Adrian Mateos Wins European Poker Tour Monte Carlo €100,000 Super High Roller

Adrian Mateos is simply 27 years outdated, however he has already put collectively one of the crucial spectacular reside event resumes in poker historical past. The Spanish skilled participant is a four-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, together with a victory within the WSOP Europe important occasion which he secured at simply 19 years of age. He can also be a European Poker Tour important occasion champion, having gained the EPT Monte Carlo in 2015 for greater than $1.2 million. Mateos most up-to-date marquee victory got here on the similar venue. He emerged victorious from a area of 42 entries within the 2022 EPT Monte Carlo €100,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em tremendous excessive curler occasion, incomes €1,385,430 ($1,454,702 USD) and his twentieth reside event title.

Mateos now has greater than $27.8 million in lifetime earnings, sufficient to place him in 18th place on poker’s all-time cash checklist. He is the runaway chief on the Spanish cash checklist, with greater than twice the earnings of his nearest competitor in Sergio Aido ($12.9 million).

In addition to the title and the cash, Mateos was additionally awarded 600 Card Player Player of the Year factors for the win. The 2017 POY award winner now sits in 69th place within the 2022 race, which is sponsored by Global Poker. He has made three closing tables to this point this 12 months, with this one victory and greater than $1.8 million in cashes secured alongside the way in which.

The third and closing day of this high-stakes occasion started with six gamers remaining, all of whom had been within the cash after Orpen Kisacikoglu was knocked out on the bubble to convey day 2 to an in depth. Mateos picked up pocket tens towards Kisacikoglu’s A-10 and held to increase the Spaniard’s chip lead going into the ultimate desk.

Kent Staahle was the primary to fall inside the cash, along with his pocket nines operating into the pocket aces of Marius Gierse. The Norwegian was unable to return from behind and was eradicated in sixth place ($299,502 USD).

Not lengthy after Staahle hit the rail, Hungarian poker professional Laszlo Bujtas discovered himself all-in with A-5 main the J-10 of Belarus’ Mikalai Vaskaboinikau. Bujtas paired his ace on the flip, however the card additionally gave Vaskaboinikau an ace-high straight to depart Bujtas drawing lifeless. He earned $385,077 USD for his third reside excessive curler money of the 12 months. He now has greater than $4.5 million in reside earnings to his identify.

Four-handed play continued for roughly two hours. Despite having scored the latest knockout, Vaskaboinikau was the participant who fell to the underside of the chip counts. he ended up calling all-in for simply shy of 9 massive blinds out of the massive blind with Okay7. Mateos had shoved with J10 from the small blind. A jack-high flop gave Mateos the lead, which he maintained by way of the river to ship Vaskaboinikau dwelling in fourth place ($492,041 USD).

Mateos took a wholesome lead into three-handed play, along with his 5,410,000 representing greater than half of the chips in play. His lead went from sizable to gigantic because of choosing off two massive bluffs, one from every of his remaining opponents. In each situations, he flopped prime pair and referred to as his option to victory, leaving his opponents on fumes.

Bracelet winner and high-stakes event crusher Mikita Badziakouski was the primary to succumb. He shoved his final handful of huge blinds with A2 from the button. Mateos referred to as with A10 from the massive blind and the board ran out OkayOkay1077 to remove Badziakouski in third place ($641,792 USD). The rating elevated the Belarusian’s lifetime earnings to greater than $35.2 million, which is sweet for ninth place on poker’s all-time cash checklist. He additionally scored 400 POY factors, which noticed him climb into 71st place within the rankings.

With that Mateos grew his stack to over 10 million, whereas Gierse sat with lower than 400,000. Gierse managed to attain one double up, however he was unable to win the second time he discovered himself all-in and in danger. With blinds of 40,000-80,000 and an 80,000 massive blind ante, he shoved 690,000 from the button holding J4, Mateos referred to as with Okay3 and the AQ699 noticed him lock up each the pot and the title. Gierse, who lately gained a $25,000 occasion on the Super High Roller Series Europe, earned $1,005,470 because the runner-up on this occasion. With three final-table finishes and greater than $1.6 million in year-to-date earnings, the German poker professional now sits in sixty fourth place within the total POY standings.

Here is a take a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the closing desk:

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