Not even Shaun Deeb stopped him, Amir Mozaffarian won his first bracelet

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The Rozvadov poker room handed out its ninth gold bracelet and it was awarded to the winner of the WSOPE Mystery Bounty tournament with a buy-in of €1,100 and a guarantee of €300,000. The top three players here also had a ticket to the WSOPE Main Event worth €10,350.

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Last year's edition of this tournament saw 803 entries and a prizepool of €803,000. This year's Mystery Bounty brought 515 entries and a prizepool worth €484,100. This left a bounty of €58,700 awaiting the winner, and the top bounty was worth €45,000. The highest bounty prize went to German player Philipp Krieger.

This time 8 players sat at the final table as we saw a double elimination, after which the home player Ondřej Goetz was eliminated in ninth place.

As chipleader, Romanian player Viorel Gavrila sat at the final table with a stack of 3,400,000. In second place was Germany's Paco Kaplan and the third largest stack was Shaun Deeb. There was also one local player sitting at the final table, which was Zdenek Zizka, who eventually took home €9,275 for 6th place.

After his elimination, Shaun Deeb took the chipleader position, but was unable to hold on to the chiplead. However, after being eliminated by Amir Mozaffarian, Shaun had to settle for a reward of €18,200 for fourth place. Mozaffarian thus shot up to a huge 10 million stack.

The final heads-up match pitted two Germans against each other. Amir Mozaffarian started with a stack as high as 12,000,000 (75bb) and Paco Kaplan started with a stack of 3,300,000 (21bb). Heads-up play lasted about 20 minutes, after which Amir Mozaffarian became the new champion. He won his first bracelet and a €58,700 prize. Mozaffarian has already fought for one bracelet, and that was a few days ago in the heads-up 5k PLO tournament, where he finished in second place at the time. How much players took home from the bounty rewards was not disclosed by the casino.

Place Name Country Prize
1 Amir Mozaffarian Germany €58,700
2 Paco Kaplan Germany €39,200
3 Viorel Gavrila Romania €26,400
4 Shaun Deeb USA €18,200
5 Lorenzo Arduini Italy €12,850
6 Zdenek Zizka Czech Republic €9,275
7 John Armbrust USA €6,850
8 Yehor Shumeiko Ukraine €5,175


Source - Kings Resort, WSOP, Pokernews, Tomas Stacha