Roger Teska takes down $25,500 MILLIONS World for $2,000,000

The lesser known American player beat Steve O'Dwyer heads-up.

"I definitely wasn't expecting to win coming into this"

Only 9 players returned to the unofficial final table of the event, with high-roller crusher, Steve O'Dwyer holding the chip lead. He was followed by one of the most feared players in the game, Ben Tollerene. Online high-stakes specialist, András "probirs" Németh, German high-roller regular, Rainer Kempe and seasoned UK pro, Niall Farrell were also at the table.

After 13 hours of high-level poker, it was Roger Teska who could raise the trophy and take home the $2,000,000 coming with it. The high-stakes cash game regular admittedly was an underdog on the star-studded final table but managed to beat all of the top-notch competition. "I definitely wasn't expecting to win coming into this," said Teska after his victory. "These guys know when to shove, what hands to shove with, and I don't. Steve is a better player than I am so I wanted to play bigger pots."  Indeed, the Bloomington native only had 17 listed result before the event, with his biggest score coming from a WPT event, where he finished 4th for $371,665.

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The final table kicked off with Paul Tedeschi as the shortest stack, but he climbed the ladder and quickly found himself with the most chips. Partypoker [4] pro, Joao Vieira was the first player to hit the rail. Vieira put his last 7 big blinds with pocket jacks, but unfortunately for him, ran into the aces of Tedeschi. Joao walked away with $250,000.

Niall Farrell exited in a similar fashion, shoving with a pocket pair against a bigger one in a blind on blind confrontation against Teska. "Firaldo" added $300,000 to his bankroll.

Niall was followed by Rainer Kempe, who moved in with king-jack against the ace-jack of O'Dwyer's and couldn't manage to hit any of his out, he was drawing dead by the turn. Rainer's performance worthed $350,000 this time.

Despite holding the lead at one point, Ben Tollerene eventually had to settle for 6th place, when he pushed his remaining stack into the middle after losing a huge flip to Teska. The US pro walked away with a $450,000 prize.

András Németh managed to build up a decent stack from five big blinds, but he lost a pot for the chip lead against Steve in a preflop flip, holding nines against ace-king. An ace on the flop put him in a tough spot and he was unable to hit a two outer. "Probirs" earned $550,000.

In the four-handed period, O'Dwyer had a comfortable lead, and the shorter stacks started battling against each other, which lead to the elimination of Paul Tedeschi. The Frenchman walked away with a $700,000 score.

The stacks leveled out in the three-handed play, but Steve was able to build up a massive 300-million strong stack. Teska also had a comfortable stack, he shoved from the small blind against the short stack, Charles La Boissonniere and his queen-seven managed to outdraw the pocket nines of the Canadian. Charles won a cool $1 million for finishing 3rd.

The heads-up started with O'Dwyer holding a 3-1 lead over Teska, but lucky hand helped Teska. He was all-in with queens against kings preflop and spiked a set on the river to come even the stacks. He scored another double up when picked off a bluff and closed the tournament out shortly after. With this win, he now has $2,818,135 in total live earnings, while high-roller sicko, O'Dwyer has over $26 million.

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