Updated on 22 Feb 26 by
Barry Carter
Poker Expert

Adrian Mateos wins WSOPE Main Event

Adrian Mateos defeats a tough final table to become only the second ever Spanish bracelet winner last night in France.

https://www.pokerstrategy.com/wp-content/uploads/cdn-origin/2013/10/26/ESPT4_Madrid-495_adrian_mateos_2.jpgAdrian Mateos of Spain has beaten 374 of the best players in the world to become the World Series of Poker Europe champion.

Just like the first ever WSOPE champion Annette Obrestad, Mateos wont be able to play in the main WSOP in Vegas for another two years, as he is only 19 years old. He is also only the second bracelet winner to hail from Spain, alongside legend and Main Event champion Carlos Mortensen.

Although he is a relative unknown, he has had a great debut year on the live circuit, winning two events including an Estrellas Poker Tour event for €103,053.

He fought off stiff competition from German superstars Benny Spindler and Dominik Nitsche to set up an epic 160 hand heads-up match with WSOP $10,000 HORSE champion Fabrice Soulier of France.

The lead went back and forth but eventually it would be the Spaniard's day, and he captured the €1,000,000 first prize.

Now all that is left for the WSOP this year is the small matter of the November Nine and the Main Event final table, which starts in just over a week.

€10,450 WSOPE Main Event

Result

Place Name Prize
1 Adrian Mateos €1,000,000
2 FF Fabrice Soulier €610,000
3 FF Dominik Nitsche €400,000
4 Jerome Huge €251,000
5 FF Ravi Raghavan €176,000
6 FF Benny Spindler €126,000
     Players: 1 (375) | Prize Pool: €3,600,000 
FF = Fantastic Five player

Fantastic Five comes to a close https://www.pokerstrategy.com/wp-content/uploads/cdn-origin/2013/09/27/fantastic-five-newsimage-en.png

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Simply make a post in your own Fantastic Five thread and put the winnings for each of your team members from each event, then our moderators will pick out the winners on Monday. 

Thanks to everyone for playing and well done to the winners.

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Barry Carter is the editor of PokerStrategy.com and the co-author of The Mental Game of Poker 1 & 2, Poker Satellite Strategy, PKO Poker Strategy, Endgame Poker Strategy, GTO Poker Simplified, Mystery Bounty Poker Strategy and Beyond GTO. In 2025, he won the Global Poker Awards for Best Book and Twitter Personality of the Year.