Elias Suhonen won the €10,200 No-Limit Hold’em Unlimited Re-Entry event at EPT Barcelona 2026 for €114,200, beating a 31-entry field at Casino Barcelona.
The Finnish player came through one of the festival’s early five-figure buy-in events, which generated a €300,700 prize pool from 31 entries including seven re-entries. PokerStars’ official EPT Barcelona results list Nicholas Seward as runner-up for €73,700 and Jean-Noel Thorel third for €48,900.
Poker Type has corrected this page because the previous version mixed Suhonen’s result with figures from another Barcelona event. The field size, prize pool and payouts below now match PokerStars’ published results for Event 10.
Elias Suhonen Takes Down €10,200 Event
Suhonen entered the €10,200 tournament against a compact field containing several established international high-stakes players. The event attracted 31 total entries, including seven re-entries, and generated a €300,700 prize pool.
Five players reached the money. Suhonen took €114,200 for first, Nicholas Seward earned €73,700 as runner-up and Jean-Noel Thorel collected €48,900 in third.
Mehdi Chaoui finished fourth for €35,300 and Brandon Wilson completed the paid places with €28,600. That made the event a very different test from the huge-field tournaments elsewhere on the Barcelona schedule.
EPT Barcelona €10,200 NLH Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elias Suhonen | Finland | €114,200 |
| 2 | Nicholas Seward | United States | €73,700 |
| 3 | Jean-Noel Thorel | France | €48,900 |
| 4 | Mehdi Chaoui | Morocco | €35,300 |
| 5 | Brandon Wilson | United States | €28,600 |
Suhonen’s victory adds another significant result to his live poker record and gives Finland an early trophy at one of the biggest European festivals of the year.
Finnish poker has already enjoyed a particularly memorable summer. Fellow Finn Lauri Saaskilahti reached the 2026 WSOP Main Event final table before eventually finishing runner-up to Lucas Jumalon in Las Vegas.
EPT Barcelona High Rollers Produce Familiar Winners
The €10,200 event is just one part of a busy opening week at Casino Barcelona.
Brock Wilson and Klemens Roiter have already captured two of the festival’s early high roller titles.
Wilson won the €20,000 No-Limit Hold’em event for €233,556, defeating Ottomar Ladva heads-up. Roiter then claimed the €25,000 event for €266,030 after also facing Ladva in the final heads-up battle.
That remarkable sequence left Ladva with consecutive runner-up finishes and more than €418,000 in combined prize money from the two tournaments.
Poker Type has the full results from Brock Wilson and Klemens Roiter’s EPT Barcelona high roller victories, adding another chapter to what has already been a busy opening week in Spain.
A Small-Field Title During a Huge Barcelona Festival
Suhonen’s 31-entry event sat at the opposite end of the spectrum from the festival’s biggest tournaments. Jason Wheeler later won the 4,333-entry PokerStars Open Main Event for €731,000, while the €5,300 EPT Main Event attracted another 1,823 entries.
That contrast is useful when assessing the result. Suhonen did not beat thousands of opponents, but the €10,200 buy-in concentrated experienced players into a tournament where every paid finish was worth at least €28,600.
Poker Type’s EPT Barcelona 2026 review covers the wider festival numbers and explains how the Main Event compared with the biggest fields in EPT history.
Where Suhonen’s Win Fits in the Final Festival Record
The festival ultimately ran through August 29 and produced several much larger first prizes, including Manuel Ferrari’s €1,002,488 Main Event victory and Fabiano Kovalski’s €727,280 High Roller win. Suhonen’s €114,200 title was smaller financially, but it remains a distinct five-figure buy-in result rather than a temporary update from an unfinished event.
For that reason, this page is being retained as the definitive record of Suhonen’s €10,200 victory. The corrected figures now separate his result clearly from the other Barcelona tournaments and give readers a reliable reference for the event.
The result also illustrates why headline field size alone does not measure tournament difficulty. A 31-entry event at a €10,200 price point can contain a much higher concentration of established professionals than a lower-buy-in tournament with thousands of entries, making the context of the win as important as the raw number of opponents.
