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added on 2010-10-11 07:08:03
Argentinian Jose Ignacio Barbero has recently taken down the European Poker Tour London High Roller Event and scooped the £556,000 first place prize. It was the fourth win this year for the Team PokerStars Pro whose live tournament winnings exceed $1.8 million.
The £20,000 buy-in High Roller Event took place at London’s Hilton Metropole and it attracted a top class field of 77 players from all around the world, creating a total prize pool of £1,524,600.
In May 2010, Jose Ignacio Barbero has also won a €40,123 prize at the $1,100 NL Hold'em at the France Poker Series Beaulieu event, a $62,780 prize at the $2,100 Fixed Limit Hold'em Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) event and a $172,900 prize for the finishing the third in the World Championship Of Online Poker (WCOOP) 8-Game High Roller event.
"I'm really happy to have won such a big tournament in Europe. Finishing first in back-to-back LAPT events was fantastic and very tough, but I was desperate to continue that form elsewhere. Now I can say I've beaten a world-class field in Europe – it's a dream come true," said Barbero after winning EPT High Roller, the most important title of his poker career.
The full results for the EPT High Roller event were as follows:
1st - Jose Barbero, Argentina, Team PokerStars Pro,£556,000;
2nd - Jani Sointula, Finland, £335,000;
3rd - Andrew Robl, USA, £198,000;
4th - Vanessa Selbst, USA, Team PokerStars Pro, £145,000;
5th - Fabian Quoss, Germany, £107,000;
6th - Matt Marafioti, Canada, £76,500;
7th - Will Molson, Canada, £61,200;
8th - Pierre Neuville, Belgium, £45,900.
Sarne Lightman, Latin America Marketing Director, said:
"PokerStars is extremely proud of Nacho's incredible success so far this year. At PokerStars we've always been committed to investing in burgeoning poker markets and nurturing new generations of poker players. It's fitting that with Latin America becoming one of the world's fastest growing poker markets, the top Team Pro from that region explodes on to the global poker scene as one of the most successful tournament players of 2010."
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