Mateusz Moolhuizen wins the record-breaking France Poker Series main event in Paris

Record field size for French poker series This percentage has doubled thanks to the high voter turnout fps Paris The €1,100 No Limit Hold’em Main Event took place this week at Le Palais des Congrès. A total of 4,149 entries were made in the tournament, which served as the opening event for the 2023 tournament. European Poker Tour in Paris Festival, blowing away from the previous fps A main event field record of 2,138 entries was set in Monte Carlo last year.

The huge turnout resulted in a prize pool of $4,292,921 paid out among the top 619 contestants. After six flights and three additional days of combined field work, it was 34-year-old Dutch professional poker player Mateusz Moolhuizen who emerged victorious with the title and the $508,496 jackpot.

This was the second biggest score of Mühlhuizen’s career, after
He earned $597,362 for second place in 2022 World Series of Poker Monster Stack event. He now has more than $1.8 million in lifetime tournament winnings to his name.

In addition to the equipment and money, Moolhuizen also received $1,320 Card player The player of the year gets the title of champion. This was his first Boy-The qualifying result for 2024, but it alone was enough to raise him to twelfth place in the classification Boy Ranking provided by World poker.

The final day of the event began with just six competitors remaining, with Ennis Rouissi leading and Mulhuizen effectively tied for second when the cards came up in the air. Moolhuizen only had six blinds when day two began, but he managed to rotate his deck again and survive to the final table.

He registered the first knockdown of the day, his cards holding off the pocket triples of UK’s Scott Margerison (6th – $103,334). 30 years old World Poker Tour The champion now has nearly $3.4 million in lifetime cash under his belt.

Kacper Pyzara was the next to go down, his A-10 unable to hold his own against Ruisi’s right-wing A-7. Seven at the turn left of Bezzara is in rough condition, and the river was no help. He earned $134,341 as the fifth-place finisher.

Although he started the day at the top of the leaderboard, Ruisi was eventually sent to fourth thanks to a brutal pre-cooler. His pocket queens collided with Blaz Zerjav’s pocket kings. After an ace-high round that did neither player any favors, Al Ruwaissi headed to the cage to collect his $174,647 payout. It was the biggest result to date for the 44-year-old Frenchman.

Zergav also ended Yassin Bakkal’s career in this event with K.KC best s10 On aC2810 exhaust. The 36-year-old French national earned $227,038 for his efforts.

Heads-up play started out hotly contested, with Moolhuizen leading by less than one big blind. However, Moolhuizen was able to jump out to an early lead, extending his advantage to over 3:1 by the time the final hand was dealt. In that engagement he pushed the button open with A7 And Zerjav canceled his last 12 big blinds with Ks. Council 10 came down5562 And Moolhuizen made a flush to close the bowl and address. Zerjav earned $318,092 for second place. The 26-year-old Slovenian now has nearly $1.3 million worth of scores to his name.

Here’s a look at the payouts Boy Points awarded on the last day:

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