Online Champion Becomes Offline Pro
The popular and successful online poker player, NeverScaredB a.k.a. Ben Wilinofsky, finally inaugurates his offline victory march by claiming first ever cash-in poker victory yesterday. Though, this is the first offline victory for Ben. Last year he won more than million dollars in PokerStars Super Tuesday’s event. His online success with PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker makes him the most successful youngest online poker player pro. He used to play online poker with his handle, NeverScaredB, which becomes the horrific ID to compete to.
In the stunning finish, Canadian Poker professional Ben Wilinofsky, a PokerStars qualifier, wins the EPT Berlin title along with whopping prize money of €825,000 and a bracelet. He outperformed all 773 participants of the tournament. This is the first ever EPT title for Ben, who now deserves to compete in EPT grand final and champion of champions event next month.
His Game Play
Ben enters the final table of EPT Berlin as the chip leader with his chip count of 5,225,000, and gave experienced poker pros like Martin Jacobson, Joep Van Den Bijgaart, Darren Kramer, and others toughest challenge.
Right from the start he dominates the game. Soon after the first hand of the final table, his chip count increased to more than 9 Million. Not too long after, he enjoys the largest chips stack of the final table i.e. more than 10,000,000.
Jonas Gutteck became first to slip down to 8th place, winning him €66,000. Pokerstars’ pro, Joep van den Bijgaart, was the second to fall short of Wilinofsky’ K-J ranking and secured his 7th place that makes him richer by €100,000. Vadzim Kursevich’s pocket sevens beat A-9 of Darren Kramer and slipping his down to the sixth place. He took his winning share of €140,000.
The fall continues and other pros to book their bottom slot are- Armin Mette; fifth spot, Martin Jacobson; fourth spot, and Vadzim Kursevich; third place in the tournament.
At this point, Ben holding more than sixteen million under his belt, while Heinzelmann was enjoying little less than seven million. On the final hand, Heinzelmann fell short of Ben that made him the winner of his first live tournament’s crown.
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