The European Poker Tour Barcelona is running until August 28th, with a lot of prestigious titles to grab. A total of 240 players entered this year's High Roller, and Nick Petrangelo turned out the strongest, defeating Polish Marcin Chmielewski heads-up.
The start of the final table had the following line-up:
Seat |
Player |
Chips |
---|---|---|
Seat 1 |
Enzo Del Piero |
500.000 |
Seat 2 |
Kitty Kuo |
450.000 |
Seat 3 |
Markku Koplimaa |
2.600.000 |
Seat 4 |
Roman Korenev |
1.480.000 |
Seat 5 |
Pavel Plesuv |
2.900.000 |
Seat 6 |
Nick Petrangelo |
1.800.000 |
Seat 7 |
Igor Yaroshevskyy |
400.000 |
Seat 8 |
Marcin Chmielewski |
900.000 |
Seat 9 |
Yang Zhang |
425.000 |
Yaroshevskyy was the first to bust, he couldn't run his short stack up and earned €45,630 for his efforts. Other shortstack Yang Zhang was next, he collected €57,270 for his run. Shortly after, Del Piero ran his pocket 9's into Kuo's rockets and he finished in seventh for €75,900. This was the furthest she would go, since her Q's couldn't find improvement against Korenev's K's a couple of hands later.
Plesuv (fifth, €134,100) and Korenev (fourth, €173,670) were the next players to leave the final table, and play resumed three-handed. After four long hours, Koplimaa found his Waterloo when his ace-seven couldn't win against Chmielewski's ace-jack, Koplimaa earned €220,230 for his third-place finish.
Petrangelo started the heads-up with a huge chip-disadvantage, but managed to double up four times to take the chiplead. Shortly after Chmielewski had all his chips in the middle with pocket 5's against Petrangelo's king-jack, and a jack on the flop sealed the deal and gave Petrangelo the title and €413,000.
The results:
Place |
Player |
Country |
Price |
---|---|---|---|
1 |
Nick Petrangelo |
USA |
€413.000 |
2 |
Marcin Chmielewski |
Poland |
€285.410 |
3 |
Markku Koplimaa |
Estonia |
€220.230 |
4 |
Roman Korenev |
Russia |
€173.670 |
5 |
Pavel Plesuv |
Moldova |
€134.100 |
6 |
Kitty Kuo |
Taiwan |
€101.500 |
7 |
Enzo Del Piero |
UK |
€75.900 |
8 |
Yang Zheng |
China |
€57.270 |