Francisco Benitez is off to an incredible start at the 2022 European Poker Tour Barcelona festival. The Uruguayan poker pro has won the two largest-buy-in events held through the opening few days of the festival, taking down the €10,200 no-limit hold’em mystery bounty event and the €25,000 high roller within a two-day span for back-to-back titles.
The pair of victories saw Benitez earn a total of $589,318 when rendered in US dollars. He took home $235,952 USD for his first win in the first event, with roughly half of those earnings coming from mystery bounty payouts he secured after knocking out opponents. He then added another $353,366 USD as the champion of the high-roller tournament. These two payouts were his second and third-largest ever, trailing only the $759,419 he secured as the runner-up in a $10,000 high roller event during the 2021 World Series of Poker Online.
Benitez now has nearly $2.3 million in recorded tournament earnings. He also has 960 Card Player Player of the Year points thanks to his recent success, enough to move him inside the top 400 in the 2022 POY race, presented by Global Poker. Francisco Benitez after taking down the mystery bounty event The mystery bounty event began on the first day of the EPT Barcelona series, which is running from Aug. 8-21 at the Casino Barcelona in the coastal Spanish metropolis. The tournament attracted 91 entries to create a prize pool of $909,181, with roughly half of that money reserved for the mystery bounties that began to be handed out on day 2 of the event.
There were 39 bounties available, and Benitez earned 13 of them, including the second-largest up for grabs: a €50,000 ($51,591 USD) payout. All told, his bounties amounted to $113,534 USD.
The largest bounty that was paid out was for €100,000. It was ultimately drawn by Joris Ruijs, who finished fourth in the event. Other notables to make the final table included WSOP bracelet winner Arthur Conan (6th), Brazilian online star Bruno Volkmann, and Ukrainian tournament star Igor Yaroshevskyy (2nd).
The high roller event, the first of several to be held […]
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