Swedish Championships and Polish Poker Summer Cup Completed. Up Next: Coolbet Open
The Banco Casino personnel has not had much time to rest lately since there is one after the other major poker series being hosted at their casino in Bratislava, Slovakia. First up was the Swedish Championship where Niklas Holmström took down the Main Event for a prize close to €22.000, and where side events were won by Peter La Terra, Noelia Ivars Rico, and Andreas Höglund.
The Polish Poker Summer Cup was promised to be a great success and yet again it crushed the guarantee as 3,630 entries resulted in a total prize pool of €308,550. Unfortunately for Poland, the top-5 were all from different countries. Serbian Mario Skenderovic took home the trophy and €52,115 for the win. As of Monday 4th of September, the Coolbet Open will kick off and has the biggest guaranteed prize pool of all of them, with €300,000 up for grabs. PokerListings is present on location to take care of the live reporting.
Coolbet Open Comes to Bratislava
From the 4th of September, it will be yet another week of poker action at the Banco Casino in Bratislava, Slovakia. The Coolbet Open knows its 6th annual edition and is celebrating it in style as per usual. Already for months, online qualifiers have been open to all players from Coolbet Poker, and plenty of added value has been literally given away in addition to their famous Coolbet Passport finals, raffles, and competitions.
You can see on everything that Coolbet Open has got its poker heart in the right place. What better location they could have chosen for their next event, than the Banco Casino in Bratislava? There is simply no better destination in Europe for the moment in regard to poker, culture, and cuisine.
PokerListings will be covering the whole event, including their own PokerListings Deepstack tournament, behind held on Tuesday, September 5th. With a buy-in of just €250, there is plenty to fight for at the tables.
Highlights of the week:
- € 550 Main Event (€ 300.000 Guaranteed)**
- € 250 PokerListings Deepstack**
- € 165 Coolbet Open 8-Game (6-max)
- The € 1100 Coolbet NHL Masterclass (6-max)
- € 330 Coolbet Open Mystert Bounty
- € 115 Streamers NLH Hyper Turbo’s
** Live Coverage
Poker-SM Live a Great Success
The official Swedish Championship was held once again at the Banco Casino, where the poker rooms were promised to be colored blue and yellow. With approximately half of the poker tournaments only open to Swedish residents, the other half was available to all poker players, which resulted in big side events throughout. The Main Event, won by Niklas Holmström for roughly €22,000, and carries the official title of Swedish Champion for a whole year.
The High Roller event, open for everyone, was taken down by Slovakian Patrik Ciklamini for €13,000. Runner-up was kept in Swedish hands with Jonas Rosqvist, who took home €7,700. It was yet another success for the Poker-SM (Poker Swedish Masters), and most likely not the last event held in Bratislava.
Polish Poker Summer Cup Just Shy of Breaking Another Record
With 3,630 entries it has been a great Main Event for the Polish Poker Summer Cup. At the end of the previous year, they had slightly more entrants, so the expectations were set high for this one. Banco Casino was fully prepared with their well-trained staff to receive all the poker plays, mainly from Poland. The Main Event was unfortunately for Poland, not won by one of their own, but by Serbian Mario Skenderovic who took home the trophy and €52,115. It was only his second live poker cash of his career.
Plenty of side events were played out, including a Ladies Event. All of these events crushed their guaranteed prize pools easily. The Polish Poker Summer Cup organisation can look back on a successful event, being led properly by Banco Casino.
Here are the results of the final table of the Polish Poker Summer Cup:
| Place | Country | Name | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st |  | Mario Skenderovic | €52,115 |
| 2nd |  | Davita Khonelidze | €42,715 |
| 3rd |  | Lior Pinto | €24,300 |
| 4th |  | Vadym Lishchuk | €17,415 |
| 5th |  | Priadkova Lucia | €12,870 |
| 6th |  | Jakub Nowacki | €9,680 |
| 7th | | Beniamin Barret | €6,485 |
| 8th | | Tomasz Baranowicz | €4,260 |
| 9th | | Tomas Stvrtecky | €3,260 |
