The third version of PokerStars’ Spin & Go Championship Dwell occasion is quick approaching, because the occasion is about to play out as a part of this yr’s European Poker Tour (EPT) Paris pageant, on February 23 and 24.
With simply a few weeks to go till the occasion kicks off, PokerStars now has the names of the 81 gamers who will participate within the event. Not like different stay poker tournaments, the Spin & Go Championship Dwell is not going to be taking any buy-ins, and solely gamers who received their seats by varied qualifying paths will get an opportunity to compete.
The 81 gamers might be seeking to comply with within the footsteps of Guilherme Kleist, who received the final Spin & Go Championship Dwell occasion in Barcelona again in August final yr.
Participant Names and Backgrounds Revealed
The following Spin & Go Championship Dwell occasion is quick approaching, and PokerStars has spoken to a lot of qualifiers who’ve reserved their seats within the distinctive poker extravaganza, seeking to reveal their tales to the poker followers all over the world.
The participant pool for the Championship will embrace an fascinating mixture of leisure poker gamers who received their seats whereas having some enjoyable on-line at PokerStars, skilled poker gamers and Spin & Go grinders, and semi-professional gamers who’re nonetheless contemplating making poker right into a full-time profession.
The Spin & Go Championship Dwell in Paris will host a really worldwide participant area, with gamers from the USA, Mexico, the UK, Ukraine, Sweden, and even the Canary Islands all in attendance.
One of many gamers PokerStars had an opportunity to speak to was Kevin Joel Berman, a Los Angeles police officer and detective who secured his seat within the occasion at EPT Malta. Berman received his seat by enjoying at stay SAG tables in Malta and getting fortunate within the prize draw.
“I used to be thrilled on the prospect of going again to Paris to play. I had beforehand performed the EPT in Paris, so I’m wanting ahead to returning and enjoying. The truth that I received my seat is wonderful, to say the least,” mentioned Berman, who was visibly thrilled on the thought of enjoying within the Spin & Go Championship Dwell without charge.
A really distinctive entry within the occasion comes from Leoncio Bello, a 66-year-old from the Canary Islands, who received his seat enjoying a $3 SAG qualifier.
A leisure participant who enjoys enjoying SAGs on PokerStars in his spare time, Bello will now be touring to Paris for the Spin & Go Championship Dwell along with his son Alex, and the 2 might be seeking to create a mini-documentary, hopefully recording his path to victory.
A Mexican poker skilled by the identify of Gustavo Laldiva Enriquez will even be seeking to make historical past on the Championship, as he enters his second Spin & Go Championship Dwell, following an early elimination in Barcelona.
Enriquez commented, “After being eradicated very early in Barcelona, I used to be left with the sensation that I might do higher, which motivated me to place in lots of quantity through the qualification interval to safe a spot within the subsequent occasion.”
The three might be joined by Markus Gerdolf, a gross sales supervisor within the meals trade from Sweden, William Underwood, an English skilled poker participant, Roman Zhesnovskyi, an economics pupil from Ukraine, and dozens of different hopefuls who secured their seats.
They’ll all be competing for his or her share of a €300,000 prize pool, €150,000 of which might be reserved for the three gamers who make the ultimate desk.
EPT Paris Is Nearly Right here
The 2026 EPT Paris pageant begins on February 18, and there may be solely per week left earlier than the chips are within the air in a few of the preliminary occasions.
The pageant will kick off with a €1,650 PokerStars Open Foremost Occasion, a superb prelude to the €5,300 EPT Foremost Occasion, which begins on February 23.
The Spin & Go Championship Dwell might be one of many many aspect occasions to play alongside the spotlight tournaments, together with quite a lot of thriller bounty tournaments, high-rollers, and qualifiers for all the foremost occasions of the collection.
The eyes of the European poker neighborhood might be on Paris over the ultimate days of February, as new EPT and Spin & Go Championship Dwell champions are named within the span of only a few days.
