Samuel Vousden Warms Up For WCOOP With a $91K PokerStars Score

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Sep 04, 2023 5 min read

The $80 million guaranteed PokerStars World Championship Of Online Poker (WCOOP) is less than a week away, with the first events shuffling up and dealing on September 10. Poker players from far and wide are putting the finishing touches to their WCOOP preparations, and what better way to gear up for the massive WCOOP than by padding your bankroll with almost $92,000?

Samuel "€urop€an" Vousden is no stranger to winning high-stake poker tournaments. Barely a week goes by, or so it seems, that the Finnish grinder does not come out on top of a major online event. Over the weekend, Vousden triumphed in the PokerStars $5,200 Titans Event, and saw another $91,769 added to his impressive poker earnings tally.

Sixty-eight entries created a $340,000 prize pool, which the final nine players shared. Spare a thought for Michael "imluckbox" Addamo, who saw his latest deep run end in a tenth-place finish and the unwanted title of "bubble boy."

Addamo's exit locked in at least $10,600 for the nine surviving players. Pedro "pvigar" Garagnani reeled in that sum after tumbling out in ninth.

Niklas "Lena900" Astedt finished eighth for $12,135, with Poland's "filusPL" and Peruvian star "caipsa" falling by the wayside after the Swedish superstar and banking prizes worth $16,202 and $21,632, respectively.

Then came the untimely demise of Astedt's fellow Swede, "Kley." Their fifth-place finish came with a $28,881 payday.

Pascal "Pass_72" Lefrancois, a champion of this tournament in June 2023, fell in fourth for $38,560 before Leon "RUMUKULUS" Sturm's bust-out in third, worth $51,482, sent the Titans Event into the heads-up stage. Sturm enjoyed a profitable Sunday, helped by also finishing second in the $530 Sunday Marathon, fourth in the $1,050 Sunday Warm-Up, and third in the $1,050 Sunday High Roller PKO.

Vousden found himself up against Daniel "SmilleThHero" Smiljkovic in the final battle. Either player would have made a worthy champion, but the night belonged to Vousden, who saw the $91,769 top prize land in his PokerStars account. Smiljkovic collected a still welcomed $68,735 for his efforts.

$5,200 Titans Event Final Table Results

Petrone Punishes the $1,050 Sunday High Roller Field

Uruguay's Ramiro "ramastar88" Petrone came away with the title of $1,050 Sunday High Roller champion, plus $30,416 in prize money on Sunday night. Petrone's prize was made up of $11,104 for coming out on top of the 109-strong field, plus an additional $19,312 worth of bounty payments.

As you would expect from a $1,050 buy-in tournament, the final table was stacked.

"Granter7777" of Andorra crashed out in ninth and was joined on the sidelines by such luminaries as Renan "Internett93o" Bruschi, "Phemo," Norway's "Kjeppen," and "leonidus1988" hailing from Montenegro.

Fourth place and $9,571, just shy of a five-figure award, went to Roman "Gogac sniper" Hrabec, with Leon "RUMUKULUS" Sturm bowing out in third for $10,476 in total.

Petrone then defeated Ukraine's "Ansel21" in the one-on-one battle, and scooped $30,416, resigning his final opponent to an $11,979 consolation prize.

$1,050 Sunday High Roller Final Table Results

Other Notable PokerStars Results

Jans "Graftekkel" Arends found himself in the winner's enclosure after coming out on top in the $1,050 Sunday Supersonic. There were also Sunday victories for Jerry "Perrymejsen" Odeen, and Estonia's Juanki "B4NKR0LL3R" Vecino.

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Sebastian Proulx Takes Down the PartyPoker Grand

Canada's Sebastien Proulx is the latest PartyPoker player to become The Grand Champion after he outlasted 40 opponents in the $1,050 buy-in affair. Proulx turned his $1,050 investment into a $12,226 score after battling through a star-studded final.

The compact field meant only the top eight finishers received some of the $41,125 prize money, and it was Jerry Odeen who was the last soul to bust from the tournament empty-handed.

Josh Hopkins and Marek Sudak were the final table first casualties; they received $2,148 and $2,400 respectively.

UK-based Norwegian superstar Preben Stokkan fell in sixth for $2,700, with recent World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner Tom Hall banking $3,117 for his fifth place finish.

Team PartyPoker's Jaime Staples was going great guns until he found himself void of chips, his fourth place coming ith $4,019 reasons to be happy.

Heads-up was set when British player Wayne Rooke bowed out in third and collected $5,554.

Proulx locked horns with Anders Davidsen of Denmark in a one-on-one battle for the title. The Canadian came out on top, and got his hands on $12,266, leaving the Dane to secure a $9,006 runner-up prize.

The Grand Final Table Results

Five Players Progress to Day 2 of the €1M Gtd Grand Prix Malta

The €1 million guaranteed Grand Prix Malta saw another online Day 1 take place this weekend, and five more players navigated their way through to the live Day 2 at Portomaso Casino, doing so with at least a min-cash in tow.

Thirty PartyPoker players tried their luck on in the online Day 1b, with five of them punching their Day 2 tickets. The UK's Daniel Oliver (809,604) finished at the top of the pile, with fellow Brits David Murie (348,928) and Joseph Gaynard (127,392) behind him.

Greek grinder Aristeidis Giannatos (125,956) and Malta's Pavlos Xanthopoulos (88,120) are also safely through to the live portion of the event.

Those five players join the six who navigated their way through Day 1a, which took place in early August.

Klas Klinker (744,184), Hays Antonin (676,078), Andre Grohnert (396,616), Max Gerritsen (132,054), Stewart Alexander (117,304), and Jere Laitinen (83,764) were the survivors on Day 1a.

PartyPoker LIVE MILLIONS Malta runs from September 22 through October 4, featuring the €550 buy-in €1 million guaranteed Grand Prix Malta, a €5,300 buy-in Hydra Entertainment High Roller, and the €3,000 MILLIONS Malta Main Event.

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Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom, and has worked in the poker industry since 2008, and worked for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he became the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from live reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his role of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.

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