Estonia’s Haik Tougu Wins Record-Breaking THMC in Rozvadov (€51,300)

The Pageant Rozvadov has been operating for lower than every week at King’s Resort within the Czech Republic, but it has already damaged a document. The €150 buy-in Hendon Mob Championship (THMC) served because the sequence’ opening occasion, and what higher strategy to welcome gamers to The Pageant than by smashing the THMC’s long-standing attendance document.

Martin “Frankie” von Zweigbergk, founding father of The Pageant Sequence, is just not a person who does issues by halves. There have been many who thought Frankie had gone too far when he put a €300,000 assure on the THMC Rozvadov prize pool, not least as a result of the match value solely €150 to enter.

Nonetheless, Frankie’s confidence in hitting the formidable assure paid off when 2,417 gamers purchased in throughout a number of flights and created a €304,542 prize pool! The huge area first broke the document for the best-attended European THMC occasion earlier than obliterating the world document, set throughout the RUNGOOD Poker Sequence Checkpoint Thunder Valley in July 2023, when 1,605 gamers battled it out for the title.

THMC Rozvadov Remaining Desk Outcomes

Estonia’s Haik Tougu will perpetually be referred to as the champion of the biggest-ever THMC Fundamental Occasion, at the least till somebody breaks the document once more. Tougu, who had a handful of cashes on his Hendon Mob profile earlier than this occasion, walked away with a €51,300 haul, plus a €1,500 bundle to the upcoming Cape City Thousands and thousands later this yr.

As soon as the match reached the heads-up stage, it solely took ten arms for Tougu to come back out on prime. Tougu had 65 massive blinds at his disposal in comparison with Philipp Klok’s micro-stack of lower than 4 massive blinds. Wanting down at queen-deuce, Tougu set Klok all-in, and Klok referred to as with ten-nine. Tougu improved to an pointless five-high straight on the river to seize the title and go away his German opponent to console himself with a €27,300 runner-up prize.

Chatting with The Pageant Sequence’ host, Andreas Hoglund, after his victory, Tougu revealed he plans to take a position a few of his winnings again into poker and journey. Maybe a few of these winnings will discover their manner into the €550 buy-in, €500,000 assured The Pageant Rozvadov Fundamental Occasion, which began on June 11 and wraps up on June 16.

Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the UK, and has labored within the poker business since 2008, and labored for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he grew to become the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from stay reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his position of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.