EPT Barcelona: Leknes wins 10th trophy, but who is the EPT’s most prolific winner?
Tobias Leknes picked up his 10th EPT trophy in Barcelona, and it got us thinking. Who has won the most trophies throughout the history of the European Poker Tour?
Packing a nice outfit in case you make a final table–that’s how most poker players manifest success.
Tobias Leknes is well past that. Norway’s master of mixed games seemingly just has to turn up at an EPT and he’s guaranteed to leave with a new piece of silverware.
Leknes, already one of online poker’s most decorated players with 13 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) titles and a further seven Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) wins, turned his focus to live poker in 2023 when PokerStars withdrew from the Norwegian market due to local regulations.
Since 2022, Leknes has racked up nine PokerStars live victories (10 overall – his first coming back in 2016). His most recent success came at EPT Barcelona on Wednesday (Aug 26) when he took down the 25-entry €5,200 T-O-R-S-E event for €52,100. That tournament featured a five-game rotation of 2-7 Triple Draw, Omaha High-Low 8 or better, Razz, Stud, and Stud High-Low 8 or better, all played at a fixed limit. Notice the lack of hold’em? Unlike its similarly-named cousin H.O.R.S.E., T-O-R-S-E is truly for the mixed game purists.
They don’t come purer than Leknes. Take a look at his WCOOP titles:
2023 – $1,050 WC of NL 2-7 SD – $20,786
2023 – 87-H: $2,100 8-Game – $33,775
2023 – 67-H: $2,100 NLO8 PKO – $55,006
2023 – 20-M: $109 PLO [6-Max] – $14,477
2022 – 81-H: $2,100 8-Game – $28,085
2022 – 70-H: $530 PLO8 – $20,155
2022 – 05-M: $215 PLO – $26,022
2020 – 49-M: $215 NLO8 6-Max PKO – $23,963
2020 – 45-L: $11 FL Badugi – $2,015
2020 – 09-L: $11 NL 2-7 SD – $2,448
2018 – 20-H: NL 5-Card Draw – $17,100
2018 – 10-M: NLHE [Win the Button] – $44,064
2017 – 60-L: $109 2-7 TD – $10,286
And now look through his PokerStars live victories:
€5,200 T-O-R-S-E
Year: EPT Barcelona 2026
Entries: 25
Prize: €52,100
€1,100 8 Game
Year: EPT Monte Carlo 2026
Entries: 45
Prize: €14,040
€2,200 10-Game Mix
Year: EPT Prague 2025
Entries: 63
Prize: €36,280
€5,200 8-Game Mix
Year: EPT Prague 2025
Entries: 13
Prize: €48,500
€1,100 6-Game Mix Mystery Bounty
Year: EPT Barcelona 2025
Entries: 55
Prize: €26,800
€5,200 8 Game Mix
Event: EPT Prague 2024
Entries: 40
Prize: €66,800
€1,100 PLO
Year: EPT Prague 2023
Entries: 229
Prize: €46,380
€550 H.O.R.S.E.
Year: EPT Monte Carlo 2023
Entries: 43
Prize: €7,140
€550 H.O.R.S.E.
Year: EPT Prague 2022
Entries: 198
Prize: €15,870
€550 Stud Hi/Lo & Omaha Hi/Lo
Year: EPT Barcelona 2016
Entries: 101
Prize: €10,500
You’ll notice that they come in just about every form of poker–primarily non-hold’em events.
Moreover, he’s finished runner-up in nine EPT side events, so that number could have been even greater.
One of the most decorated live and online players around, Tobias Leknes
WHO HAS WON THE MOST EPT EVENTS?
Leknes’ latest win got us thinking — which players have won the most trophies won at EPT festivals?
OLE SCHEMION – 10
One of the best players in EPT history: Ole Schemion
Ole Schemion is tied with Leknes on 10, although his tally grows to 11 if you include the PCA as part of the EPT.
€5,200 NLHE 6-Max
Year: EPT Malta 2025
Entries: 34
Prize: €75,600
€25,000 NLHE
Year: EPT Prague 2023
Entries: 27
Prize: €246,370
€10,300 NNLHE
Year: EPT Monte Carlo 2017 (PokerStars Championship)
Entries: 110
Prize: €274,750
€100,000 Super High Roller
Year: EPT Monte Carlo 2016
Entries: 46
Prize: €1,597,800
€10,300 NLHE High Roller
Year: EPT Sanremo 2014
Entries: 105
Prize: €265,000
€1,100 NHLE Win the Button
Year: EPT Monte Carlo 2013
Entries: 30
Prize: €11,700
€10,300 NLHE 6-Max Turbo
Year: EPT Monte Carlo 2013
Entries: 23
Prize: €101,500
€5,300 PLO
Year: EPT Monte Carlo 2013
Entries: 270
Prize: €68,900
€1,100 NLHE
Year: EPT Berlin 2012
Entries: 270
Prize: €68,900
€1,100 NLHE
Year: EPT Berlin 2011
Entries: 226
Prize: €54,200
PLUS
€1,100 PCA National
Year: PCA 2019
Entries: 812
Prize: $148,220
STEPHEN CHIDWICK – 14
Stephen Chidwick – who else?
We might be wrong, but we don’t think there’s a poker player on the planet who has won more live tournaments at EPT festivals than the great Stephen Chidwick.
His total of 14 would increase to 16 if you included the PCA and PokerStars Championship Panama. Simply extraordinary.
€20,000 NLHE
Year: EPT Monte Carlo 2026
Entries: 11
Prize: €137,288
€25,000 NLHE
Year: EPT Paris 2024
Entries: 38
Prize: €389,820
€10,300 NLHE
Year: EPT Monte Carlo 2024
Entries: 95
Prize: €245,800
€50,000 NLHE
Year: EPT Monte Carlo 2023
Entries: 14
Prize: €224,680
€25,000 NLHE
Year: EPT Paris 2023
Entries: 40
Prize: €324,500
€25,000 NLHE
Year: EPT Paris 2023
Entries: 31
Prize: €277,020
€5,200 NLHE 6-Handed
Year: EPT Prague 2022
Entries: 52
Prize: €79,440
€5,200 NLHE 6-Handed
Year: EPT Monte Carlo 2022
Entries: 51
Prize: €80,380
€50,000 Super High Roller
Year: EPT Prague 2019
Entries: 44
Prize: €725,710
€25,500 NLHE
Year: EPT Barcelona 2017 (PokerStars Championship)
Entries: 112
Prize: €690,400
€5,200 NLHE 6-Max
Year: EPT Malta 2015
Entries: 42
Prize: €46,560
€2,200 NLHE
Year: EPT Prague 2015
Entries: 307
Prize: €119,400
€2,200 NLHE
Year: EPT Malta 2015
Entries: 315
Prize: €102,100
£550 8-Game
Year: EPT London 2013
Entries: 32
Prize: £5,280
PLUS
$25,500 NLHE Single-Day High Roller
Year: PokerStars Championship Panama 2017
Entries: 44
Prize: $366,500
$1,000 NLHE
Year: PCA 2008
Entries: 277
Prize: $88,760
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