David Gomez Wins Record-Breaking CNP Winamax Barcelona Main Event

The On line casino Barcelona hosted the CNP Winamax pageant final week, with the €550 buy-in Fundamental Occasion the final match to wrap up. The Fundamental Occasion drew in a crowd of 813 entrants, a 23% enhance on the 2025 attendance. Catalan participant David Gomez left all of these gamers in his wake.

The bumper crowd created a €352,726 prize pool that the highest 87 finishers shared. First place was set at €60,000, however a cope with solely three gamers remaining altered the payouts.

Gomez fired three bullets within the CNP Winamax Fundamental Occasion. His third try and construct a stack noticed him enter as late registration was closing. Shopping for in so late meant he solely had 15 large blinds to work with, however work with them he did, spinning them as much as a title and a €54,433 prize.

The eventual champion completed the penultimate day in fourth place earlier than arriving on the last desk because the chip chief. Gomez used his large stack with lethal precision, focusing on the medium-sized stack that had essentially the most to lose.

With solely three gamers remaining, a deal was struck that left €13,000 and the trophy for the winner. Gomez locked in €41,433, Marius Oprea banked €38,252, with Pepe Naranjo guaranteeing himself €37,313.

Naranjo was the primary post-deal participant to bust. He bought his chips in with pocket sixes towards Oprea’s pocket tens. A six on the flop appeared to have gained the hand for Naranjo, however a ten on the flip flipped the hand again in Oprea’s favor. A brick on the river, and the CNP Winamax Barcelona Fundamental Occasion was heads-up.

The ultimate hand noticed the heads-up duo head to a queen-ten-six flop, which they each checked. A 4 on the flip noticed Oprea lead, Gomez elevate, and Oprea transfer all-in. Gomez known as after confirming the all-in guess dimension. Oprea turned over queen-eight, however Gomez had turned two pair together with his queen-four. The river modified nothing, and Gomez grew to become the 2026 CNP Winamax Barcelona Fundamental Occasion champion.

Talking after his victory, Gomez mentioned, “I am an Expresso on-line participant, and I hardly ever take part in dwell tournaments. I had already participated final yr, however I did not have an excellent feeling about it. So this yr, I did not have excessive expectations both. Having made such an excellent deep run and seeing myself attain the ultimate desk has been unimaginable, after which successful it leaves me speechless.”

The CNP Winamax tour subsequent heads to Murcia in late June, Alicante in September, earlier than its Grand Ultimate in Madrid in mid-November.

In the meantime, the On line casino Barcelona is gearing as much as host the 2026 version of 888poker LIVE Barcelona pageant. It begins on Might 14, persevering with till Might 24, and options, amongst different tournaments, an €888 buy-in Fundamental Occasion. PokerNews’ dwell reporting staff will probably be on the bottom for this Fundamental Occasion.

Final yr, the 888poker LIVE Barcelona Fundamental Occasion noticed Pau Coronado stroll away with €70,000 of the €356,255 prize pool after he got here out on prime of a 459-strong discipline.

Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the UK, and has labored within the poker business since 2008, and labored for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he grew to become the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from dwell reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his function of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.