Yingui Li topped a massive field of 736 players at Cercle Clichy-Montmartre to win the Season XIV PMU.fr WPT National Paris Main Event, earning €150,000. The event guaranteed a total prize pool of €500,000, and smashed that number by more than 50%, generating a total purse of €794,900. The top 81 players reached the money, earning a minimum of €19,500.
The final day was fully live streamed on the PMU.fr YouTube channel and Marrakech Poker Open winner Brian Benhamou provided commentary for the French community. After more than five hours of battle, Guillaume Diaz and Yingui Li found themselves in a heads-up match that only two hands. Diaz moved all in with 
, and was racing for his tournament life against Li’s 
. The board rolled out 
and Li was crowned the champion.
After the win, he stated that he is off to the Czech Republic to compete in WPT Prague.
For his efforts, Diaz walked away with a very healthy consolation prize of €100,000.
Final Table Standings:
1st Yingui Li – €150,000
2nd Guillaume Diaz – €100,000
3rd Eric Sfez – €66,000
4th Greg Ravise – €49,000
5th Nicolas Reneric – €37,000
6th Cheng-Wei Lin – €30,000
7th Madi Macalou – €24,500
8th El Mostafa Ederoua – €19,500
The entire festival at Cercle Clichy-Montmarte lasted from November 20-30 with several marquee events. The kickoff event was the €50,000 guaranteed €290 buy-in Warm Up, which attracted 422 players, and Emmanuel Kunstler was victorious and pocketed €22,000. The second event was the €2,200 buy-in WPTN High Roller, and four-time WPT National Main Event Champion Laurent Polito added to his trophy case, outlasting 140 players and winning €75,000.
European WPT National festivals will continue in December with the Gioco Digitale WPT National Venice. The full list of upcoming WPT events can be found here.
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