The PokerStars Championship in Panama has come to a close with Kenneth Smaron winning the Main Event and Steve O’Dwyer winning the $10,500 High Roller.

The first PokerStars Championship to hit Latin America has ended with three North Americans and a Brit taking home the biggest events on tap, and a record number of 6,100+ entries, and $9.3m+ in prize money spread over 46 unique events.

The PokerStars Championship Panama $5,300 buy-in Main Event attracted 366 entrants and a $1,775,100 prize pool. There were plenty of top dogs chasing down the title at the deepest end of the dive, but it was American, Kenneth Smaron, who took the $293,860 first prize after beating the Canadian Harpreet Gill in heads-up action. It’s the largest prize pool ever won in a Panamanian tournament.

The Sortis Hotel, Spa & Casino played host to a final table that took 170 hands to reach its conclusion, but only nine of those took place in the final duel, which Smaron won when his KJcc beat the T8o of Gill in the race to the river after Gill had moved all-in.