button in SafariDavid Gomez Wins Record-Breaking CNP Winamax Barcelona Main Event
The Casino Barcelona hosted the CNP Winamax festival last week, with the €550 buy-in Main Event the last tournament to wrap up. The Main Event drew in a crowd of 813 entrants, a 23% increase on the 2025 attendance. Catalan player David Gomez left all of those players in his wake.
The bumper crowd created a €352,726 prize pool that the top 87 finishers shared. First place was set at €60,000, but a deal with only three players remaining altered the payouts.
Gomez fired three bullets in the CNP Winamax Main Event. His third attempt to build a stack saw him enter as late registration was closing. Buying in so late meant he only had 15 big blinds to work with, but work with them he did, spinning them up to a title and a €54,433 prize.
The eventual champion finished the penultimate day in fourth place before arriving at the final table as the chip leader. Gomez used his big stack with deadly precision, targeting the medium-sized stack that had the most to lose.
With only three players remaining, a deal was struck that left €13,000 and the trophy for the winner. Gomez locked in €41,433, Marius Oprea banked €38,252, with Pepe Naranjo guaranteeing himself €37,313.
Naranjo was the first post-deal player to bust. He got his chips in with pocket sixes against Oprea's pocket tens. A six on the flop looked to have won the hand for Naranjo, but a ten on the turn flipped the hand back in Oprea's favor. A brick on the river, and the CNP Winamax Barcelona Main Event was heads-up.
The final hand saw the heads-up duo head to a queen-ten-six flop, which they both checked. A four on the turn saw Oprea lead, Gomez raise, and Oprea move all-in. Gomez called after confirming the all-in bet size. Oprea turned over queen-eight, but Gomez had turned two pair with his queen-four. The river changed nothing, and Gomez became the 2026 CNP Winamax Barcelona Main Event champion.
Speaking after his victory, Gomez said, "I'm an Expresso online player, and I rarely participate in live tournaments. I had already participated last year, but I didn't have a good feeling about it. So this year, I didn't have high expectations either. Having made such a good deep run and seeing myself reach the final table has been incredible, and then winning it leaves me speechless."
The CNP Winamax tour next heads to Murcia in late June, Alicante in September, before its Grand Final in Madrid in mid-November.
Meanwhile, the Casino Barcelona is gearing up to host the 2026 edition of 888poker LIVE Barcelona festival. It starts on May 14, continuing until May 24, and features, among other tournaments, an €888 buy-in Main Event. PokerNews' live reporting team will be on the ground for this Main Event.
Last year, the 888poker LIVE Barcelona Main Event saw Pau Coronado walk away with €70,000 of the €356,255 prize pool after he came out on top of a 459-strong field.
