Shiina Okamoto Continues Hot Streak with EPT Barcelona Women’s Event Victory

If the poker world did not know already, they definitely do now. There is no Girls’s Occasion protected from Shiina Okamoto!

Contemporary from a third-place end within the PokerStars Girls’s Summer season Pageant Excessive Curler earlier this month, Okamoto has been in Barcelona all this week trying so as to add to the 4 cashes she recorded on the competition final 12 months.

And after cashing the PokerStars Open Essential Occasion for €3,360, her subsequent money was a win.

Okamoto Tops 126-Participant Discipline

Simply ten gamers returned for Day 2 of the Girls’s Occasion after the likes of Ivonne Montealegre (thirteenth – €1,250) and Juliane Papazian (eleventh – €1,440) cashed within the 126-player subject.

Okamoto got here into the ultimate day’s play as chip chief, and dominated proceedings because the likes of Cecile Ticherfatine, who sits third within the GPI Feminine POY standings, hit the rail.

As soon as play reached three-handed, Okamoto was battling towards Scarlett Hostein and Marina Mendy, each from France. With play useless even, Okamoto rivered a straight to eradicated Hostein to succeed in heads-up however fell behind to Mendy throughout heads-up play.

After Mendy limped, Okamoto jammed with 9♠8♣ and was referred to as by the A♣2♣ of Mendy. The 6♥4♦3♦10♠7♦ noticed Okamoto river a straight to remain alive, and would go on to take down the match and €15,510 in prize cash.

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“European gamers are simply very skilled, and their manner of enjoying may be very well mannered”

Earlier this month, Okamoto informed PokerNews how a lot she loved enjoying towards European opponents on the stay felt.

“European gamers are simply very skilled, and their manner of enjoying may be very well mannered,” she stated in an interview. “After I go to EPTs, gamers do not discuss that a lot. I feel that is as a result of they’re simply right here to play poker. So I do like informal atmospheres, however I additionally like the intense environment as properly.”

Based mostly in the UK, Will began working for PokerNews as a contract stay reporter in 2015 and joined the full-time workers in 2019. He now works as Managing Editor.

He graduated from the College of Kent in 2017 with a B.A. in German. He additionally holds an NCTJ Diploma in Sports activities Journalism.