World Series of Poker Europe: Anonymous Wins Penultimate Bracelet Awarded In 2021

The very first World Series of Poker bracelet event of 2021 finished in the early-morning hours of July 2, with Jose Noboa taking down the WSOP Online ‘Big 500 Kick-Off’ no-limit hold’em event. In the 158 days that followed, 186 more bracelets were awarded. Now just one bracelet is left to be handed out this year, in the WSOP Europe €10,000 main event which plays to a winner on Dec. 8, 2021

The penultimate bracelet awarded this year was secured by an anonymous player on Dec. 7. He defeated a field of 228 entries to take down the WSOPE €3,000 no-limit hold’em ‘Closer’ event for  €148,008 ($165,769 USD).

The final day of this event began with 50 players remaining from the 228 that entered. It took 12 hours to narrow that down to a champion. By the time the field combined onto one final table, the eventual champion had climbed into second place behind Thomer Pidun. Timo Kamphues overtook the lead thanks to a preflop cooler, with his pocket queens besting the pocket jacks of Anil Ataoglu (8th – $15,661 USD) to leave just seven contenders remaining.

Pidun was left short after a big clash with anonymous and a lost preflop race against Milos Petakovic. He outlasted Petakovic (7th – $19,974 USD), but was ultimately eliminated in sixth place ($26,224 USD) when his A-K couldn’t outrun the pocket queens of Manuel Fischer.

The eventual winner won a massive prepflop confrontation with pocket kings against the AQ of Romain Locquet. The Frenchman was left with less than two big blinds after the hand and was soon knocked out in fifth place ($35,410 USD).

Kamphues’ A-5 cracked the pocket queens of anonymous to see the lead change hands. Kamphues then busted Claudio Di Giacomo (4th – $49,141 USD) to extend his advantage.

Manuel Fischer doubled through Kamphues to halt his momentum somewhat. Fischer then got all-in with his AQ leading the AJ of anonymous. The board came down AJ492 to give anonymoustwo pair and the pot. Fischer earned $70,038 USD as the third-place finisher.

With that, anonymous took more than a 9:2 lead into heads-up play with Kamphues. In the final hand he moved all-in from the button with 109 and Kampshues called with A5. The K956J runout secured the pot and the title for anonymous. Kamphues earned $102,444 USD as the runner-up finisher.

Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded at this final table: