Seat 3 - Oliver Weis, 32, Grenzach-Wyhlen, Germany (18,505,000)
The player everyone is looking up at to start the final table is no stranger to the pressure of playing for high stakes.
Oliver Weis began playing poker when he was 18 and is a regular in high-stakes games under the name “Sk2ll_m0dR” on PokerStars. In February, he won the EPT Paris High Roller for €970,200. He would become just the seventh player in EPT history to win both a high roller and Main Event, and only the second to do so in the same year after Dominik Panka in 2014.
That high roller victory was just part of what has already been a successful year on the felt for Weis. In May, he finished in 10th place in the Mediterranean Poker Party Main Event held in this same room. He also placed fourth in the $10,000 Super Turbo at the WSOP this summer, and made a run to 51st place at EPT Barcelona in September. He already had more than $2.1 million in live earnings prior to the Main Event.
“I’m feeling pretty good. It would be amazing to cap the year off with another win. Last year was not so good, so hopefully, I can reach the ultimate goal of winning an EPT Main Event,” Weis said after play yesterday.
Career Record
EPT cashes: 1
Best EPT result: 51st, 2024 EPT Barcelona
Career earnings: $2,124,254
Tournament Progression
Day 1: 112,500 (62/260, 1B)
Day 2: 715,000 (3/144)
Day 3: 720,000 (26/45)
Day 4: 4,540,000 (2/16)
Day 5: 18,505,000 (1/6)
Event Highlights
Weis was on the fortunate end of a number of big pots on Day 5 to seize a massive chip lead going to the final table. First, he bluffed Georgios Tsouloftas off top pair in a four-bet pot to take the chip lead.
Weis then picked off Damir Zhugralin in a pot worth more than 5,000,000 as Zhugralin could only show a pair of tens. Weis had rivered a flush to win the pot and eliminate Zhugralin in 10th place as the nine-handed final table was set.
At the final table, Weis woke up with two queens after Andrea Dato had shoved for 2,730,000 with two jacks. Weis held on to win the pot and send last year's runner-up to the rail in seventh place as he approached 20,000,000.