The main focus of this article will be German pro Ole Schemion, who has nearly $21 million worth of winnings on his live tournament resume. In addition, he is not lost in the online waters either, where he goes by the nickname "wizowizo".
And it was under that name that Ole played the $5,200 buy-in, $1,000,000 Main Event of the New Year Series online festival. Here, the entry count reached 230, leaving the prizepool worth $1,150,000.
Ole entered this tournament up to four times and it paid off in the end. He walked away from the Main Event as the champion, which earned him $224,424 in addition to the title. He was kept company at the final table by German player Manuel "Phemo" Bueno Fernandez, who finished in 4th place with a prize of $99,418, as well as "assel007", who took home $33,573.
Also taking the title was Leon "RUMUKULUS" Sturm, who dominated the $320 NLHE 6-Max PKO with 556 entries and a prizepool of $166,800. In addition, he also claimed third place in the New Year Series Main Event with a buy-in of $1,050. On top of those cashes, he added smaller prizes from the largest online poker room, for a total of $114,270.
Let's move on to another familiar name and that is Michael Addamo, who played the APL Series tournament with a buy-in of $7,500 and a prizepool of $449,012. Michael finished second here which was worth $101,265. The winner was Danish player Martin Nielsen who won $143,747.
American player Brandon Wilson took care of a double success a few days ago when he became the champion of two PGT tournaments in less than 24 hours. Now, we are reminded of this player once again and at the biggest online poker room, where he was the winner of the $525 buy-in Bounty Hunters HR. He took home $81,980 for first place along with the bounty.
The next champion on our list is German player Daniel Smiljkovic, who dominated the Monday Merry Monster Stack HR with a buy-in of $1,050 and a prizepool of $388,000. He earned $60,783 for the win. He was joined at the final table by Czech player Roman Hrabec, but had to settle for 4th place.
Source - PS, GG, Pokernews