Brock Wilson Among Latest Big Winners on European Poker Tour
PokerStake player Brock Wilson won the latest EPT Barcelona event, turning his €20,000-entry into a top prize of over $273,000 at the felt on the European Poker Tour. Outlasting a final table that included other greats such as Estonia’s Ottomar Ladva, Brazilian Gabriel Tavares and the French high roller regular Jean-Noel Thorel, Wilson’s result is the latest in a run of consistently profitable entries from the PokerStake stable.
Wilson Wins Early for Barcelona Marker
With a total field of 32 entries, a prize pool of €627,200 was to be split between the final five in the @20,000 No Limit Hold’em Single Re-Entry event. Recent British WSOP bracelet winner Jamie Dwan earned himself another cash, making it to fifth place for a finish worth $68,195.
After the French high roller legend Jean-Noel Thorel came fourth for $84,435, Brazilian player Gabriel Tavares (€99,900) bowed out in third. Heads-up, Brock took on the Estonian chess grandmaster Ottomar Ladva, who put up a strong fight. The PokerStake player grabbed the win, however, bagging the title and his latest top prize of $273,130 as Ladva was forced to settle for the runner-up prize of $176,115.
Here are all the in-the-money results from the €20,000 Single Re-Entry event in Barcelona:
| EPT Barcelona 2026 €20,000 NLHE Event Final Table Results: | |||
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
| 1st | Brock Wilson | United States | $273,130 |
| 2nd | Ottomar Ladva | Estonia | $176,115 |
| 3rd | Gabriel Tavares | Brazil | $116,825 |
| 4th | Jean-Noel Thorel | France | $84,435 |
| 5th | Jamie Dwan | United Kingdom | $68,195 |
Kalinin the King in Bounty Event
The 2026 WSOP Online Series is running at full pace on GGPoker, with the Russian Nikita Kalinin winning Event #3, the $2,500 Bounty NLH Championship. Coming with a top prize of $276,239, Kalinin claimed the bracelet and an added prize of a $30,000 Super Pass to the 2026 WSOP Paradise Super Main Event, which costs $25,000, with the rest of the package towards accommodation and travel.
A total of 781 entries created a massive $1,854,875 prize pool, with just 20 players still in with a chance of gold after Day 1 on GGPoker. Second in chips at that stage, Kalinin came back to the felt on the second and final day at the felt and ended up chopping heads-up, winning $127,888 to the Lithuanian player Audrius Stakelis’s score of $127,887. With a massive stack of bounty cash worth $148,351, Kalinin was by far the biggest winner, however with Stakelis only earning an extra $8,187 from bounties.
Other big names to perform well included the Portuguese GGMillion$ winner Pedro Neves, who came fourth for a total prize fund of $97,558 and Russia’s Arsenii Karmatckii, who finished a place lower for $87,363 after taking over a quarter of his winnings in the form of bounties.
| EPT Barcelona 2026 $2,500 Bounty NLHE Championship Final Table Results: | |||||
| Place | Player | Country | Bounties | Winnings | Total |
| 1st | Nikita Kalinin | Russia | $148,351 | $127,888 | $276,239 |
| 2nd | Audrius Stakelis | Lithuania | $8,187 | $127,887 | $136,074 |
| 3rd | Leandro Bianchini | Argentina | $19,125 | $101,619 | $120,744 |
| 4th | Pedro Neves | Portugal | $16,812 | $80,746 | $97,558 |
| 5th | Arsenii Karmatckii | Russia | $23,203 | $64,160 | $87,363 |
| 6th | ‘firfir’ | Serbia | $24,757 | $50,982 | $75,739 |
| 7th | Ivan Ilichev | Russia | $9,546 | $40,510 | $50,056 |
| 8th | Luigi Soncin | Brazil | $12,500 | $32,189 | $44,689 |
| 9th | Rinat Mukhametzyanov | Russia | $16,094 | $25,577 | $41,670 |
Wilson and Dwan Chase Glory in PokerStars Open
Acting as a precursor to the €5,300-entry EPT Barcelona Main Event, the $1,650 PokerStars Open has had a massive 4,333 entries and as such will pay out a top prize of €731,000 ($855,490). With just 80 players left heading into the penultimate day of action, Brock Wilson simply cannot stop cashing. Already guaranteed to win plenty of profit on his entry, Brock sits in 50th place on 1,155,000 chips.
Brock is joined in the counts by fellow PokerStake player Victoria Livschitz, though ‘Trekker’ is some way back, sitting 79th out of the 80 remaining players on just 300,000 chips. She has esteemed company down the lower end of the chipcounts, with former major title winner Maria Lampropoulos (69th on 575,000) and EPT Main Event winner Dominik Panka (61st on 805,000) both running short.
Jamie Dwan is once again crushing. Coming into Day 5 in the top 10, the British bracelet winner is a little lower at the start of Day 2, sitting in 45th place on the leaderboard, but with 1,265,000 chips, Dwan can turn that stack into a final flourish. The chip leader is Han Feng who you may remember as the player who arguably starred at the WSOP Main Event a fortnight ago. While Lucan Jumalon won the World Championship, Feng’s run from eighth of nine to the late stages was incredible and he currently sits top of the chipcounts in this event on a whopping 5,125,000 chips.