Vladzislau Hladkovski Wins €230 TonyBet OFC Progressive Pineapple at PokerNews Cup
It took Vladzislau Hladkovski a little under eight hours to take down the €230 TonyBet Open-Faced Chinese Progressive Pineapple tournament after a deal for €1,890.
Hladkovski recovered from being the first casualty of the day to take full advantage of his second bullet to claim the title, prize money and TonyBet trophy.
There were a solid half a dozen players at the start of play, with faces from the various Day 1s of the PokerNews Cup present in the field including eMKey and Paulina Rimkute, but it took until the third level of the day until we saw any one player make some advances well above starting stack.
By Level 4 we had already had a couple of eliminations, including the aforementioned Hladkovski, Lars Hellmuth chiKKita banAAna and eventual third-place finisher Andrei Ilin.
There was strong play throughout the day, but the hand-of-the-day has to go to Sergii Kyslyi, who returned from Fantasy Land with a grin from ear to ear as he showed Royal Flush-Full House-Aces to soar into the chiplead and eliminate both Paulina Rimkute and Anja Haberger.
Late registrants Sebastian Langrock and Martin Kabrhel joined the field, with both players firing two bullets, but only Langrock securing a spot in the final six.
Langrock would go on to bust in fourth place leaving Vladzislau Hladkovski, Andrei Ilin, Alexander Dovzhenko and Sergii Kyslyi to battle it out. Kyslyi was the shortest of the four of them, but there was to be no fairytale comeback. In his pursuit of Kings up top he fouled to leave the other three to play on.
But there was no play. The final three players agreed a three-way deal with chipleader Vladzislau Hladkovski taking the title and trophy by virtue of being the chipleader when the deal was struck.
| Position | Name | Country | Payout (after threeway deal) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vladzislau Hladkovski | Belarus | €1,890 |
| 2 | Alexander Dovzhenko | Ukraine | €1,621 |
| 3 | Andrei Ilin | Russia | €1,428 |
Meanwhile, the PokerNews Cup is down to its final eight players, who will resume tomorrow to play down to a winner. Stay tuned to PokerNews for all the action from the final table.