Nick Petrangelo Wins EPT Barcelona €10,300 Single Reentry, €413K

The European Poker Tour Barcelona festival is well underway to kick off the EPT’s 13th season, and the first of several marquee events is in the books with Nick Petrangelo topping a tough 240-entry field to win the €10,300 Single Reentry event and a €413,000 first prize.

Petrangelo outlasted a talented final table and a lengthy three-way contest with eventual runner-up finisher Marcin Chmielewski and Markku Koplimaa who took third. The trio battled for four hours, then came another half-hour of heads-up before Petrangelo finally prevailed.

With 195 uniques and 45 reentries, the total prize pool added up to €2,328,000. Here’s how the final table payouts looked:

Two long days of play produced just 14 survivors from the starting field, with Alexandru Papazian carrying the chip lead to Friday’s final day of play.

Alas for Papazian, he’d fall shy of the final table to bust in 10th (€38,640) after some early struggles punctuated by his pocket kings being unable to hold against the of Pavel Plesuv.

Papazian followed Byron Kaverman (14th – €30,260), Dario Sammartino (13th – €33,750), Patrick Leonard (12th – €33,750), and Sergey Lebedev (11th – €38,640) to the rail, and when Igor Yaroshevskyy was knocked out in ninth for €45,630 the official final table was set with Plesuv the chip leader, Koplimaa in second position, and Petrangelo third.

Yang Zhang next busted in eighth after calling off his stack on fifth …

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