Here’s new Unibet Open Champion Anthon-Pieter Wink with his winning hand forever frozen in trophy form, like a mosquito in amber.  We’ll have to wait and see if he returns to defend his title in Golden Sands, Bulgaria in June…

But for now, thanks from us for watching, we hope you enjoyed this event as much as we did.  Over and out.

Anthon-Pieter Wink raised to 100k on the button, and Peder Skaj (pictured) upped it to 300k (leaving himself 1.4 million behind) – Wink called.

Flop:    Now Skaj just moved all in straight away, first to act.  Two or three minutes later and Wink made the call with the nut flush draw – vs. Skaj’s .  Draw vs. draw and Wink’s ahead… so what came next?  The putting Skaj ahead.

But the river was the , leapfrogging the Dutchman into the win.  What a corker for the audience, who are going nuts next door at this very moment…

On a flop of , Anthon-Pieter Wink fired 130k.  Peder Skaj check-raised to 320k, and Wink made it 700k….

Skaj now shoved, and Wink snap-folded.  It’s all kicking off here now as we approach midnight.

Peder Skaj raised to 110k preflop on the button, Anthon-Pieter Wink repopped it to 270k, then Skaj called.

Flop:    Wink checked, Skaj bet 300k.  After a good think, he made the call.

Turn:    Check-check.

River:    Now Wink thought briefly and bet 400k – Skaj tanked for a lot longer and announced, “Call.”  Wink showed which was good – Skaj showed then mucked his hand.

Leading is Peder Skaj with 2.6 million, to Anthon-Pieter Wink’s 2 mil or so.  They’re both in with a shot, and the heads up is kicking off any minute.

Joachim Buch has been eliminated, shoving over a Skaj preflop raise with 9-T suited.  Unfortunately for the young Norwegian, Skaj held , and duly busted him.  He picks up €74,175, and a bitter-sweet result but another great finish for the promising player.

Anthon-Pieter Wink reraises preflop to 220k, and the chip leader makes the call.

The flop: .  Now Skaj check-raised all-in, picking up at least 150k of Wink’s chips which he bet on the flop – only to quickly fold!  This move has worked out well for him on this final – he’s done it four times in the last hour and the hammer-wielding Swede seems to be using his large stack to the best advantage at the moment.

Here they are:

Peder Skaj – 2,111,000
Anthon-Pieter Wink – 1,899,000
Joachim Buch – 561,000

Big difference now to the final result whether Buch can find the double through to get back into contention…

We’ve just lost Maksim Tyurin after he was all-in preflop for his last few chips with luckily enough, the old A-A against Joachim Buch’s 9-9. But for Tyurin, the poker gods were going by the Buch today and the young Norwegian spiked the on the turn to leave just three players left.

Maksim Tyurin receives €53,475 for his efforts though.

It’s all going downhill for our Russian Maksim Tyurin, he’s gradually being squeezed out by the other players. He just had to fold after Peder Skaj just check-raised his 61,000 bet all-in on a board.

Below 300,000 the Russian needs to rush in with a few moves…

Joachim Buch raised to 72,000 from the button and Claus Nielsen reraised all-in from the big blind for 316,000. Buch didn’t like it but he made the call with and was ahead of the Dane’s .

A flurry of mixed emotions came out on the board as Nielsen 3-outered Buch before being 5-outered on the river.

Claus Nielsen goes out in 5th for €41,400.