Austrian player Manfred Spahn wins the Chilipoker DeepStack Open Vienna 2011!


After three days of intense poker, Austrian player Manfred Spahn won the Chilipoker Deepstack Open Vienna 2011 after successfully beating runner-up Thomas Panek. Spahn proudly walked out of Montesino with a whopping €51,840!




For its second edition at the Montesino in Vienna, the Chilipoker DSO broke the record of last year with a total of 507 players from across Europe taking part to the Main Event. Over the four days of tournament between the 3rd and the 6th of November, the Austrian capital became home to a large number of German, Austrian, Hungarian, French, Swiss, Italian, Romanian and Polish poker players all striving to win the 5th leg of the Chilipoker DSO 2011. Among the field of players, some pros like the Croatian Dragan Galic or the international Tournament Director Thomas Kremser.

With a starting stack of 50,000 chips and a €550 buy-in, players waited eagerly until 8pm Saturday night to finally witness 76 of them finishing in the money.

The tournament finally came to an end just after 1AM on Monday morning after a final head's up of one hour.

Thanks to the special Chilipoker promotions that reward their online players, three DSO VIP players who finished just before the money (77th, 85th and 95th) still took €680 home. Six more DSO VIP players also won laptops, iPad and Bose headsets. All the details about the DSO VIP promotions are available online on www.deepstackopen.com.

On Sunday, German player Karsten Philipp and Serbian player Zoran Mariukovil won the €300 and €200 side events. All the players could also enjoy a large number of cash game tables starting from €1/€1.

The next and last stage of the Chilipoker DeepStack Open 2011 will be held in Marrakech from the 16th -18th December at the Casino de Marrakech. Online qualifications are available @ www.chilipoker.com every Monday from the 21st of November and every Tuesday night, starting from €10.
For any questions, please contact Ophelie or Alexandre-Henri.

Final results, Chilipoker DSO Vienna 2011, Main event, €550 buy-in:

Players Winnings
Manfred Spahn, Austria €51,840
Thomas Panek, Austria €32,520
Michael Leng, Germany €21,300
Siegfried Rath, Austria €14,800
Istvan Csabai, Austria €10,760
Peter Szinek, Slovakia €8,180
Jakub Gluszkiewicz, Poland €6,820
Marc Cahenzli, Swiss €5,660
Lars Brandenburg, German €4,820



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The DeepStack Open is a 3 day tournament with over 500 players. The ‘DeepStack’ concept for the same buy-in allows players to start the tournaments with five times more chips than a classic casino tournament. Players can play more hands, see more cards and play a DeepStack Open event with the guarantee of enjoying a fabulous poker weekend – whether you’re a rookie or a pro.

It has been copied many times, however has never succeeded until now! The DeepStack Open has revolutionized European poker! The DSO tournaments are the only events providing a comfortable 3 day poker game for a low buy-in in fantastic destinations such as Paris, Vienna, Marrakech, Cannes, Malta and the Costa Brava. Our DeepStack tournament has kept its unique structure of regular blind increases to ensure non-stop action but with enough time to pass bad cards. To add even more fun to the game, the sponsor gives players the opportunity to win iPads, Laptops, Bose Headsets and buy-ins to other DSO events – keeping the DeepStack Open a fun and friendly tournament.