Pokerstars.com European Poker Tour Barcelona - Final History

First we present the interview we did to Santi Terrazas, 24 hours before the entry in the history of Spanish Poker. It was impressive to see the number of players who came from all over Spain to tuck Santi. His friends Oscar "The Spike" White and David House "Luzaga" among many. All Santi chanting and looked more like a Davis Cup match a Poker tournament. Your browser may not support display of this image. Ecstasy was maximum when Santi with very few chips, had to raise with the first ace he saw. A2, to meet with pocket Kings (KK) of his rival. The flop and the turn did not help, but suddenly, a young dealer Casino Barcelona decided to play with our hearts and pulled out an ace, three left in the entire deck, the last street, this time, blessed River. After that Santi might play looser and made the lindeces of the home crowd. His hand was in a boat fateful where they entered the three remaining players in the tournament, Terrazas, Goodwin and Phillips. You bet, the other pays and Santi envy by the rest of over 800,000 points.

The flop has two clubs and a king-high card. The American strip, and I think English is much ... and finally decide to pay with a pair of Kings with Jack kicker. Santi need a club, the turn is a 5, so that Santi has a pair of 5's. It is worth every clover, to the five and eights trio for two pair. But the river is a "squid" that some would say and that's everyone's dream. It was a sad but also very nice seeing all his friends and the public he was dismissed with a standing ovation, Santi Terrazas went to the history of Spanish Poker achieving the highest position ever achieved by one of us in the European Poker Tour. After three hours of heads-up, Carter Phillips was the American who won the first prize of € 850,000 surpassing the veteran English player Marc Goodwin. Goodbye and a big EPT Barcelona keen to see that will bring this new season with high hopes for the new Team PokerStars Pro and the bet of all, John Maceiras.Resumen Festival in Barcelona EPT Barcelona Casino has met for 6 days at the best poker players in the international sixth season of the European Poker Tour (EPT).

Yesterday was held the final of this tournament, which represents the most popular poker tournament in Europe because of its high level of participation as having the largest prize pool. In this issue, involving a total of 478 players, who have raised the prize to 3,824,000 euros, of which 850,000 were destined for the winner.

Santiago Terrazas Madrid player has made history by being third in this tournament, the best classification of Spanish in an EPT and has been very close to clinching the top spot. This is the fourth Spanish player to reach a final table of a European Poker Tour after Diego Perez, Juan Maceiras and Raul Mestre "Sir Donald?. After his brilliant performance at the EPT Barcelona, ​​Terrazas has ranked among the best international poker players. The classification of the final table and his awards were as follows: It is possible that your browser does not support display of this image. 1 - Carter Phillips, 20, Charlotte, North Carolina (U.S.): 850,000 € Carter Phillips started as a favorite to win the victory and the € 850,000 first prize, a feat achieved after an intense final . Phillips, U.S. 20, represents the new generation of poker players, we began a few years ago, but from the beginning has developed a very methodical way of playing and is defined as very critical of himself. He is a frequent online tournaments and the professional gambler since 2007. In the ten months he has been devoting himself full time to poker, Phillips has faced against the best.

"Playing online competitions against the very people and you get an idea of ​​what to how they play off, says Phillips. "Probably 90% full-time play also, but in the EPT is a mixture of professional players and for fun. I try to take it in the same way.? 2 - Marc Goodwin, 49, Birmingham, England: 530,000 € Marc Goodwin has been in second place and has been € 530,000 prize. Goodwin is one of the most popular players in the UK and represents the mirror image of Carter Phillips, it is already a 48-year veteran tournament player was named number one in Europe. His live tournament winnings totaling over $ 1.4 million. Has been playing poker for over 30 years and official tournaments Poker since 2000, but it was after winning the third place in the final of the Monte Carlo Millions poker when he decided to turn pro and leave their jobs and commercial window and door and windows. Since then he has had many successes in 2008, won the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour tournament in Manchester, taking home £ 90,420. He has participated in numerous EPT events and has reached three places paid: in Baden, Dublin and London.

However, being in second place in Barcelona is his best result to date EPT. This player is among the top 25 list of money winners of all time English. 3 - Santiago Terrazas, 40, Madrid, Spain: € 300,000 Santiago Terrazas takes over 10 years combining his love of card games with a construction management. It is a regular at the poker community Spanish, where it is known as "Terrazas?. He began playing mus, becoming champion of Spain before daring to Texas Hold'em. He has had major successes in live events such as a 338 th place in the main event of the World Series of Poker 2007, with a prize of $ 39,000. The rest of the classification has been as follows: 4 - Mihai Manole, 27, Bucharest, Romania € 250,000 5 - Asa Smith, 22, Ledbury, United Kingdom € 200,000 6 - Toni Ojala, 34, Turku, Finland € 160,000 7 - Matt "Lapozie" Lapossie, 23, London, Ontario € 120,000 8 - Georgios Kapalas, 25, Athens, Greece - 80,000 eurosBoris Becker Vs Raul "El Toro? Paez in the tournament have been able to see great athletes like German tennis player Boris Becker, who, after hanging up the racket, he turns on the table as surely as the track but could not get beyond the first day after clashing against one of the best Spanish players: Raul "El Toro? Paez.

Luck is something that poker players do not believe, as Raul Paez said. "All the players, we have been professionally know that poker is not lucky enough to have long term and at the end of the season is always the best he has played, the best strategist, who finally stands at better jobs. What is certain is that we all need some magic in specific moments of a game and more in a tournament like the EPT, which is to last an average of 6 or 7 days of competition and where the level of the players is too high?. The Spanish Armada Of the 478 participants, 44 were Spanish, a figure quite good, only surpassed by the 46 players from Italy and U.S. 55. France and Germany have been matched to Spain with 44 enrolled. Among the Spanish who have gathered at the EPT Barcelona players were as well known as Raul "El Toro? Paez, Cayetano García, Juan Carlos Mortensen, Javier Domínguez" Thalai "Leo Margets, Dani Vargas and Haykel Vidal, among others . They have also participated international stars like Katja Hather, Luca Pagano, Roland de Wolfe Sebastian Ruthenberg and EPT Barcelona winner of last year.

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