Ended Spanish Championship, the first tournament of the series World Poker Tour... The tournament held in Barcelona, was attended by 253 participants. The entry fee for the tournament was $5'000. The total prize pool of the poker tournament was $1'990'000.
The main prize of the tournament in a one-on-one battle was contested by the Danes Casper hansen and Swede Stefan Mattsson... At stake was the amount of $655'720. AND Casper hansen, who has won $89'831 in his career so far, was able to win first place and more than tenfold the prize money for his career.
Results:
1 Casper hansen - $655'720
2 Stefan Mattsson - $346'621
3 Thiago Nishijima - $176'934
4 Andres Vidal - $137'703
5 Guy Sitbon - $118'166
6 Martin Lundenius - $98'157