Neymar's freeroll at PokerStars was held
Last week, Neymar celebrated his birthday and PokerStars held an affordable freeroll with $29 000 guarantee in honor of this day. In the free tournament, it was possible to register using the password that Cardmates published in a "Freeroll Schedule".
The event collected 21 188 entries, of which 4 220 players entered ITM zone. The minimum prize money was very symbolic ($2.42), but in a heads-up, $4 500 were raffled for two participants.
It is worth noting that freeroll was held in a hyper-turbo format and it finished in four hours. In the final table, there were participants from Romania, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia and Brazil.
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The poker pro from Belarus Ruslan "9191Ben9191" Sadovskiy became a runner-up of event. In the final heads-up, he was defeated by the Romanian player under the nickname "d3y7".
In the last hand, "9191Ben9191" hit a straight on the flop, but his opponent’s hand improved to a full house on the river, which allowed the Romanian player to win the tournament.
Results of Neymar Freeroll Final Table
- "d3y7" (Romania) – $2 708
- "9191Ben9191" (Belarus) – $1 849
- "IIoIIolam" (Ukraine) – $1 271
- "Pokravtomat" (Russia) – $874
- "bloodyserega" (Russia) – $601
- "acefish98" (Russia) – $413
- "PAULOPARANA" (Brazil) – $284
