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With the 2019 PCA started, we take a look back at the most controversial hand of last year’s PCA Main Event. The players involved are none other than the champ herself, Maria Lampropulos and the runner-up Shawn Buchanan. Chip leader Maria Lampropulos is in the SB with Q3 and raises to 275,000.
With Vanessa Selbst effectively retired from professional poker, the poker world is looking for a new face of women’s poker. They may have now found it. On Sunday, Argentina’s Maria Lampropulos became the first woman in history to win the PCA Main Event. In doing so, she secured the second seven figure score of her poker career and is now in the Top 10 of the Women’s All-Time Money List.
Lampropulos Survives Field of 582 Entries to Win PCA Main Event
Total life earnings: $3,377,913. Latest cash: $2,459 on 02-Aug-2020. Click here to see the details of Maria Constanza Lampropulos' 94 cashes. Watch more #poker: Twitch: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwsWa65jkbHfv. Since her first participation in poker in 2014, Maria Lampropulos has earned more than $ 3.2 million in live poker tournaments. This British woman is of Greek descent, but was born and raised in Argentina. She is currently the third-ranked player on Argentina's historical prize list, and the eighth-highest-paid female player in poker history.
The PCA Main Event concluded on Sunday and for the first time in history, a woman has taken down the prestigious event. Maria Lampropulos topped a field of 582 entries to take down the event and earn $1.08 million.
Heading into the final day of play on Sunday, Spain’s Adrian Mateos started the final table as chip leader. Trailing him in second was Canada’s Shawn Buchanan and Lampropulos started third in chips. Koray Aldemir also made the final table starting the day in fourth place.
Lampropulos went to work early, taking out Christian Rudolph in 6th place. Her A-8 outran his pocket sixes. This put her in an early chip lead. Adrian Mateos came into the final table as chip leader but exited in fourth place. He fell during a massive hand where he shoved on Shawn Buchanan with top pair but Buchanan called with a flush draw and hit his flush.
Koray Aldemir would fall in 3rd place to Shawn Buchanan when his K-7 failed to outrun Buchanan’s A-8. Heading into heads-up play with Lampropulos, Buchanan held more than a 2:1 chip lead.
Then in a stunning turn of events, Lampropulos doubled-up twice in a three hand stretch to take more than a 3:1 lead. A few hands later, Lampropulos shoved with 10c-7c and Buchanan made the call with his Kh-5s. The flop fell 10s-9c-5d, hitting both players. The turn 2h missed both and the river 9h made Maria Lampropulos the first female PCA Main Event champion in history.
In addition to the large PokerStars PCA trophy, Lampropulos earned $1.08 million for her first place win.
Lampropulos Now 9th on Women’s All-Time Money List
Lampropulos’ victory on Sunday gives he $2.79 million in live career earnings, putting her third on Argentina’s All-Time Money List and 9th on the Women’s All-Time Money List.
A large chunk of Lampropulos’ lifetime earnings have come in two tournaments. Last April, she won the partypoker MILLIONS Nottingham Main Event for $1.25 million.
Prior to her two $1 million scores, Lampropulos was best known for chopping the 2016 Eureka Poker Tour Rozvadov Main Event with her boyfriend Ivan Luca. She also took down a WSOP International Circuit Event in 2016, winning a $600 NL Six-Max at the Punta del Este stop.
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Lampropulos is now a serious contender to be the face of women’s poker thanks to her two $1 million scores. If she is able to continue her winning ways, she will quickly rocket up the Women’s All-Time Money List.
She is presently 9th, just leapfrogging players such as Loni Harwood, Maria Ho and Hall of Famers Jennifer Harman and Barbara Enright. Another $1 million of earnings will vault her into the top 5.
The only female players with more than $4 million in lifetime earnings are Annie Duke ($4.27 million), Kathy Liebert ($6.17 million) and Vanessa Selbst ($11.85 million).
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Argentina’s Maria Lampropulos becomes the first ever female PCA main event winner. (Image: Neil Stoddart/PokerStars Blog)
The main event of this year’s PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) came to a glittering close on January 14 after Argentina’s Maria Lampropulos clinched the title and $1,081,100.
Following six days of sun kissed poker action inside the Atlantis Resort & Casino, Bahamas, Lampropulos came through a tough final table to secure her second seven-figure live score.
Entering the final day, third in chips, the Argentinian pro got off to a flying start when her pocket sixes connected with the 6♦ 8♠ 7♣ flop.
With Christian Rudolph all-in and all out of luck with A♣ 8♦, Lampropulos scooped a hefty pot to take the chip lead after the 8♣ and 7♦ fell on the turn and river.
Lampropulos Keeps Her Foot on the Gas
With the momentum on her side, Lampropulos took the initiative but quickly found herself in trouble after a hero call went wrong. After opening with Q♣ 3♠ from the small bling, Lampropulos didn’t believe Shawn Buchanan have a piece of the 4♠ 7♥ 2♦ 7♣ 4♣ board.
As Buchanan tabled his A♦ 7♠ for a full house, he took the chip lead and sent the table’s lone female back to the middle of the pack. Time in the shadows was relatively short-lived for Lampropulos as she managed to tread water while Dan Coupal, Adrian Mateos and Koray Aldemir hit the rail.
Eventually, after starting the heads-up battle behind, two double-ups in three hands put Lampropulos in front and on her way to becoming the first ever female PCA main event winner.
Aggression Wins the Day for Lampropulos
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The final hand of this year’s Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure event saw another aggressive move by Lampropulos get it done. After Buchanan limped on the button, the Argentinian pro moved all-in with T♣ 7♣.
Considering his options, Buchanan eventually made the call with K♥ 5♠ but could only watch as his preflop advantage and the remainder of his chips slipped away.
As the lights went up and the confetti rained down, a jubilant Lampropulos said the support of her family and friends helped her overcome the 582-player field.
“I am extremely grateful for the people who believed in me, especially my boyfriend. Ivan always trusted me and helped me to improve and grow. Whenever I had doubts about how I’d played a hand, he helped me regain my confidence by telling me that I can get it,” the new PCA champ told Pokernews.
2018 PCA Main Event Result
1st Maria Lampropulos – $1,081,100
2nd Shawn Buchanan – $672,960
3rd Koray Aldemir – $481,560
4th Adrian Mateos – $372,600
5th Daniel Coupal – $293,560
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6th Christian Rudolph – $229,760