How would you feel if you had won a major international poker tournament before you got your high school degree? Well, probably you would feel more than awesome, but if you have any doubt, you can ask the German high school student who travelled to Argentina the last week and won the PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour. The LAPT Mar del Plata champion is now Dominik “DOMinator” Nitsche, who claimed the $381,030 check for his first prize. Nitsche has the chip lead from Day 3 and finally beat the 19-year-old Mexican Jorge Landazuri in the final heads up.

Nitsche started the day with a significant chip lead over his opponents, and the chip counts were the following:

Dominik Nitsche – 817,000
Sergio Farias – 474,000
Jason Skeans – 338,000
Jorge Landazuri – 329,000
Leo Fernandez – 329,000
Jose Barbero – 181,000
Rodolfo Awad – 170,000
Derek Lerner – 155,000
Alfons Fenijn – 65,000

Finally it all ended when with the heads-up between the 19-year-old Landazuri (who had some advantage) against the 18-year-old Nitsche, but Nitsche took a 2-to-1 chip early before reaching the HU. And that wouldd be fast. It took exactly one hand. Nitsche raised preflop from the button, and Landazuri called to see a flop of

Kh-9d-8h. Nitsche bet the flop and Landazuri check-raised. Nitsche called, and then

called again when Landazuri bet out after the turn discovered the 10S. The river brought the Kd and Landazuri moved

in. Nitsche called with Ks-Jh with the made trips, while Landazuri showed Js-5c for the missed straight draw. The young Mexican made a good return for his efforts (he qualified through a PokerStars freeroll) and a $211,700 paycheck. Dominik Nitsche picked up $381,030 in his first major tournament victory. Congratulations!