In the past few years the World Poker Tour has been really living up to its name with brand new events being created all over the world. One of the newer events is the WPT Amneville, which took place in France at the Seven Casino d'Amnéville.
379 players put up €3,500 a piece which created a prize pool of €1,164,288. The resulting first place prize was an impressive €310,633.
A couple high profile pros finished just short of the final table. Joseph Cheong finished in 13th place for €11,926, and Arnaud Mattern finished in 14th for €11,926 as well.
The 6-max final table started on Day 5 with Scott Baumstein in the chip lead, a lead that he’d had since Day 2. Talk about a phenomenal achievement! When cards were finally dealt at he final table, Baumstein showed how he had kept the chip lead for so long: he loved to give action and play plenty of pots.
Even though there was a ton of action, the first bust took over an hour to happen. First Adrien Allain doubled up through Baumstein. Then he got lucky against Arnaud Trouer to knock him out in 6th place. Undersea Treasure slots are an option for Trouer if he is looking for something to do with all his extra money.
A short time later Baumstein busted Michel Konieczny with QQ against Konieczny’s AT suited. The extra chips that Baumstein acquired in the elimination went straight to Allain, however, in a gigantic pot that doubled Allain up. Baumstein must have felt out of his element without a chip lead! He tried to get his stack back in a flip versus Jordane Ouin, but he lost and had to settle for 4th place.
Thibaud Guenegou was displaying his ladder pro-ing skills, moving up to 3rd place without having to play many pots. He finally got it in with A7 during 3-handed play, but Allain unfortunately had AQ. He didn’t find any of his limited outs, which meant that he he was sent to the rail in 3rd place.
The chip lead was exchanged several times as Allain and Ouin played a long heads-up match. However, over time Allain grinded Ouin out and finished him off with pocket tens versus K9o. Winning this hand meant €310,633 and a WPT title for Adrien Allain!
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