Ralfs Blumbergs Wins €10,250 PLO Event at EPT Barcelona for €303,300 Top Prize
TL;DR — Ralfs Blumbergs won the €10,250 PLO event at EPT Barcelona for €303,300 from 122 entries and a €1,183,400 prize pool. Jamie Dwan, Marcin Puczylowski and Tobias Leknes also posted victories in NLH and mixed games. The festival maintains strong fields ahead of the Main Event final.
SCCG Take — Live poker festivals continue to attract solid entries and generate reliable prize pools across formats, supplying operators with clear indicators for event scheduling and format selection.
The 2026 PokerStars EPT Barcelona festival approaches its conclusion with the €5,300 Main Event days away. Latvia’s Ralfs Blumbergs won the €10,250 Pot-Limit Omaha Unlimited Re-Entry tournament, according to reporting by PokerNews. The event drew 122 entries including re-entries and created a €1,183,400 prize pool. Blumbergs earned the €303,300 first-place score.
Seventeen players cashed. Sweden’s Filip Lovric finished eighth. Frenchman Imad Derwiche exited first from the official final table in seventh place for €48,500, pushing his lifetime winnings close to $5.2 million. Rasmus Larsen, Biao Ding, Tommi Lankinen and Vito Recchimurzo followed. This set up heads-up play between Blumbergs and Finnish PLO specialist Markus Ristola. Blumbergs prevailed. Ristola collected €189,400 for second.
Additional Results from EPT Barcelona
The €25,000 No-Limit Hold’em Unlimited Re-Entry drew eight players plus one re-entry for a €192,080 prize pool. Organizers paid three places under a skewed structure. Kayhan Mokri placed third for €27,972. Klemens Roiter finished second for €30,012. Jamie Dwan won €134,096 and the Spadie trophy.
Poland’s Marcin Puczylowski took the €1,100 No-Limit Hold’em Single Re-Entry, outlasting 402 entries for a €385,920 prize pool. He earned €76,960, his third-largest live score, after defeating Darius Narmontas heads-up. Andre Sargento Esteves placed third. Established players in the money included Leo Worthington-Leese, Keith Johnson, Eugene Katchalov and Valentino Konakchiev. The final table featured Marc MacDonnell, Priyan De Mel and David Docherty.
Tobias Leknes won the €5,200 T.O.R.S.E. mixed game event. He topped a 25-entry field for €52,100 from the €121,250 prize pool. The result provides momentum ahead of the 2026 WCOOP at PokerStars. These outcomes confirm steady participation across varied buy-ins and formats at Casino Barcelona as the Main Event reaches its final stages.
Reporting: PokerNews
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Live poker festivals still deliver consistent turnout and reliable prize pools — proof that diverse formats pull entries when structured right.
We track these festival results because they reveal what actually works on the floor. EPT Barcelona pulled 122 PLO entries at €10,250, plus fields across high-stakes NLH and mixed games. That kind of cross-format performance tells operators what players want and what scheduling pays off. Real data beats guesswork every time.
- Ralfs Blumbergs won €303,300 in the €10,250 PLO event from 122 entries
- Jamie Dwan took the €25,000 NLH with eight entries, €134,096 payout
- Diverse formats — PLO, high-stakes NLH, mixed games — all drew consistent fields
SCCG angle: SCCG works with live poker operators and platform providers across regulated markets to design festival structures that pull entries. When you see EPT Barcelona run PLO, high-stakes NLH, and mixed games successfully, we help you adapt that playbook — format selection, buy-in ladders, prize structures — using our network of tournament directors, platform partners, and venue operators who have done it at scale.
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