Spaniard Samuel Bernabeu has won the $5,000 re-entry $2m Guaranteed event at the Venetian Deepstack Extravaganza III, after beating Doug Lee in heads-up action, on his way to his half a million dollar first prize.

Samuel Bernabeu has won the last big buy-in event of the Venetian Deepstack Extravaganza III after the silky Spaniard walked away with the top prize of $513,017 in their $5,000 re-entry $2m Guaranteed event.

It was the second largest cash prize of Bernabeu’s live tournament career, and it came at a time when his Hendon Mob live earnings graph line had started to flatline.

In 2013, Bernabeu capitalized on an impressive run of form with a fifth place finish in the $10m Guaranteed Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open. He earned $494,490 for that win and it’s a good job that he did. For the next two years he either took some time off, had a run of luck akin to an anaphalactic beekeeper, or was stood minding his own business when some creepy aliens were doing their crop circle business and decided to erase his memory.