The fourth and final day of the inaugural €720+80 Mega Poker Series Barcelona Main Event at the Casino Barcelona and eight players out of an overall field of 440 entries remained. Antonio Guimaraens was leading the hopefuls for the first-place payday of €60,000 followed by Vladimir Troyanovskiy and they met in heads-up as well to determine the winner. Both contenders agreed to an ICM deal prior to the battle one-versus-one and €10,000 was left to be played for, which the Spaniard claimed after turning a straight in a clash of pocket pairs.
It took more than 90 minutes for the first bustout to occur. Day 1a chip leader Sviatoslav Shturyn had been quite active at the start and got involved into a raising war with Guimaraens to your-bet large and facing an instant five-bet shove. The Ukrainian tanked for several minutes before putting his tournament life on the line with the 
and failed to improve versus 
on a board of 
.
Guimaraens kept his strong lead until the dinner break and there were still seven players remaining with three of them being very short. Back from dinner it was Ba Minh Pham who bowed out in 7th place. The Pole called a raise with the 
and got the remainder of his stack in after a flop of 
only to get snap-called by Denis Vladimirov with the . It was all over after the turn and the meaningless river completed the board.
Vladimirov made it two in a row by also taking care of Guillem Cusco Bach. The Spaniard three-bet shoved from the small blind for his last eight blinds with the . It was a flip against the of the Russian and the latter improved on the turn of a 
board.
An hour passed by without any tournament-threatening showdown, however Vladimirov got short again before Jean-Francois Regis open-shoved with the . From one seat over, the Russian moved all in himself with less than one big blind more than his opponent and the . Vladimirov confirmed the lead on the 
flop and both players shook hands by the turn, the river was just a formality.
It was the Russian though that had to leave the table in fourth place. Vladimirov lost most of his chips after having to give up 
on the turn of a turn to the shove of Troyanovskiy, who had made two pair with . Vladimirov then three-bet shoved into a min-raise of Guimaraens but his failed to improve against the 
of the Spaniard on a board of 
.
Troyanovskiy established a dominating lead three-handed before picking the wrong timing to push into Josep Maria Galindo Lopez and doubling him up with versus . Things turned around again in a battle of the blinds with Galindo Lopez turning trips with the 
on a board of . Troyanovskiy’s gutshot on the flop with completed a runner runner flush instead and the Russian doubled up. Both clashed again in a battle of the blinds and Troyanovskiy won the flip with 
versus on a board of .
After agreeing to the ICM deal with €10,000 up for grabs still, Troyanovskiy and Guimaraens carried on for another hour without any massive clash, only being separated by a few big blinds at the most. The Russian then four-bet shoved with and was snap-called by Guimaraens with the . The flop was a sweat for both and the Spaniard turned a straight thanks to the while the river bricked to crown a champion.
Official result of the Main Event final table:
| Position | First Name | Last Name | Nationality | Payout | Deal |
| 1 | Antonio | Guimaraens | Spain | €60,000 | €55,200 |
| 2 | Vladimir | Troyanovskiy | Russia | €42,000 | €46,800 |
| 3 | Josep Maria | Galindo Lopez | Spain | €31,000 | |
| 4 | Denis | Vladimirov | Russia | €22,000 | |
| 5 | Jean-Francois | Regis | France | €16,000 | |
| 6 | Guillem | Cusco Bach | Spain | €12,000 | |
| 7 | Ba Minh | Pham | Poland | €9,000 | |
| 8 | Sviatoslav | Shturyn | Ukraine | €7,000 |
Winner Antonio Guimaraens:
Two other events of the Deep Stack festival also played down to a winner at the Casino Barcelona last night as well. Mega Poker Series serial qualifier Sascha Ranzinger, who finished third at the MPS Wiener Neustadt last year and was part of a four-way deal in the €400+40 Side Event on Malta this May, took down the very same tournament outright for a payday of €15,000.
Final Result €400+40 Side Event
And then there was the one-day €50+50+10 Bounty Side Event that attracted a massive field of 201 entrants. The poker room was about to close at 5am as per Spanish regulations when Fernando Rebolledo Serrano and Michael Schramm agreed to an even chop. Other familiar names to cash included Andrej Bogdanov, Mateusz Syc, Sergey Krupnov, MPS Bulgaria champion Nikolay Nikolaev and Theo Steimer.
Final Result €110 Bounty Side Event
The next stop of the Mega Poker Series takes place in Dublin in September 2015 and is part of the Dublin Poker Invasion. Online Satellites on the iPoker network are already underway with William Hill Poker as main sponsor in Season 4.
