After a final day that lasted roughly six one-hour levels, Tomas Ribeiro from Portugal claimed the title in Event #11: €2,200 Pot-Limit Omaha of the 2019 World Series of Poker Europe. Ribeiro defeated Omar Eljach heads up and took home his first gold bracelet and €128,314 in prize money.
“I’ve been a full-time poker player since 2014 when I was nineteen years old, I usually play a lot of cash games in Omaha, 50/100 is my limit now. I enjoy No-Limit Holdem, too, but I feel a little outdated because I haven’t studied it for a while. I’m a poker guy, so I love all kinds of poker! “[With Omaha], I like the card removal effects, when you play four cards you have double information, you can play with that. You can use more information on the game when in no-limit hold’em it’s more a people’s game, at least I feel that way.”
Finally, when asked about what a WSOP bracelet means to him, he said: “Actually it’s my first trophy ever, I won three tournaments, but they didn’t have trophies and winning my first ever trophy at a WSOP event it’s totally overwhelming.”
Place | Winner | Country | Prize (in EUR) | Prize (in USD) |
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1 | Tomas Ribeiro | Portgual | €128,314 | $142,516 |
2 | Omar Eljach | Sweden | €79,291 | $88,067 |
3 | Marc Palatzky | Germany | €54,787 | $60,851 |
4 | Tobias Peters | Netherlands | €38,581 | $42,851 |
5 | Ilyaz Dosikov | Russia | €27,701 | $30,767 |
6 | Anson Tsang | Hong-Kong | €20,285 | $22,530 |
7 | Leonid Yanovski | Israel | €15,157 | $16,834 |
8 | Christopher Frank | Germany | €11,161 | $12,396 |
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