Hugues Girard Wins the 2024 WPT Prime Paris Championship (€170,000); Mathieu Goncalves Finishes as the Runner Up (€117,120)

Hugues Girard and his rail

Hand #241: Hughes Girard inquires about the remaining short stack of Mathieu Goncalves and jams the , Goncalves folds the .

Hand #242: Goncalves then jams the next button and Girard calls.

Mathieu Goncalves:
Hugues Girard:

The board leaves Goncalves drawing dead and the arduous heads-up battle comes to an end. It took 124 hands to whittle down the field from eight to two, and nearly as many hands were played to eventually crown a champion.

Girard started the final day as the chip leader and remained atop the leaderboard until the heads-up stage, during which Goncalves clawed his way back in with several double-ups.

A cat with many lives: Runner-Up Mathieu Goncalves

Eventually, Girard doubled into a commanding lead and finished the job two hands later to claim the top prize of €170,000. Goncalves has to settle for the runner-up spot and walks away with a consolation prize of €117,120. On top of the cash, Girard also earned a trip to Las Vegas for the 2024 WPT World Championships at Wynn Las Vegas in December as well.

The second edition of WPT Prime at Club Circus Paris generated a prize pool of €1,192,320 (~US $1,285,559), which was split among the top 156 finishers. Seven of the eight finalists hailed from the home nation while Oleksii Ievchenko from the Ukraine bowed out in sixth place.

Final Table Result

1st. Hugues Girard – €170,000* (~US $183,294*)
2nd. Mathieu Goncalves – €117,120 (~US $126,279)
3rd. Kostya Zaks – €85,200 (~US $91,863)
4th. Baptiste Audoli – €63,700 (~US $68,681)
5th. Etienne Silva de Oliveira – €48,700 (~US $52,508)
6th. Oleksii Ievchenko – €38,100 (~US $41,079)
7th. Ludovic Amblard – €30,400 (~US $32,777)
8th. Samuel Fournier – €24,500 (~US $26,416)

NOTE:  For worldwide consistency across all WPT events, the amounts on the Payouts page are in U.S. dollars. For this event, payouts have been converted using a rate of €1.00 = US $1.0782.

* The first-place finisher also receives a US $10,400 seat into the WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas deducted from the prize pool.