BACK-TO-BACK CHAMPION SEBASTIAN KOTOWICZ TAKES HOME €78,100 FROM BANCO!
The new champion of the final tournament of The Festival at Banco Bratislava is Sebastian Kotowicz, who recorded a back-to-back victory with a prize of €78,100. Banco Bratislava continues its busy schedule, and still this year you can look forward to the Spanish Poker Festival with a €150,000 GTD Main Event, featuring a €1,500 bonus for a double qualification and up to a €4,000 bonus for a triple qualification! Play the mega satellite this Saturday for just €25 to the SPF, with a guarantee of 20 tickets!
The main tournament of The Festival featured its final day yesterday, where everything was decided, and you had the chance to follow the action via livestream.
December will bring the Spanish Poker Festival with a guaranteed €150,000 Main Event! More than 200 players from the Iberian Peninsula will arrive in Bratislava, and in the Main Event they will be battling not only for the guaranteed €150,000 prize pool, but also for bonuses for double or triple qualifications!
The final day began with 16 advancing players seated at two final tables, all guaranteed a €4,500 payout. After more than two hours of play, the final table was formed, and at its start it was Sebastian Kotowicz — last year’s winner of this tournament — who took control thanks to his accumulated chip stack.
In the history of The Festival, no one had managed to become a back-to-back Main Event champion until now — the name Sebastian Kotowicz has been written into poker history right here at Banco Bratislava. Both 2024 and 2025 belong to Kotowicz, who takes home €78,100 from Banco. Congratulations!
1. KOTOWITZ SEBASTIAN ANDRZEJ - Poland - 78 100€
2. TEKEL ANDREJ - Slovakia - 48 850€
3. URBAN DAVID - Slovakia - 33 250€
4. MEIER MAXIMILIAN - Germany - 24 700€
5. STVRTECKY TOMAS - Slovakia - 19 000€
6. HAMACEK MICHAL - Czech Republic - 14 600€
7. MAEHOENEN JARI MIKA JUHANI - Finland - 11 700€
8. LARSSON RIKARD - Sweden - 9 350€
9. GUMULA DANIEL MAREK - Poland - 7 500€
10. FRITZ JOEL KARL VERNER - Sweden - 6 500€
11. DE LAAT BAS WILHELMUS CORNELIS JOHANNE - Netherlands - 6 500€
12. PILIC FILIP - Croatia - 5 650€
13. RYMAR GABRIEL DOBROMIR - Poland - 5 650€
14. TAHMORESNIA SIAMAK - Sweden - 5 000€
15. KOLOSZAR DANIEL - Hungary - 5 000€
16. DAHLE RAKEL - Norway - 4 500€
The new year will kick off with the legendary Banco Casino Masters, which in its 43rd edition will bring a €250,000 GTD for just €170. What better way to start 2026 than as a MASTERS champion!
Banco is bringing another new event to Slovakia, introducing the prestigious Israeli Federation Cup brand under the auspices of the oldest poker organization, IPC from Israel. More than 300 Israeli players are expected between 20 January and 26 January 2026, with the Main Event guaranteeing €250,000 for just a €200 buy-in!
