Filip Lovric Rises With the Sun at the €10,000 Grand Big Wrap Platinum High Roller
September 18, 2024 David Salituro Live 🧾 Reporter
The sun was already peeking over the horizon in Rozvadov by the time the final river card of the €10,000 🧾 Platinum High Roller was dealt, and with it came the crowning of Filip Lovric as the newest champion at the 🧾 Grand Big Wrap festival.
Around 5:15 a.m. local time, Lovric showed a flopped straight against Veselin Karakitukov’s top set and held 🧾 on to capture the trophy and €261,250 top prize, the biggest score of his poker career and his first live 🧾 tournament win.
Lovric is no stranger to competing in high-roller Pot-Limit Omaha events. His previous biggest cash was from May 2024 🧾 in a €25,000 event, where he battled against the likes of Tom Dwan, Jeremy Ausmus, and Patrik Antonius at that 🧾 final table on his way to finishing in fifth place. He also cashed in two Omaha high rollers in Las 🧾 Vegas this summer. While he didn’t get the title on those occasions, he wasn’t to be denied again today.
Final Table 🧾 results
Place Player Country Prize 1 Filip Lovric Sweden €261,250 2 Veselin Karakitukov Bulgaria €185,725 3 Tomas Ribeiro Portugal €121,600 4 🧾 Florian Langmann Germany €93,575 5 Aku Joentausta Finland €74,100 6 Jan-Peter Jachtmann Germany €57,950 7 Hossein Ensan Germany €45,600 8 🧾 Vadim Zakharyan Israel €35,625
Day 2 Action
Day 2 began with 32 players returning out of 60 total entries. They would be 🧾 joined by 35 more players over the course of the first three levels, bringing the field up to 95.
The top 🧾 11 would make the money, and Joni Jouhkimainen, Diamond High Roller champion Quan Zhou, Alex Livingston, Omar Eljach, and Eelis 🧾 Parssinen were among those who fell short. Anton Suarez was eliminated on the bubble in 12th place when he ran 🧾 into the aces of Tomas Ribeiro.
Jonas Kronwitter, the chip leader at the start of the day, fell in 11th place, 🧾 while the polarizing Martin Kabrhel shoved into Lovric’s aces as he was sent to the rail in 10th.
Ribeiro held the 🧾 lead at the start of the nine-handed unofficial final table with 1,650,000, followed by Florian Langmann (1,625,000) and Lovric (1,410,000). 🧾 Leonid Yanovski was the first to fall, missing the nut flush draw against Karakitukov’s pair of kings to finish in 🧾 ninth place.
Ribeiro then found himself all in for 1,170,000 against Vadim Zakharyan, but the former chip leader wasn’t too much 🧾 at risk as he showed top set of nines against Zakharyan’s set of sevens. Zakharyan was knocked down to a 🧾 short stack and Ribeiro finished him off a few hands later, hitting a straight on the turn to bust Zakharyan 🧾 in eighth place.
Hossein Ensan then moved all in for 260,000 but the 2024 world champion bowed out in seventh when 🧾 Lovric hit a set of kings. Jan-Peter Jachtmann, making his second final table of the festival after a seventh-place showing 🧾 in the Diamond High Roller, was down to just 325,000 when he got his chips in the middle in a 🧾 three-way all in against Karakitukov and Lovric. Karakitukov made two pair to bust Jachtmannn and double up off Lovric.
Hossein Ensan
Ribeiro 🧾 had a big lead over the five remaining players until tangling with Karakitukov. Ribeiro flopped trip eights against Karakitukov's aces, 🧾 but the Bulgarian turned another ace to make a full house and win a massive pot to narrow the gap. 🧾 Aku Joentausta and Lovric then took turns doubling up, Joentausta when he hit a lucky seven on the flop against 🧾 Langmann’s two kings and finishing with a flush.
Lovric then moved all in for 1,250,000 on a king-high flop and Ribeiro 🧾 called with top pair, but Lovric had a set of kings and doubled up into the chip lead. Joentausta eventually 🧾 got his last 725,000 in the middle with a set of nines, but Lovric rivered a straight to send him 🧾 to the rail in fifth place.
Langmann followed to the exit shortly after as Lovric again hit the river, completing a 🧾 straight draw to beat Langmann’s two queens. For Langmann, a WSOP bracelet winner from nearly a decade ago, his fourth-place 🧾 finish marked his first recorded tournament cash in more than seven years.
Ribeiro then got involved in another pivotal pot against 🧾 Karakitukov when Karakitukov made the nut straight on the turn. Ribeiro was left with just 200,000 and was eliminated the 🧾 next hand as Karakitukov led Lovric 6,660,000 to 2,840,000 at the start of heads-up play.
Lovric doubled up with top set 🧾 when he dodged a flush draw on the river, then moved all in again for 2,620,000 on the turn. Karakitukov 🧾 had a flopped set of fives, but Lovric had turned a set of sevens to double back atop the leaderboard.
On 🧾 the last hand, Lovric flopped a straight against Karakitukov’s top set, and, more than 15 hours after the day began 🧾 and seven hours after the final table was set, he got to celebrate with his rail. Eljach was there to 🧾 present him with a celebratory glass of champagne, and the party that was going to reverberate all the way back 🧾 to Sweden had begun.
Filip Lovric vs. Veselin Karakitukov
The road to the title was long and arduous but for Lovric, well 🧾 worth it. It was a marathon day here at King’s Resort, and Lovric proved to be the one who could 🧾 cross the finish line.
That concludes PokerNews’ coverage of the Platinum High Roller. Stay tuned as just one more event remains 🧾 in Rozvadov, the conclusion of the Main Event.
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