€731,000 to the winner. That's what today's PokerStars Open final table decides — the €1,650 event that shattered records at EPT Barcelona with 4,333 entries and a prize pool north of €6 million. Eight players remain from that monster field, and the man in front is the one who set the pace all week: Han Feng, fresh off a fifth-place finish in the WSOP Main Event.
The facts
Feng starts the final day with 33,325,000 chips — roughly 83 big blinds at the 200,000/400,000 level, at a table where the average stack sits around 41. His closest chaser is French online grinder Gregoire Jarry with 28,800,000 (72 bigs). Further back lurks a piece of history: Sweden's Alexander Ivarsson, seventh with 10,300,000, has already won the High Roller and the Cup at this very festival — take down the Main Event and he completes a treble no one has ever pulled off at a PokerStars Open.
Latin America has a stake too: Brazil's Felipe Boianovsky, with over US$7 million in live earnings, comes in eighth with 5,325,000. Every finalist has locked up €87,910; the climb to €731,000 begins at 12:30 Barcelona time. Next door, the festival's headliner gets rolling: the €5,300 EPT Main Event, 30,000 starting stack, with live streaming from Saturday.
Why it matters: the final table is a different tournament
A final table with these stacks is a free ICM lesson — the model that converts chips into real money based on pay jumps. Feng at 83 bigs can widen his range and lean on the medium stacks, who lose the most by calling off an all-in wrong. Boianovsky at 13 bigs can't wait for aces: his job is to find the first reasonable shove spot and take it, because bleeding out through the blinds is just a slower way to bust.
The takeaway for your own tournaments: when you reach a final table, stop counting your chips and start counting everyone else's. A stack isn't worth its size — it's worth what it lets you do to the table, and what the pay jumps do to everyone's decisions. Applying pressure when opponents can't afford to call is where the real money changes hands.
The finale wraps today. We'll be following it hand by hand in the community — if you're building your own tournament game, this table is study material in real time.