American Carter Phillips Wins EPT Barcelona

American Carter Phillips has won EPT Barcelona and 850,000 Euros first prize money. The 20-year-old from North Carolina bested 477 other players, came into the final table as chip leader, and took the title after a tense three-hour heads-up match with UK veteran Marc Goodwin.

The total prize pool of the Main Event to be divided was 3,382,000 Euros.

Phillips said of the win: "It's unbelievable. I was hoping that I'd be in this position some day, but for it to happen so early in my career is amazing. Marc Goodwin is a great player. It was a tough battle."

His heads-up up opponent Goodwin, 49, is a veteran of live events all over the world with a poker career going back nearly three decades. He won his first tournament in 1979 and his live tournament earnings now total more than $1.4 million.

The third-place finisher was PokerStars-sponsored player Santiago Terrazas who takes 300,000 Euros back home to Madrid - the biggest sum ever won by a Spanish player at an EPT.

Final Table Payouts of Main Event EPT Barcelona, shown in Euros:

The next event of EPT Season 6 is the EPT London Poker Festival. With 16 events planned, including the GBP 5,300 main event and GBP 20k high roller, EPT London promises to be the biggest series of poker tournaments ever held in the UK. The festival kicks off September 30, 2009 at Hilton Metropole Hotel. See www.ept.com/tournaments/london for event details.

For a complete list of season 6 EPT events, click here.

For EPT seasons 1 through 5 schedule and results, click here.

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