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Sylvain Loosli Wins Record-Breaking EPT Barcelona €50K Super High Roller for €1.224M

Frenchman Sylvain Loosli started the final day of the 2015 PokerStars European Poker Tour Barcelona €50,000 Super High Roller seventh in chips, but he managed to come out victorious and take home the staggering €1,224,000 first-place prize. Loosli, who finished fourth in the World Series of Poker Main Event in 2011, defeated young Polish superstar Dzmitry Urbanovich heads up and jumped into fourth on the French all-time money list for live tournaments.

Final Table Payouts

PlacePlayerCountryPrize
1Sylvain LoosliFrance€1,224,000
2Dzmitry UrbanovichPoland€841,500
3Christoph VogelsangGermany€551,485
4JC AlvaradoMexico€446,800
5Michael EganAustralia€358,900
6Ivan LucaArgentina€280,500
7Steve O'DwyerIreland€221,000
8Paul NeweyUK€168,700
9Byron KavermanUSA€123,600

The final day of the event started out with nine hopefuls, and the shortest of them all doubled up right away.