The Vamos Poker Tour returned to the Portuguese shore of Troia from July 20th to 26th, 2026, with a festival packed with action and a €300,000 total guarantee. And when the dust settled on the Main Event, the story wrote itself: Pablo Lario, who had booked his seat through the Emotiva Poker online satellites, went all the way and was crowned champion.

🏆 The Main Event

The centerpiece of the festival — a €350 buy-in Main Event with a €125,000 guarantee — drew a massive field of 452 entries across its starting flights, with the top 55 players reaching the money.

Three days of play narrowed the field down to a stacked final table featuring players from Spain, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal, and the United Kingdom. Heads-up, Pablo Lario and Poland’s Marcin Marek Czernik agreed an ICM deal: Czernik locked up €23,535, while Lario took €21,090 and — most importantly — lifted the trophy as the VPT Troia 2026 Champion.

Final Table

Pos.	Player	Country
1	Pablo Lario	🇪🇸 Spain (champion)
2	Marcin Marek Czernik	🇵🇱 Poland
3	Andrii Turkol	🇺🇦 Ukraine
4	Abdelaziz Omar Anaya	🇪🇸 Spain
5	Filipe André Neves	🇵🇹 Portugal
6	Claudio Emanuel Bessa Coelho	🇵🇹 Portugal
7	Antonio Jose Queijeiro Alvarez	🇪🇸 Spain
8	Max Ryan Oxbury	🇬🇧 United Kingdom
9	Jose Luis Lopez Rocha	🇪🇸 Spain

💳 The Emotiva Poker dream run

The headline of the whole festival was how Pablo Lario got there. He didn’t buy in directly — he climbed the Emotiva Poker satellite ladder from the very bottom. Starting in a €10 step, Lario worked his way up to the €100 final satellite, where he won a complete package: hotel + Main Event entry. From there, he did the rest at the felt, turning that package into the trophy and €21,090.

That’s the full Emotiva dream run: a €10 step, a €100 final, a live seat with accommodation included, and then the title. It’s the exact path the Vamos Poker Tour offers every player — qualify cheaply online, and go beat the best live.

His run is the perfect reminder that the Emotiva satellites aren’t just a discount — they’re a genuine springboard to championship glory.

🚀 More than a festival: App, MVP & Squad Battle

VPT Troia was also a showcase for everything that makes the Vamos Poker Tour more than just a series of tournaments:

• 📲 The VPT App — the official Vamos Poker Tour app is the home base for every player: register for events, follow live updates, track your Extra Stack and satellite packages, and keep an eye on the rankings in real time. See it in action »
• 🏅 The MVP Race — every festival crowns its Most Valuable Player, rewarding the most consistent performers across all the events of the week. It’s an extra layer of competition on top of every trophy. Follow the MVP standings »
• ⚔️ Squad Battle — team spirit meets poker: players join forces in squads and battle it out for combined glory, adding a whole new dimension to the festival. Check out the Squad Battle »

📱 Full coverage & every winner

Beyond the Main Event, the festival’s nine tournaments and €300,000 guarantee crowned plenty more champions across the week. You can find the complete live coverage, chip counts, and every side-event winner on our official Twitter/X, and all the official photos on our Flickr:

👉 Live updates & winners: @VamosPokerTour 📸 Official photos: flickr.com/photos/vamospokertour

▶️ What’s next

The Vamos Poker Tour never stops. Coming up next on the 2026 calendar:

• VPT Milano — €500,000 GTD (August 29th – September 7th, 2026)
• VPT Murcia — €250,000 GTD (October 12th – 18th, 2026)
• VPT Sofia — €300,000 GTD (November 2nd – 8th, 2026)
• VPT Gran Final Lisboa — €500,000 GTD (November 23rd – 29th, 2026)

All of them with online qualifiers running on Emotiva Poker.

If Pablo Lario’s story proved anything, it’s this: your next trophy could start with a single online satellite. See you at the tables!