Vinny Lingham And Ottomar Ladva Thriving At EPT Barcelona

There’s already been quite a lot of thrilling event motion by means of the primary week of the 2026 PokerStars European Poker Tour Barcelona pageant. Early highlights embrace defending EPT Barcelona important occasion winner Thomas Eychenne incomes a excessive curler title one 12 months later, and Tom Fuchs taking down a €100,000 excessive curler for a cool $1.3 million. Those are only a small pattern of the general high-stakes motion occurring at Casino Barcelona.

One of the standouts of the collection up to now is Vinny Lingham. The Austin, Texas resident has a win and a closing desk look in current excessive curler motion at this cease, and he’s one among a number of gamers who may have no less than one spade trophy of their suitcase as soon as they head dwelling.

It’s additionally been a robust collection for Ottomar Ladva, who has simply shy of $1 million in earnings due to a win and two runner-up finishes to this point at EPT Barcelona.

Here’s the newest dispatch of notable outcomes from EPT Barcelona.

Ladva Keeps Leveling Up

It’s been a 2026 to recollect for Estonia’s Ladva. After beginning 2026 with a $1,150,000 Onyx High Roller win, Ladva added a $1,145,686 victory in a €100,000 excessive curler at EPT Paris.

Ladva secured his third trophy of the 12 months at EPT Barcelona, taking down a €50,000 no-limit maintain’em excessive curler for an additional piece of {hardware} and $507,616. He emerged victorious regardless of the second-highest payout of the event, following a heads-up cope with on-line poker standout Niklas Astedt, who banked $606,494 because the runner-up.

This event drew 28 entries and generated a complete prize pool of $1,591,682. Ladva added this victory to a pair of runner-up finishes earlier on within the collection, and he now has $7,877,039 in lifetime earnings.

Vinny Lingham completed in fourth place for $191,052, straight off the heels of a win of his personal (extra on that in a second).

With this victory, Ladva earned 306 Card Player Player of the Year factors. That pushed his whole to 2,446 factors, good for 103rd within the year-long race offered by CoinPoker.

Final Table Results – €50,000 No-Limit Hold’em

Lingham Gets His Licks In

Lingham has had a number of shut calls in main stay tournaments lately, together with a fifth-place end in a $50,000 no-limit maintain’em bracelet occasion in 2025.

This journey to EPT Barcelona proved fruitful, as he earned his first main stay trophy within the €30,000 no-limit maintain’em occasion. Against a discipline with 21 entrants, Lingham defeated pot-limit Omaha standout and three-time WSOP bracelet winner Eelis Parssinen heads-up to safe the victory.

Lingham earned $355,656 to convey his whole recorded earnings to $2,686,812. Parssinen cashed for $213,440, clearing $24 million in whole for his profession within the course of.

This triumph got here with 252 POY factors for Lingham, growing his whole for the 12 months to 858 POY factors. Parssinen tacked 210 POY factors, which introduced him to six,291 factors for the 12 months, good for fourth place within the rankings general.

Final Table Results – €30,000 No-Limit Hold’em

Sipila Stacks Another PLO Title At EPT Barcelona

Finland’s Samuli Sipila has loved success in main pot-limit Omaha tournaments all around the world, together with a number of Triton Super High Roller PLO titles, a PokerGO Tour trophy, and a seven-figure Onyx PLO rating.

Sipila added a spade trophy to his rising checklist of PLO event achievements, taking down the €25,000 PLO occasion at this cease. He outlasted a discipline of 34 to win the $358,834 first-place prize. Sipila defeated fellow PLO specialist and bracelet winner Lautaro Guerra heads-up to lock up the victory. Another Finnish participant, Lauri Saaskilahti, contemporary off his $6 million second-place end within the 2026 WSOP important occasion, secured his first post-main occasion event outcome, ending fifth for $90,480.

After this win, Sipila’s whole profession earnings sit at $5,706,948. Sipila earned 336 POY factors in his first qualifying results of 2026. Saaskilahti tacked 140 POY factors to his whole for 2026, and now sits in sixty fifth place general.

Final Table Results – €25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha

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