The Living the Dream team – all online satellite tournament winners from Intertops Poker and Juicy Stakes Poker, had a great week in Austria but, all too soon, CAPT Seefeld 2016 was history and it was time to say auf wiedersehen. The guys headed home with heads filled with all they’d learned about European tournament play (still shocked at how aggressive the Europeans in Austria played compared to their casinos back home) and with visions of schnitzel burgers that will haunt then forever.
Peter Roche from Ireland won the CAPT Seefeld Main Event that Daniel, Chris and Tim competed in. He took home € 78,000 after agreeing to a deal that quickly wrapped up the three day grind. Two German players took second and third place.
This is the fourth and final article and video in a series. Previous episodes:
Daily Videos from CAPT Seefeld Begin Thursday
Three Online Players Living the Dream in Austria
Living the Dream Team Warms Up for the Main Event at CAPT Seefeld
The Living the Dream players weren’t the only ones that didn’t last until Day 3. There were over 300 players in Seefeld, from 20 different countries, including poker greats like Ronny Kaiser, Leon Tsoukernik, Josip Simunic, Niki Jedlicka, Jan-Peter Jachtmann, Mihai Manole, Rino Mathis, Dermot Blain, Jonas Kronwitter and Quirin Zech. But only 18 made it to the final fight for the title and the € 96,000 prize.
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It was a bad day from the start for chip leader Stefano Bertoldi . He lost almost every hand even when he had stronger hands and eventually settled for 14th place.
The only woman at the final table, the very classy Danielle Rollinger from Luxemburg, hung in for ages but was eventually caught short when Mambamenni went all-in. The board brought a Straight for the colourful Mambamenni and put elegant Danielle in 6th place (€ 16,200).
After starting in last place with only 20 big blinds, Jan-Peter Jachtmann was the chip leader going into the final hands. Then Austrian Markus Dürnegger quickly took a clear lead — until a Queen on board sent him to 4th place (€19,800). The last three then agreed to a deal. It had been a long three-day grind. Although he was as colourful and animated as he’d been through the whole tournament, tattooed Mambamenni had been at the table long enough. He and Jan-Peter Jachtmann had almost the same number of chips and each settled for €55,800. Roche, who was apparently paying a price for spending three days hunched over a poker table, subsisting on casino junk food, said his stomach was bothering him and was only to happy to wrap things up.
CAPT Seefeld 2016: Final Results
Rank Name Surname Nation Purse Deal
1 Peter Roche IRL € 96,000 € 78,000
2 Mambamenni D € 57,600 € 55,800
3 Jan-Peter Jachtmann D € 36,000 € 55,800
4 Markus Dürnegger A € 25,900
5 Yigit Aktulga DOOR € 19,800
6 Danielle Rollinger LUX € 16,200
7 Jonah Kronwitter D € 13,900
8 Daniel Peche D € 11,500
9 Tobias Stefan D € 9,900
10 Christopher Sandy D € 8,460
11 Giuseppe Caradonna I € 7,200
12 Hannes Speiser A € 7,200
13 Cristinel Dumitru ROU € 6,100
14 Stefano Bertoldi I € 6,100
15 Mario Eder A € 6,100
16 Manuel Zapf D € 4,680
17 Goran Mandic HRV € 4,680
18 Joe D € 4,680
19 Tudor Lucian Purice ROU € 4,500
20 Harry Casagrande A € 4,500
21 Saha CH € 4,500
22 NN € 4,500
Previous CAPT Seefeld Winners
Prize Pool Winner Purse
2009 € 2,000 164 € 311,600 Bernhard Perner € 87,260
2010 € 2,000 192 € 364,800 Marco Meloni € 96,680
2011 € 2,000 177 € 336,300 Andreas Griesser € 89,110
2012 € 2,000 187 € 355,300 Dorde Jovanovic € 94,690
2013 € 2,000 169 € 321,000 Guido Garnies € 88,300
2014 € 2,000 203 € 373,520 Andrew Seden € 99,500
2015 € 2,000 189 € 347,760 Fabrizio Fuchs € 70,000
Tim and Chris have already won their way to the Caribbean for TKPT St Maarten in April. Online satellites have just finished with Elena Stover and John Curcuru joining the team for that tropical adventure. Online satellites starting March 23rd will send the next group of online players to CAPT Velden in Austria this summer.
