Christos Economides Wins WPTDeepStacks Amsterdam for €74,760 ($91,955)

Christos Economides has won WPTDeepStacks Amsterdam for €74,760 ($91,955) after beating a field of 250 players.

Coming into the final table second in chips behind Farukh Tach, Economides steadily accumulated chips before finishing the day off busting Tach in third and Paul Theobald in second place to win the title, which includes a €2,000 package to the season-ending WPTDeepStacks Europe Championship.

Here is the final table results:

1. Christos Economides – €74,760 ($91,944)
2. Paul Theobald – €52,535 ($64,618)
3. Farukh Tach – €33,350 ($41,021)
4. Chino Rheem – €20,285 ($24,951)
5. Farid Chati – €15,665 ($19,268)
6. Arnaud Peyroles – €12,980 ($15,965)
7. Dzmitry Rabotkin – €10,900 ($13,407)
8. Viktor Lavi – €9,110 ($11,205)
9. Ogi Hisashi – €7,475 ($9,194)

Ogi Hisashi came into the start of the day as the second-shortest stack, and was unfortunate to bust first, shoving ace-king into the pocket aces of eventual winner Economides.

The eliminations came thick and fast, with Viktor Lavi next to go after his pocket kings were cracked by the set of fours of start-of-day chip leader Farukh Tach.

Chino Rheem was the short stack when play started, but he scored a double through Dzmitry Rabotkin when his jack-five cracked the ace-ten of the Belarussian. Rabotkin was left with one big blind and was eliminated in the very next hand.

The first two levels had four eliminations, and Arnaud Peyroles was the last of them. He committed his last chips pre-flop and got two calls – Farukh Tach and Chino Rheem. Rheem got his chips in the middle on a ten-high flop with a pair and faded the flush draw of Tach to double, sending Peyroles to the rail in the process.

Farid Chati also got his chips in three-ways, and although his ace-queen beat the ace-jack of Paul Theobald, Economides held pocket nines and they were best to send Chati to the rail.

Rheem (pictured above) had done well to ladder all the way to fourth, and it was a good two-and-a-half levels before the next player hit the rail. Unfortunately for the three-time WPT winner, it was him.

On the first hand after the dinner break, Rheem jammed blind on blind against Theobald, with the German’s king-ten besting Rheem’s ace-six. On the next orbit, Rheem moved all in again with pocket deuces, only to get called by the tens of Theobald. Tens held and we were down to three players.

Tach had come in as the overwhelming chip leader, so it was always likely he would be contending for one of the top three spots. He moved all in from the small blind and Economides tank-called. Tach showed ace-nine Economides ace-ten. There was no help for Tach and we were down to two.

Heads-up play was an attritional affair, with slow play and limp pots seemingly mandatory between the two. Economides held a slight edge in the chip counts, and despite Theobald getting the counts back to even, Economides sealed the deal cracking ace-jack with ace-five, after the Cypriot flopped a pair of fives.

Stay tuned to WPT.com for full coverage of the WPT Amsterdam Main Event which got underway earlier today. Players still in include three-time WPT Champion Anthony Zinno, along with Steve O’Dwyer and Justin Bonomo.