Francisco Benitez Uruguay’s Francisco Benitez has started the 2022 PokerStars and Barcelona©Casino European Poker Tour Barcelona off with a bang by taking down €10,200 Mystery Bounty for €114,080 . Benitez defeated Ukraine’s Igor Yaroshevskyy after a brief heads-up battle that left the runner-up taking home €73,610.
One of the first events of EPT Barcelona’s return, after a three-year hiatus, the mystery bounty event attracted 91 runners and generated a prize pool of €882,700 , with about half of each buy-in going into the bounty pool.
Other players who ran deep in the third event of the Spanish series included Brazil’s Gabriel Moura (9th – €13,250) and Bruno “great dant” Volkmann (5th – €32,340). Joris Ruijs (4th – €40,440) and Anton Suarez (3rd – €52,560) also found a five figure payday.
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A Good Start
In a winner’s interview, Benitez told PokerNews he ran “very good” throughout the two-day event and “won a lot of big hands and flips.”
“I feel very good,” he said. “(It was a) good start and (gives me) more confidence for the rest of the tournaments.”
While the €114,080 first-place prize was a nice cherry on top of Benitez’ tournament run, the South American had already locked up a six-figure score by pulling a staggering 13 of 39 bounties, including the second single-biggest bounty of €50,000.
Benitez also pulled 12 bounties worth €5,000 for a total bounty score of €110,000, nearly the same amount as his first-place prize. The elusive €100,000 bounty, meanwhile, went to fourth-place finisher Ruijs. Joris Ruijs “It’s good,” Benitez laughed about his hot bounty run.With the victory, Benitez picks up his biggest-ever live cash, squeaking past a $107,754 score he earned in June from a runner-up finish in the Brazilian Series of Poker (BSOP) Main Event , according to The Hendon Mob .Benitez won more than seven times that when he finished second in the 2021 WSOP Online $10,000 No Limit Hold’em – Super MILLION$ High Roller . He lost to none other than Poker Hall of Famer Erik Seidel […]
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