By making the World Series of Poker Main Event final table, Andras Koroknai has become the first Hungarian player to do so. That also makes him eligible to become the first Hungarian Main Event champion the WSOP has ever seen, and he's got a solid chance to earn that honor as he stands second in chips with 29.375 million.
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Andras Koroknai, 30, enters the final table of the 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event second in chips with 29,375,000. A native of Debrecen, Hungary, the professional poker player has $39,371 in WSOP earnings and only two previous WSOP cashes including a 339th-place finish in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Andras Koroknai By making the World Series of Poker Main Event final table, Andras Koroknai has become the first Hungarian player to do so. That also makes him eligible to become the first Hungarian Main Event champion the WSOP has ever seen, and he's got a solid chance to earn that honor as he stands second in chips with 29.375 million.
Andras Koroknai, 29,375,000 chips – The only non-American on this final table, Koroknai primarily makes his living through online poker games. However, the Hungarian did have a huge victory at the 2010 LA Poker Classic Main Event ($1,788,040). On the 109th hand late Monday night of the World Series of Poker's Main Event at the Rio's Penn & Teller Theater, Andras Koroknai gave Merson an opening. For much of the final table of the $10,000 buy-in No Limit Hold'em World Championship, Merson, 24, of Laurel, Md., had been changing the chip lead with Jesse Sylvia, 24, who splits his. Andras Koroknai Wins the L.A. Poker Classic ($1,788,001) — Raymond Dolan Eliminated in Second Place ($1,002,710) On the first hand of heads-up play Andras Koroknai moved all in preflop from the.
Entering this final table, Koroknai has over $1.84 million in live tournament earnings. The bulk of that comes from one major score. Back in 2010, Koroknai won the World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic for nearly $1.79 million after topping a field of 745 players. Other notable cashes on his record include two in-the-money finishes in previous WSOP events. One of those was the 2010 Main Event where Koroknai placed 339th for $36,463.
Koroknai surged into the final table on Day 7 by busting Elisabeth Hille in 11th place, then Gaelle Baumann in 10th place. Interestingly enough, both were women and one (Baumann) was a player Koroknai had a little bit on controversy with prior.
Koroknai and Baumann were involved in a pot where Baumann had raised, Koroknai had announced she was all in, and then Koroknai mucked his hand before Baumann could act. You can read about the hand here, and it generated a lot of chatter from the community. What's even more interesting is that Koroknai told Robert Salaburu, 'The French girl is mine,' upon reaching the 10-handed final table. If anyone's going to be the bad guy at this final table, it's surely Koroknai.
When asked about eliminating both females from the event, Koroknai said:
'I hadn't thought about it. When I sit down at the table, I don't care if it's a male or female player, everybody is equal and everybody wants to win. Everybody is each other's opponents. There is no friendship at the poker table.'
Koroknai is 30 years old and considers himself a professional poker player.
Andras Koroknai, a 30-year-old poker pro, ran better than most at the end of the main event.
He was short at one point before doubling up with A-9 versus the A-10 of 14th-place finisher Danny Wong, and then won a massive cooler when his ace-king made the nut flush versus Marc Ladouceur's ace-king.
(The hand against Wong)
However, no hand on day 7 was quite like the one he played against Gaelle Baumann the day before.
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Baumann started the action by raising under-the-gun with two kings. It was folded to Koroknai in the small blind. He shoved, and the big blind got out of the way.
Koroknai mucked without realizing Baumann was in the hand.
The problem was that one of Koroknai's cards was irretrievable.
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After much deliberation, the floor ruled that Koroknai, rather than be eliminated from the tournament, would simply lose 60,000, the size of Baumann's bet.
(The hand against Baumann)
Koroknai said that after the blunder and fortunate ruling he was 'freerolling' the tournament.
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'I'm so lucky,' Koroknai said of his run of cards.
The Hungarian is a World Poker Tour champion. He won the 2010 L.A. Poker Classic for a score of $1,788,001.
Andras Koroknai, a 30-year-old poker pro, ran better than most at the end of the main event.
He was short at one point before doubling up with A-9 versus the A-10 of 14th-place finisher Danny Wong, and then won a massive cooler when his ace-king made the nut flush versus Marc Ladouceur's ace-king.
(The hand against Wong)
(The hand against Ladouceur)
However, no hand on day 7 was quite like the one he played against Gaelle Baumann the day before.
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Baumann started the action by raising under-the-gun with two kings. It was folded to Koroknai in the small blind. He shoved, and the big blind got out of the way.
Koroknai mucked without realizing Baumann was in the hand.
The problem was that one of Koroknai's cards was irretrievable.
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After much deliberation, the floor ruled that Koroknai, rather than be eliminated from the tournament, would simply lose 60,000, the size of Baumann's bet.
(The hand against Baumann)
Koroknai said that after the blunder and fortunate ruling he was 'freerolling' the tournament.
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'I'm so lucky,' Koroknai said of his run of cards.
The Hungarian is a World Poker Tour champion. He won the 2010 L.A. Poker Classic for a score of $1,788,001.
Altogether, he has five career major tournament cashes. The main event was his one and only cash at the 2012 World Series of Poker.
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