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Austrian Masters and World Heads Up Championship

Heads Up - No Limit Hold'em
Final Day

June 5, 2001 at 2:00 PM
Concord Card Casino
Tournament Schedule

Buy-In	S AST 35,000
Prize Pool	S AST 2,580,242.00
Entries	75
Report Available

Place Name Prize

1 Bruno "King" Fitoussi (Paris, France) S AST 1,068,033.00

2 Amarillo Slim Thomas Preston (Amarillo, TX, USA) S AST 434,289.00

TIE Vince Oliver (Las Vegas, NV, USA) S AST 198,602.00 and 3rd

TIE Asher Derei (London, UK) S AST 198,602.00 and 5th

TIE Daniel Kohut AKA "The Boa" (SWE) 33rd

TIE Mel Judah (London, UK) 33rd

TIE Henry Nowakowski (Frankfurt, Germany) S AST 6,880.00 and 33rd

TIE Yi Zhang (VR) 33rd

TIE Adam Schoenfeld (Brooklyn, NY, USA) 33rd

TIE Sonny Osman (London, UK) 33rd

TIE Martin Pollak (Vienna, Austria) 33rd

TIE Pascal Perrault (Paris, France) 33rd

TIE Michael Krupa (Santa Monica, CA, USA) 33rd

TIE Christian Walczewski (Germany) 33rd

TIE Alex Mansas 33rd

TIE Ram Vaswani (Hendon, UK) 33rd

TIE Jie Chang Chang (China) 33rd

TIE Isabelle Mercier AKA "No Mercy" (Victoriaville, QC, Canada) 33rd

TIE Allen Cunningham (Las Vegas, NV, USA) 33rd

TIE Barney Boatman (Hendon, UK) 33rd

TIE Cesare Poggi (Milan, Italy) 33rd

TIE Hannes Piekarek (Austria) 65th

TIE Vic Rooney (England) 65th

TIE Daniel Alterman (England) 65th

TIE Joe Fernandez (Spain) 65th

TIE Rong Qing Gu (Austria) 65th

TIE Min Lin (China) 65th

TIE Bin Tang (China) 65th

TIE Howard Lipman (South Africa) 65th

TIE Bruce Lee-Shanok (Paris, France) 65th

TIE Teddy Tuil (France) 65th

TIE Andrew Georgiou (London, UK) 65th

TIE Robert Cohen AKA "Le Dangereux" (Paris, France) 33rd

TIE Marcel Luske AKA "The Flying Dutchman" (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 33rd

TIE Leo Boxell (Melbourne, Australia) 33rd

TIE Martin Comer (Sydney, Australia) 33rd

TIE John Hewston (UK) 33rd

TIE Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott (Hull, UK) S AST 6,880.00 and 33rd

TIE Alexander Dietrich (Volklingen, Germany) S AST 7,940.00 and 17th

TIE Andreas Krause (Heilbrown, Germany) S AST 7,940.00 and 17th

TIE Ted Forrest (Las Vegas, NV, USA) S AST 14,820.00 and 17th

TIE Markus Golser (Saltzberg, Austria) S AST 27,411.00 and 9th

TIE David Mosley (Paris, France) S AST 34,291.00 and 9th

TIE Maurizio Biasini (Italy) S AST 34,291.00 and 9th

TIE Billy "The Crock" Argyros (Melbourne, Australia) S AST 27,411.00 and 9th

TIE Michael Rocco (Las Vegas, NV, USA) S AST 27,411.00 and 9th

TIE Nathan "Butch" Wade (Knoxville, TN, USA) S AST 27,411.00 and 9th

TIE Layne Flack (Las Vegas, NV, USA) S AST 27,411.00 and 9th

TIE Simon "Aces" Trumper (Guilford, UK) S AST 27,411.00 and 9th

TIE Michael Keiner (Braunfels, Germany) S AST 66,532.00 and 5th

TIE Casey Kastle (Chicago, IL, USA) S AST 66,352.00 and 5th

TIE Nicola Teti (Austria) S AST 66,352.00 and 5th

TIE Mario Fahimirad (Woodland Hills, CA, USA) S AST 7,940.00 and 17th

TIE Hans Pfister (Switzerland) S AST 7,940.00 and 17th

TIE Bernd Rygol (Munich, Germany) S AST 7,940.00 and 17th

TIE Bill Marczak 33rd

TIE Micky Wernick (Birmingham, UK) S AST 6,880.00 and 33rd

TIE Luis Medina AKA "spxdes" (Portugal, Portugal) S AST 6,880.00 and 33rd

TIE Ivin Mladen (New South Wales, Australia) S AST 6,880.00 and 33rd

TIE Alex Kravchenko (Moscow, Russia) S AST 14,820.00 and 17th

TIE Ron Rose (Dayton, OH, USA) S AST 14,820.00 and 17th

TIE Lilin Shan (China) S AST 7,940.00 and 17th

TIE Erich Kollmann AKA "coolman" (St. Valentin, Vienna, Austria) S AST 7,940.00 and 17th

TIE Martin Aigner (Austria) S AST 7,940.00 and 17th

TIE Daniel Negreanu AKA "Kid Poker" (Las Vegas, NV, USA) S AST 7,940.00 and 17th

TIE Steve Wise (Curl Curl, Australia) S AST 7,940.00 and 17th

TIE Chris Bigler (Las Vegas, NV, USA) S AST 7,940.00 and 17th

TIE Jurgen Schieber AKA "El Rey" (Weyarn, Germany) S AST 7,940.00 and 17th

TIE Bruce Atkinson AKA "Elvis Senior" (Brighton, UK) S AST 7,940.00 and 17th

TIE Christopher Haller (Truenstein, Germany) S AST 66,352.00 and 5th

Tournament Report

AUSTRIAN MASTERS & WHUP - VIENNA
from Bill Marczak
Dateline: Tue, 5th June, 2001
WHUP SEMI-FINALS
CHIPS : 200,000 each .BLINDS : 2000/4000
MATCH 1.Amarillo"Slim"Preston,USA VS Vincent Oliver,USA
Not too much happened early with Slim taking an early lead,steadily building a 260,000 to 140,000 chip advantage. Blinds increased to 3000/6000-Slim leads 280 to 120 Slim slowly erodes Oliver's stack,& with only 32000 Oliver goes all-in with two black 6's.Slim call with 9T.Board: 9J32T
So Slim is now into the final
MATCH 2. Bruno Fitoussi,France VS Asher Derei,Israel
A huge crowd has gathered
An exciting match with lots of action,but the final hand sees Derei bet 50,000 pre-flop,called. The flop is JdJcTh Fitoussi bets 80,000 & Derei puts himself all-in. The card are opened & Fitoussi shows Kh Js.Derei has As Qh Derei needs running Aces or Q's. Last 2 cards are 8 8, and Fitoussi is booked for a confrontation with the showman of poker Amarillo Slim.
FINAL - WORLD HEADS UP CHAMPIONSHIP Tues 5th June
CHIPS:400,000 each BLINDS : 4000/8000
AMARILLO SLIM PRESTON,USA VS BRUNO FITOUSSI,FRANCE
A huge crowd has gathered here,with 7 cameras at points around the table, but the match is over after 9 minutes when Fitoussi bets 20,000 pre-flop,called.The flop shows Th 5c 2H.Slim checks,Fitoussi bets 60,000,and Slim moves all-in,called. Slim shows Qh 8h Fitoussi has Kh Kd The turn & river are 9c Qc,& it's all over- Fitoussi is the inaugural world heads up champion.