At just 29 years of age, Stephen Song has already amassed a sizable tournament poker hardware collection. The professional player from Greenwich, Connecticut will have to make room next to his World Series of Poker bracelet and WPT Prime Championship trophy for a new marquee addition: the 2024 PokerStars European Poker Tour Barcelona main event golden spade. This was his 13th recorded title.
Song overcame a field of 1,975 total entries in the €5,300 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament that ran from Sept. 1-8 inside Casino Barcelona, earning a career-best payday of $1,432,328 for the win. He now has more than $8.1 million in lifetime earnings to his name.
This victory also awarded 2,160 Card Player Player of the Year points to Song. This was his first title and fourth final-table finish of the year. With 2,650 points and nearly $1.6 million in to-date POY earnings, he is now ranked 73rd in the 2024 POY standings presented by Global Poker.
The top 287 finishers earned a share of the prize pool in this event, which ended up being worth more than $10.6 million when reckoned in US dollars. After two starting flights and five more days of combined-field action, just six players remained heading into the final day of play. David Coleman Song held the chip lead to start. Andrew Hulme was able to earn an early double up with pocket aces on his way to overtaking the top spot in the chip counts. Rania Nasreddine, who finished third in the EPT Monte Carlo main event earlier this year, scored the first knockout of the day. Her A-K held against the Q-J suited of Boris Kuzmanovic (6th – $340,659) to narrow the field to five.
David Coleman was the next to fall. The American poker pro defended his big blind with J9 facing a small-blind raise of 1,100,000 from chip leader Hulme, who held QQ. The flop came down J33 and Hulme made a 750,000 continuation bet. Coleman called and the 2 rolled off on the turn. Hulme bet 1,450,000 and Coleman called again with his jacks and threes. The A on […]
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