“Plus, €1 million is a very nice guarantee.”
“The Main Event here is a great tournament with a fantastic structure,” he says. The proximity to his home and the size of the tournament were the deciding factors. Had he not won his way here for cheap, however, Matthias says he would have come anyway. “I won my seat for €60! I had a great run in the satellite and played well, so it was nice.” “It was my first time winning a qualifier on PokerStars,” he tells us. Uwe Matthias, who lives in West Germany, qualified for the €1,100 buy-in EUREKA Rozvadov Main Event on PokerStars. Now Matthias is at the King’s Resort in Rozvadov hoping for an Aldemir moment of his own. Matthias’ countryman Koray Aldemir would go on to win the WSOP that year for $8 million, and Matthias was a part of Aldemir’s celebration party when the event was over. He cashed for $26,700 – still his largest poker win to date – but just because his tournament was over, doesn’t mean he left.
“It was really amazing,” the 59-year-old real estate manager tells us.Īlas, his run came to an end on Day 4, when he finished 462nd out of the 6,650 entries. The sound of thousands of poker players shuffling chips in unison. He was deep in the Main Event on his very first time playing it. At the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event in 2021, Germany’s Uwe Matthias was enjoying the run of his life.
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