The French poker player Jean-Pierre Didier emerged victorious from the 2016 edition of the WSOPC Caribbean festival in Sint Maarten, winning his first WSOP Circuit ring. The festival gathered a total of 236 entrants, only 43 of whom reached to the final day of the competition. Only the first 25 players, however, were granted with a cash portion of the event’s guaranteed prize pool.
Eventually, Jean-Pierre Didier from France was proclaimed as the winner, after making a three-way deal with his last two standing opponents – Patrick Alain and Dueval Fenton.
Some of the players who were eliminated early from the competition were Tahar Slamani, Brett Murray and Jose Delgado. After the first level of the game, the players base was reduced to 39. A bit later, it was Jose Duzanson who became the bubble-boy.
The game at the last day of the WSOPC Caribbean festival was quick-paced and aggressive, but once there were only 25 players left, the eliminations came steadily. Still, the players went bust one by one, until the final table was formed. The Dutch Jacco van Limpt was the first one to leave the final table, followed by the Italian Augusto Cavazzini. The rivalry was fierce, but at the end, only three players competing for the winner’s position remained.
Jean-Pierre Didier occupied the first position in the ranking in no more than 20 minutes after a three-way deal was agreed between the last three standing opponents. Under the terms of the deal, Didier, Alain and Fenton agreed to flatten the payouts for the top three places.
With Jean-Pierre Didier emerging as the event’s winner with a payout of $13,000, Partick Alain from Sint Maarten remained as the runner-up. He received $12,000 as a consolation prize. Dueval Fenton remained third, taking home a cash portion of $11,000. The fourth position in the ranking was occupied by Werner Eder from Austria.
Stephane Genet took the fifth place, followed by another Austrian – Mario Eder, who received a prize of $3,400. Christophe Enrici remained seventh, while Augusto Cavazzini from Itally occupied the eighth position in the ranking. The last, ninth place, was taken by Jacco van Limpt from the Netherlands.
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Harry Evans
