{"id":167856,"date":"2022-01-18T09:40:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T09:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog?p=167856"},"modified":"2022-03-17T10:06:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T10:06:41","slug":"hagen-becomes-grand-prix-ko-winter-series-main-event-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/hagen-becomes-grand-prix-ko-winter-series-main-event-champion.html","title":{"rendered":"Hagen Becomes Grand Prix KO Winter Series Main Event Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina has itself a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/grand-prix-ko\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grand Prix KO Winter Series<\/a> Main Event<\/strong> champion after <strong>Augusto Hagen<\/strong> came out on top in the $109 buy-in tournament. Hagen\u2019s impressive victory came with a combined prize worth $51,356, made up of the $33,224 first-place prize plus $18,132 from the bounty prize pool.<\/p>\n<p>Almost 900 players returned for Day 2 of the $500,000 guaranteed Main Event, which paid out more than $600,000. <strong>Alan Flannery<\/strong>\u2019s shove with <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/as.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/2s.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> was called by both Adam Jakobsen and Hagen holding <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/ad.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/kd.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> and <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/ah.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/ks.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> respectively. Flannery could not get there and he fell in tenth place, which set the official final table.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil\u2019s <strong>Ramon Kropmanns<\/strong> held a massive chip lead going into the final table\u2019s action. The Brazilian had more than 152 million chips with fellow South American <strong>Lucas Rocha<\/strong> in second-place with 96.3 million betting tokens.<\/p>\n<h2>Back-to-Back Eliminations<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Alexander Jensen<\/strong> was the first finalist out of the door despite sitting down fourth in chips. Jensen\u2019s stack whittled down to 21.2 million or seven big blinds, when he open-shoved from middle position with <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/8c.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/8d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\">. Unfortunately for the Dane, <strong>Christian Achhammer<\/strong> woke up in the big blind with <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/jc.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/js.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\">, and he called. Achhammer improved to an unnecessary set on the river, and the final table lost its first player.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vinicius Amin<\/strong> crashed out on the very next hand. He ripped in his last five big blinds with <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/as.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/jd.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> from the cutoff, and Kropmanns looked him up from the button with the dominating <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/ah.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/ks.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\">. Kropmanns\u2019 hand remained true, and Amin exited in eighth place.<\/p>\n<p>Seventh-place went to <strong>Anatoliy Byakhov<\/strong> a few hands after Amin headed to the showers. Byakhov pushed all-in for only 3.5 big blinds from under the gun with <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/ah.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/3s.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\">. Kropmanns called with <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/th.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/tc.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> to put the Russian at risk of elimination. The tens of Kropmanns remained true, and the final table was now down to only six players.<\/p>\n<p>Those six became five when Rocha fell by the wayside. Rocha committed his last ten big blinds with <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/ah.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/3s.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\">, and Achhammer called with <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/kd.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/qh.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> from the big blind. A queen on the river condemned Rocha to a sixth-place finish.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maksim Kostin<\/strong> was the next finalist heading for the exits. Jakobsen open-shoved from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/how-to-play\/strategy\/betting\/poker-blinds\">small blind<\/a> with <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/kh.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/6h.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\">, and Kostin called off his 11.7 big blind stack with the superior <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/ah.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/9d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\">. Kostin\u2019s hand remained best until the river when a six appeared on the board.<\/p>\n<h2>Double Elimination Puts Ball in Hagen&#8217;s Court<\/h2>\n<p>The remaining players were now guaranteed a five-figure score for their troubles, and Kropmanns was the first of the survivors to net this amount. Kropmanns lost a massive pot to Hagen and never recovered. In the key hand, Kropmanns raised 2.2-times the big blind to 8.8 million with <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/qs.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/qh.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> from the button. Hagen called with <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/td.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/6d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> in the big blind, and proceeded to improve to two pair on the <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/jc.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/6h.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/th.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> flop. Hagen check-called a 9.72 million bet, leading to the <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/2d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> turn. Again, Hagen checked, Kropmanns made it 31.2 million to go, only for Hagen to check-raise all-in for 171.1 million. Kropmanns called. The <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/6d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> river gifted Hagen a full house and a monster-sized 383.2 million pot, while Kropmanns was left with less than one big blind.<\/p>\n<p>A double-elimination ended any hopes of a Kropmanns comeback. He min-raised to 8 million, leaving only 839,304 chips behind. Achhammer three-bet to 50 million, only for Hagen to four-bet all-in. Kropmanns called off his micro stack with <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/kh.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/9d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\">, Achhammer put in his last 28.4 million with <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/3c.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/3d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\">, and Hagen showed <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/ks.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/js.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\">. The board ran <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/8c.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/ts.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/7s.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/4h.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/9c.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\">, gifting Hagen a straight.<\/p>\n<p>Hagen now held 490.9 million chips to the 106.5 million of Jakobson. Unsurprisingly, the hot-running Hagen made short work of his last opponent.<\/p>\n<p>The final hand saw Jakobson take a stand and jam his 20 big blind stack with <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/ks.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/9s.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> Hagen called with <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/ac.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/7s.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\">, which held as the five community cards fell <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/5d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/th.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/5h.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/7h.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/8h.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\">.<\/p>\n<h2>Grand Prix KO Winter Series Main Event Final Table Results<\/h2>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Place<\/th>\n<th>Player<\/th>\n<th>Country<\/th>\n<th>Bounties<\/th>\n<th>Prize<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>Augusto Hagen<\/td>\n<td>Argentina<\/td>\n<td>$18,132<\/td>\n<td>$33,224<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Adam Jakobsen<\/td>\n<td>Denmark<\/td>\n<td>$3,604<\/td>\n<td>$33,159<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>Christian Achhammer<\/td>\n<td>Germany<\/td>\n<td>$3,741<\/td>\n<td>$20,724<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>Ramon Kropmanns<\/td>\n<td>Brazil<\/td>\n<td>$6,480<\/td>\n<td>$13,773<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>Maksim Kostin<\/td>\n<td>Russia<\/td>\n<td>$589<\/td>\n<td>$9,276<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>Lucas Rocha<\/td>\n<td>Brazil<\/td>\n<td>$1,751<\/td>\n<td>$6,702<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>Anatoliy Byakhov<\/td>\n<td>Russia<\/td>\n<td>$1,054<\/td>\n<td>$4,785<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>Vinicius Amin<\/td>\n<td>Brazil<\/td>\n<td>$2,252<\/td>\n<td>$3,710<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>Alexander Jensen<\/td>\n<td>Denmark<\/td>\n<td>$2,822<\/td>\n<td>$2,950<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Love poker? Join party!<\/h3>\n<p>If you\u2019re ready to jump into the action, then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/download\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>click here to download partypoker and get started<\/strong>!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you already have an account with us, click here to <a href=\"https:\/\/promo.partypoker.com\/en\/promo\/launch\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>open partypoker and hit the tables!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina has itself a Grand Prix KO Winter Series Main Event champion after Augusto Hagen came out on top in the $109 buy-in tournament. Hagen\u2019s impressive victory came with a combined prize worth $51,356, made up of the $33,224 first-place prize plus $18,132 from the bounty prize pool. Almost 900 players returned for Day 2<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/hagen-becomes-grand-prix-ko-winter-series-main-event-champion.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":167859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[415,300],"tags":[50827,50521,184,1424,1425],"yst_prominent_words":[7397,48513,4046,4138,4273,29951],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172277,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167856\/revisions\/172277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167856"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=167856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}