Double qualifier Sergio Carro is spinning out—but not of the Main Event
You’d be crazy to give one up.
Seats in the exclusive Spin & Go Championship Live at EPT Barcelona are like gold dust. There are only 81 available, after all, and 73 of them have already been won by online qualifiers who battled tirelessly over multiple leader board qualifying periods around the world.
Sergio Carro, a Spin & Go professional from Spain, is one such online qualifier. He locked up his seat by winning a leader board on the Spanish client, and he’s in a rare position, as he also took part in the maiden Spin & Go Championship Live in Prague back in December 2024. “I made the semi-finals,” he says through gritted teeth, “and I lost out on a seat in the final by one game. But it was very exciting to play.”
Carro reached the final three tables of the maiden Spin & Go Championship Live, cashing for €1,217
Still, his Spin & Go game has only improved over the past eight months, and he arrived in Barcelona all guns blazing, determined to plough through the field once again in the format he’s an expert in.
There’s just one problem. Carro also came to Barcelona as a qualifier for the €5,300 buy-in EPT Barcelona Main Event, having won his seat in a €250 online qualifier. It’s the third-largest event in EPT history, with 2,045 entries creating a €9.9 million prize pool and a first-place prize of €1.4 million.
SOUNDS GREAT, RIGHT? WHERE’S THE PROBLEM?
The “problem”—if you can even call it that—is that Sergio Carro is currently still in contention with fewer than 70 players remaining on Day 4. It means that, should his great run continue all the way to Saturday’s penultimate Main Event day, he might have to miss out on the Spin & Go Championship Live and relinquish one of the most coveted seats in poker.
“I’m having fun,” he says, referring to his Main Event run. “It’s not my normal game because I play Spin & Go’s professionally, but I like the sensation of tournaments. I know I’m going to make some mistakes, but when I have doubts, I just go with how I feel.”
Carro might not be a tournament pro, but he’s been in this same position before—playing for a lot more money, too.
PAYING IT FORWARD
His story started in Malta, where he moved to work as a bartender more than a decade ago. The island has long been a hotbed of poker talent, and he soon found himself living with two pro poker players who introduced him to the game. He returned to Spain in 2016, just as Spin & Go’s were introduced, and has never looked back. He’s now considered one of the leading Spin players in the country.
A Platinum Pass took Carro to the PSPC, and he turned it into $70K
But he’s had great success at qualifying for big tournaments, too. Carro won a Platinum Pass for the PokerStars Players Championship 2023 and finished 49th in the $25,000 buy-in event for a career-best $70,700. It’s one of only three scores on his Hendon Mob.
“Now I’m in the same situation I had in the Bahamas,” he says. “I’m feeling good.”
If he does manage to make it to the final 16 of the Barcelona Main Event and is subsequently forced to miss out on the Spin & Go Championship Live, he hopes to pass on his wisdom.
“I’d love to coach a Spanish player who doesn’t play Spins professionally,” he says. “I could help them out!”
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