Bruno Lopes Wins 2016 Winamax SISMIX Main Event

After almost six hours of play on the final table, the Team Winamax pro Bruno Lopes from France emerged as the winner of the 2016 Winamax SISMIX Main Event for 850,000 MAD (€78,341). Lopes is now closing in on $1 million in career live tournament earnings after the victory.

The Main Event victory marks the third-biggest win for Lopes in his poker career, and his fourth biggest tournament cash. In 2012, he won the Euro Finals of Poker €5,000 No-Limit Hold’em Diamond Championships for €100,000, the WPT National Series Cannes €1,650 Main Event for €108,000, and then he took fourth place in the EPT Madrid €5,300 Main Event for €140,000.

Final Table Payouts

The day began with 22 players competing it out in hopes to later in the day emerge victorious at the final table. It didn’t take long for the first elimination of the day to take place with Romain Lewis exiting the tournament in 22nd place for 36,000 MAD (€3,318) after he shoved his stack of a little more than 20 big blinds in with . Lewis found himself dominated by Aurélien Guiglini’s and was unable to improve his hand on the board.

Eliminations early in the day continued in fairly quick succession, with play down to two six-max tables after the third blind level was in the books. Very soon after that France’s Alexis Fleur snagged the chip lead and never gave it up until play was heads up.

After six hours of play, …

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