It was a competetive heads up battle and Klemmens Roiter soldiered on gamely, but ultimately he was unable to find a hand to get him back in this game. Over the previous half an hour Kai Lehto had ground down his opponent.
Roiter never shied away from the task at hand pots but could not find a run of cards that would allow him to mount a sustainable challenge.
The Austrian was very short stacked going into the final hand and it was almost inevitable that he would get his chips in the middle.
Klemmens Roiter:
Kai Lehto:
The dealer peeled off , The river completed Lehto’s flush and brought him a second Irish Open title, two years afer his triumph in the €1,110 PLO 8-Max.
