After only two hours of play in Event #79: $1,979 Hall Of Fame Bounty No-Limit Hold’em, it was Ole Schemion who came out on top, winning his first WSOP bracelet and $172,499.
“It’s not too often in live tournaments that you come in first place,” said Schemion after his win. “It’s what we all try to do but it feels very good to run through a good field and win one.”
The 29-year old German pro, who resides now in Austria with his wife and two kids, has an impressive resume of over $16 million in lifetime earnings, and has collected his first live cash in over two years.
“It has been very difficult to play any live poker with things how they are,” he said when discussing his absence from live poker “I was really craving it and it just feels great to come out here to play, now it feels even better now that I have won something.”
A relatively experienced final table was facing Schemion with former November niner Jerry Wong, and number one on the Philippines all-time money list Marc Rivera. Though he did not collect any bounties this tournament, he collected a nice new piece of jewellery and a WSOP win to add to his already very decorated tournament results.
2021 WSOP Event #79 Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize (in USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ole Schemion | Germany | $172,499 |
| 2 | Benjamin Underwood | Canada | $106,618 |
| 3 | Giovani Torre | Portugal | $74,175 |
| 4 | Marc Rivera | Phillipines | $52,569 |
| 5 | James Alexander | United States | $37,965 |
| 6 | Jerry Wong | United States | $27,951 |
Final Table Action
Play started off slowly on the final day with the final six players passing around chips the first level.
It was not until Level 28 that a player was eliminated when Jerry Wong jammed his remaining chips into the middle with 
and was looked up in the big blind by Schemion’s pocket sixes. The queen-jack failed to improve, and Wong was out the door in sixth place and took home $27,951 in cash.
Soon after in the same level James Alexander moved all-in with 
and was called by Rivera who held pocket jacks. The runout did not change anything, and that sent Alexander packing in fifth place and he walked away with $37,965 for his efforts.
In Level 29, Schemion moved all-in from under the gun and was called by Rivera out of the big blind. Unfortunately for Rivera, this was Schemion’s final table, and the latter rivered a gutshot straight to eliminate Rivera in 4th place for $52,569.
The Schemion show continued when a short-stacked Giovani Torre moved all-in preflop with 
and was called by the 
of Schemion. Not even a flopped two pair could save Torre as Schemion went runner-runner tens to snatch away the hand which eliminated Torre in 3rd place who pocketed $73,175.
Entering heads-up play as a seven-to-one chip underdog, it did not take long for Benjamin Underwood to get his chips in the middle. He moved all-in and was called early on in the heads-up match, Underwood had 
and was up against Schemion’s 
. True to the final table form, Schemion flopped trip aces and did not look back, which eliminated Underwood in 2nd place for which he took home a cool $106,618 in cash.
Congratulations to Ole Schemion for winning Event #79: $1,979 Hall Of Fame Bounty No-Limit Hold’em and his first WSOP gold bracelet.