Four years after its premiere, the fairy-tale story called PS Players Championship has written another, no less interesting chapter and today, we will get to know the last part of it. The interestingly mixed field of players consisting of 1,005 players was gradually cut down until today when we got to know the last 6 adepts to win the title.
The almost 12-hour semi-final day welcomed 52 players to the tables, among whom were 15 Platinum Pass holders who thus had a freeroll from this tournament. The game gradually ran and for example Chance Kornuth, Norbert Szeczi ($70,700 each), Dominik Nitsche, Talal Shakerchi ($81,400 each), Chris Moorman ($107,500), Daniel Dvoress, Fedor Holz ($123,600 each) or Sam Grafton ($238,700), the last PS member for the team in the game, who made it all the way to 12th place had to leave the tournament.
Not a long time after, the players sat down at the unofficial 9-seat final table, where the last task awaited them - to get to the top 6, which meant a seat for the final day, and of course 7-digit rewards. The first to leave this table was Andrei Boghean ($449,700), followed by the day's chip leader Petar Kalev. He's responsible for yesterday's biggest pot, when he preflop stacked K K against A K hand of Marquez in a massive 100-blind pot. Not one, but two aces on the board turned the odds, and even though Kalev was able to recover from this suckout, in the end he had to say goodbye to the tournament with 8th place.
At this moment, only one seat-open separated us from the end of the semi-final day, for which we did not have to wait even half an hour. Just before the final gates, the Frenchman Thomas Eychenne left the tournament, who on the K 4 5 flop stacked with K 8 against Pizzari's K J , but neither the turn nor the river helped him. While the other players were rejoicing in their success, Eychenne had to go to the cash register, where a still beautiful $801,000 awaited him.
The final 9 become the final 8!
Romania's Andrei Boghean falls, earning $449,700 for his troubles as we head toward an official final table in the #PSPC.
