Konstantinos Tsikopoulos Wins 2023 Bar Poker Open Pro-Am ($44,086)
Konstantinos Tsikopoulos entered the Bar Poker Open Pro-Am final table in the middle of the pack but showed heart and grit to emerge victorious at the Golden Nugget Casino.
Tsikopoulos took home an impressive $44,086 for the victory by defeating a field of 199 entries over two days of play which consisted of qualifiers from the Bar Poker Open, Golden Nugget regulars, and a host of pros that graced the field.
2023 Bar Poker Open Pro-Am Final Table Results
| Rank | Player | Country | Payout |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Konstantinos Tsikopoulos | United States | $44,086 |
| 2 | Ryan Hiller | United States | $30,353 |
| 3 | Clement Bonnant | United States | $18,154 |
| 4 | Joseph Crowley | United States | $11,043 |
| 5 | Andrew MacKenzie | United States | $8,528 |
| 6 | Steven Rodriguez | United States | $7,067 |
| 7 | Frankie Zeta | United States | $6,022 |
| 8 | Jim Juvancic | United States | $5,207 |
| 9 | Kevin Kent | United States | $4,408 |
Final Table Action
Kevin Kent came to the final table as one of the shorter stacks and quickly found an opportunity to get his chips into the middle but his timing was unfortunate as he fell to the pocket kings of Tsikopoulos.
Next to be eliminated were both Frankie Zeta and Jim Juvancic, seventh and eighth respectively, in a double elimination at the hands of Frenchman Clement Bonnant whose pocket queens held in a three-way all in.
It wasn't long before fans were witness to another three-way all in that saw Steven Rodriguez eliminated in sixth place and Joseph Crowley score a triple-up in the process.
The flow of the final table took a big shift when eventual winner Tsikopoulos made a courageous hero call with third pair versus Bonnant which propelled him in the chip counts and began to dominate the final table.
Andrew MacKenzie has struggled to find any momentum in the day but managed to navigate himself to a fifth-place finish before moving in with his short-stack, only to walk into the pocket queens of Day 2 chip leader Ryan Hiller.
Moments after it was the end of the road for Joseph Crowley whose ace-king couldn't improve versus Tsikopoulos' pocket eights and the original nine were down to three.
Bonnant was next to bust to the hands of Tsikopoulos, he holding pocket eights and Tsikopoulos having the ace-king. An ace on the turn was enough to send the Frenchman packing.
Heads-up play went back and forth, lasting over an hour, with Tsikopoulos chipping away at Hiller before the latter found spots to double up. This happened two times before Tsikopoulos closed out the victory, flopping top and bottom pair and holding to claim the title and the $44,086 payday.
That concludes PokerNews' coverage of the 2023 Bar Poker Open, but there's more to come from the Golden Nugget as the $1,100 buy-in, $1,000,000 GTD PokerNews Cup Mystery Bounty will take place from June 29-July 3. Click here for more details on that tournament.
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