Oscar Gironella – Photo Credit: World Poker Tour
Oscar Gironella topped the sector on the World Poker Tour Prime Madrid fundamental occasion on Oct. 2 in Spain. The Portugal resident took dwelling his first match victory and WPT Prime trophy together with the highest prize cash price $73,840. It was the biggest rating of his match profession, and second five-figure money. Gironella additionally booked a $10,400 seat within the WPT World Championship occasion hosted at Wynn Las Vegas that’s simply over two months away.
The €1,100 buy-in no-limit maintain’em match noticed a discipline of 396 entries be a part of the fray throughout three beginning flights. That put the full prize pool at $401,434. The prime 51 gamers within the discipline scored a minimum of a min-cash of $2,032.61, and that’s precisely what number of gamers returned on Day 2 to march right down to the ultimate desk of 9.
Gironella was second in chips when the ultimate day of play started between the ultimate 9, and he suffered an early setback when the short-stacked Jourdan Denis doubled by him on the sixth hand of play. Gironella laid low after that for some time because the early eliminations fell earlier than he managed a double-up of his personal on the 56th hand of play. He doubled once more on Hand 78 to maintain tempo with the sector.
Gironella solely scored one elimination on the remaining desk, however he made it depend by saving it for the ultimate hand of the match. He confronted a 2:1 chip drawback towards Juan Gonzalo Ares in the beginning of heads-up play, however he doubled up but once more to take the chip lead a couple of arms into the ultimate match.
The remaining hand noticed Ares transfer all in preflop with Ok
10
, and Gironella had him coated holding Ok
5. Help got here on the board when it was dealt Ok6454 to provide Gironella two pair and the victory. Ares was eradicated in second place, good for $69,950. That’s a powerful first match money for Ares whereas taking part in in his dwelling nation of Spain.
Here is a take a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the remaining desk:
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Oscar Gironella | $73,840 | 600 |
| 2 | Juan Gonzalo Ares | $69,950 | 500 |
| 3 | Julen Lijo | $37,668 | 400 |
| 4 | Ji Yang | $28,044 | 300 |
| 5 | Jean Carlos Chacon | $21,173 | 250 |
| 6 | Francois Robert | $16,091 | 200 |
| 7 | Antonio Alfaia | $12,386 | 150 |
| 8 | Jourdan Denis | $9,634 | 100 |
| 9 | Alvaro Paniagua | $7,516 | 50 |
The subsequent cease on the WPT Prime schedule will take the tour to Wynn Las Vegas for the WPT Prime Championship in Nevada from Dec. 7-12. The match is a part of the WPT World Championship pageant that runs Nov. 29 – Dec. 23, and you may see all the schedule proper right here.
