The three day event attracted 47 entries, generating a prize pool of €4,559,940 to be shared between the top six finishers.
The Barcelona stop has always been one of the most popular on the European Poker Tour, bringing out many big names in poker.
And we even saw an unexpected meeting between Jesse Yaginuma and James Carroll who were banned from the WSOP 2025 for colluding in the Millionairemaker. They once again found themselves seated next to each other, this time in the €5,300 EPT Barcelona Main Event.
David Coleman pushed Sturm until the end but was forced to give way with a runner-up finish for what was still a nice €1,148,755 after a deal was made.
Jesse Lonis, a guy who is making final tables for fun these days and who won the $102,000 Onyx SHRS NLH Invitational last week, made the bottom step of the podium.
In his winners interview, Sturm explained how these super high roller tournaments are much more personal and friendly than the blogger events.
“It’s nice to play against friends and people that you know more so than if you play against unknowns. Here, all pros were definitely a good atmosphere. But yeah, we were also just rocking the shades, literally everyone, five people staring into each other’s sunglasses, so there’s room for growth in terms of table talk.”
Action Recap
Only six players returned for the final day, with WSOP 2022 Main Event winner Espen Jorstad leading the way with a massive lead of 120 big blinds to David Coleman’s second placed stack of only 59.
Jorstad won an EPT Super High Roller event in Prague a year ago and was a big favourite to take this one down, too.
The final table action started with a bang. Thai superstar Punnat Punsri, who recently won his fourth Triton title, found himself packing up his gear on the very first hand.
David Coleman open-jammed from the small blind with A♥ 5♣ and Punsri happily called with K♠ K♣ for his last 19 big blinds.
But when the board rolled out A♠ 10♦ 5♠ it was the American who vaulted into the lead. When the turn and river came down 6♥ 4♥ it was game over for Punsri.
Coleman further increased his stack, taking two nice pots from leader Jorstad to keep him in sight. Sturm, meanwhile, was having a nightmare, unable to get any momentum going.
Eventually, while the table was still five-handed, Sturm was the recipient of a fortunate double-up against Coleman which was the start of his fightback.
Lonis raised his button to 130,000 and Sturm three-bet from the small blind to 440,000 with A♦ K♠.
Coleman went into Hollywood mode for a bit and then min-raised it to 750,000 with A♠ K♦. Lonis folded and then Sturm went with his hand and got a call.
The players smiled as they both tabled the same hand, but when the flop rolled out J♦ 2♦ Q♦ it was Sturm who had a chance to steal the pot.
And indeed he did when the turn came down the 4♦, and it was then Leon Sturm who was leading the field, coming back from almost certain elimination.
The action now heated up. Aleksejs Ponakovs was knocked out by Jorstad with a dominated king, and then the Norwegian himself was out in a pre-flop late position clash against Lonis.
Three-handed was a relatively even affair but it was Lonis who dipped out in a blinds battle when his A♥ 9♦ couldn’t beat 9♣ 8♥ to send him home in third with a prize of €706,800.
Before the heads-up match began, the players quickly agreed a deal to leave only €200,000 on the table to play for with the trophy and title.
Sturm began the match with almost double the chips of his opponent and steadily ground him down until the trophy and biggest slice of the prize money was in his hands.
EPT Barcelona €100,000 Super High Roller Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
| 1 | Leon Sturm | Germany | €1,450,385* |
| 2 | David Coleman | United States | €1,148,755* |
| 3 | Jesse Lonis | United States | €706,800 |
| 4 | Espen Jorstad | Norway | €524,400 |
| 5 | Aleksejs Ponakovs | Latvia | €410,400 |
| 6 | Punnat Punsri | Thailand | €319,200 |
