{"id":76728,"date":"2025-01-06T22:32:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T22:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pokerscout.com\/?p=76728"},"modified":"2025-01-07T22:15:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T22:15:37","slug":"2024-card-player-player-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pokerscout.com\/2024-card-player-player-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Mateos Wins 2024 Card Player Player of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
For the second time in his career, Adrian Mateos has won the Card Player Player of the Year race. Mateos tops the podium again, joining Daniel Negreanu (2004, 2013) and Stephen Chidwick (2019, 2022) as the only two-time winners in the last 20 years. Mateos also accomplished the feat in 2017.<\/p>\n
Having learned how to play Texas Hold’em<\/a> from a very young age, Mateos has succeeded from the jump, with his first-ever recorded tournament cash coming in the form of a $42,399 win in a \u20ac600 Main Event in Madrid. Now, at just 30 years old, Mateos already has a Hall of Fame-worthy resume.<\/p>\n Mateos’ four WSOP bracelets are all incredibly special, notably having won the 2013 WSOP Europe Main Event at just 19 years old. Once he was allowed to play in Vegas, his dominance continued, winning the 1,840-entry $1,500 Summer Solstice in 2016, the 2017 $10,000 Heads-Up Championship, and the 2021 $250,000 Super High Roller.<\/p>\n Mateos has also claimed an EPT Main Event title, two Triton trophies (both in 2024), and has a famous partypoker MILLIONS Main Event title to his name. All-in-all, the Spaniard has earned an incredible 20 tournament victories in events with a buy-in of at least $10,000.<\/p>\n In 2024 alone, Mateos won $13,109,217, largely in part to his incredible run at Triton Poker Super High Roller Series Montenegro. He earned a total of five cashes in the 16-event series, winning the 159-entry $50,000 NLH event for $1,761,000 and finishing second in the 94-entry $200,000 NLH event for $3,292,000.<\/p>\n Mateos also won the 185-entry $30,000 NLH event at Triton Jeju earlier in the year for $1,175,000.<\/p>\n \u201cTo become a multi-time Player of the Year award winner means a lot to me because I think, in poker, consistency is one of the most important skills and the key to success. I\u2019m very proud of being able to win in multiple years,\u201d Mateos said in an interview with Card Player.<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t do anything too special this year. I think I am at a really high level right now, but I already reached this level by working very hard for more than 12 years.<\/p>\n “Compound interest works like this. When you do the right thing for many years, at one point everything aligns\u2026 luck and preparation meet and you get a really good result. This year has been luckier than other year and that made me one of the biggest winners of the year.”<\/p>\n