CAPT - Graz

The popularity of poker throughout the whole of Europe was underlined this weekend at the Casino Austria Graz. It hosted the CAPT Graz €2,000 NL tournament and no fewer than five nations were represented in the final ten players.

105 entrants created a prize pool of €199,500 and the lion’s share went to Piotr Jopp, a Pole celebrating his first tournament win. When the €57,850 is plonked into his bank account, we are sure he will want to reproduce the feelings of euphoria and it will be difficult to keep him away from the tables.

Slightly lower down the podium was another newcomer, Austrian Christian Zeibeck, who stashed 41,890 for his second place.

Completing the one-two-three was a countryman of Zeibeck’s, Michael Maier, who will be glad to stash some cash as his prize of €29,920 was his first award since last year.

Normally your British poker commentator might lament the lack of a UK representative in the top ten.

However, this time it is possible that our top dogs were too busy in Beijing winning medals.

It won’t be too long until British faces are back on the poker wall of fame.
As events over the weekend at the Olympics have shown, we can excel at any event as long as we can do it sitting down.

CAPT Graz – €2,000 NL Event

1. Piotr Jopp – Pol – €57,870
2. Christian Zeibeck – Aut –€ 41,890
3. Michael Maier – Aut – €29,920
4. Andreas Krause – Ger – €20,750
5. Sandra Nauiks – Ger – €15,960
6. Laszlo Soltes – Hun – €11,970
7. Janek Schleicher –Ger – €7,980
8. Herbert Kock – Aut – €5,980
9. Johann Brolenius – Swe – €3,990
10. Markus Golser – Aut – €3,190