Ignacio López, a 29-year-old tax assistant from Madrid, has won the PokerStars Festival in Marbella, and the seven-time World Snooker Champion, Stephen Hendry, talks about his experience in the Marbella event.

There are worse alternatives than Marbella if you want to play some poker, for serious money, outside of the merry-go-round that is the World Series of Poker, and that’s where PokerStars were hanging out this past week.

The PokerStars Festival camped out in the Casino Marbella, and the €700,000 GTD €1,100 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em Main Event was the meat in that particular meat and potato pie.

PokerStars has a strong presence in the Spanish market, and it showed with 949 entrants smashing the guarantee, creating a €911,040 prize pool for bankers to purr over.