{"id":5521,"date":"2023-10-18T12:12:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T12:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top10pokersites.net\/news\/?p=5521"},"modified":"2023-10-18T12:12:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T12:12:58","slug":"high-rollers-valeriy-pak-and-juan-pardo-win-big-at-2023-pokerstars-ept-cyprus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top10pokersites.net\/news\/high-rollers-valeriy-pak-and-juan-pardo-win-big-at-2023-pokerstars-ept-cyprus","title":{"rendered":"High Rollers Valeriy Pak and Juan Pardo Win Big At 2023 PokerStars EPT Cyprus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top10pokersites.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/10\/valeriy-pak-and-juan-pardo.jpg\" alt=\"Valeriy Pak and Juan Pardo\" width=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5522\" title=\"High Rollers Valeriy Pak and Juan Pardo Win Big At 2023 PokerStars EPT Cyprus\"><strong>Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Valeriy Pak won the $2,200 Eureka High Roller event<\/li>\n<li>Juan Pardo won the $50,000 Super High Roller event<\/li>\n<li>Pak after a 17 hour session won $338,460 and Pardon won $688,560 <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some of the most popular events scheduled for the <strong>2023 PokerStars European Poker Tour Cyprus<\/strong> were the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top10pokersites.net\/blog\/8-biggest-mistakes-poker-players-make-when-playing-with-high-stakes\">high stakes events<\/a> and the Main Event. <\/p>\n<p>The poker tournament is taking place at the Merit Royal Diamond Hotel Casino &amp; Spa and has seen a nice turnout of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top10pokersites.net\/blog\/top-10-poker-players\">top poker players from all over the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"valeriy-pak-wins-2200-eureka-high-roller-event\">Valeriy Pak wins $2,200 Eureka High Roller Event<\/h2>\n<p>The <em>$2,200 Eureka High Roller<\/em> event attracted a pretty big field with a total of 1,444 registrations. The event saw a number of top poker players including <strong>Tom Middleton, Anton Wigg and Piotr Nurzynski<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The playing field was cut down to 216 players on Day 2 and further whittled down to 9 players after 13 hours. After another 4 hours of play, there were just 3 players remaining at the table.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Valeriy Pak<\/strong> from Belarus, <strong>Takahiro Tsugu<\/strong> from Japan and <strong>Van Der Swaluw<\/strong> from the Netherlands were the final 3 players left standing and they decided to cut a deal to determine the winner. Pak ended up winning the flip for the trophy and collected $338,460 for his first place finish, Tsugu collected $300,000 and Van Der Swaluw settled for $292,320.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"juan-pardo-wins-50000-super-high-roller-event\">Juan Pardo wins $50,000 Super High Roller Event<\/h2>\n<p>The <em>$50,000 Super High Roller<\/em> event ensured that only the top high stakes poker players in the world would play due to the high buy-in. Some of the top poker players that participated in this event included <strong>Adrian Mateos, Ognyan Dimov, Mikita Badziakouski, Steve O\u2019Dywer, Artur Martirosian and Joao Vieira<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The playing field consisted of poker players from all around the world as evidenced by the final 6 players. Two of them were from Spain, one from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top10pokersites.net\/top-10-uk-poker-sites\">UK<\/a>, one from China, one from the Netherlands and one from Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The final two players at the table were Spaniards <strong>Juan Pardo<\/strong> and <strong>Vicente Delgado<\/strong>. They decided to enter into a heads-up deal to determine the winner and Pardon ended up winning. Pardo who finished in 2022 in second place at the <em>\u00a350,000 Super High Roller<\/em> at EPT London ended up winning this event to take home $688,560 while Delgado settled for second place and $583,400.<\/p>\n<center>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Victory for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JuanMalakastyle?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JuanMalakastyle<\/a> \u270c\ufe0f <\/p>\n<p>He took down the $50,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EPTCyprus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EPTCyprus<\/a> Super High Roller. \ud83c\udfc6 <\/p>\n<p>Pardo defeated a field of 46 entries, and picked up $688,560 after striking a heads-up deal with fellow Spaniard Vicente Delgado, who had to settle for silver and $583,400. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2dUhmIwE6G\">pic.twitter.com\/2dUhmIwE6G<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PokerStars LIVE (@PokerStarsLIVE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PokerStarsLIVE\/status\/1714293630155030927?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p><\/center>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Valeriy Pak won the $2,200 Eureka High Roller event Juan Pardo won the $50,000 Super High Roller event Pak after a 17 hour session won $338,460 and Pardon won $688,560 Some of the most popular events scheduled for the 2023 PokerStars European Poker Tour Cyprus were the high stakes events and the Main Event&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1,9],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>High Rollers Valeriy Pak and Juan Pardo Win Big At 2023 PokerStars EPT Cyprus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Some of the 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