Congratulations to Vladimir Bozinovic Winner of WPT Baden

During the WPT Baden final table build up, the poker world was getting excited over the possibility of a WPT Triple Crown for Marvin Rettenmaier. All the talk was of the mercurial German. But Day Four saw the emergence of a new star. A Serbian superstar. For large periods of Day Four Vladimir Bozinovic tore the field apart. So he would have been grateful that Rettenmaier was carrying all of the pressure into the final table. It showed as well. There was not one single bead of perspiration on the body of the ice cool Serbian. He played as aggressively as he had done the previous day, and this time he got the luck as well. Congratulations to Vladimir Bozinovic the new WPT Champions Club member.

Let’s take a look at the key points of today’s action

The first player to be eliminated was the short-stacked Polish player Grzegorz Wyraz.  The online qualifier making his move with pocket fives only to run into the pocket sixes of Oswin Ziegelbecker.

Then we had the exit that the poker world didn’t want to see. Two time WPT Champion Marvin Rettenmaier didn’t get firing today, and his final stand came in a hand against Kimmo Kurko. It was [Kh] [Qs] for Rettenmaier, [Ac] [Qc] for Kurko and five community cards later Rettenmaier was out in fifth spot. No third title for the disappointed German.

The third player eliminated was our Day 1A chip leader Kimmo Kurko. The Flying Fin having his wings clipped by Bozinovic in a hand that Kurko was favourite to win. It was [Ah] [Js] for Kurko, and [Ks] [9c] for Bozinovic. The [Kh] on the flop pushing Kurko out of the door.

The local boy was next to go. Oswin Ziegelbecker will be a player we will see on future WPT stops. Once again lady luck played her part in the demise of one of the WPT title contenders. It was Ziegelbecker with [As] [Kh] up against Bozinovic and [Ac] [Tc]. A [Ts] on the turn sending the Serbian fans into rapture and the Austrian over to the rail.

That left the heads-up encounter between Paul Berende and Vladimir Bozinovic. It wasn’t a heads-up battle that lasted too long and you can read all about the main two hands just below this recap.

So congratulations to Vladimir Bozinovic and huge commiserations to Paul Berende who was so close to being the number one.