Using a recent stop at Barcelona pulling in record numbers to the long-running poker tour, the European Poker Tour continues to chug along in 2019.
The almost two-week poker festival began with the 1,100 National Championship drawing a record 4,682 admissions to make a prize pool of $4.5 million.
Meanwhile, on the other end of the program poker player Simon Brandstrom outlasted 1,988 admissions in the $5,300 Main Event to shoot down a trophy of 1,290,166. The Main Event has been the largest in the history.
Barcelona FC celebrities Gerard Piqu?? and Arturo Vidal additionally both managed to cash in the $25,000 Single-Day High Roller while.
This was all in addition to the surprise announcement of this PokerStars NL Hold’em Players Championship (PSPC), that will take place as part of EPT Barcelona in 2020.
Swedish poker ace Simon Brandstrom is now the largest Event winner at the background of EPT Barcelona.
Brandstrom outlasted nearly 2,000 entries to take down an astonishing $1.29 million. It’d have been even more had he not made a heads-up deal with Hungarian poker ace Marton Czuczor, who bought $1.25 million for his efforts.
The final table also included Swedish poker ace Johan Storakers along with English ace Kully Sidhu. As it required only 1 hour to go from six players the table was one of the fastest in the history of the EPT.
Play on for two hours before Brandstrom was able to land the knockout punch.
Here’s a look at the Whole final-table payouts for EPT Barcelona (*reflects two-way bargain ):
There’s a long history of athletes playing poker but that the success stories are few and far between.
Gerard Piqu?? are one of the exceptions.
A week, the footballer finished second at the elite $25,000 buy No-Limit Hold’em High Roller tournament at EPT Barcelona.
The 25k tournament attracted on a number of the greatest poker players in the world but Piqu?? found a means except for ultimate winner Juan Dominguez.
He appears to be improving although it was the cash in Piqu??’s poker profession. In the same tournament he finished fifth Back in 2017. In general, he has $668,155 in tournament earnings that are live.
What is most striking about the success in the poker table of Piqu?? is that he is doing it while playing soccer at a world-class degree. Before their sporting careers are ended, athletes don’t get into poker. Not for Piqu??, who is managed to match EPT Barcelona.
Piqu?? was the sole Barcelona FC player as teammate Arturo Vidal finished fifth to take home $134,460 to cash in the $25k High Roller.
Here’s a look at the final-table payouts for EPT Barcelona’s $25k High Roller:
Following a EPT Barcelona, organizers are thinking about the gigantic potential 2020 version of this festival.
PokerStars announced the second-ever $25k PSPC that was buy will happen sandwiched in the center of EPT Barcelona in Casino Barcelona’s 2020 edition.
PokerStars qualifies numerous poker players to your PSPC, making it among the single championships in poker. Amateur poker player Ramon Colillas took advantage of this PSPC that winter and won $5.1 million.
In the EPT Barcelona of this year, PokerStars declared it had qualified five players for the 2020 PSPC as part of the Chase Your Dream promotion of the company.
So the 2020 variant of this stop could reach historic levels with many documents again set to be broken up at the poker festival, EPT Barcelona is currently among the very densely tournaments in the EPT schedule.
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