Three years after kicking off her tournament journey, Spain’s Soraya Estrada aka ‘Sory’ has secured her first victory. She overcame a field of 84 entries in the €550 No Limit Hold’em Women’s Event at PokerStars 2024 EPT Barcelona series, walking away with a PokerStars Spade trophy and a cash prize of €11,350.
Soraya Estrada, who began her live poker career in 2021, has been leveling up her poker career with several deep runs through the World Series of Poker and European Poker Tour.
The Spanish poker pro scored a 5th place finish in the 2023 Estrellas Madrid Main Event, collecting €35,010. She also came close to securing her first WSOP ring in this year’s WSOP Circuit Cannes Mini Main Event but busted out in 6th place to collect €6,860. She then followed that up with another sixth place finish for € 4,400 in the EPT Monte Carlo Hyper Turbo Knockout.
Earlier this year, Soraya Estrada also qualified for the 2024 ESPT Madrid through the PokerStars Power Path qualification round. Now she is a proud EPT champion!
2024 EPT Barcelona Event #51: €550 Women’s Event Recap
The €550 No-Limit Hold’em Women’s Event drew over 84 (62 unique) players, building up a total prize pool of €40,320. Only the top 11 finishers received a payout.
The second and final day began with 11 players. Although each of them was guaranteed a minimum payout of €1,010, they were all aiming for the € 11,350 first-place prize.
At the beginning of the final day, Soraya Estrada held a middling stack but knocked out her fellow Spanish player Mariona Canals on the final table bubble, starting the final table second in chips. She held a dominating Ace-Jack, which crushed ten-seven of her fellow Spanish pro.
Hong Kong’s Joycelyn Lam Ho Yin was a dominating force at the final table. She cleared over half of the final table. Lam Ho Yin knocked out Joy Walday (8th – €1,570), Anna Gulevich (7th – €1,970), Maria Ortiz (5th – €3,100), and Maria Lampropulos (4th – €4,030). Going into the three-handed play, Lam Ho Yin held the massive chip lead, which was hard to overcome.
However, Soraya Estrada climbed up the ladder by eliminating Olga Iermolcheva in 3rd place for €5,230. She shoved the button with ace-ten and was snap-called by the shorter stack Iermolcheva who held pocket kings. With an ace falling on the board, Iermolcheva’s run came to an end in third place.
Joycelyn Lam Ho Yin started the heads-up with the chip lead but it didn’t take long for Estrada to close the gap and snatch the lead. On the final hand of the tournament, Lam Ho Yin shoved the last of her chips with 8h-8d, and Estrada called the all-in with Kh-10d. The board ran out 10c-7d-5s-Kd, and Estrada hit two pairs. Lam Ho Yin bowed out in 2nd place, banking €7,330.
2024 EPT Barcelona Event #51: €550 Women’s Event Final Table Results
| Rank | Player | Prize (Euro) |
| 1st | Soraya Estrada | €11,350 |
| 2nd | Joycelyn Lam Ho Yin | €7,330 |
| 3rd | Olga Iermolcheva | €5,230 |
| 4th | Maria Lampropulos | €4,030 |
| 5th | Maria Ortiz | €3,100 |
| 6th | Paula Arreba | €2,460 |
| 7th | Anna Gulevich | €1,970 |
| 8th | Joy Waldau | €1,570 |
| 9th | Chien-Chih Weng | €1,260 |
This was one of the final few events of the 2024 EPT Barcelona stop, which concluded crowning Stephen Song as its main event champion. Song walked away with a career-best score of €1,290,386 following a heads-up deal with Andrew Hulme who banked €1,165,614.
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