There’s maybe no participant on the earth who might win a trophy as casually as Jean-Noel Thorel. He strolled to a first-place end within the €30,000 Tremendous Excessive Curler Heat-Up occasion on the On line casino Barcelona, operating as a part of the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT).
Thorel got here out on prime in opposition to a discipline of 54 entries to take residence the lion’s share of the €1,577,070 prize pool. The veteran French participant entered the ultimate desk among the many chip leaders and solely went up from there. Following a heads-up battle with US excessive curler Justin Saliba, Thorel took €512,370 for first place, together with a PokerStars Spade for his trophy cupboard.
€30,000 Tremendous Excessive Curler Heat-Up Outcomes
The sphere was stuffed with well-known faces, a lot of them who had been enjoying the day past’s excessive curler tourneys on the EPT. Nacho Barbero, Niklas Astedt, and Sam Greenwood have been amongst these to fall earlier than the ultimate desk, whereas Teun Mulder and Nick Petrangelo made the ultimate desk however missed out on the cash.
Boris Angelov of Bulgaria was the primary to bust within the cash after he misplaced out to Thorel’s straight for many of his chips. Antonius was concerned within the pot and Thorel had all however wiped him out in the identical hand. Moments later, Antonius ran his queens into Thorel’s kings and was despatched to the exit.
Ottomar Ladva was subsequent to go when he misplaced a flip to Saliba, and it was at this level that Saliba additionally began to determine himself as one of many seemingly gamers to make all of it the way in which.
Brock Wilson and Maher Nouira each performed valiantly however have been finally up in opposition to the percentages because the shorter stacks. Nouira received two all-ins in a row in opposition to Wilson, the primary giving him the double-up and the second sending Wilson to the rail in fourth place.
By this level, Thorel was operating away with it and Saliba had dropped down a place. Nonetheless, he doubled up earlier than Thorel eradicated Nouira to take the competitors heads-up, Thorel with a considerable chip lead.
After a little bit forwards and backwards, Saliba managed to double up, nevertheless it wasn’t sufficient for him to achieve momentum ultimately. Saliba obtained his king-queen in in opposition to Thorel’s ace-five suited, and Thorel held to win the occasion, the highest prize, and the PokerStars trophy.
That concludes the PokerNews protection of the €30,000 Tremendous Excessive Curler Heat-Up occasion. Keep tuned to the EPT Barcelona protection hub for way more.
