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PokerStars Championship

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PokerStars Championship
SportTexas Hold 'em
Founded2017
Ceased2017
Official websitepokerstarslive.com

The PokerStars Championship was a series of global poker tournaments which began in 2017. The formation of the series was announced in August 2016, when PokerStars revealed that the European Poker Tour and other poker tours were being rebranded.[1] Seven tournament festivals were played in the inaugural season, in the Bahamas, Panama, Macau, Monte Carlo, Sochi, Barcelona and Prague. PokerStars also announced another series of tournaments, PokerStars Festival, which features lower buy-in events. The series was discontinued after the inaugural season.

PSC Main Event winners

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Season Date Event and location Main Event winner Prize
1 6–14 January 2017 The Bahamas PokerStars Championship Bahamas United States Christian Harder $429,664
14–20 March 2017 Panama Panama United States Kenneth Smaron $293,860
1–9 April 2017 Macau Macau Canada Elliot Smith HKD2,877,500
29 April–5 May 2017 Monaco Monte Carlo Italy Raffaele Sorrentino €466,714
25–31 May 2017 Russia Sochi Russia Pavel Shirshikov ₽29,100,000
21–27 August 2017 Spain Barcelona Sweden Sebastian Sorensson €987,043
12–18 December 2017 Czech Republic Prague France Kalidou Sow €675,000

Results

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Source:[2]

Final table
Place Name Prize
1st United States Christian Harder $429,664*
2nd United States Cliff Josephy $403,448*
3rd United States Michael Vela $259,980
4th Russia Aleksei Opalikhin $191,420
5th Canada Michael Gentili $140,940
6th Norway Rasmus Glaesel $103,780
7th Canada Allon Allison $76,400
8th United States John Dibella $56,260

*Deal between the final two players.

Panama Panama

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  • Venue: Sortis Hotel, Panama City, Panama
  • Buy-in: $5,300
  • 7-Day Event: March 14–20, 2017
  • Number of buy-ins: 366
  • Total Prize Pool: $1,775,100
  • Number of Payouts: 71
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st United States Kenneth Smaron $293,860
2nd Canada Harpreet Gill $217,860
3rd Russia Denis Timofeev $161,340
4th Belgium Jonathan Abdellatif $119,480
5th Germany Robin Wozniczek $88,480
6th Canada Anthony Diotte $65,520
7th United States James Salmon $48,520
8th United States Byron Kaverman $35,920

Macau Macau

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  • Venue: City of Dreams, Cotai, Macau
  • Buy-in: HKD42,400
  • 7-Day Event: April 1–9, 2017
  • Number of buy-ins: 536
  • Total Prize Pool: HKD20,796,800
  • Number of Payouts: 103
Final table
Place Name Prize (HKD)
1st Canada Elliot Smith 2,877,500*
2nd China Tianyuan Tang 2,577,500*
3rd Australia Daniel Laidlaw 1,724,000
4th Canada Avraham Oziel 1,280,000
5th United Kingdom Aymon Hata 950,000
6th Taiwan Yen Chen 705,000
7th China Yan Li 521,000
8th China Xuan Tan 386,000

*Deal between the final two players.

Monaco Monte Carlo

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Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Italy Raffaele Sorrentino €466,714*
2nd Germany Andreas Klatt €402,786*
3rd Russia Andrey Bondar €271,500
4th Russia Maxim Panyak €199,900
5th France Michael Kolkowicz €147,120
6th Switzerland Diego Zeiter €108,300
7th Belgium Davidi Kitai €79,750
8th France Romain Nardin €58,740

*Deal between the final two players.

Russia Sochi

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  • Venue: Casino Sochi, Sochi, Russia
  • Buy-in: RUB 318,000 ($5,590)
  • 7-Day Event: May 25–31, 2017
  • Number of buy-ins: 387
  • Total Prize Pool: 150,000,000
  • Number of Payouts: 55
Final table
Place Name Prize (RUB)
1st Russia Pavel Shirshikov 29,100,000
2nd Russia Vladimir Troyanovskiy 18,450,000
3rd Iran Seyed Ghavam 13,335,000
4th Russia Dmitry Vitkind 10,785,000
5th Kazakhstan Lavrentiy Ni 8,535,000
6th Russia Timur Bubnov 6,570,000
7th Kazakhstan Daniyar Aubakirov 4,890,000
8th Russia Nadar Kakhmazov 3,540,000

Spain Barcelona

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  • Venue: Casino Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
  • Buy-in: €5,300
  • 7-Day Event: August 21–27, 2017
  • Number of buy-ins: 1,682
  • Total Prize Pool: €8,157,700
  • Number of Payouts: 247
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Sweden Sebastian Sorensson €987,043*
2nd Bulgaria Lachezar Petkov €917,347*
3rd Italy Raffaele Sorrentino €850,110*
4th Uruguay Brian Kaufman €402,000
5th Brazil Andre Akkari €317,960
6th United Kingdom Usman Siddique €252,000
7th United Kingdom Aeragan Arunan €193,000
8th Lebanon Albert Daher €136,000

*Deal between the final three players.

Czech Republic Prague

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  • Venue: Casino Atrium Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Buy-in: €5,300
  • 7-Day Event: December 12-18, 2017
  • Number of buy-ins: 855
  • Total Prize Pool: €4,146,750
  • Number of Payouts: 128
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st France Kalidou Sow €675,000*
2nd United States Jason Wheeler €570,000*
3rd Czech Republic Michal Mrakes €332,000
4th Italy Gabriele Lepore €249,000
5th United Kingdom Harry Lodge €196,000
6th United States Colin Robinson €147,000
7th Lithuania Matas Cimbolas €104,000
8th Ukraine Valentyn Shabelnyk €72,850

*Deal between the final two players.

Future

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On December 15, 2017, PokerStars announced that it will bring back regional tour brands in 2018. These include the EPT, Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT), and Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT).[3] Therefore, the PokerStars Championship label will no longer be used.

References

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  1. ^ Willis, Brad (August 24, 2016). "PokerStars announces global Championship and Festival events". PokerStars Blog. Retrieved January 7, 2017.
  2. ^ "PokerStars Championship schedule". Archived from the original on 2016-12-23. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
  3. ^ Nuwwarah, Mo (December 15, 2017). "European Poker Tour Brand to Return in 2018". PokerNews.com. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
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