The PokerStars Estrellas Poker Tour (ESPT) €2,200 Excessive Curler has concluded right here on the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona hosted at On line casino Barcelona. Germany’s Berthold Winz was the final participant standing from the 26 hopefuls who made it to the ultimate day, final defeating Ronald Steinmetz in a quick heads up duel to take house the trophy and high prize of €600,000.
Winz achieved each his second EPT trophy and career-best rating with immediately’s victory. Winz got here in immediately with simply over $150,000 in profession event earnings and a earlier career-best rating of €24,400 ($32,441) from a deep run within the EPT Barcelona Essential Occasion in 2014. He additionally received his first EPT trophy simply final yr after taking down the €1,050 No-Restrict Maintain’em Hyper Turbo Freezeout occasion throughout final yr’s EPT Barcelona for €29,940.
Remaining Desk Outcomes
Day 3 Motion
The ESPT Excessive Curler attracted 2,064 entrants throughout two beginning flights, producing a prize pool of €3,962,000. 309 of these gamers made it via their respective beginning flights to advance to Day 2 the place all have been assured at the very least a min-cash of €3,200. By the beginning of Day 3, solely 26 gamers remained.
Winz started the ultimate day because the chip chief and wasted no time lowering the sphere, eliminating Mitchell Garshofsky throughout the first 20 minutes. In the meantime, Rania Nasreddine began the day with the second-largest stack however misplaced a large pot within the first degree after working into Anton Kraous’ nut-flush. That hand noticed Nasreddine’s stack lower in half and he or she was eradicated 40 minutes later by Winz, taking seventeenth place for €24,600.
Different notables to make Day 3 however fall earlier than the ultimate desk embrace Cherish Andrews (thirteenth – €35,540) and Weiran Pu (tenth – €42,600). Pu was ultimately eradicated on the ultimate desk bubble, which lasted almost two hours, getting it in preflop with king-queen in opposition to Grzegorz Kozieja’s five-three suited just for Kozieja to make a flush on the flip to remove Pu and make manner for the nine-handed ultimate desk.
Kozieja started the ultimate desk with the chip lead whereas Steinmetz was simply behind him. Winz began the ultimate desk in the course of the pack however shortly discovered himself again on the high of the counts after first eliminating Bernat Carreras in ninth place (€55,350) adopted by Hugues Girard in eighth (€71,950). He then prolonged his chip lead over the remainder of the sphere after an enormous pot in opposition to fellow massive stack Anton Kraous that noticed Kraous’ stack lower in half.
Cedric Schwaederle began the ultimate desk with the shortest stack however was capable of ladder up two spots earlier than he fell in seventh place in a three-way preflop collision that noticed Christophe Pommier triple up. Schwaederle was adopted out the door by Kraous (sixth – €121,750), Kozieja (fifth – €158,500) and Jan-Eric Schwippert (4th – €206,088).
Winz had an enormous lead going into three-handed play and consistently pressured his different two opponents, profitable pot after pot whereas seldom going to showdown. After being whittled down and compelled to make a transfer, Pommier lastly acquired his final chips in with queen-ten in opposition to Steinmetz’ ace-queen. Steinmetz held up with the most effective hand to enter heads-up play in opposition to Winz who held almost a 3:1 chip benefit in opposition to his opponent.
The heads-up duel between Winz and Steinmetz was over within the blink of an eye fixed. After conceding the blinds a couple of instances to the ever-aggressive Winz, Steinmetz made a transfer on the incorrect time, bluffing on the river with ace-high solely to be snap-called by Winz who had made a straight on the river. That hand left Steinmetz with simply over ten massive blinds which Winz would take after profitable one final preflop race shortly after.
That’s a wrap for the PokerNews protection of the PokerStars Estrellas Poker Tour Excessive Curler. Keep tuned for updates on the EPT Essential Occasion and different high-profile tournaments all through the sequence.
