Maria Lampropulos: PCA and partypoker MILLIONS Champion
POKER HALL OF FAME
Inducted 2014
Maria Lampropulos is an Argentine tournament poker player whose career is highlighted by two seven-figure championship victories: the 2017 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Main Event in Nottingham and the 2018 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event in the Bahamas.
Those wins established Lampropulos as an international tournament champion and produced the two largest scores of her career. She also owns multiple World Series of Poker Circuit victories and remains active on the live tournament circuit.
As of September 2026, The Hendon Mob lists Lampropulos with more than $4.01 million in live tournament earnings. Its Argentina all-time money list placed her fifth among Argentine players and its women's all-time money list ranked her 11th as of September 3, 2026.
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Who Is Maria Lampropulos?
Maria Constanza Lampropulos represents Argentina in international poker competition. The Hendon Mob lists her nationality as Argentina, her birthplace as Greece and her residence as London, England.
Her recorded live tournament results date to 2014. By 2015 and 2016, Lampropulos was appearing regularly at major European, Latin American and international poker festivals, gradually moving from smaller events into deeper runs against larger and stronger fields.
PokerNews reported that Lampropulos began traveling on the live circuit with Argentine professional Ivan Luca in 2014. She initially played smaller tournaments before establishing her own tournament record.
Her progression accelerated in early 2016. Lampropulos finished second in the WPT National Brussels Main Event for €68,200, then reached another major heads-up match only weeks later in the Eureka Poker Tour Rozvadov Main Event.
She finished runner-up in Rozvadov for €95,404. Those results provided an early indication that she could compete successfully in large-field no-limit hold'em events well before her seven-figure breakthrough.
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Maria Lampropulos' First WSOP Circuit Ring
Lampropulos added World Series of Poker hardware to her résumé in December 2016 at the WSOP International Circuit stop in Punta del Este, Uruguay.
The official WSOP Circuit schedule lists Lampropulos as the winner of the $600 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed ring event. The Hendon Mob records a $12,975 first-place payout.
That victory came during a productive festival for Lampropulos. She also finished seventh in a $500 Second Chance event and runner-up in the $600 Turbo Bounty.
Her Circuit record later expanded with another ring victory at King's Resort in Rozvadov.
In October 2022, Lampropulos won the €1,100 No-Limit Hold'em Bounty Hunter during the WSOP International Circuit festival at King's Resort. PokerNews reported that she defeated a 155-entry field and earned €24,694 plus a seat in the 2022 WSOP Europe Main Event.
The official WSOP Circuit King's Resort schedule also identifies Maria Constanza Lampropulos as the winner of that Bounty Hunter event.
WSOP's current player records are divided across more than one profile for Lampropulos, with individual profiles displaying one ring apiece. The underlying official tournament records document her ring victories in Punta del Este in 2016 and Rozvadov in 2022.
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2017 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Main Event Victory
Lampropulos' career reached a different level in April 2017 at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham, England.
She won the £5,300 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Main Event for £1 million. PokerNews' tournament coverage records the victory as a seven-figure breakthrough and one of the defining results of her career.
The tournament generated a prize pool of more than £6 million. Lampropulos navigated a field that included established professionals and eventually faced Jacob Mulhern heads-up for the championship.
The final hand ended with Lampropulos holding pocket kings against Mulhern's ace-queen. Her kings remained ahead through the board, securing the title and the £1 million first prize.
The Hendon Mob converts the result to $1,255,004 for its live tournament database, making it the largest recorded cash of Lampropulos' career.
The significance of the win extended beyond the payout. Lampropulos had entered 2017 with a growing international résumé, but the Nottingham victory gave her a major open-field championship against a large international field.
It also proved that her strong 2016 results were not an isolated run. Within nine months, she would win another prestigious Main Event and record a second seven-figure score.
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Maria Lampropulos Wins the 2018 PCA Main Event
Lampropulos followed her Nottingham breakthrough by winning the 2018 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $10,300 Main Event in the Bahamas.
The PCA Main Event drew 582 players and created a $5,645,400 prize pool. Lampropulos survived six days of tournament play before winning the championship for $1,081,100.
According to PokerNews' coverage of the 2018 PCA Main Event, the victory made Lampropulos the first woman to win the PCA Main Event in the tournament's 13-year history.
She also received a $30,000 Platinum Pass connected to PokerStars' newly introduced PokerStars Players No-Limit Hold'em Championship.
Winning the PCA was particularly important because it showed Lampropulos could follow one enormous result with another championship on one of poker's most established international stages.
Her £1 million partypoker MILLIONS victory and $1.081 million PCA title came less than a year apart. Together, the two wins account for more than half of her current recorded live tournament earnings.
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How Much Has Maria Lampropulos Won in Live Poker Tournaments?
As of September 2026, Lampropulos has more than $4.01 million in recorded live tournament earnings.
The Hendon Mob's Argentina ranking generated on September 3, 2026 listed her with $4,015,188 in qualifying earnings, fifth on Argentina's all-time money list.
The same database placed her 11th on its women's all-time money list at that time.
Her largest recorded tournament cash remains the $1,255,004 database value assigned to her 2017 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS victory in Nottingham. Her second-largest score is the $1,081,100 she earned for winning the 2018 PCA Main Event.
Poker tournament earnings should not be interpreted as profit. Public databases generally record tournament payouts and do not account for buy-ins, travel expenses, staking arrangements, taxes or other costs.
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Does Maria Lampropulos Have a WSOP Bracelet?
Lampropulos has not won a World Series of Poker bracelet as of September 2026.
She has recorded numerous WSOP cashes in Las Vegas and has also competed at WSOP Europe, but a bracelet victory remains absent from her tournament résumé.
Her World Series of Poker achievements instead include official WSOP Circuit ring victories.
Players unfamiliar with tournament poker can learn the rules behind her primary game through Angry Aces Poker's Texas Hold'em guide.
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Maria Lampropulos' Tournament Strengths and Playing Record
Lampropulos' results identify her primarily as a no-limit hold'em tournament player.
Her biggest achievements have come in large-field Main Events, including the partypoker MILLIONS and PCA championships, while her broader record includes results across the WSOP, WSOP Circuit, PokerStars festivals, European events and Latin American tournaments.
It would be difficult to accurately reduce her playing style to a single label without relying on subjective descriptions. Her tournament record provides a more reliable measure of her strengths.
She has demonstrated an ability to make deep runs across different field sizes, tournament structures and locations. Most importantly, she converted two of those runs into seven-figure Main Event victories within a nine-month period.
Her results also show longevity beyond that peak. Lampropulos continued recording tournament cashes throughout the 2020s rather than disappearing from major live competition after her biggest wins.
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Maria Lampropulos' Recent Poker Results
Lampropulos remains active in live tournament poker.
During the 2025 World Series of Poker, she cashed in several events, including the $10,000 WSOP Main Event. She finished 536th in the Main Event for $32,500 and also cashed in the Ladies Championship, Mini Main Event, Millionaire Maker and Poker Hall of Fame Bounty.
Later in 2025, she made a significant run in the €5,300 European Poker Tour Prague Main Event, finishing 14th for €50,300.
Her tournament schedule continued into 2026.
At the 2026 WSOP in Las Vegas, PokerNews records three bracelet-event cashes for Lampropulos: 70th in the $1,500 6-Handed No-Limit Hold'em event, 91st in the $1,500 Monster Stack and 197th in the $2,500 Freezeout.
She also finished eighth in a $2,500 Ladies event at the 2026 Wynn Summer Classic.
Lampropulos then returned to Europe. At the 2026 PokerStars EPT Barcelona festival, she finished 56th in the €1,650 PokerStars Open and later recorded another cash in the festival's €1,100 Ladies event.
Those results confirm that Lampropulos remains an active international tournament player as of September 2026.
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Why Maria Lampropulos Matters in Poker
Lampropulos' place in modern tournament poker is built around a concentrated stretch of major success followed by years of continued international competition.
Winning either the partypoker MILLIONS Main Event or the PCA Main Event would represent a career-defining result for many tournament players. Lampropulos won both in less than one year.
Her PCA championship also carried historical significance because she became the first woman to win that Main Event.
Combined with more than $4 million in live earnings and WSOP Circuit victories on two continents, those accomplishments give Lampropulos a tournament résumé that extends well beyond a single breakthrough score.
Her continuing results are also important to evaluating her career. The seven-figure wins came in 2017 and 2018, but Lampropulos was still cashing major tournaments during the 2025 and 2026 seasons.
That longevity makes her profile more than a record of two championship moments. It reflects a player who developed rapidly, won major international titles and continued competing across the global live poker circuit years later.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Maria Lampropulos?
Maria Lampropulos is an Argentine tournament poker player best known for winning the 2017 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Main Event in Nottingham and the 2018 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event.
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How much has Maria Lampropulos won in live poker tournaments?
As of September 2026, The Hendon Mob lists Maria Lampropulos with more than $4.01 million in live tournament earnings. Tournament earnings represent recorded payouts rather than net profit.
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What is Maria Lampropulos' biggest poker win?
Lampropulos' largest recorded live tournament cash is $1,255,004, the Hendon Mob's database value for the £1 million she won in the 2017 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Main Event in Nottingham.
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Did Maria Lampropulos win the PCA Main Event?
Yes. Maria Lampropulos won the 2018 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $10,300 Main Event for $1,081,100. She became the first woman to win the PCA Main Event.
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Does Maria Lampropulos have a WSOP bracelet?
No. As of September 2026, Maria Lampropulos has not won a World Series of Poker bracelet.
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How many WSOP Circuit rings does Maria Lampropulos have?
Official WSOP tournament records document two Circuit ring victories for Lampropulos: the $600 6-Handed event at Punta del Este in 2016 and the €1,100 Bounty Hunter at King's Resort in Rozvadov in 2022. WSOP currently maintains separate player profiles for her that each display one ring, so the tournament-level records provide the clearest accounting.
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Is Maria Lampropulos still active in poker?
Yes. Lampropulos recorded multiple live tournament cashes during 2026, including results at the World Series of Poker, Wynn Summer Classic and PokerStars EPT Barcelona.
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Where does Maria Lampropulos rank among female poker players?
The Hendon Mob women's all-time money list generated on September 3, 2026 ranked Maria Lampropulos 11th with more than $4.01 million in qualifying live tournament earnings.