Vladimir Bozinovic - WPT Baden

Vladimir Bozinovic Victorious at WPT Baden

Vladimir Bozinovic is the latest member of the prestigious World Poker Tour (WPT) Champions Club, after topping a field of 254 players in the Season XI leg at Baden in Austria. Bozinovic became the first Serbian to win a WPT title, just two months after Marcin Wydrowski became the first player from Poland to do the same, thrilling Polish poker fans usually more likely to stay at home playing Neteller poker than attending a real-life tournament.

The €3,300 WPT Main Event attracted the likes of Hendon Mobster Barny Boatman, PokerStars Team Pro Marcel Luske, the PartyPoker trio of Marvin Rettenmaier, Bodo Sbrzesny and Kara Scott and a fleeting appearance by the WPT Champions Club member Michael ‘The Grinder’ Mizrachi.

Day 1A belonged to the Finnish player Kimmo Kurko. Kurko found an early groove and as so often happens in these things, momentum gathered pace and he ended up with the chip lead, a chip lead that Kurko would turn into a fantastic run that ended in fourth place.

The story of Day 1B was the exit of The Grinder. Fresh from his World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) Main Event triumph in South Africa, The Grinder arrived and then left before he had even taken his jacket off, the Day 1B chip lead eventually settling into the lap of the amateur Senadin Cosic with the Grinder back on his plane.

Day 2 saw the familiar face of Bodo Sbrzesny lead the charge for the title. The German cash game specialist, and coach, finished third in Prague; and after he took the lead at the end of Day 2 he looked a great bet to go two places further. Alas, it wasn’t to be and Sbrzesny had to settle for an 11th place finish.

The eventual champion came into the final table with the chip lead; a lead he had taken, and maintained, from Day 3 onwards. But this time it wasn’t skill that pushed him forward, it was luck, Bozninovic coming from behind in three crucial flips to eliminate half of the table to win the first prize of $271,258.

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