Nitsche won his very first bracelet at age 21 and added a second bracelet a few days prior to the official start of this year's WSOP in Las Vegas, defeating Athanasios Polychronopoulos heads-up at the WSOP National Championship in Atlantic City.
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Earlier this Series, American Vanessa Selbst and Belgian Davidi Kitai each earned their third bracelet victory.
EVENT #21: NO-LIMIT HOLD’EM$1,000 Buy-In | 2,043 Entries | $1,838,700 Prize Pool
Dominik Nitsche (GER) $335,659 Dave D'Alesandro (USA) $208,931 Bob Bounahra (BLZ) $145,229 Zachary Gruneberg (USA) $104,594 Thayer Rasmussen (USA) $76,443 Jeff Gross (USA) $56,549 Eric Milas (USA) $42,382 Billy Horan (USA) $32,168 David Burt (UK) $24,702