Foxen and Hutter First Big POWERFEST Winners 12 Apr

The 2021 POWERFEST on partypoker is underway and Alex Foxen and Barry Hutter are among the first big winners. The talented high stakes specialists each bagged six-figure prizes by winning $5,200 High Roller and $2,100 High Roller Opener respectively.

Hutter Becomes a POWERFEST Champion

41 of the 281 starters in the $2,100 POWERFEST #01 – High Roller Opener returned to the partypoker tables on April 11 to compete for a share of a $562,000 prize pool.

Third place and $52,295 went to Kevin Kai Ka, whose exit left Sami Kelopuro and Barry Hutter heads-up for the title. They didn't settle for a deal, even though there was a $33,188 difference in the payouts. This meant Hutter walked away with $107,718 when he defeated his Finnish opponent, leaving Kelopuro to secure the $74,530 runner up prize.

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Barry Hutter	Mexico	$107,718
2	Sami Kelopuro	Finland	$74,530
3	Kevin Kai Ga	United Kingdom	$52,295
4	Bruno Volkmann	Brazil	$35,114
5	Wietse Hasper	Netherlands	$25,311
6	Claas Segebrecht	Austria	$19,821
7	Andrii Derzhypilskyi	Ukraine	$15,953

Foxen Takes Down the High Roller Event

A field of 91 players bought into the $5,200 POWERFEST #03 – High Roller event and only 14 of them walked away with a slice of the $500,000 prize pool. Each of the finalists guaranteed themselves at least $20,094. Kristen Bicknell came in fourth, a finish worth $42,474, before David Peters‘ elimination in third, worth $60,049, left Foxen heads-up against Christoph Vogelsang.

Foxen busted Vogelsang in second place to secure the $137,317 top prize, leaving Vogelsang to reel in an $87,991 consolation prize.

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Alex Foxen	Canada	$137,317
2	Christoph Vogelsang	United Kingdom	$87,991
3	David Peters	Canada	$60,049
4	Kristen Bicknell	Canada	$42,474
5	Joakim Andersson	Malta	$31,252
6	Michael Addamo	United Kingdom	$24,379
7	Kevin Macdonald	Canada	$20,094

Other POWERFEST Champions

Leafs191919– first-place in the $22 POWERFEST #01 – Mini Opener for $10,597
Vanessa23– first-place in the $215 POWEFEST – Mix-Max Knockout Turbo for $9,686
Rezzey– first-place in the $22 POWERFEST – Mini Mix-Max Knockout Turbo for $4,382
Nofxdarkside2– first-place in the $2.20 POWERFEST #01 – Micro Opener for $972
Yoshi_okane– first-place in the $2.20 POWERFEST Micro Mix-Max Knockout Turbo for $342

This is just the start of the POWERFEST non-stop action for the next two weeks, so make sure you don't miss the action on partypoker. Satellites are running every day and so are the fantastic POWERFEST edition SPINS.