Gabi Livshitz Crowned PS Open Aix-en-Provence High Roller Champion

The penultimate PokerStars Open series of 2026 only began four days ago, but six players have already won trophies. Israel’s Gabi Livshitz is one of those PokerStars Open Aix-en-Provence champions, having come out on top in the €2,200 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller event.

Livshitz is no stranger to success at the live poker tables, having amassed over $2.3 million during his career. Prior to this win, his last victory in a No-Limit Hold’em event was in March 2023, although he did triumph in a €5,200 Pot-Limit Omaha event in Malta in October 2025.

€2,200 PokerStars Open High Roller Final Table Results

Including re-entries, 102 players took to the PokerStars-branded felt and created a €195,840 prize pool that the top 15 finishers shared. As you would expect from a live poker festival in France, the field and those finishing in the money places were predominantly French.

French legend Bruno Fitoussi was the first player to see a return on their investment. Fitoussi bowed out in 15th place for a €4,400 score.

By the time Manuel Neiva de Sousa of Portugal crashed out in 10th, the least anyone could take home tipped the scales at €6,300.

Spaniard Adrian Chabbi Ipina was the first finalist eliminated from the tournament. Ireland’s Dan Wilson, a former Irish Open champion, joined Ipina on the sideline with the €7,300 eighth-place prize in tow.

Thibaud Martin, who reached the final two tables of the PokerStars Open Barcelona last year, fell in seventh for €8,550, which was the last four-figure prize awarded.

Sixth place and €10,200 went to Jason Wheeler. The American won the PokerStars Open Barcelona Main Event in August for a career-best €731,000 and has started this French festival in solid form.

The players gained more elbow room with the untimely demise of Adem Agoudjil, and then likely breathed a sigh of relief when the 2023 European Poker Tour Barcelona Main Event champion, Simon Wiciak, was sent packing in fourth place.

Heads-up was set when Timothee Rey was sent to the showers in third. The €22,500 that Rey won was his eighth five-figure prize of 2026.

Livshitz and Adil Kassou locked horns heads-up. The Israeli grinder’s experience showed, and he emerged victorious with a €50,400 prize to show for his efforts. Kassou consoled himself with €32,300, the largest haul of his fledgling live career.

Vincent De Luca Leads the PS Open Aix-en-Provence Main Event

Vincent De Luca is the current chip leader in the €1,100 PS Open Aix-en-Provence Main Event. De Luca bagged and tagged 368,000 chips after Day 1a and was one of 67 players to advance to Day 2 from a field of 209.

Krzysztof Zapolski (268,000) and Baptiste Chauvin (246,000) round off the podium places.

Day 1b was a turbo-structured flight with 50 entrants, 20 of whom made it through. Jerome Collomb (137,400) bagged the largest stack of the second flight, which places him 13th overall with two Day 1s remaining.

Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom, and has worked in the poker industry since 2008, and worked for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he became the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from live reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his role of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.