PokerStars 2018 PCA Main Event won by Maria Lampropulos for Over $1 Million
The Platinum Pass is meant to be for next year's PokerStars Players Championship, to be held in the Bahamas at the Atlantis Resort, Paradise Island.
This achievement is actually the second seven-figure score for the Argentinian native, who, with this win, has made her the first woman ever to win the PCA Main Event in its 13-year history. It was just in April 2017 that she outlasted a field of 1,204 players to win the partypoker Millions Live, and her first million-dollar win in that event was $1,255,004.
Lampropulos said after her victory, "I am very proud. Every woman here--dealers, floors--every woman is very happy for me, and I'm grateful for that. I am very, very happy. I'm so excited. This is incredible. I know that this is hard to believe for everybody. It's my second huge main event, and I'm very thankful."
It was surely a remarkable run for the 36-year-old female poker player, as she finished 55/341 in chips on Day 1, and then got the top 18 spot on Day 2. In the subsequent three days leading up to the finale, she finished 6th, 2nd and 3rd in chip count.
The PCA Final Table consisted of elite poker players including Daniel Coupal, Koray Aldemir, Adrian Mateos, Christian Rudolph, and Shawn Buchanan - all of them Maria Lampropulos bested to win the million-dollar prize money and the title.
2018 PCA Main Event
Dates: January 8-14, 2018
Entries: 582
Buy-in: $10,000
Prize pool: $5,645,400
|
POS |
NAME |
COUNTRY |
PRIZE |
|
1 |
Maria Lampropulos |
Argentina |
$1,081,100 |
|
2 |
Shawn Buchanan |
USA |
$672,960 |
|
3 |
Koray Aldemir |
Germany |
$481,560 |
|
4 |
Adrian Mateos |
Spain |
$372,600 |
|
5 |
Daniel Coupal |
Canada |
$293,560 |
|
6 |
Christian Rudolph |
Germany |
$229,760 |
|
7 |
Oleg Titov |
Russia |
$169,920 |
|
8 |
Adalfer Morales |
Colombia |
$116,860 |
|
9 |
Patryk Poterek |
Poland |
$92,020 |
|
10 |
Michael Farrow |
Canada |
$75,640 |
This win has brought her lifetime poker earnings, to which she only just started playing at prestigious live tourneys back in 2014, up to a total of $2,794,574, and it immediately moved her name into the second spot on Argentina's all-time money list, just behind Ivan Luca (who happens to be her longtime boyfriend).
Good thing to know about Lampropulos is that back in 2016, she and Luca played heads-up in a field of 682 players in the Eureka Poker Tour Season 6 King's Casino Event #8: €1,100 NLHE. The two put up a good show, and in the end it was Luca who got the title for $115, 649, whereas Lampropulos settled as runner-up, getting $103,907 for her efforts.
Below is the list of champs who won the PCA per year:
|
Year |
Entrants |
Prize Pool |
Champion |
Prize |
|
2004 |
221 |
$1,657,500 |
Gus Hansen |
$455,780 |
|
2005 |
461 |
$3,487,200 |
John Gale |
$890,600 |
|
2006 |
724 |
$5,647,200 |
Steve Paul-Ambrose |
$1,388,600 |
|
2007 |
937 |
$7,063,842 |
Ryan Daut |
$1,535,255 |
|
2008 |
1,136 |
$8,562,976 |
Bertrand Grospellier |
$2,000,000 |
|
2009 |
1,347 |
$12,674,000 |
Poorya Nazari |
$3,000,000 |
|
2010 |
1,529 |
$14,831,300 |
Harrison Gimbel |
$2,200,000 |
|
2011 |
1,560 |
$15,132,000 |
Galen Hall |
$2,300,000 |
|
2012 |
1,072 |
$10,398,400 |
John Dibella |
$1,775,000 |
|
2013 |
987 |
$9,573,900 |
Dimitar Danchev |
$1,859,000 |
|
2014 |
1,031 |
$10,070,000 |
Dominik Panka |
$1,423,096 |
|
2015 |
816 |
$7,915,200 |
Kevin Schulz |
$1,491,580 |
|
2016 |
928 |
$4,500,800 |
Mike Watson |
$728,325 |
|
2017 |
738 |
$3,376,712 |
Christian Harder |
$429,664 |
|
2018 |
582 |
$5,645,400 |
Maria Lampropulos |
$1,081,100 |
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