Leon Sturm has been topped champion of the €100,000 Tremendous Excessive Curler at EPT Barcelona, bagging a career-best rating.
The three day occasion attracted 47 entries, producing a prize pool of €4,559,940 to be shared between the highest six finishers.
The Barcelona cease has all the time been one of the vital common on the European Poker Tour, bringing out many massive names in poker.
And we even noticed an surprising assembly between Jesse Yaginuma and James Carroll who have been banned from the WSOP 2025 for colluding within the Millionairemaker. They as soon as once more discovered themselves seated subsequent to one another, this time within the €5,300 EPT Barcelona Fundamental Occasion.
David Coleman pushed Sturm till the top however was compelled to provide manner with a runner-up end for what was nonetheless a pleasant €1,148,755 after a deal was made.
Jesse Lonis, a man who’s making last tables for enjoyable lately and who received the $102,000 Onyx SHRS NLH Invitational final week, made the underside step of the rostrum.
In his winners interview, Sturm defined how these tremendous excessive curler tournaments are far more private and pleasant than the blogger occasions.
“It’s good to play towards mates and those who you realize extra so than in the event you play towards unknowns. Right here, all execs have been positively environment. However yeah, we have been additionally simply rocking the shades, actually everybody, 5 individuals staring into one another’s sun shades, so there’s room for development by way of desk speak.”
Motion Recap
Solely six gamers returned for the ultimate day, with WSOP 2022 Fundamental Occasion winner Espen Jorstad main the best way with an enormous lead of 120 massive blinds to David Coleman’s second positioned stack of solely 59.
Jorstad received an EPT Tremendous Excessive Curler occasion in Prague a 12 months in the past and was an enormous favorite to take this one down, too.
The ultimate desk motion began with a bang. Thai famous person Punnat Punsri, who not too long ago received his fourth Triton title, discovered himself packing up his gear on the very first hand.
David Coleman open-jammed from the small blind with A♥ 5♣ and Punsri fortunately known as with Ok♠ Ok♣ for his final 19 massive blinds.
However when the board rolled out A♠ 10♦ 5♠ it was the American who vaulted into the lead. When the flip and river got here down 6♥ 4♥ it was sport over for Punsri.
Coleman additional elevated his stack, taking two good pots from chief Jorstad to maintain him in sight. Sturm, in the meantime, was having a nightmare, unable to get any momentum going.
Finally, whereas the desk was nonetheless five-handed, Sturm was the recipient of a lucky double-up towards Coleman which was the beginning of his fightback.
Lonis raised his button to 130,000 and Sturm three-bet from the small blind to 440,000 with A♦ Ok♠.
Coleman went into Hollywood mode for a bit after which min-raised it to 750,000 with A♠ Ok♦. Lonis folded after which Sturm went together with his hand and bought a name.
The gamers smiled as they each tabled the identical hand, however when the flop rolled out J♦ 2♦ Q♦ it was Sturm who had an opportunity to steal the pot.
And certainly he did when the flip got here down the 4♦, and it was then Leon Sturm who was main the sector, getting back from nearly sure elimination.
The motion now heated up. Aleksejs Ponakovs was knocked out by Jorstad with a dominated king, after which the Norwegian himself was out in a pre-flop late place conflict towards Lonis.
Three-handed was a comparatively even affair nevertheless it was Lonis who dipped out in a blinds battle when his A♥ 9♦ couldn’t beat 9♣ 8♥ to ship him house in third with a prize of €706,800.
Earlier than the heads-up match started, the gamers shortly agreed a deal to go away solely €200,000 on the desk to play for with the trophy and title.
Sturm started the match with nearly double the chips of his opponent and steadily floor him down till the trophy and largest slice of the prize cash was in his palms.
EPT Barcelona €100,000 Tremendous Excessive Curler Ultimate Desk Outcomes
PlacePlayerCountryPrize1Leon SturmGermany€1,450,385*2David ColemanUnited States€1,148,755*3Jesse LonisUnited States€706,8004Espen JorstadNorway€524,4005Aleksejs PonakovsLatvia€410,4006Punnat PunsriThailand€319,200
