Jorge Moutella Takes Out BSOP São Paulo Main Event

He was the favourite to win the tournament almost from the opening day, and Jorge Moutella failed to disappoint as he reigned victorious in the Brazilian Series Of Poker (BSOP) São Paulo Main Event.

Moutella was the event’s chip leader after the first and second days of play, and entered the final table with the third highest chip stack – it was almost as if he was destined to win. That’s exactly what he did as he topped the total field of 1,659 to win the tournament and the 570 million Brazilian Reals (around US$168,780) cash prize for the first place.

14 players turned out on the final day of play, but that was quickly cut down to nine and an official final table was formed.

Maverick Melo was the first player to be eliminated from the final table after coming out second best in a hand against Cauê Macedo in the table’s opening stages.

Next to go was Pedro Villas, who would become Moutella’s first final table scalp. It came when the eventual winner hit Trip Kings on the flop, which obliterated the short stack Villas’s Queen high to send him packing in eighth place.

Seventh place went to Pedro Correa, who was soon followed by Diogo Dill in sixth. Dill became Moutella’s second final table scalp when Moutella hit a flush on the flop, which put Dill out of the event while further boosting the eventual winner’s chip stack.

Moutella then claimed his second straight scalp after he knocked Luis Simões out of the Main Event in fifth spot. Once again, Moutella had Pocket Kings, which held on the board against Simões’s Ace King to put the event down to its last four players.

Amazingly, Moutella struck again soon after when he eliminated Michel Carli from the event in fourth. It came when Carli went all in after the flop with Pocket Queens and was called by the eventual winner, who had an open-ended straight draw, which he hit on the turn.

Local player Cauê Macedo was then eliminated in third place by, you guessed it, Moutella, which put him and Luis ‘Lucke’ Santos in heads-up play.

Moutella had an unbelievable wave of momentum behind him going into heads-up, not to mention a huge chip lead, which proved to make all the difference in the final phase of the event.

In the final hand of the tournament, Moutella put Santos all-in after the turn on an Ace-3-7-4 board.

Santos called with a pair of Sevens and a Queen kicker, but that was trailing Moutella’s Ace Seven. A Jack came on the river, which officially eliminated Santos in second place while crowning Moutella as the winner of the BSOP São Paulo Main Event.