Adrian Apmann Wins WSOP $1,500 Extended Play Event

German Adrian Apmannhas collected his first WSOP gold bracelet after taking down the $1,500 buy-in Extended Play tournament. The tournament introduced at this year’s series featured extra playing time and more hands dealt out per level.

The extra playing time and more hands were introduced with the idea to benefit more skillful and superior players.

The $1,500 buy-in Extended Play (No-Limit Hold’em) tournament drew 1,914 players generating the $2,583,900 prize pool. The tournament was supposed to play over a four day period but it ended up running into fifth day and the final day lasted nearly seven additional hours.

After nearly a week of play, 25-year-old poker pro was the last player standing. After long hours of play came to an end, Adrian Apmann said that he felt really tired especially on the final day. Even though the tournament lasted longer than it was expected, it was certainly worth it, as Apmann collected his first gold bracelet and $478,102 first place prize.

Apmann moved from Ludwig, Germany to Vienna, Austria back in 2009 and started receiving valuable poker advice from Austrian and German poker players. Adrian explained that it is a very tight-knit community where people are supportive. They are always willing to answer questions and help as Adrian explained to WSOP blog adding that is very important to have a network like that.

This certainly seems to hold true as German players are without a doubt a serious force to be reckoned with in tournaments all over Europe.

The final table of $1,500 buy-in extended play tournament included two former bracelet winners, Konstantin Puchkov from Russia and Barney Boatman from England. However Barney got eliminated in third place after playing three-handed for almost five hours. He now has more than $1.2m in WSOP earnings including third place prize of $204,464.

Yehoram Houri, director of medical clinic in Paris, finished as the runner up and this was his second time that he cashed at the World Series of Poker.

Former bracelet winner Konstantin finished in seventh place and collected $59,920 prize. Other WSOP gold bracelet winners who cashed are Antonio Esfandiari, Andre Akkari, Blaire Hinkle, Tod Witteles, Ryan Welch and Lisa Hamilton.

Apmann said that his life changed when he saw coverage of the WSOP on television. He explained that he enjoys mind games so he started playing poker in some local underground clubs after he saw it on TV.

Apmann now has $531,009 in World Series of Poker earnings and a gold bracelet to his name.