BANCO CASINO MASTERS #15 100,000€ GTD: NEBO ANKUCIC REWROTE THE HISTORY AND BECAME A DOUBLE MASTERS CHAMPION!
The year 2018 started with the largest regular poker tournament called the Banco Casino Masters, carrying a guarantee of 100,000€ for only 165€ buy-in. Masters continuously attracts an increasing number of foreign players who enjoy this tournament, including neighboring countries such as Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, but also from more distant destinations such as Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia or Romania.
The fifteenth edition of the Banco Casino Masters traditionally consisted of the opening days, where exactly 600 entries to the tournament were recorded. However, this was not enough for a hundred thousand euro guarantee and 10,000€ went from the casino treasury as a subsidy to players in the guarantee. Among the crowd of candidates for Day 2, 77 possible Banco Casino Masters champions won the “trip”, among whom there were many well-known names, which if you follow the events in the poker world, you are guaranteed to know them.
The January edition of the Masters also had the taste of the last classification tournament of the Masters League, where a freeroll will be played for 40,280€. In this edition of the Masters, players had one last chance to speak to the league standings. The first hundred places guaranteed them automatic advancement to the freeroll, and all participants are already in the ITM.
Seventy-seven players were given the task of advancing to the final day on Day 2, where the winner was awarded a huge prize of 20,170 Euros and the min-cash for the less fortunate started at 299 Euros. On the second playing day, plazers such as Kokso (77th), Pavel Chalupka (64th), Rišo Kováč (63rd), Peter Zolnai (62nd), Andrej Gecler (57th), Milan Lakatoš (52nd), Jaroslav Zubaj (47th), Miro Lelek (41st), Igor Remenár (39th), Roman Dohnány (37th), Štefan Vágner (34th), Marek Cachovan (30th), Miro Biznár (29th), Vladimír Valent ( 25th), Dávid Berdis (24th), Ľubo Žákovič (19th), Alan Sabo and Pavel Častvan didn’t make it through.
The final day was tasted by 15 players, who focused their attention on the only thing - a trophy intended for the Masters champion and the associated reward of 20,170€. Nobody expected such a rocket start in elimination and in a short moment Peter Gabriel, Daniel Viktor, Alexander Jakab, Aziz Maged, Marek Ort, Matúš Gabzdil dropped out. The last person to drop out at the unofficial final table was Tamás Tomosi, who collected 1,512€ for 9th place.
Final table chipcount:
- Seat 1: Metaxa 3,915,000
- Seat 2: Balogh Sandor 3,855,000
- Seat 3: Riška Jakub 6,790,000
- Seat 4: Panák Igor 3,510,000
- Seat 5: Novorolník Marcel 525,000
- Seat 6: Ankucic Nebo 2,135,000
- Seat 7: Libo Jozef 2,520,000
- Seat 8: Komorný Jozef 760,000
The finalists moved under the spotlight of the cameras to the TV table. Jozef "Santa" Komorný as a short stack, became the first to drop out, who did not dial a better combination (Ax 5x) to Neba Ankucic 7x3x. Behind him in seventh place and with a prize of 2,457€, a well-tuned Metaxa was ordered from the tournament, followed by Marcel Norovolník, who was eliminated in a very close sequence. Marcel won 3,214€ from Banco Casino for his performance.
Fifth place went to Hungary, as Sandor Balogh failed to turn his flush draw into a winning combination for which he earned a reward of 4,159€. The fourth place stayed at home, as the Demon, in other words, Igor Panák ended up on the Ankucic poker shovel when Jx 8x was unable to find an eight against Jx Tx's opponent. Demon had to settle for 5,293€. Before the man-on-man fight, Jozef Libo was eliminated from the tournament winning 6,821€ from the Banco Casino Masters.
Immediately after this elimination, there was a successful discussion about the deal; both actors Nebo Ankucic and Jakub Riška had a certain 14,000€. An overtime for 3,281€, trophy and Masters title was played. Although at the beginning of the duel, Nebo Ankucic pulled for a shorter end, but after less than an hour of play, everything turned in his favor. Jakub Riška had to settle for a beautiful prize of 14,000€ and second place in this prestigious tournament.
The champion of the Banco Casino Masters became Nebo Ankucic, who took home 17,281€ and the big trophy. Nebo became the first double-champion of Banco Casino Masters in one season, for which he earned huge recognition and congratulations!
Final ranking of Banco Casino Masters #15 100,000€ GTD:
- 1. 17,281€ Ankucic Nebojsa*
- 2. 14,000€ - Riška Jakub*
- 3. 6,281€ - Libo Jozef
- 4. 5,293€ - Panák Igor
- 5. 4,159€ - Balogh Sandor
- 6. 3,214€ - Novorolník Marcel
- 7. 2,457€ - Pál Róbert - Metaxa
- 8. 1,890€ - Komorný Jozef - Santa
- 9. 1,512€ - Tomozi Tamás
- 10. 1,315€ - Gabzdil Matúš
*heads-up deal and overtime of 3,281€
