However, Zagalo picked up a wrap of his own and completed it with the river.
Oliver Weis made it 56,000 to go in the cutoff and got three-bet to pot by big blind Pedro Zagalo. Weis was considering whether to put his 230,000 in, and after counting it down he decided to go with his hand.
Weis:
Zagalo:
The flop did little for Weis, but the paired him up. A river was no help, though, leaving the German out sixth.
Jan Suchanek raised in the small blind and Shyngis Satubayev defended the big. They both checked the flop, bringing a . Suchanek checked and Satubayev bet 60,000. Suchanek potted 276,000 and Satubayev jammed. Suchanek called for about 180,000 more.
Satubayev:
Suchanek:
"PerpetualCzech" desperately needed a nine or an ace against the slowplayed straight, but the river was a .
Eder Campana shoved for 130,000 in the big blind over an open from Pedro Zagalo, who called with . Campana had and was ahead for the moment with queens. However, a board gave Zagalo almost all of the cards he needed as he found first aces with top kicker and then a straight.
Sylvain Loosli opened for 30,000 in middle position and got one call from Oliver Weis, on his left. Yuri Martins potted on the button for 138,000, leaving about 7,000 back. Loosli mucked, but Weis put the required chips in to make Martins get all in.
Martins:
Weis:
Weis' double-suited queens found nothing on the flop. However, the arrived and it was followed by a .