This week, PokerStake players have starred at the Casinos Austria Poker Tour series at CAPT Seefeld, the mountain-top village in Austria. Selling action to their events on PokerStake, players such as Vivian Saliba, Jessica Teusl, Stefan Lehner and Ilija Savevski have enjoyed the sights and sounds of the beautiful European village. Most of all, they’ve enjoyed winning tens of thousands of euros as the cards have gone their way.
We caught up with the series so far and how much the PokerStake roster has won.
Opening Events Yield Profits
As the schedule of events got underway in the tiny Austrian village of Seefeld, one PokerStake player was very quick out of the blocks. In Event #2, a Progressive Bounty event played in No Limit Hold’em, costing €240, Brazilian 888poker player Vivian Saliba made it to 13th place out of §62 entries, cashing for $600.
Saliba was joined in the profit ranks by Stefan Lehner in Event #6, which also took place in NLHE but this time was a Mystery Bounty event. Costing €1,100, the event saw the Austrian Lehner come 11th out of 182 total entries, winning $1,775.
Soon, in the €1,100-entry NLHE Alpine Classic event, Lehner was in the money along with his girlfriend Jessica Teusl and the aforementioned Vivian Saliba. With 195 entries, 31 players made the money, with Saliba finishing in 25th place for $2,357. Lehner (19th) and Teusl (18th) finished in back-to-back positions for $2,457 each, as the three PokerStake players who took part moved into the money places.
Saliba Scores a Win
In the €550-entry Pot Limit Omaha Classic event, 71 entries meant a top prize of over $11,300 and it was the Brazilian poker pro Vivian Saliba who won outright. Striking a deal heads-up with Serbian player Daniel Primc, Saliba’s eventual victory gave her the win in an event that also featured strong finishes from Portugal’s Nuno Duarte (3rd for $6,401), Nils Pudel (10th for $1,426) and English player Leo Worthington-Leese, who came 13th for $1,284.
It was the fifth ranking victory of Vivian Saliba’s career to date at the live felt and worth the third-biggest score of those five. Three of her other four wins came in Austria too, with her wins in the CAPT Seefeld Ladies Championship in February of 2023, a Turbo Freezeout win in July of that year in Velden and a CAPT Finale win in November a few months later worth $1,718, $12,773 and $4,256 respectively.
Saliba’s biggest win in terms of outright titles came in Rozvadov when she won the €2,000-entry WSOP bracelet event in September of 2024. Beating German player Markus Anheier heads-up for a top prize of $101,735, Saliba’s win came in an event that featured deep runs for Eran Carmi, Thomas Eychenne and Austrian Thomas Hueber. Of Saliba’s million dollars in live ranking event earnings, her biggest score came when she finished fourth in the 2019 Crazy Eights bracelet event in Las Vegas for an incredible $308,888.
Heroes Rule in Highlander Event
The €3,300 Highlander event is one of the biggest events taking place this week in Europe and the PokerStake players who are there have made the most of their opportunity. With 109 entries, a prizepool of over $340,000 saw a top prize of $85,893, but while they missed the outright win, there were two excellent scores for our players.
Samuel Mullur has sold plenty of times on PokerStake and this time made it into the 15th places that were paid comfortably. Coming sixth for a score of $18,617, Mullur outlasted players such as Arsenii Karmatckii (7th for $15,393), Eric Rabl (11th for $8,981) and Siegfried KApeller (12th for $8,090) on his way to the final table.
Finishing even higher was the fantastic Jessica Teusl. With her third score of the series so far, Teusl claimed $29,863 in fourth place as he excellent record in her home country continued. Teusl, who like Saliba is a WSOP bracelet winner – has over $840,000 in her live career to date and avocated the CAPT Seefeld as a great one for her fellow PokerStake players to attend.
Backing up her trip with a big profit already, Teusl, along with her fellow PokerStake stablemates Vivian Saliba, Samuel Mullur, Stefan Lehner and North Macedonian Ilija Savevski, will continue to fight hard as all the players above look for more glory in the CAPT Seefeld Main Event, which last year had a top prize of $131,889 and was won by Colombian poker professional Farid Jattin.
With the Main Event still to come for the PokerStake players in Austria, an even bigger win could yet be coming, for the investors as well as the players at the felt.
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