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The Argentinean woman brought home the £1,000,000 first prize.
The £5,300 buy-in 3-day Main Event took off on April 19th at the Dusk Till Dawn Casino in Nottingham with 1240 entrees. This meant that the prize pool surpassed even the lavish £6,000,000 guaranteed and shot up to £6,017,395. Many well-known names, such as Mike Sexton and Will Kassouf were among the players aiming to get a piece of that pile of cash.
But neither of them made it to the 8-handed final table where the fate of the £1,000,000 first prize was decided. The 8 players who did were, in order of elimination: Neel Murthy (US), Katie Swift (UK), Stephen Chidwick (UK), Jon Sprinks (UK),Mateusz Rypulak (Poland), Jeremy Pantin (Trinidad & Tobago), Jacob Mulhern (UK) and finally, the winning lady, Maria Lampropulos from Argentina.
In the final hand, Mulhern called Lampropulos's pre-flop shove. He had AQ off while her cards were pocket kings - since the board was all brick, Lampropulos triumphed.
In addition to the £650,000 second prize the 24-year-old Mulhem was also consoled by his £100,000 "golden chip" prize which was awarded to the best online satellite qualifier of the event.
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But the star of the evening, evidently, was Maria Lampropulos who told this to pokernews.com about her victory:
"It really feels like a magic moment I’m in right now. I’m a little tired after such a difficult final table, but tomorrow I’ll realize what I did. He didn’t want to make a deal. He was convinced that he could win. Perhaps because I am a woman and he didn’t want to deal with a woman, but I trusted in my game, I just thought ‘let’s play".
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