Late final 12 months PokerStars introduced a brand new stay event providing for 2025: the PokerStars Open. The PSO stops would deliver a number of in style regional excursions below one banner, together with the UK and Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT), Eureka Poker Tour, Estrellas Poker Tour (ESPT), and France Poker Series (FPS).
The first PSO champion was topped on the inaugural cease in Campione, Italy. The PSO Campione €1,100 no-limit maintain’em most important occasion drew a large area of two,423 entries to Casino Di Campione, greater than doubling the €1 million assure to construct a remaining prize pool price over $2.5 million when rendered in US {dollars}.
After 4 beginning flights and three extra days of combined-field motion, Romania’s Adrian State emerged victorious with the title and the highest prize of $395,670. This was a brand new career-best end result for State, topping the $300,130 he earned for a win within the €3,000 thriller bounty occasion finally 12 months’s European Poker Tour Monte Carlo cease. He now has almost $1.9 million in profession cashes to his title.
“It’s a big privilege to win,” said State after his win. “This tournament was huge, and I have had a difficult period, running under EV. I was preparing a lot for this tournament, so when this win came to me, I was very happy.”
This victory additionally got here with 1,080 Card Player Player of the Year factors for State, sufficient to catapult him inside the highest 100 within the general standings offered by Global Poker.
The prime 315 finishers made the cash on this occasion, with notables like bracelet winner Fabio Peluso (81st), Terrence Reid (thirty sixth), and bracelet winner Darius Neagoe (seventeenth) working deep.
The remaining 5 all earned six-figure paydays on this occasion, with the ultimate battle for the title coming all the way down to State and Italy’s Giorgio Soceanu. State was in a position to overcome the home-country hero in the long run, sending Soceanu to the rail with $245,468 for his runner-up displaying.
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Adrian State | $395,670 | 1080 |
| 2 | Giorgio Soceanu | $245,468 | 900 |
| 3 | Barnaba Perone | $175,359 | 720 |
| 4 | Manel Montalban | $134,898 | 540 |
| 5 | Salvatore Russo | $103,757 | 450 |
| 6 | Jakub Sterba | $79,799 | 360 |
| 7 | Gaspare Sposato | $61,400 | 270 |
| 8 | Andreas Putz | $47,241 | 180 |
| 9 | Francesco Legnaro | $36,319 | 90 |
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