The 2024 Women’s Winter Festival £100,000 guaranteed £400 no-limit hold’em main event drew 271 entries, making it the largest women’s poker tournament ever held outside of Las Vegas. Maria Lampropulous, the 2018 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure main event champion and winner of the 2017 partypoker LIVE Millions Nottingham main event, added yet another title to her resume, emerging victorious with the title and the top prize of £20,000 ($25,200).
The accomplished Argentinian poker player now has more than $3.6 million in recorded tournament earnings, including two seven-figure paydays for her wins in the previously mentioned marquee events. This places her inside the top ten on poker’s female all-time money list.
The impressive turnout for this event saw the top 44 finishers earn a piece of the six-figure prize pool. Among those that cashed were poker content star Caitlin Comeskey (37th) and PokerStars ambassador Jennifer Shahade (32nd).
The final day of this event, which ran from Nov. 21-24 at London’s Hippodrome Casino, saw 17 players return with a shot at the title.
Lampropulous survived to the final table with a middle-of-the-pack stack, but managed to navigate her way down to short-handed play. She then knocked out Lithuania’s Martha Porter to take a chip lead into heads-up play with Ann-Roos Callens of Belgium.
In the final hand, Lampropulous’ Q-5 outran the K-6 of Callens, making queens and tens with an ace kicker from the board to win the pot and the title. Callens earned $15,889 as the runner-up.
Here is a look at the payouts awarded at the final table:
| Place | Player | Earnings |
| 1 | Maria Lampropulos | $25,200 |
| 2 | Ann-Roos Callens | $15,889 |
| 3 | Marta Porter | $11,340 |
| 4 | Franky Green | $8,631 |
| 5 | Lisa Roberts | $6,653 |
| 6 | Jennifer Steele | $5,128 |
| 7 | Kim Dockery | $4,108 |
| 8 | Celine Diot | $3,440 |
| 9 | Berivan Dag | $2,873 |
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