The UKIPT/ESPT Malaga has come to a detailed on the Gran Madrid On line casino Torrequebrada. It has been seven days of poker within the solar concluding with two of the most important and most prestigious occasions of the competition.
Sam Grafton battled to a first-place end within the UKIPT/ESPT Malaga €3,300 Tremendous Excessive Curler whereas Artus Gimenez gained the ESPT/UKIPT Malaga €1,100 Primary Occasion.
These two victories wrapped up the Malaga leg of the tour, however the UKIPT can be again for a London sequence in August and the ESPT has a cease in Barcelona scheduled for later that very same month.
Grafton Wins The Tremendous Excessive Curler
Sam Grafton added one other title to his poker resume with a victory within the €3,300 Tremendous Excessive Curler at UKIPT/ESPT Malaga.
Grafton topped a 77-player discipline to defeat Italy’s Candido Cappielo heads-up, profitable €62,450 and his first match victory since August 2023.
It has been an excellent week for the PokerStars Ambassador; that is his second last desk in Malaga. He additionally completed third within the UKIPT/ESPT Malaga €2,200 Excessive Curler, taking residence €37,500.
His deep run within the Tremendous Excessive Curler noticed him clinch one other PokerStars Stay match victory. Grafton is not any stranger to match victories, holding an Aussie Tens of millions ring, a PokerStars Competition title and the Coin Rivet Invitational title.
The Coin Rivet Invitational end result was the most important of his profession and noticed him take residence $5,500,000 — solely his second seven-figure rating ever.
Sam Grafton: The 5 And a Half Million Greenback Man
UKIPT/ESPT Malaga €3,300 Tremendous Excessive Curler Last Desk Outcomes
Pop the Cava! Artus Gimenez Wins Primary Occasion!
A record-breaking ESPT/UKIPT Malaga €1,100 Primary Occasion concluded with a home-grown winner. Artus Gimenez beat a discipline of 1,146 entries to carry the attractive trophy and pocket a prize of €145,000.
He defeated Poland’s Tomasz Wrobel heads-up. Nonetheless, Wrobel took the lion’s share of a deal between the 2 with €156,200.
The ESPT/UKIPT Malaga occasion was an enormous success, offering gamers with loads of actions all through their keep. These included soccer, paddle ball, beer pong, and karaoke. The return to the Costa Del Sol created the most important Estrellas Poker Tour discipline outdoors of EPT Barcelona.
Chatting with native Spanish media, Gimenez stated, “I performed my absolute best poker and ran very nicely right this moment. I can be taking part in at EPT Barcelona after profitable a Gold Move and hope to have continued success for the remainder of the yr.”
ESPT/UKIPT Malaga Primary Occasion Last Desk Outcomes
*denotes heads-up deal
Story of the Primary Occasion Last Day
Solely 15 out of 1,146 gamers made it to the ultimate day, with Italian Guido Pieraccini beginning because the overwhelming chip chief. The primary participant to depart was Gasper Perasovic from Croatia. He moved all-in with large slick and bumped into Ricard Gonzalez’s pocket aces within the second hand of the day.
The subsequent bust out was Pokerstars Spain commentator Alex Romero, after shedding a flip to Venelin Pashev.Toke Mortensen, Laurent Cessy, and Pashev all busted in fast succession, earlier than a lull for 2 hours forward of the subsequent elimination.
Belgian footballer Jordy Vleugels was knocked out subsequent in a hand the place eventual champion Gimenez knocked him out by hitting operating fives.
Primary Occasion Last Desk Motion
All the way down to the ultimate 9 gamers, Gimenez stored searching and knocked out brief stack Pia Fransson to take it right down to eight. Subsequent, poker’s merciless aspect reared its head the place each Giovanni Bellini and Rafael Anera Ruiz misplaced their all-ins with pocket jacks — the previous in opposition to pocket nines, the latter in opposition to a flush.
2017 PSC Monte Carlo champion Raffaele Sorrentino, essentially the most achieved participant on the last desk, was unable to spin up a stack. Brief-stacked, the Italian misplaced a flip to an excitable Gonzalez as his pocket queens misplaced the traditional race in opposition to ace-king.
It was then time for Tomasz Wrobel to rear his head. After eliminating Giulio Astarita, he additionally rivered a straight to ship Guido Pieraccini packing in fourth.
Down to 3, it was Ricard Gonzalez bringing the power, strolling off the characteristic desk to sweat along with his rail each time there was an all-in state of affairs. Regardless of the liveliness of Gonzalez, he wasn’t in a position to get there with ace-queen in opposition to Wrobel’s pocket nines to go away the sphere heads-up. The gamers then agreed to a deal.
Within the last hand, Wrobel’s ill-timed all-in bluff with queen-trey backfired as Gimenez rivered two pair for the simple name. It was Gimenez’s largest victory of his profession and his first-ever six-figure rating.
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Based mostly in the UK, Will began working for PokerNews as a contract reside reporter in 2015 and joined the full-time workers in 2019.
He graduated from the College of Kent in 2017 with a B.A. in German. He additionally holds an NCTJ Diploma in Sports activities Journalism.
