Francisco Benitez Francisco Benitez has taken the 2022 PokerStars and Barcelona©Casino European Poker Tour by storm. The Uruguayan poker player has gone back-to-back in high roller events by winning the €25,000 No-Limit Hold’em I for €341,565 following a heads-up ICM deal.
His heads-up opponent was Argentina’s Ramiro Petrone , and the two players agreed to an ICM deal, which awarded Petrone €306,705 for his second-place finish.
Benitez just recorded a victory in the €10,200 Mystery Bounty event , which concluded on August 9, and the very next day, he entered the €25,000 No-Limit Hold’em which ran from August 10-11, and emerged as the winner to claim another spadie trophy.
This high roller event attracted 50 entries to create a €1,200,500 prize pool , with the top seven finishers making the money.
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“I feel very good. It’s an awesome, awesome start,” Benitez exclaimed following his second victory in back-to-back events.
He found himself making it all the way to the end of the tournament with fellow South American Petrone, and the two players agreed to an ICM deal which gave Petrone €306,705 for the runner-up finish.
“He’s my friend, and we talked about getting heads up together, ‘blah, blah, blah’, and (then we actually) did it.”Although Benitez has some bigger online results, his victory the other day was his biggest live cash at the time, and now, he has already topped that with an even bigger cash.“It’s amazing results… it’s not different to me from online. I have my biggest cash online, but of course, I feel very good.”After his triumph the other day, Benitez said: “[It was a] good start and [gives me] more confidence for the rest of the tournaments.” Now, he may have all of the confidence in the world as he continues to play a full schedule of events in Barcelona. Ramiro Petrone – Francisco Benitez Final Table Recap Nine players returned to the felt for the second and final day, yet only seven […]
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