French poker player Kalidou Sow won the Winamax Poker Tour Paris High Roller taking home €100,000 in cash prize. This is the third big tournament win for Sow in just a few months after taking first-place trophies and six-figure prizes in London and Prague.
The three-day Winamax Poker Tour Paris High Roller is the latest event won by the Frenchman. It was held on Thursday, 1 March as part of the 2017/2018 Winamax Poker Tour Series which started on 15 February at Cercle Clichy Montmartre in Paris. Satellites ran every Monday with a buy-in of €150. Sow was one of 376 players who took part in the event which saw record attendance numbers due to the opportunity for re-entry at a cost of €1,500.
A total of 47 players managed to reach the money places where the minimum cash prize was €2,800. Nine of those players earned a seat at the final table pocketing a minimum of €12,000. French player Yves Piacentino busted at the 9th place, followed by Renato Minicuci who, paying an entry of only €200, won €14,500. Firas Nassar was eliminated by Achille Samaran, leaving at the seventh spot, while Sami Torbey and Gaelle Baumann finished sixth and fifth. Samaran and Ivan Deyra busted at the hands of Dutch player Kees van Brugge, who was eventually eliminated after a heads-up with Kalidou Sow and took home the attractive second-place prize of €72,000.
Impressive Winning Streak for Sow
The top place at the High Roller event of the Winamax Poker Tour Paris is the third win in Kalidou Sow’s impressive record since December last year. He took down the €5,300 No Limit Hold’em PokerStars Championship Prague Main Event which took place at the Hilton Prague Hotel, cashing in €675,000. At the last ever PokerStars championship held in the Czech capital he won in a heads-up battle against the more experienced American player Jason Wheeler, who has won nearly $10 million in live and online tournaments in his career.
The next large tournament attended by Sow brought him another first-place trophy and a six-figure cash prize. On 24 January, he won the PokerStars Festival London Main Event adding another £121,803 to his bankroll. The £990 buy-in No Limit Hold’em tournament was held at the Hippodrome Casino in London and saw 852 entrants. Along with the first-place cash prize, Sow took an additional $30,000 after a one-on-one battle for the Platinum Pass with UK player Paul Dando.
Kalidou Sow also topped the 2017 Barrière Poker Tour Masters in Lille, France in September for € 20,600, while at the PokerStars Festival Lille High Roller event in July last year, he finished third earning € 31,300. The French player’s total earnings from live tournaments are estimated around €900,000 or a little over $1 million.
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Harry Evans
