• Five great poker victories in 2019. 30 December 2019. Tags: adrian mateos, Bryn Kenney, PokerStars, WSOP. Adrian Mateos was one of the year’s biggest winners in general.
• Tuesday, November 26th, 2019 Written by Renee. All went well for Adrian Mateos at the recently-concluded 2019 Caribbean Poker Party (CPP) in the Bahamas. The Spanish poker pro managed to score back-to-back wins, the first of which was in the $25,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em High Roller where he outclassed a field of 125 entries for a top prize of $520,464.
• Adrian Mateos is factual 25 years extinct, but he has already managed to set himself as one in all the very most productive tournament poker players in the arena. He is the youngest player in history to seize three World.
• Spaniard poker pro Adrian Mateos is already known to have a pretty impressive poker portfolio, having won the 2013 WSOP Main Event for €1,000,000, and now he adds a whopping $1,162,805 to his all-time live career earnings after winning back-to-back titles, becoming the Main Event champ in this year's Caribbean Poker Party MILLIONS World Bahamas Main Event as well as the victor of the Super.

Adrian Mateos Poker 2019 Schedule

Spaniard poker pro Adrian Mateos is already known to have a pretty impressive poker portfolio, having won the 2013 WSOP Main Event for €1,000,000, and now he adds a whopping $1,162,805 to his all-time live career earnings after winning back-to-back titles, becoming the Main Event champ in this year's Caribbean Poker Party MILLIONS World Bahamas Main Event as well as the victor of the Super.

The first official event of the 2019 PokerStars EPT Prague was also the first to award the PokerStars Spade trophy at this year's festival. Adrian Mateos came out on top of a field of 61 entries in Event #1: €10,300 No-Limit Hold'em to after defeating Anton Yakuba to claim the first-place prize of €177,500.

Mateos battled with Yakuba heads-up, who held the chip lead for the better part of the day. However, Mateos started the heads-up match with a two-to-one chip lead and never relinquished it. It was a surprising and abrupt end to the match after Mateos turned two pair. Yakuba turned a flush draw with two overcards to the board and still called off the last of his chips on the river with just king-high.

It will be recorded as Mateos' sixth PokerStars EPT victory to add to an already impressive poker resume. Mateos captured the EPT Monte Carlo Main Event title back in 2015 for a seven-figure payday along with the 2017 €50,000 8-Max in Monte Carlo for over €900,000. With this win, Mateos will close in on the $20 million career earnings mark which is impressive in its own right.

As for Yakuba, this will be recorded as his best ever live tournament result. Yakuba is mostly known for playing at the online felt but has proven that he can compete with some of the best live players as well. Yakuba pocketed €128,400 for his efforts today and should be around for the rest of the week as well.

2019 EPT Prague €10,300 No-Limit Hold'em Final Table Results

The day kicked off with 27 players returning to their seats from Day 1 along with seven new entries before the cards went in the air. That brought the total number of entries for this event to 61, creating a prize pool of €591,000 to be spread out among eight places. There was no shortage of action in the early going with Seth Davies and Jimmy Guerrero being eliminated in the first couple of hands.

Four tables quickly turned into three, and that became just two tables moments after the first break of the day. That was when the action seemed to grind to a halt, as the average stack quickly became a lot larger. As chips were passed back and forth, this was the time when Yakuba made his first move and grabbed a hold of a healthy chip lead. After a bit of a stalemate, Kahle Burns, Michael Soyza, Quan Zhou, and Yuan Li all hit the rail in quick succession, leaving just ten players left.

Daniel Dvoress appeared to battle for the chip lead with Yakuba, but a cooler hand where both players made two pair on a dry board gave Yakuba even more chips and Dvoress was eliminated. The final nine players gathered at one table on the money bubble and it took roughly 40 minutes to burst the bubble. Matthias Eibinger called off his last 11 big blinds with ace-king and was dominating Tsugunari Toma's ace-nine. However, an ace on the flop and a nine on the turn gave Toma two pair and Eibinger was the bubble boy.

The final eight players all locked up a min-cash of at least €23,670, including the two short stacks, Arsenii Karmatckii and Orpen Kisacikoglu who both had less than ten big blinds. They would be the next two players eliminated in succession, Karmatckii losing a flip to finish in eighth place and Kisacikoglu running into the nut flush of Mateos to wind up in seventh.

Prior to the dinner break, there was a series of double-ups that occurred. Vladimir Troyanovskiy was the biggest beneficiary of those double-ups but still struggled to gather an above-average stack. When the six players returned from dinner, Toma was the first to bow out, sending his eight big blinds across the table to Troyanovskiy. Bertrand Grospellier was the new short stack but was gaining momentum after two doubles of his own at the hands of Troyanovskiy. However, he wasn't so lucky on the third attempt when Derek Ip flopped a full house with pocket jacks. Grospellier was still alive with trip queens but was unable to improve on the turn or river.

Troyanovskiy was still battling on the short stack and managed to double up once more but that was the last one he would see. He got his last ten big blinds in the middle with pocket sevens against his fellow Russian who was on the right side of all the flips. Yakuba held ace-jack and spiked a jack on the flop to take the lead and eliminate Troyanovskiy in fourth place. It didn't take long for heads-up action to take place as Ip soon got his chips in the middle with pocket jacks and was flipping against the ace-queen of Mateos. A queen on the turn gave Mateos the best hand and he dodged all of Ip's outs to take the chip lead into heads-up with Yakuba.

That wraps up the PokerNews coverage for this event but there is still plenty of action to look forward to over the next coming days.

Adrian Mateos is just 25 years old, but he has already managed to establish himself as one of the very best tournament poker players in the world. He is the youngest player in history to win three World Series of Poker bracelets, and with $19.4 million in career earnings is the all-time money leader for his home country of Spain. Mateos further cemented his spot on the list of the game’s best players this past week by winning back-to-back marquee events at the 2019 Caribbean Poker Party.

The first of his two huge title runs came in the $25,500 buy-in, $2 million guaranteed no-limit hold’em high roller event. The tournament drew a sizable turnout of 125 entries, blowing away the guarantee to create a final prize pool of $3,125,000.

Mateos overcame a stacked final table that included the likes of four-time World Poker Tour main event winner Darren Elias (9th – $100,000), 2019 MILLIONS Europe €100,000 high roller winner Orpen Kisacikoglu (7th – $135,000), 2018 European Poker Tour Barcelona €50,000 high roller champion and 2017 WSOP main event third-place finisher Benjamin Pollak (6th – $160,000), and 2017 WSOP Europe €25,000 high roller bracelet winner Niall Farrell (5th – $200,000).

In the end, it came down to a heads-up showdown between Mateos and American Brock Wilson. Mateos started at roughly a 5:1 chip disadvantage but managed to battle his way back to nearly even. With the stacks closer in size, Mateos and Wilson came to a deal that saw Wilson lock up $619,536 while Mateos secured $520,464. The two agreed to flip for the title, and Mateos’ hand proved to be the winner.

Just four days later, Mateos found himself in the winner’s circle again. This time around he outlasted a field 948 total entries in the $10,300 buy-in, $10 million guaranteed 2019 Caribbean Poker Party MILLIONS World Bahamas no-limit hold’em main event.

Despite the fact that this tournament had nearly 1,000 entries, the final table was still overrun with top tournament talent. German high roller and two-time WPT Alpha8 event winner Philipp Gruissem finished ninth for $140,000. High stakes cash game star Petter Jetten earned $250,000 as the seventh-place finisher, while 2019 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure main event third-place finisher Scott Wellenbach placed fourth for $650,000.

The final three players struck a deal. Recent Poker Masters main event runner-up Chris Hunichen locked up $1,097,19, 2019 WPT Legends of Poker main event winner Aaron Van Blarcum
ensured himself $970,000 and Mateos secured $1,062,805. The three left the title and $100,000 to play for.

Van Blarcum picked up A-K against the A-3 of Hunichen to set up the heads-up showdown with Mateos, which began with the two finalists nearly even in chips. Mateos was able to quickly establish a lead, increasing his advantage to roughly 6:1 by the time the final cards were dealt. Van Blarcum shoved with 10-2 and got looked uo by Mateos’ J-9. Mateos made a pair of nines on the flop and held from there to secure the title.

Mateos earned a total of 3,204 Card Player Player of the Year points for his two victories. With two previous final-table finishes this year, Mateos has now climbed into 20th place in the 2019 POY race standings, which are sponsored by Global Poker.

Here is a look at the payouts and POY points from the Caribbean Poker Party $25,500 high roller:

Adrian Mateos Poker 2019 Results

Here is a look at the payouts and POY points from the Caribbean Poker Party $10,300 main event:

Adrian Mateos Poker 2019 Standings

Adrian Mateos Wsop 2019

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