One other champion has been topped right here at PokerStars European Poker Tour Barcelona, after Brazilian Diego Beirigo emerged triumphant within the €550 PokerStars Estrellas Cup.
Beirigo takes residence the trophy and first-place prize of €155,840, after defeating Jacob Witt heads-up, Beirigo ending the battle by making an impressive river hero name with fourth pair.
The victory marks Beirigo’s second six-figure rating after his runner-up end within the 2019 Brazilian Collection of Poker Thousands and thousands Foremost Occasion. It pushes his recorded profession winnings towards the $400,000 mark. Witt, in the meantime, can console himself with a rating that dwarfs his earlier recorded lifetime cashes of lower than $9,000.
Remaining Desk Outcomes
Remaining Day Recap
From the two,175 entrants, 326 gamers returned for Day 2, all of whom have been assured a minimal money of €840.
The knockouts got here thick and quick at first of the day, with the sector being whittled right down to 143 gamers by the point of the primary break. Notable names similar to Tero Laurila, Paul Runcan, and Ankit Ahuja fell by the wayside at this stage, whereas PokerStars Ambassador Kenny Hallaert, and Day 1 chip chief Edgar Ishida additionally departed shortly after that.
Nils Veipans took the chip lead round this time after scoring a double knockout with aces. By the point of the second break, the sector had been additional diminished to 69 gamers, and Carlos Egea and Joao Sydenstricker, each of whom would make the ultimate desk, have been in direction of the highest of the leaderboard.
Marcin Puczylowski, Marian Fridrich, and Jack Oliver additionally all departed earlier than the ultimate three tables.
The tempo of the knockouts slowed significantly at this level, and it might be nearly three hours earlier than the ultimate desk was set when Veipans misplaced a flip in opposition to Egea.
Remaining Desk Motion
With all gamers assured a €14,390 payday, Egea got here into the ultimate desk with a slight lead over Sydenstricker and Beirigo, whereas Mohamed Aissaoui, Ahmed Ibrahimi and Samy Khaled have been all enjoying fewer than 11 massive blinds. Witt was proper in the midst of the pack.
Piotr Druzba was the primary participant to depart the ultimate desk, when he moved his short-stack into the center with jack-high however bumped into Beirigo’s pocket tens.
Knockouts subsequently got here in a flurry as Jorge Pereira exited in eighth after his king-high could not overtake Aissaoui’s ace-high publish flop, whereas Ibrahimi ran massive slick into rockets to depart in seventh.
Sydenstricker ran ace-queen into Egea’s ace-king to be left with crumbs, and he left the stage in sixth when Witt left him drawing useless after the flop.
Beirigo proceeded to assert the scalp of Khaled in fifth when his ace-high held versus his opponent’s king-high, earlier than he additionally knocked out Egea in fourth in a button versus massive blind three-bet jam spot.
Beirigo then claimed a 3rd knockout when he bought fortunate to hit a runner-runner flush to eliminate Aissaoui in third.
Beirigo got here into heads-up play with a big benefit over Witt. Nevertheless, the Dane fought again valiantly, doubling up and, at one stage, briefly taking the lead, earlier than Beirigo made the aforementioned hero name in opposition to Witt’s busted attracts to finish the battle and provides him the title.
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