King’s Casino in Rozvadov Announces Its Poker Schedule as the Facility Re-Opens

Ivan Potocki — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 20:30:40 +0000

The King’s Casino venue located in a Czech town of Rozvadov is a resort and casino which today houses the biggest European poker room. The venue opened its doors to the public almost seventeen years ago back in June of 2003. It was established by Leon Tsoukernik who is a professional poker player and an art collector. Back in 2015, King’s Casino Rozvadov announced its business partnership with the WSOP or World Series of Poker which resulted in a brand-new World Series of Poker Circuit Event at this venue.

Since 2017, the King’s Casino facility has been hosting the World Series of Poker Europe and it will host the event at least until 2021. When it comes to its poker tournaments held, around 200,000 players visited the venue back in 2014 while over €15 million in prizes was paid out the same year.

King’s Casino Rozvadov and World Series of Poker Europe

One of the most successful King’s Casino poker tournaments was the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event 2017 which crowned Marti Roca De Torres as the ultimate winner. That same year, Dominik Nitsche won the One Drop High Roller event. The €10,350 World Series of Poker 2018 Main Event title went to Jack Sinclair.

Three years ago, in 2017, the World Series of Poker Europe events at King’s Casino Rozvadov was attended by 30,000 players so there is no wonder why King’s Casino remains the biggest European poker room. However, since the 3rd of March, the venue has not offered and poker tournaments and poker gaming due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic which has led to postponements and even cancellations of all major events.

On a regular basis, King’s Casino is one of the major hot spots for professional and amateur poker players not only from the Czech Republic but from many other countries across Europe. After several months of being closed due to the coronavirus outbreak, the King’s Casino venue is finally ready to re-open, and super exciting poker tournaments and poker gaming actions are on the schedule. Interested players will find loads of high-roller poker options alongside other gaming formats.

The Balkan Poker Circuit and PLO High Roller Coming Soon

The biggest poker room in Europe in the King’s Casino facility starts offering poker actions from the 20th of June when a Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller event kicks off. According to the organizers of the event, it will feature a buy-in of €2,500 and it will doubtlessly see many successful players compete including Marek Blasko, Harry Casagrande, and Besim Hot who have already confirmed that they will compete.

The Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller event takes place before the Balkan Poker Circuit kicks off on the 1st of July. It will run until the 6th of July and it will feature the most anticipated Min Event with a rather low buy-in of €150. It was also revealed that the Balkan Poker Circuit’s prize pool will feature two World Series of Poker Europe tickets which naturally help players reserve their sport at the European World Series of Poker tournament which kicks off in October.

With two major poker tournaments scheduled at King’s Casino, the month of July will be loaded with poker actions. In addition to the PLO High Roller and the Balkan Poker Circuit, King’s Casino Rozvadov also hosts the Bounty Hunter Days Warm-Up tournament that will from the 9th through the 12th of July while the Benelux Classics will kick off on the 15th of July.

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Alexandros Kolonias Wins 2019 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event

Ivan Potocki — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 12:57:26 +0000

The 2019 WSOPE has reached its end. This year’s World Series of Poker Europe No-Limit Hold’em poker tournament saw five hundred and forty-one entries which together created a massive prize pool of over €5 million. This tournament was actually the second biggest World Series of Poker Europe Main Event and it was the third poker tournament of this significance to take place in the Czech Republic’s municipality of Rozvadov.

The event saw Alexandros Kolonias winning the title after defeating another great poker player Class Claas Segebrecht in super exciting heads-up game. The final table of the event included nine amazing players and each player was from a different country. Included in the table were Dario Sammartino and Anthony Zinno who are both World Series of Poker Player of the Year contestants for this year.

Amazing Alexandros Kolonias Winning Over $1,2 Million

The first player to leave the final table was amazing Rifat Palevic who is another former World Series of Poker winner. The table was left by several more players until just Segebrecht and Kolonias remained. According to the official WSOP press release, once the exciting heads-up game at the final table started, the action was quite shot-lived as the ultimate winner Alexandros Kolonias started with a three to five advantage which helped him take a bigger lead almost at the very beginning.

His opponent, Claas Segebrecht has managed to gain some ground after having a great hand consisted of a full house of tens, but this was not enough. Just before a half-hour of gaming action, the final table had its winner. Before it was over, Claas Segebrecht decided to shove all-in with threes in his hand while the winner called with Ace to King suited. There was a King located on the flop which ultimately helped Alexandros Kolonias with river and spades on its turn to win the game and score the title.

The results of the World Series of Poker Europe No-Limit Hold’em tournament shows how much the first eight-placed players won. Alexandros Kolonias as the winner of the Main Event scooped over $1,2 million. The second-placed Claas Segebrecht won over $777K while the third-placed Anthony Zinno brought home around $538K. The fourth-placed Dario Sammartino won $379K while the fifth-placed Anh Do won over $271. Rifat Palevic as sixth-placed won $197K while Julien Martini as seventh-placed won $146K. The eight-placed Jakob Madsen brought home around $110K.

Kahle Burns Earning His Second Bracelet

This year’s World Series of Poker Europe has seen some amazing poker action at Rozvadov’s King’s Resort which hosted the series. Before Alexandros Kolonias won this year’s WSOPE Main Event, Kahle Burns earned his second bracelet as he won the 2019 World Series of Poker Event Thirteen. This event lasted for more than thirteen hours before Burns landed the ultimate win which brought him his second World Series of Poker bracelet.

In total, one hundred and seventy-nine poker players competed in this event. The final table, in the end, included Manig Loeser and Kahle Burns. All in all, the heads-up gaming round for this event was rather short as the ultimate winner was determined in only two hands. The final results for this event are Kahle Burns as the first-placed, Manig Loeser as the second-placed, Felix Schulze as the third-placed followed by Anselmi and Peck.