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Maria Lampropoulos outlasted a 582-player field to become the first woman ever to win the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure main event at the Atlantis Resort and Casino in the Bahamas.

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Maria Lampropoulos must be the owner of one of the most impressive learning curves in poker. It’s quite possible we are now looking at one of the great female Poker players. Maria had a massive poker career at a very small time period & she was the only women to be crowned at the PCA Main Event in its 13 year history. Maria Lampropulos wins 2018 PCA Main Event Argentine picks up $1,081,100 for her win in the Caribbean Adventure and becomes the first women to cash for seven figures twice inside 12 months. Maria Lampropulos became the first ever woman to bank multiple million dollar plus scores within 12-months after she took home the PCA Main Event on Sunday.

The 36-year-old Argentine poker pro cashed $1,081,110 for the victory, her second career seven-figure cash. Along with the money she also received an entry into the 2019 PokerStars Players No-Limit Hold’em Championship next year.

Lampropoulos had quite the battle to win the tournament. When play began at the final table of six players, she sat third in chips. She worked her way to the final two to face Shawn Buchanan heads-up for the tournament title. When heads-up play started, Buchanan had just over a 2-to-1 chip lead, which would grow to nearly 4 to 1 before Lampropoulos began her comeback.

Aces give Lampropoulos chip lead

Two big all-ins allowed Lampropoulos to take over the chip lead. First she was all-in with A-8 against Buchanan’s pocket fours. An ace on the flop gave her top pair and doubled up her chip stack. Not long after, she was all-in pre-flop again with A-10 against Buchanan’s pocket nines. She made a pair of aces again to double up again and take over the chip lead.

On the final hand with Lampropoulos still holding the chip lead, she was all-in with 10c-7c versus Buchanan’s Kh-5s. The flop provided her with all she would need when it showed 10s-9c-5h to give her a pair of 10s. The rest of the board – 2h-9h – provided no help for Buchanan, eliminating him. For second place, he cashed $672,960.

The seven-figure cash in the Caribbean bumped Lampropoulos’ live career earnings up to just under $2.8 million. That puts her second all-time among poker players from Argentina. Her largest career cash came last year in the 2017 partypoker Million, Nottingham. In that tournament she outlasted a 1,204-player field to cash $1,280,000.

It was a case of out with old and in with the new for 2018, all-time female great Vanessa Selbst’s retirement paving the way for Argentina’s Maria Lampropoulos to take over the helm with a $1,081,100 scoop of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event – her second seven-figure score leapfrogging her to 5th spot on the female lifetime money-winners list.

After her record-breaking PartyPoker MILLIONS win in April of last year – the first non-High Roller $million payday for a female – the diminutive Lampropoulos said “It really feels like a magic moment I’m in right now,' and that magic has just been doubled as she took on and beat some of the best players in the world in Paradise Island this week.

With 582 entries to the $10K buy-in flagship event, the prizepool had swollen to a massive $5,645,400 with the likes of Adrian Mateos, Koray Aldemir, Liv Boeree and David Peters making it deep into the money – with Lampropoulos guaranteeing she’d be the last woman standing when she knocked Boeree out herself in 17th spot.

A final table ‘of the highest quality’ was streamed live on PokerStars.tv and as the PS blog stated, viewers ‘were treated to tricks, bluffs, aggression and solidity’ – unsurprising given that Mateos, Aldemir and Canada’s Shawn Buchanan all have excellent pedigree – almost $30million between them in tournament earnings. Throw in the new female on the block and it was a poker masterclass.

With the short stacks falling early on the 6th day of play, Spanish sensation Adrian Mateos made his bid for the title but the swings and roundabouts of poker fortune conspired against him – a huge hand against Buchanan ending his dreams in 4th spot…

Germany’s Koray Aldemir certainly wasn’t scared to get it all-in when needed, an outrageous bluff holding pocket 3’s grabbing the attention of the Twitter-followers of the PCA…

…but eventually he too succumbed as he was first short-stacked and then had to watch as his last-gasp effort was hit by trips, the river king pairing his hand but too little, too late…

Heads-up for the title and it would be history in the making – no female ever winning the PCA in its 13 years – and Lampropoulos did it in style, pulling away from Buchanan and finishing him off with a flopped pair, her boyfriend Ivan Luca rushing down to greet the new PCA champ…

'I am very proud,' Lampropulos said afterwards. 'Every woman here - dealers, floors - every woman is very happy for me, and I'm grateful for that,' adding: 'I am very, very happy. I'm so excited. This is incredible. I know that this is hard to believe for everybody. It's my second huge main event, and I'm very thankful.'

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