‘DaDumon’ Wins 1 Million Times His Buy-in!
10 years ago
16 Oct
Austria's Simon "DaDumon" Grabenschweiger beat off the challenge of 253,697 other players to take down the Common Cents Kick-Off, the inaugural event in PokerStars micro-stakes tournament series.
As reported very briefly here late last week, the online pro took just under 7 hours to lift the $10,000 first prize – an event he almost didn’t bother playing in!
In the PokerStarsBlog interview posted yesterday, apparently the million-to-one shot nearly didn’t happen at all according to the winner.
“I was playing a lot of other MTTs and totally forgot I registered for this a few days before,” he explained. “When it popped up I actually tried to get rid of it because I had 12 other tables running. I assumed it would be a lot of players, maybe even more than there were.”
In fact, the 253,697 entrants paying $0.01 each broke the previous record for an online tournament which PokerStars also held with their 2013 PokerStars Guinness World Record Attempt during their Road to 100 Billion Hands celebrations. That event had seen the buy-in of $1 attract over 225,000 players.
T his time around, the tiny buy-in meant that PokerStars had an overlay of some $97,000+ to find for the $100k guaranteed Hyper-Turbo event, and it was the 26-year old Austrian who grabbed the lion’s share of it when he outlasted the field, something he realised was a possibility only once 300 players were left.
"With that many players there were almost no regulars at that stage of the tournament,” he explained, adding, “and even though the decisions are pretty easy from a mathematical point of view, a lot of players are very inexperienced dealing with such short stacks. I was very confident in my abilities and had the run-good to back them up."
Grabenschweiger was definitely one of the most experienced players in the field, having won over $700,000 online and some $30,000 in live tournament play during his career, the biggest win being a $76,241 payday for his 4th place in a Sunday Million last July.
Speaking of his latest triumph – turning $0.01 into $10k in a single evening – he enthusiastically stated:
“It was awesome! I couldn't believe it! I mean no one could ever imagine winning a turbo poker tournament vs that many players.”
The lucky Austrian celebrated his success with a couple of beers and reflected on the final table hands which saw him pull through the biggest tournament ever.
"On the final table every hand I won was a key hand I'd say. When we were four players I jammed from the small blind vs the big blind who was third in chips by quite a bit with Q3o, and flopped a Q. The short stack busted a few hands later when he shoved into my big blind and I called Q5o getting better than 2-1 and flopped a Q again. Both hands play themselves. Some people on the rail were thinking differently though."
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