The primary sequence of the brand-new PokerStars Open passed off in Campione, Italy, and gamers from each nook of Europe confirmed up for his or her likelihood at six-figure pay-outs and the {hardware}.
Adrian Slate, an expert participant from Romania, was the large winner of the sequence. Slate, who has near $2 million in match cashes, received the €1,100 headliner that had a €1 million assure. The promise was simply smashed by 1,423 gamers who collectively rebought 1,000 occasions to push the prize pool up over €2.3 million.
Slate took the lion’s share — €363,000 ($395,515), which was the perfect rating of his life.
Italy’s Giorgio Soceanu additionally bipped a career-best with the €225,200 ($245,372) that got here with second-place, as did countryman Barnaba Perone, who received €160,880 ($175,291) for third. Perone’s greatest money earlier than that was $1,970 for an 18th-place end in a $250 occasion at Remida Deep by Euro Rounders in 2023.
Soceanu beat his greatest money by practically 10-fold, as nicely.
In all, the highest 315 gamers have been paid a minimum of $1,950 with just one American in that group, Terrance Reid, who completed thirty sixth for $6,897.
Two ‘excessive rollers’ topped
The opposite six-figure winners of the primary PSO sequence have been Sweden’s Alexander Ivarsson and Iceland’s Arni Gunnarsson.
Gunnarsson was the winner of the primary of two “excessive curler” occasions, a €2,200 contest that noticed 255 gamers (99 rebuys) generate a prize pool of €679,680 ($736,749). He hit the cages with a slip price €134,560 ($145,858).
Austria’s Adi Rajkovic received his lifetime match greatest for ending second, which was good for €84,060 ($91,118), whereas Spain’s Gerard Rubiralta Cortes crested the half-milly mark with a 3rd place end price €60,040 ($65,081).
Sweden’s Alexander Ivarsson took down the €5,000 PokerStars Open Tremendous Excessive Curler occasion for €128,522. The occasion noticed 85 gamers and 23 re-entries who performed for a prize pool price €492,372 ($535,135).
It was his second-highest rating behind the $555,689 he received in 2019 by changing into the European Poker Tour Barcelona’s champion. He has $1.5 million in lifetime match winnings.
In December, England’s Paul Adrian Runcan received €900,000 ($951,142) for a second-place end within the €5,000 buy-in occasion at EPT Prague — his largest rating by a metric ton. He bought his second-best for an additional second-place end in Italy, profitable €83,000 ($90,209).
Rounding out the highest three was Eire’s Conor Bergin, who additionally received a life-time better of €59,250 ($64,396) for ending third.
Bergin might not have any six-figure scores but, however his match poker profession is trending upwards. His high 5 match cashes all occurred because the starting of December, and he got here near a giant rating in January by making the ultimate desk of the $10,000 occasion on the Fortunate Hearts Poker Open, the place he completed fifth for $48,100 (first was price $179,260).
Put this man in your poker radar.
The PokerStars Open replaces all the web poker web site’s regional European sequence, placing the Eureka Poker Tour, the France Poker Sequence (FPS), the UK & Eire Poker Tour (UKIPT), and Estrellas in Spain underneath one umbrella known as the PSO.
The following cease is on the Royal Dublin Society in Eire April 10-21, for the Irish Open. After that, it hits Namur: Circus On line casino Resort in Belgium Might 28 to June 9.
