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HESOP FINAL ... the time for the Grand Final of Hey Series of Poker has come

The long-awaited final of the series takes place on 13-16 October Montesino in Vienna, the Austrian's best poker club.

The guaranteed prize pool is 50,000 €

Organizers plan also to play several side events (including high roller and “all in or fold” )

HESOP FINALE 13-16 October 2011
Location:
Casino Montesino - Guglgasse 11 - Top 5 - 1110 Vienna Austria
Phone: +43 1 990 47 29

Homepages:
www.montesino.at
www.hesop.eu/en/

All players who choose to appear on 1A (Thursday) will also have the opportunity to participate in Day 1B (Friday). Please kindly note that there is a possibility to re-entry on Friday. Every time a player receives a new stack and a new starting place. If you qualify for the finals on both 1A and 1B, the larger stack will be taken..

Main Event Structure:
Main Event buy-in - 135 €, re-entry - 120 €
Day 1A - 13.10.2011 - Thursday - starting 19:00 - late registration: 4 levels
Day 1B - 14.10.2011 - Friday - starting 19:00 - late registration / re-entry: 4 levels
Day 2 - 15.10.2011 - Saturday - 14:00
Final Day - 16.10.2011 - Sunday - 14:00

Start Stack / Re-buy: 20 000 chips
Blinds: Day 1A/B - 12 levels / 30 minutes, Day 2 - 9 levels / 45 minutes, the Final Day - 60 minutes
the first blind level is: 25-50
Number of Players (max): 400
Places paid: 12%

Side Events:
Details will be announced shortly

Cash Games
Game types:
- Texas Hold'em No Limit & Limit
- Pot Limit Omaha
- Seven Card Stud Limit

HOT NEWS!!!
buy-in 135 euro - the guaranteed prize pool is 50,000 €

In regards with great interest of The Grand Final tournament of Hey Series of Poker, HESOP and Montesino management decided to increase the guaranteed prizepool up to 50,000 €! At the same time, the buy-in to Main Event has been reduced to €135 and one more day has been added. All players who choose to appear on 1A (Thursday) will also have the opportunity to participate in Day 1B (Friday). Please kindly note that there is a possibility to re-entry on Friday. Every time a player receives a new stack and a new starting place. If you qualify for the finals on both 1A and 1B, the larger stack will be taken.

Main Event will last 4 days and will have a nice structure. Start stack of 20,000 at 25/50 blinds which will increase the first day (A+B), every 30 minutes, the second day, every 45 whereas on Final day, every 60 minutes. Organizers also plan to play of several side events, including High Roller, and a special tournament All-in Or Fold. So get ready for a poker weekend, which should satisfy all poker enthusiasts.

HESOP FINAL - Main Event - guaranteed 50 000€
buyin - 135€, re-entry - 120€

Day 1A - 13.10.2011 - Thursday - starting 19:00 - late registration: 4 levels
Day 1B - 14.10.2011 - Friday - starting 19:00 - late registration/re-entry: 4 levels
Day 2 - 15.10.2011 - Saturday - starting 14:00
Final Day - 16.10.2011 - Sunday - starting 14:00

In regards with great interest of The Grand Final tournament of Hey Series of Poker, Heypoker and Montesino management decided to increase the guaranteed prizepool up to 50,000 €! At the same time, the buy-in to Main Event has been reduced to €135 and one more day has been added. All players who choose to appear on 1A (Thursday) will also have the opportunity to participate in Day 1B (Friday). Please kindly note that there is a possibility to re-entry on Friday. Every time a player receives a new stack and a new starting place. If you qualify for the finals on both 1A and 1B, the larger stack will be taken into cosideration. Stay tuned! More details regarding Main Event will be published shortly.
PLEASE KINDLY NOTE THAT SATURDAY IS DAY 2!!!

side events:

Wednesday 19.00
BigStack Freezeout NLH + 1 Re-Entry
buyin 70€, re-entry 60€ - guaranteed 10 000€
late registration/re-entry: 4 levels

Thursday ?

Friday 23.00
All In or Fold Triple Chance
buyin 25€
late registration: 4 levels

Saturday 19.00
Freezeout Bounty (20€) NLH
buyin 57€ - guaranteed 10 000€
late registration: 4 levels

Saturday 22.00
HESOP Masters
buyin 400€
late registration: 4 levels

Sunday 13.00
Freezeout NLH
buyin 20€ - guaranteed 1 500€
late registration: 4 levels

Sunday 19.00
1 Rebuy NLH
buyin 25€, rebuy 10€ - guaranteed 3 000€
late registration/one rebuy: 4 levels

"Break Aces"
During a break on Day 1A and 1B, each participant of the Main Event will have a chance of breaking Aces (A, hearts, spades) ... anyone who succeeds, will get a free drink at the bar. Each player will have only one chance.

extra side event "All-in or Fold Triple Chance" Friday 23.00
Initial stack / rebuys / addon: 1 000, blinds every 10 minutes
Late registration: 4 Levels
All-in or Fold - a player can only play all-in or fold
Triple Chance - by the end of the first break a player can take two free rebuys no matter how big the stack is, after 4th level (break), each rebuy which has not used is converted to a free addon

Double Polish victory on HESOP Final at Montesino.

Grzegorz Cichocki (Poland) is the lucky winner of the tournament HESOP, which took place at Montessino in Austria. Grzegorz received a cash prize of € 13.470.
After four exciting days of poker, Polish HU took place as Gregory Cichocki played against his fellow- countryman, Pawel Czartoryski.

While playing a final hand of the tournament, when 7-9-J appeared on flop, both players decided to go all-in. Grzesiek Cichocki had 8-10 which gave him a straight, Pawel Czartoryski's kings had still some chance for winning.
However, when nine fell on the turn and 6 on the river, Obywatel_G's victory became a fact.

The final game, in which participated 9 players, lasted over five hours. The unique structure of the Main Event players guaranteed HESOP players a balanced play conditions. No wonder, then, that the average stack for most of the time was at the level of 40 big blinds.

The Main Event was attended by 524 players, the representatives of Austria, Poland, Germany, Czech, Greece, Italy, Belgium, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine and Japan.

In addition to the Main Event, we could observe five side-events.

Bigstack Freezeout (1 Re-Entry) - 135 players

All In or Fold Triple Chance - 58 players

Bounty Freezeout - 208 players

Freezeout - 91 players

One Rebuy – 106 players

Additionally, every day, 24 hours a day, cash games were played (Hold'em, Omaha and Stud) ... On Saturday night, there were 13 tables open.

Photos of HESOP FINAL, check the links below:

http://www.facebook.com/media/albums/?id=201968356492388

http://www.facebook.com/media/albums/?id=219407984745022