Dennis Weis Captures First Bracelet In WSOP Europe €5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Event

The sixth event of the 2024 World Series of Poker Europe was the highest buy-in so far at the 15-event-series, with a €5,000 price tag to enter the pot-limit Omaha tournament. A total of of 141 entries were made at Kings Resort Rozvadov before registration closed, resulting in a prize pool of $698,817. It took two days to narrow that field down to a champion, with Germany’s Dennis Weiss dragging the last pot. Weiss was awarded $177,486 and his first WSOP gold bracelet for the win.

This was not only Weiss’ first bracelet, it was his first live title ever. Prior to this victory, his best tournament performance was a fifth-place finish in a $1,100 pot-limit Omaha event at the Venetian’s DeepStack Championship Poker Series in July for $15,296.

Weiss was awarded 576 Card Player Player of the Year points after coming out on top. This was his second POY-qualified score, having earned 180 points for his aforementioned deep run in Las Vegas this summer. With 756 total points, Weiss is now sitting just outside the top 1,000 in the 2024 POY standings presented by Global Poker.

The top 22 finishers made the money in this event, with big names like two-time bracelet winners Oleksii Kovalchuk (22nd) and Omar Eljach (20th), bracelet winner Hokyiu Lee (17th), four-time bracelet winner Julien Martini (15th), and Thomas Eychenne (13th) all running deep.

The final table began with Weiss in the lead. Early eliminations among the last nine included high-stakes tournament regular Fahredin Mustafov (9th – $14,959), Vakhtang Javakhishvili (8th – $17,716), Vazha Kometiani (7th – $21,907), and Krzysztof Magott (6th – $28,238).

Jonas Kronwitter’s run came to an end when his AKJ6 ran into the AAK8 of Amir Mozaffarian. The 2023 WSOP $50,000 pot-limit Omaha third-place finisher earned $37,880 as the fifth-place finisher after the board kept the pocket aces ahead. He now has nearly $2.6 million in career cashes after this latest strong showing.

Mozaffarian continued to chip up thanks to his AKK2 holding against the QQ99 of Victor Dota in the next big clash. Dota failed to connect with the board and was eliminated in fourth place ($52,798).

The next big showdown saw all of Nikola Minkov’s chips go in after a flop of K106. He held AAQ5 for an overpair, a gutshot straight draw, and two backdoor nut flush draws. Weiss was his opponent, with AKJ9 for top pair of kings with a different gutshot straight draw. The K turn gave Weiss trip kings, while upgrading Minkov’s club draw from backdoor to a fully fledged flush draw. The 6 on the end kept Weiss’ hand best, though, and Minkov was eliminated in third place ($76,358). The Bulgarian now has more than $697,000 in career tournament scores under his belt.

Heads-up play started with Weiss holding 9,400,000 to Mozaffarian’s 4,700,000. He was able to stretch the lead even further ahead of the final hand of the tournament. Weiss limped in from the button for 120,000 total with A1095 and Mozaffarian raised to 360,000 from the bug blind with J852. Weiss called and the flop came down K108. Mozaffarian shoved for his last 540,000 and Weiss made the call. The A turn gave Weiss aces up and a spade draw. The 3 on the end made his victory official.

Mozaffarian walked away with $114,432 as the runner-up. This was his second-largest live tournament score yet, bringing his career earnings to nearly $474,000.

Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded at the final table:

Photo credit: WSOP, Kings Resort Rozvadov / Tomas Stacha.