Estrellas Poker Tour Main Event Draws Record-Breaking 1,798 Players
Prior to Season 10 of the EPT kicking off in Barcelona, the Estrellas Poker Tour (ESPT) was in town as part of the stop��s poker festival. The ESPT �1,000 Main Event ended up setting records after attracting an astounding 1,798 player �C making it the biggest 1K event ever held outside Las Vegas.
The field was littered with notables, but only a few managed to make it through to the final table including British PokerStars qualifier Paul Nunes, who held a massive chip lead with 14,475,000 (more than twice as much as his next closest competitor); and Brazil��s Marcelo Fonseca, an LAPT Uruguay champion who was the Day 2 chip leader.
Both of those players made it to four-handed play, which saw Nunes lock up the biggest guaranteed payday.
"Four-handed. I'd just sucked out and knocked out the short stack out in fifth so had the most amount of chips... I felt I was the better player left but reduced variance and the deal was fairly good, I think," Nunes told the PokerStars Blog.
With a deal in place, the four players battled it out for the title. Fonseca was the first to drop from the foursome, taking home �121,000, and then Germany��s Alin Sameeian followed him out the door in third place for �158,457.
That set up a heads-up battle between Nunes, who placed third in the 2012 World Series of Poker Event #41 $3,000 No Limit Hold��em for $290,407, and Germany��s Jahn Soenke, who had begun the day third in chips. The latter eventually walked away with the title and �169,136, but Nunes ended up the big winner with �204,589 in prize money.
Read more on the tournament in the PokerStars Blog.
Estrellas 4 Barcelona Main Event Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Jahn Soenke | Germany | �169,136* |
| 2nd | Paul Nunes | UK | �204,589* |
| 3rd | Alin Sameeian | Germany | �158,457* |
| 4th | Marcelo Fonseca | Brazil | �121,000* |
| 5th | Marc Pujol Cases | Spain | �67,400 |
| 6th | Pablo Cus�� | Spain | �53,800 |
| 7th | Lukasz Roczniak | Poland | �41,100 |
| 8th | Alfonso Amendola | Italy | �29,000 |
*Denotes four-handed deal