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JOSE ‘NACHO’ BARBERO CONTINUES HOT STREAK WITH VICTORY IN POKERSTARS.COM EPT LONDON HIGH ROLLER EVENT

Oktober 7, 2010

Team PokerStars Pro Jose ‘Nacho’ Barbero has won the PokerStars.com European Poker
Tour London High Roller event to cap off an incredible run of results over the past two years.
The Argentinian Team PokerStars Pro, who scored back-to-back LAPT Main Event victories
in Uruguay and Peru earlier in 2010, stunned the field again in London, enjoying the biggest
tournament win of his career by taking first place for £556,000 in the High Roller event.
With a £20,000 buy-in the field of 77 players proved to be a tough proposition and Barbero
had to overcome fellow Team PokerStars Pros on his way to glory. The main thorn in his
side at the final table was Vanessa Selbst, who held a commanding chip lead with just eight
remaining. However, after battling his way towards the top of the chip leaderboard, Barbero
won a vital coin-flip against Selbst to eliminate her in fourth, and went on to beat Finnish pro
Jani Sointula heads-up.
After winning the event, an ecstatic Barbero, said: “I’m really happy to have won such a big
tournament in Europe. Finishing first in back-to-back LAPT events was fantastic and very
tough, but I was desperate to continue that form elsewhere. Now I can say I’ve beaten a
world-class field in Europe – it’s a dream come true.”
Team PokerStars Pro, Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier, praised Barbero, saying: “It has been an
incredible year for Nacho. He has proved at two LAPT events, in major online tournaments
at PokerStars, and now at EPT London against an elite field, that he has the game to
compete with the best in the world. I believe he is set to be one of the game’s biggest stars.”
Nacho’s win on European soil isn’t his first of the year. In May he triumphed at the France
Poker Series, winning €40,123. Barbero has also proved his poker skills on the virtual felt in
2010, winning a $2,100 Fixed Limit Hold’em Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP)
event for $62,780 in May, before more recently finishing third in the World Championship of
Online Poker (WCOOP) 8-Game High-Roller event for $172,900.
Jose Barbero has quickly ascended to the very top of the poker world in 2010 with combined
winnings in excess of $1.875 million. Nacho’s latest win now gives him a shot of also winning
the Card Player 2010 Player of the Year award – a remarkable achievement for the
Argentinian Team PokerStars Pro.
Sarne Lightman, Latin America Marketing Director, said: “PokerStars is extremely proud of
Nacho’s incredible success so far this year. At PokerStars we’ve always been committed to
investing in burgeoning poker markets and nurturing new generations of poker players. It’s
fitting that with Latin America becoming one of the world’s fastest growing poker markets,
the top Team Pro from that region explodes on to the global poker scene as one of the most
successful tournament players of 2010.”

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