And hopefully there will in the short future be more of them! This was the first of it’s kind, and with 338 players, it is counted as a success! The buy-in was free, or everybody that played had either qualified online at RedKings.com, or through their local poker club, everybody could do 1 re-buy and 1 add-on, it ended up with 139 re-buys and 241 add-ons. What happened during day 1a and day 1b you can read about here, the following will be about the exciting final day!

Exactly 100 players started on the Sunday, after going through from day 1a and day 1b. One of them was the Team RedKings pro Ivo “The Chessmaster” Donev who was top 5 in chips when the day started. A name that would needed to be remembered was also Kenan Erdogan who started the day with 2nd most chips.

Ivo started of the day with losing a chunk of chips on a very loose/aggressive table, but then pretty early got to change table where he straight away went back to being the table captain. He continued like this all the way down until they were only 10 left, and this is what the official final table looked like:
Kenan Erdogan
Ivo Donev
Thomas Szammer
Thomas Thang
Berd Nickel
Michael Krieg
Andreas Szabados
Nina Weihs
Bernhard Wladkowski
Mag. Manfred Löffler

On this final table there was two players who showed their poker skills more than anyone else, the earlier mentioned Kenan Erdogan, and of course the Team RedKings pro Ivo Donev. When starting the final table, Kenan had 800.000, while Ivo had 400.000. The final table was a battle between these two gentlemen, when Ivo didn’t raise, usually Kenan did. Quickly 6 of the players were gone, and we had the following four left:
Ivo Donev
Kenan Erdogan
Thomas Thang (Chip leader after day 1)
Thomas Szammer

Thomas thang who had been out of position on both Ivo and Kenan all day was the player that had to leave in 4th place, to bring home to brag with among his Danish friends, remember he is the boss in the Danish Poker Federation!

Then we were down to 3, everybody wanted that BMW so badly, so this took time, but Thomas Szammer couldn’t do much when Ivo had a pair of _8c _8h vs his _5h _5d.

IVO “The Chessmaster” DONEV did it again! He made it to the heads-up, and no RedKings Poker Tour is not rigged in favor for Team RedKings players, it’s pure skill. In the heads-up Ivo had to give up, and Kenan Erdogan is the first ever winner of the RedKings Poker Tour, congratulations to the win and a completely new BMW! There was rumors about that a deal was made, but maybe that is something you will hear about in a later blog post. Here is the Final Standings in the RKPT:
1. Kenan Erdogan BMW + €1 000
2. Ivo Donev €4 305
3. Thomas Szammer €2 420
4. Thomas Thang €1 906
5. Berd Nickel €1 394
6. Michael Krieg €1 046
7. Andreas Szabados €889
8. Nina Weihs €750
9. Bernhard Wladkowski €610
10. Mag. Manfred Löffler €505

Congratulations to all the 36 players that made it to the money, and thanks to everybody that played!

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