{"id":36273,"date":"2026-08-31T11:32:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T11:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/?p=36273"},"modified":"2026-08-31T11:32:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T11:32:02","slug":"manuel-ferrari-wins-1-2-million-at-european-poker-tour-barcelona-main-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/manuel-ferrari-wins-1-2-million-at-european-poker-tour-barcelona-main-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Manuel Ferrari Wins $1.2 Million at European Poker Tour Barcelona Main Event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Manuel Ferrari became a million-dollar winner for the first time in his poker career this weekend at the European Poker Tour in Barcelona, turning the \u20ac5,300 entry into a life-altering cash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Manuel Ferrari wins EPT Barcelona Main Event for more than $1 million. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have a new trophy in my collection now,\u201d Ferrari told the event’s sponsor, PokerStars, after coming out on top. \u201cI\u2019ve worked towards this goal and finally it happened, so I\u2019m super happy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s what a walk to the cage with a ticket worth $1,170,857 will do to a man. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ferrari is on a roll at European events sponsored by PokerStars. This is his third title in their events in a little over a year. He won the PokerStars Open Malaga in June 2025\u00a0<\/span>for $243,434 and the \u20ac2,200 event at PokerStars Open Campione\u00a0this January for$102,424. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 34-year-old is now a quarter-million dollars from hitting the $2 million lifetime mark. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u20ac5,300 championship event at Casino Barcelona saw 1,297 entries and 526 rebuys who created. prize pool of \u20ac8,841,550 ($10,326,501). It was the seventh-largest EPT event in its 22-year history. The top 271 cashed at least $10,000. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once Ferrari, Lukas van Eeden and Jose Criado were the last three punters left, they made a deal that would pay each of them at least $1 million. They played for an extra $100,000 and the PokerStars Golden Shard trophy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although Ferrari is fairly new to finding the winner’s circle, that doesn’t damper the confidence that comes with a last name that seems to move at the speed of light. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I’m pretty confident in my chances, and I’m really optimistic usually in my life, so I think at the moment I register, I just thought, yeah, why not just win it? And [my friends] just supported me so much. I felt all the strength from the rail, and I guess that made me even more confident in my chances.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Final Table Results of the 2026 EPT Barcelona Main Event<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Place<\/strong><\/td>Player<\/strong><\/td>Payout<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
1<\/td>Manuel Ferrari<\/td>$1,162,886<\/td><\/tr>
2<\/td>Lukas van Eeden<\/td>$1,075,807<\/td><\/tr>
3<\/td>Jose Criado<\/td>$1,056,345<\/td><\/tr>
4<\/td>Xiaosheng Zheng<\/td>$546,650<\/td><\/tr>
5<\/td>Michael Dwyer<\/td>$420,500<\/td><\/tr>
6<\/td>Nicolas Chouity<\/td>$323,582<\/td><\/tr>
7<\/td>Gerard Carbo<\/td>$248,936<\/td><\/tr>
8<\/td>Edward Pak<\/td>$191,458<\/td><\/tr>
9<\/td>Joris Ruijs<\/td>$147,262<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Manuel Ferrari became a million-dollar winner for the first time in his poker career this weekend at the European Poker Tour in Barcelona, turning the \u20ac5,300 entry into a life-altering cash. \u201cI have a new trophy in my collection now,\u201d Ferrari told the event’s sponsor, PokerStars, after coming out on top. \u201cI\u2019ve worked towards this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":36276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[497,527,529,7421,499,7415,535,501,523],"tags":[1409,577],"vertical":[],"class_list":["post-36273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-poker-business","category-buzz","category-poker-buzz","category-poker","category-poker-news","category-tournament-schedules","category-poker-tournaments","category-wsop-news","tag-ept","tag-poker"],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":36273},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.casino.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-31-at-7.10.30-AM-600x400.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.casino.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-31-at-7.10.30-AM-600x600.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Bob Pajich","author_link":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/author\/bob-pajich\/"},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36273"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36290,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36273\/revisions\/36290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36273"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=36273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}