The third day of the PartyPoker Tour Castellón was just as action-packed as the first two, as 108 players were reduced to the final table of nine in the €150 Mini Main Event, with Christian Martin maintaining his lead, while Matthew Wharrie and Robert Getz secured silverware in the first side events in the €60 Party Madness PLO/NLH Bounty and €200 NLH KO respectively.
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Martin Leads €150 Mini Main Event with Staples in Hot Pursuit
Spaniard Christian Martin started Day 2 of the PartyPoker Tour €150 Mini Main Event at the top of the list of 108 combatants at Orenes Gran Casino Castellón, playing almost double the stack of his closest challenger, Marius-Laurentiu Dinu of Romania.
After fourteen 30-minute levels of play, Martin (5,100,000) remains in pole position to take the trophy and €16,000 first-place prize, but is closely pursued by PartyPoker Tour ambassador Matt Staples (4,650,000) and Brit Kevin Brzozowski (4,850,000), while Dinu (2,375,000) also remains in contention.
Martin has already secured a career-best recorded live tournament score, while Staples is targeting his second PartyPoker Tour trophy after a win in the Mystery Bounty in Birmingham in 2025, with his biggest live result being a fourth-place finish in the PartyPoker Millions in Malta in 2023.
Brzozowski is a PartyPoker Tour regular, and he will be hoping to land a maiden live triumph in his third tour final table appearance.
For a long period Day 2 was the Martin show, as he decimated numerous opponents to remain in the distance from the rest of the field.
Staples started to challenge Martin’s position when he five-bet jammed versus Hady Sirbu and got it through, picking up a chunk of dead money. The Canadian was then on the right side of a double domination rotation cooler against Jose Luiz Gonzalez, before securing the eliminations of Carles Giner, Eduard Alabart and Francisco Gaspar in quick succession at the close of play.
Meanwhile, Brzozowski came from the shadows late in the day, winning a crucial flip against Axel Reese to secure the penultimate knockout and propel him towards the top of the counts.
€150 Mini Main Event Final Table Seating Draw
The final table kicks off at 5 p.m. local time, and the seating draw is set out below.
Six more hands will be played at the current level of 50,000/100,000/100,000, and 18 hands will be played per level thereafter, with play continuing until a champion is crowned.
The final table will kick off at 5 p.m and will be live streamed on a 30-minute delay across Poker Red’s Twitch and YouTube channels, as well as the official PartyPoker YouTube channel, and our live reporting coverage of the final table will kick off at 5.30 p.m. to be in sync with the stream.
| Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Blinds |
| 1 | 1 |  Andres Carbonell | Spain | 1,400,000 | 14 |
| 1 | 2 |  Konstantinos Vatseris | Greece | 2,610,000 | 26 |
| 1 | 3 |  Marius-Laurentiu Dinu | Romania | 2,375,000 | 24 |
| 1 | 4 | Christian Martin | Spain | 5,100,000 | 51 |
| 1 | 5 |  Matt Staples | Canada | 4,650,000 | 47 |
| 1 | 6 |  Kevin Brzozowski | United Kingdom | 4,850,000 | 49 |
| 1 | 7 | Fabian Torres | Spain | 3,830,000 | 38 |
| 1 | 8 |  Hugo Gotuzzo | Argentina | 895,000 | 9 |
| 1 | 9 | Alberto Martinez | Spain | 3,670,000 | 37 |
Remaining Payouts
All players have secured a €1,200 payday, with €16,000 and the trophy awaiting the champion. The full details of the remaining payouts up for grabs from the €90,875 prize pool are below.
| Place | Prize |
| 1 | €16,000 |
| 2 | €11,000 |
| 3 | €7,500 |
| 4 | €5,500 |
| 5 | €3,750 |
| 6 | €2,685 |
| 7 | €2,000 |
| 8 | €1,500 |
| 9 | €1,200 |
Robert Getz Wins €200 NLH KO (€3,000)
The first side event of the festival recorded 61 entries, creating a total prizepool of €9,720, which was to be split between the top 13 players.
German Robert Getz came out on top, besting Jose Carlos Calderon heads-up, to secure a €3,000 payday and the trophy.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
| 1 |  Robert Getz | Germany | €3,000 |
| 2 | Jose Carlos Calderon | Spain | €1,700 |
| 3 | Pablo Diez | Spain | €1,220 |
| 4 | Diego Lopez | Spain | €850 |
| 5 | Adrian Huebra | Spain | €570 |
| 6 | Sergio Royo | Spain | €470 |
| 7 |  James Grogan | Ireland | €400 |
| 8 | James Smith | United Kingdom | €340 |
| 9 | Ruben Cortes | Spain | €290 |
| 10 | Borja Gallego | Spain | €240 |
| 11 | Paul Skingley | United Kingdom | €240 |
| 12 | David Yerdeguer | Spain | €200 |
| 13 | Dolores Velazquez | Spain | €200 |
Matthew Wharrie Wins €60 Party Madness PLO/NLH Bounty (€700)
The tournament attracted a total of 84 entries to generate a €3,025 prizepool, and Matthew Wharrie denied fellow Brit Lewis Henderson a seventh PartyPoker Tour title after coming out on top heads-up.
The full results of the event are as follows:-
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
| 1 | Matthew Wharrie | United Kingdom | €700 |
| 2 | Lewis Henderson | United Kingdom | €480 |
| 3 | Jose Manuel Saez | Spain | €325 |
| 4 | Mariano Perez | Spain | €250 |
| 5 | Alejandro Queijeiro | Spain | €200 |
| 6 | Diego Puig | Spain | €170 |
| 7 |  Borislav Shishkov | Bulgaria | €140 |
| 8 | Valentin Ivanov | Bulgaria | €120 |
| 9 |  Nicholas Georgiou | Cyprus | €100 |
| 10 | Sebastian Hitz | Germany | €80 |
| 11 | Alfredo Ruiz | Spain | €80 |
| 12 | Marc Rodriguez | Spain | €70 |
| 13 | Victor Abietar | Spain | €70 |
| 14 | David Silva | Spain | €60 |
| 15 | Christopher Lamb | United Kingdom | €60 |
| 16 | Alejandro Casanova | Spain | €60 |
| 17 |  Hiroshi Miyoshi | Japan | €60 |
PartyPoker Tour 2026 Castellón – Schedule, October 8
While the Mini Main Event reaches its finale, Day 1a of the €500 buy-in, €100,000 guaranteed Main Event, the first of four starting flights, gets underway at 3 p.m., and four-card enthusiasts can enjoy the PLO 7-Max at 6 p.m.
That’s not all folks, as the €60 NLH Win the Button Bounty kicks off at 9 p.m, with the schedule set out below.
| Date | Time | Event | Buy-In | Chips | Clock | Late Reg | Guarantee |
| 08/10/2026 | 15:00 | Main Event Day 1A | €500 (€455+€45) | 50,000 | 30 | 10 levels | €100,000 |
| 08/10/2026 | 17:00 | Mini Main Event Day 3 Final | 40,000 | 40 | N/A | €50,000 | |
| 08/10/2026 | 18:00 | PLO 7-Max | €150 (€125+€25) | 20,000 | 20 | 8 levels | |
| 08/10/2026 | 19:00 | Main Event Target Stack Satellite | €60 (€50+€10) | 15,000 | 10 | 6 levels | |
| 08/10/2026 | 21:00 | NLH Win the Button Bounty | €60 (€50+€10) | 20,000 | 15 | 8 levels |
Our coverage will be focused on the final day of the Mini Main Event, so stay tuned to poker.pro for all your coverage of the PartyPoker Tour Castellon!
- Article originally produced at poker.pro.
- Photos: Nunzia Esposito
