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Live stream is on pokernews.  Restarts in 15 mins or so.  2nd hand starts in 30 minutes or so.

I expect most people living in caves for the last 6 months won't have heard of him, but he is a friend of BitB*

Good luck boss

* not sure if that was a troll.

I'm having a Tikay moment  ;scarymoment;

Have you got a link, Doobs?

Think I was having a tikay moment.  The live stream is the main even final table right now.  Was just throwing the kid sin bed quickly so I could tune in.  Guess it will be on when the current FT finishes.  Sorry

Haha, no worries.

Will leave it on, and see if it pops up after.

You'll probably only miss three hands if Kassouf is the chipleader anyway

Paul Leckey at teh final table too.  Blast from the past

Kassouf HU with a 1:4 chip disadvantage.  Apparently discussing a deal

He has bought the trophy?

After more than 20 minutes of deal discussion, the clock was called and the one minute ran down. Ultimately, Patrick Serda and William Kassouf agreed on a deal and Serda takes the lion's share of the prize pool with €719,000, while Kassouf receives the trophy, honor of last EPT High Roller champion and €532,500 with a nine-high like a boss winner picture

credit to pokernews

Anyone know what the original 1st and 2nd prize was?

I could be wrong but I think I saw 2nd was c€460K

I had it in my head that first was 760 or 780, but the main event first prize was about that too, so wasn't at all convinced that was right.  Will have a look around. 

Will Kassouf's own twitter states there was eur766,000 up top, which made 2nd eur485500?

A WPT Highroller Trophy costs over 11k then (adjusted for equity; it was 9100 before I adjusted it for assuming Serda had an 80% chance of winning).   This assumes that Serda thought they were about even on ability.

If Camel is viewing, Kassouf has a personal plate on an Aston Martin too.

Some year for him whatever you think.

Is it 9H LAB?

I am not going to look it up, but I think it is something like WI 11 Ksf.  Saw it on a picture a month or so back.  I guess it is on his twitter feed somewhere, but not sure I have the heart to read it all.  

Edit.  It is on his front page on twitter and I was right.  FFS I get my kids names mixed up and can't remember half the people's names at work, yet I can get Will Kassouf's personal plate right. 

From what I can see he bought the trophy and title for £10k, says it will be worth much more to him than that in the long term to be the last ever EPT champion. Agree? Seems worth it to me.

I know Will divides opinion for the way he plays however he really is a decent fella and I'm glad he has done as well as he has. Plus when he is back playing the Christmas Cracker this week it will also give everyone hope that he is living proof that anything is possible in this game ;-)

Happy birthday Will.

But if you buy the trophy from second place you aren't the champion?  I can buy footballer medals online but what is the point?

It's a bit different as you haven't played in that football match.

I'm guessing he is looking at a sponsorship deal in the near future, so it probably makes sense.

Not really.   At the end of the day you've got a trophy for something you didn't win.  FWIW I like Kassouf but buying a trophy just seems very hollow and pointless to me.

For average Joe it probably is not worth it.

But Will has gone to work on brand nine high like a boss this year and fair play to him. Make hay while the sun shines as they say.

All the press for "winning the High Roller" more brand exposure is well worth the £10k to Will i would say.

I believe he got something like £10k a day to wear a patch at WSOP.

Look at the following he has on Facebook or Twitter, love him or hate him he is good for the game.

Was playing last night in a local piss up pub poker league who if i mentioned Sam Trickett, Jake Cody, Morrman etc they had no idea. But many of them knew who Will was.

Really wants a sponsorship deal

probably thinks exposure in trade press with a trophy can't hurt that quest.

He is, or was, sponsored by superstack? 

a "big name" deal with a major.

That is just for superstack tournaments.

if there was a way to bet on it, I would say that the £10k spent on being champ is impossible to retrieve through sponsorship opportunities he would not have otherwise recieved. I;d actually lay it at 1.01 as it's just impossible. The way for WK to get a sponsorship deal is to be exposed, a winner picture on HSDB and PS-Blog is nothing, he needs to be seen in lots and lots of tournaments, to play in tv cash games etc, and what does he need to do that???

MONEY! So the £10k in cash worth infinitely more than a trophy on his hunt for sponsorship and it's very naive of him to think otherwise - I think to be honest it's just nonsense and he just really wanted the trophy and the funny picture and was willing to pay £10k for it, which is absolutely fair enough because when it's your £10,000 you can spend it on anything you like :)

Also - who the hell is going to sponsor Will, he's a cool character and defo an interesting person to have around but I can't REALLY see a poker site wanting to put their name to his antics when they are typically quite disruptive.

Perhaps his best bet is with a DFS site? Given he's naturally going to attract quite a bit of TV attention, and they won't really care so much what the pro's think of him. They won't give a fuck about his £10k trophy either.

I think he should branch himself into the media side of things, which he is kinda doing to be fair.

If thats the case then its sofa so good for him...

Superstack on facebook saying they are leaving The Vic and Will's sponsorship has finished as well.

I think will Is odds on to get a sponsorship deal in the next few months. Maybe sooner.

I don't want to bet on it, but he seems very good at self promotion from what I have seen.  He spends a lot of time responding to people on twitter, and can't say I have seen him getting involved in any online arguments or other non poker stuff that may put off a potential sponsor.

As others have said, he has a huge profile right now.   

I sat next to him the other week....he spent so much time on twitter etc...I almost played his hands for him  :D

Nice to have my first impression of the fella so bountifully confirmed.

Not uncommon though is it Keith? Didn't alex goulder do this in the sky poker thing a couple years back? I imagine it happens fairly often with people who also value the limelight as well as the money.

A blog on the chop by Max Silver

http://maxsilver.net/the-art-of-the-deal/

interesting stuff, so the other guy wanted more money and Will really wanted to do a deal and wasn't willing the go that far on the money so they threw in the glory to soften the financial blow.

This needs more love :)

Out of interest, having read Silvers blog have your first impressions still been confirmed or has your perception changed at all?