{"id":5055,"date":"2022-09-07T11:14:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T11:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top10pokersites.net\/news\/?p=5055"},"modified":"2022-09-07T11:14:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T11:14:46","slug":"espen-jorstad-wins-tortilla-slap-challenge-at-the-mediterranean-poker-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top10pokersites.net\/news\/espen-jorstad-wins-tortilla-slap-challenge-at-the-mediterranean-poker-party","title":{"rendered":"Espen J\u00f8rstad Wins &#8220;Tortilla Slap Challenge&#8221; At The Mediterranean Poker Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top10pokersites.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/09\/espen-jorstad.jpg\" alt=\"Espen J\u00f8rstad\" width=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5056\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top10pokersites.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/09\/espen-jorstad.jpg 380w, https:\/\/www.top10pokersites.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/09\/espen-jorstad-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\"><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The challenge took place at the Mediterranean Poker Party in Cyprus<\/li>\n<li>J\u00f8rstad defeated Argentina\u2019s Nacho Barbero to win a seat into a $25K NLH event<\/li>\n<li>Popular high-stakes pros including Rob Yong, Tony G, and Phil Nagy also joined in on the action<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Espen J\u00f8rstad<\/strong>, the 2022 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champion, recently triumphed in another competition, the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/tiktok-tortilla-challenge\">Tortilla Slap Challenge<\/a>\u201c. <\/p>\n<p>The game is based on the latest social media craze whereby the participants fill their mouths with water and then slap each other with the tortilla. The first person to spit out the water loses.  <\/p>\n<p>J\u00f8rstad and Argentina\u2019s <strong>Jose Ignacio \u201c<em>Nacho<\/em>\u201d Barbero<\/strong> were the last two players standing among a bunch of high-stakes pros who joined the fun-filled game which took place at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top10pokersites.net\/news\/luxon-pay-mediterranean-poker-party-gets-bigger-with-two-major-events\">Luxon Pay Mediterranean Poker Party<\/a> in Cyprus on September 5. <\/p>\n<p>The challenge had some poker element in it with the winner walking away with a ticket to the <em>$25,000 No-Limit Hold\u2019em event<\/em> which got underway on the same day. J\u00f8rstad ultimately defeated Barbero to take home the prize. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"how-it-started\">How it Started<\/h2>\n<p>The original plan was to set up the challenge with just four participants who are well-known in the high-stakes circuit \u2013 <strong>Rob Yong, Phil Nagy, Faraz Jaka and Tony G<\/strong>. It was initially scheduled to take place on September 3 at the Luxon Pay Mediterranean Poker Party. <\/p>\n<p>The competitors were supposed to pay a $5,000 buy-in to take part in the challenge, with the winner securing a seat into the <em>$10,000 6-Max High Roller Turbo event<\/em> scheduled for September 4. But organizers eventually decided to postpone the challenge to give way for more players to join the competition. <\/p>\n<p>Plenty of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top10pokersites.net\/high-stakes-online-poker\">high-stakes poker<\/a> players expressed interest in participating and so a few changes were made \u2013 the challenge was rescheduled to September 5 and the winner would qualify for the <em>$25K NLH event<\/em>. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"the-challenge\">The Challenge<\/h2>\n<p>The challenge took place with just five participants including <a href=\"https:\/\/pokerdb.thehendonmob.com\/player.php?a=r&amp;n=238702\">Espen J\u00f8rstad<\/a> and Barbero. Jaka didn\u2019t make it due to a scheduling conflict. The first person to be slapped out of the competition was Tony G, followed by Nagy. Yong was next out, setting the one-on-one match between J\u00f8rstad and Barbero. The latter failed to hold the water in his cheeks after exchanging slaps with his Norwegian opponent who was ultimately declared the winner.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%\">\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9NBqQ16oR78?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0?ecver=2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;left:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Tortilla Slap Challenge is currently trending on TikTok and various celebrities have since joined the craze, including <strong>Dwayne \u201c<em>The Rock<\/em>\u201d Johnson, Kevin Hart, James Corden, Jason Momoa, Demi Lovato, and Jimmy Fallon<\/strong>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary The challenge took place at the Mediterranean Poker Party in Cyprus J\u00f8rstad defeated Argentina\u2019s Nacho Barbero to win a seat into a $25K NLH event Popular high-stakes pros including Rob Yong, Tony G, and Phil Nagy also joined in on the action Espen J\u00f8rstad, the 2022 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champion,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Espen J\u00f8rstad Wins &quot;Tortilla Slap Challenge&quot; At The Mediterranean Poker Party<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Espen J\u00f8rstad, the 2022 WSOP Main Event champion, recently triumphed in another competition, the \u201cTortilla Slap Challenge\u201c.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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