Sam Trickett Wins Partouche Poker Tour Main Event

Poker News / Matthew Pitt / 13 November 2011 / Leave a Comment

Trickett gets mobbed by family and friends (Photo: Partouche Poker Tour)

Sam Trickett's amazing year has continued after he won the Partouche Poker Tour Main Event on Sunday evening for a €1,000,000 addition to his already massive bankroll.

When we say "amazing year" we actually mean an amazing year and a half because he started to really put in some superb results at the 2010 World Series of Poker. There he cashed six times, final table bubbled the $25,000 six-max event and finished second in the $5,000 No Limit Hold'em tournament. Straight after the WSOP he made the final table of EPT Vilamoura then a couple of weeks later he won the $10,000 World Poker Open for another $200,000.

But 2011 has been even better for the former professional footballer because he has won more than $4,500,000 so far and there is still a month and a half to go! At the start of the year he on the AUD$100,000 High Roller at the Aussie Millions for AUD$1,525,000 then less than a week later finished as runner-up to Erik Seidel in the AUD$250,000 Super High Roller for a further AUD$1,400,000. He has also made final tables in a €5,000 WPT Diamond Championship, the £20,000 EPT London High Roller and the €5,000 Pot Limit Omaha event at the recent WSOPE in Cannes. Unbelievable!

This latest victory saw him outlast a field of 579 including some of the biggest names in the business to claim his third seven-figures score of 2011. He started the nine-handed final table as the overall chip leader but lost a huge pot early on with jacks against ace-seven to see him drop to eighth place, but he fought back valiantly and thoroughly deserved his win. A big shout out needs to go to Trickett's heads-up opponent Salman Behbehani who always handles himself perfectly at the tables and always has a smile on his face. He recently celebrated a birthday and the €600,000 he won for being the runner-up is by far his largest live score and the entire poker community will be delighted for the American.

The prize money Trickett won means he has now overtaken Roland De Wolfe and Dave "Devilfish" Ullliott in the GB and Ireland All-Time Money listings with over $6,400,000! It also means that he is now the eighth highest earner (from tournament poker) in the whole of Europe, an quite frankly amazing achievement.

With a number of World and European Poker Tour events coming up between now and the end of the year it would take a very brave man to bet against Trickett adding yet another title to his ever-growing collection.

Partouche Poker Tour Final Table Results

1st: Sam Trickett: €1,000,000
2nd: Salman Behbehani: €600,000
3rd: Olksii Kovalchuk: €379,760
4th: Ilan Boujenah: €300,000
5th: Roger Hairabedian: €230,000
6th: Mustapha Kanit: €190,000
7th: Alexander Dovzhenko: €160,000
8th: Alexander Coussy: €130,000
9th: Mads Wissing: €100,000

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