{"id":89270,"date":"2020-07-24T09:42:55","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T09:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog?p=89270"},"modified":"2021-10-05T10:14:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T10:14:57","slug":"gryko-lehner-and-dos-santos-bag-wptwoc-omaha-opener-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/gryko-lehner-and-dos-santos-bag-wptwoc-omaha-opener-titles.html","title":{"rendered":"Gryko, Lehner, and Dos Santos Bag WPTWOC Omaha Opener Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"

The $100 million guaranteed WPT World Online Championships<\/strong> is in the process of switching over from PLO8 to Pot-Limit Omaha. The WPT #02 Omaha Championship Event<\/strong> kicks off on July 25 and players from around the world prepared for it with the trio of Omaha Openers on July 23.<\/p>\n

WPT Omaha Opener: $75K Gtd Freezeout<\/h2>\n

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Seventy players bought into the WPT Omaha Opener: $75K Gtd Freezeout<\/strong> 2-Day event and fought it out for a place in the top nine where the $75,000 prize pool was awarded.<\/p>\n

Lucas Silva<\/strong> of Brazil was the unfortunate soul who bust in 10th place, paving the way for a min-cash of $2,727 for the nine surviving players.<\/p>\n

Gavin Cochrane<\/strong> finished in ninth-place. You may recall Cochrane excelled during the recent Poker Masters PLO Series<\/strong><\/a>. Our very own Jeff Gross<\/strong><\/a> was the next player to fall before Tomas Geleziunas<\/strong> ran out of steam in seventh-place.<\/p>\n

High volume grinder Joshua Hoesel<\/strong> saw his tournament end abruptly in sixth-place, a finish worth $3,589. The last standing member of Team partypoker, Kristen Bicknell<\/strong> turned her $1,050 investment into $4,875 courtesy of her fifth-place exit.<\/p>\n

Fourth-place and $6,750 went to the reigning 2020 MILLIONS UK Main Event<\/strong><\/a> champion Anton Suarez<\/strong>. The Swede padded his bankroll with $8,935 after yet another deep run.<\/p>\n

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Frank Romanello busted in third-place<\/p><\/div>\n

There was a familiar name who got their hands on the $8,935 third-place prize. His surname is Romanello but it wasn\u2019t Roberto who won this princely sum, it was his dad, Frank! A superb result we\u2019re sure you\u2019ll agree.<\/p>\n

Romanello\u2019s demise left Ferenc Deak<\/strong> and Richard Gryko<\/strong> to fight it out heads-up for the title. The battle of the United Kingdom versus Hungary went the way of the British as Gryko came out on top and banked the $25,706 top prize. Deak netted $16,702 for his runner-up finish.<\/p>\n

WPT Omaha Opener Mini: $20K Gtd Freezeout<\/h2>\n

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There were plenty of big names in the $109 edition of the WPT Omaha Opener<\/strong> with several of them making their way super deep in the 177-strong field.<\/p>\n

Irish Open Online High Roller champion Ioannis Angelou-Konstas<\/strong><\/a> made his way to eighth place before busting out. Erik Dahlberg<\/strong>, who reached the final table of the $3,200 PL8 Championship Event<\/strong> won by Paul Tedeschi<\/strong><\/a>, went a few places deeper before running out of luck in fifth-place for $1,200.<\/p>\n

British grinder Adam York<\/strong> had to make do with the $2,200 third-place prize, which left Norway\u2019s Even Roste Kristiansen<\/strong> and Austria\u2019s Stefan Lehner<\/strong> as the last men standing. Lehner got the job done and his hands on the $4,856 top prize, leaving Kristiansen to bank $3,125.<\/p>\n

WPT Omaha Opener Micro: $5K Gtd Freezeout<\/h2>\n

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Stefan Lehner almost won two WPT events on the same day but things just didn\u2019t work out for the Austria. Lehner was one of 341-entrants in the $11 buy-in Micro<\/strong> event and he outlasted almost everyone. His incredible double run ended in this event with a third-place finish worth $530.<\/p>\n

You\u2019d better watch out of Lehner enters any future PLO events because it looks like he knows his way around an Omaha tournament!<\/p>\n

Lehner\u2019s demise left Canada\u2019s Ashish Antony<\/strong> and Brazil\u2019s Guilherme Dos Santos<\/strong> as the last two players in the event. Dos Santos used all of his Samba flair to beat his Canadian opponent and lock up a $982 prize. Antony walked away with the $729 second-place prize.<\/p>\n

Tune Into The WPT Omaha High Roller Live Stream on July 24<\/h2>\n

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We\u2019ve got a serious treat in store for you on Friday 24 July because we\u2019re streaming the final table<\/a> of the $10,300 buy-in WPT Omaha High Roller<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Forty-six players started and only seven remain. Each is guaranteed $23,500 for their efforts, but someone will secure a cool $192,500 and the title of champion. Pedro Zagalo<\/strong> is the man in pole position when play resumes, but he holds the slenderest of chip leads over Jens Lakemeier<\/strong> and Gavin Cochrane<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Finnish elite PLO grinder Jens Kyllonen<\/strong>, Aku Joentausta<\/strong>, Dimitiros Michailidis<\/strong>, and Joachim Haraldstad<\/strong> are also still in the hunt for the chunky six-figure prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Place<\/th>\nPlayer<\/th>\nCountry<\/th>\nChips<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nPedro Zagalo<\/td>\nNetherlands<\/td>\n1,051,111<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nJens Lakemeier<\/td>\nAustria<\/td>\n1,005,594<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nGavin Cochrane<\/td>\nUnited Kingdom<\/td>\n1,003,422<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nJens Kyllonen<\/td>\nFinland<\/td>\n487,159<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nAku Joentausta<\/td>\nFinland<\/td>\n418,884<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nDimitiros Michaildis<\/td>\nCyprus<\/td>\n397,377<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nJoachim Haraldstad<\/td>\nNorway<\/td>\n236,453<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The stream will be on a one-hour delay so we can show the action unfold with our state-of-the-art card up display, so head to our Twitch channel<\/strong><\/a> from 20:00 CET and rail your favourite player to victory.<\/p>\n

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The $100 million guaranteed WPT World Online Championships is in the process of switching over from PLO8 to Pot-Limit Omaha. The WPT #02 Omaha Championship Event kicks off on July 25 and players from around the world prepared for it with the trio of Omaha Openers on July 23. WPT Omaha Opener: $75K Gtd Freezeout<\/p>\n

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