Elias Gutierrez Wins His Second High Roller Title At The 2024 European Poker Tour Cyprus Festival

The highest 5 reside event scores on Elias Gutierrez’s poker resume have all come since that begin of final October, with the 2 largest scores amongst them having each been recorded prior to now week. Gutierrez took down a $25,000 buy-in occasion on the 2024 European Poker Tour Cyprus competition for a career-best $417,570 payday. Simply 5 days faraway from that win, the Spanish participant got here out on prime in one other high-stakes event on the similar value level, including one other $390,200.

This pair of titles has added $807,770 in whole prize cash to Gutierrez’s lifetime haul, rising his whole earnings to just about $1.6 million within the course of.

The primary victory noticed Gutierrez finest a area of 57 entries, whereas the second topped out at 50 entries. Gutierrez secured 420 Card Participant Participant of the Yr factors for every one of many wins. With these two titles and one other final-table end below his belt, he’s now sitting simply outdoors the highest 600 within the 2024 POY standings offered by International Poker.

The $1,200,500 prize pool within the second occasion was paid out among the many prime seven finishers. Amongst those who cashed have been latest World Collection of Poker Europe primary occasion champion Simone Andrian (seventh – $63,000), latest $20,000 excessive curler champion of this sequence Ognyan Dimov (sixth – $81,000), back-to-back EPT Barcelona €100,000 excessive curler champion Kayhan Mokri (fifth – $102,000), and 2023 WSOP Paradise $25,000 excessive curler champion Samuel Mullur (4th – $132,100).

Gutierrez received a vital all-in with A-4 besting the A-Q suited of Hassan Nashar, turning a wheel to remove Nashar in third place ($174,100) and take a wholesome lead into heads-up play with Teun Mulder.

It didn’t take lengthy for Gutierrez to transform his greater than 4:1 chip lead heading into the ultimate showdown into the title. Within the last hand, Gutierrez limped from the button with J6 and Mulder checked with 52. The flop got here down J53 and Mulder check-called a min-bet of 250,000 together with his center pair. The 4 flip noticed Mulder lead out for a min-bet of his personal and Gutierrez known as. The three river prompted one other Mulder test. Gutierrez wager sufficient together with his prime pair to place Mulder all-in and Mulder made the decision. He was proven the winner by Gutierrez, which meant that he was knocked out because the runner-up. The $258,100 he earned grew the Dutch participant’s profession earnings to greater than $8.7 million.