Sylvain Berthelot Wins Estrellas Poker Tour Barcelona Main Event

The 2024 PokerStars Estrellas Poker Tour Barcelona €1,100 no-limit maintain’em most important occasion attracted an enormous discipline of seven,138 complete entries, constructing a prize pool of almost $7.6 million when rendered in UD {dollars}. After eight beginning flights and three extra days of motion on the European Poker Tour pageant at Casino Barcelona, that sea of gamers was narrowed right down to a single champion: France’s Sylvain Berthelot. Bethelot secured the title and $554,139 in prize cash for the win. This was far and away his greatest reside event rating.

Bethelot struck a three-way cope with Spain’s Santiago Nadal and two-time bracelet winner Martin Zamani that redistributed a lot of the remaining prize pool, leaving $49,914 and the title to play for. Zamani was the chip chief on the time, and locked up the most important assured payday of $514,208. He finally completed third, although, whereas Santiago survived to heads-up play. Santiago then ran the nut straight into the nut flush of Berthelot to hit the rail in second place ($437,924).

Berthelot was additionally awarded 1,320 Card Player Player of the Year factors because the champion. This was his first POY-qualified rating of the yr, and was sufficient to catapult him inside hanging distance of the highest 300 within the 2024 standings introduced by Global Poker.

The remaining day of this event started with 19 gamers remaining and Nadal within the lead. Berthelot was the shortest stack to to start out the day, however had labored his method into the highest half of the leaderboard by the point the final 9 contenders converged onto a single desk.

Zamani scored 4 of the primary 5 knockouts to enter four-handed play because the chip chief. The subsequent huge conflict noticed Zamani open from the button with 97 and known as a three-bet shove from PokerStars ambassador Parker Talbot out of the massive blind. Talbot rolled over A10. The board ran out 99410Q and Zamani’s journey nines earned him one more elimination. Talbot hit the payout desk to gather $251,970 for his fourth-place displaying. This was his fifth final-table end of 2024. The 660 POY factors he earned on this occasion grew his complete to 2,532, which is sweet for seventy fifth place within the 2024 standings.

The remaining three hashed out the deal earlier than resuming play. Not lengthy after they shook fingers on the settlement, Berthelot was hoisting the trophy. Zamani elevated his profession event earnings to over $6.5 million with this efficiency, whereas Nadal’s lifetime haul grew to just about $1.7 million.

Here is a have a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the remaining desk:

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