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Three High Rollers Added to WSOP-E Schedule – Mikita Badziakouski Wins Short Deck Event

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In an effort to get more high rollers to head out to King’s Casino in Rozvadov for the end of the 2018 World Series of Poker Europe, the casino announced on Tuesday that they were adding three non-bracelet High Roller events to the end of the schedule.

The events kicked off on Tuesday with a €25,000 Short Deck Hold’em SNG event and will feature two additional events next week. The first event has already concluded and nobody in the world is shocked at all to learn that Mikita Badziakouski has won yet another Short Deck Hold’em title.

Kings Casino Announced Three High Rollers

With high rolling players already in town for the end of the 2018 World Series of Poker Europe, King’s Casino decided to add three new High Roller tournaments to the end of their schedule. The first kicked off last night in the €25,000 King’s Short Deck Hold’em Champions MTT SNG.

Two additional events kick off next week with a €100,000 LEON’s High Roller event to kick off on October 30. The event features a single re-entry with a starting stack of 1 million and sixty minute levels.

Next Wednesday, Short Deck Hold’em fans can play a €50,000 King’s Short Deck Hold’em Championship with two re-entries, a starting stack of 300,000 and 45 minute levels.

These new events are non-bracelet events, so it is hard to gauge the actual interest in them. The €25,500 NL Super High Roller is underway in Rozvadov and the €100k Super High Roller kicks off on Friday. The Main Event kicks off on Tuesday, and so it will be interesting to see whether players opt for LEON’s High Roller, the Main Event, or play a combination of the two.

Mikita Badziakouski Wins Short Deck SNG

With the success that he is having in 2018, they might want to rename next week’s Short Deck Championship the Mikita Badziakouski invitational. Not surprisingly, he managed to come out on top of yesterday’s Short Deck SNG to add another $246k to his 2018 totals.

Yesterday’s event was lightly attended with nine players and six re-entries to create a €346k prize pool. In the end, it was Badziakouski and Yee Leow Seng playing heads-up for the title. Seng could only muster a runner-up finish, good for €142,500.

Badziakouski’s win is his fifth victory of 2018 and second in Short Deck Hold’em. Back in July, he won the HK$ 1 Million NL Short Deck at the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series Jeju for $588,692.

For the year, Badziakouski has won over $12.65 million in live tournaments. Only Justin Bonomo has won more than him this year. Badziakouski’s best year prior to this was in 2017 when he won $4.5 million. Badziakouski now has $18.83 million in live earnings and is currently 22nd on Poker’s All-Time Money List.

Should These New Events Been Revealed Sooner?

One has to wonder whether these new events listed at King’s Casino have a realistic chance of drawing decent fields since the announcement was made so late in the series. It would seem that casino organizers would have revealed these tournaments well in advance of the series to give some players time to plan for these events.

The 2018 WSOP Europe has been largely uneventful thanks in part to many big names choosing to skip the series. Even Phil Hellmuth decided to skip the trip to Rozvadov, and he is usually the main one bracelet hunting each year.

It’s very possible that all the non-bracelet events could be as lightly attended as the Short Deck SNG. If that is the case, expect organizers to come out with future announcements of such events well in advance.

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