EPT. Tri písmená, ktoré každému pokristovi na starom kontinente spôsobia husiu kožu. Najstaršia, najväčšia a najprestížnejšia pokrová tour v Európe už po 17-krát zakotví v priestoroch Casino Barcelona, kam opäť prinesie pokrový sviatok pozostávajúci z nekončiacej cash game a zo 63 trofejových eventov.
Práve barcelonská zastávka sa v septembri 2004 stala rodiskom úplne prvého EPTčka, v ktorom si vtedajší šampión Alexander Stevic odniesol 80,000€. Od toho roku je Barcelona tou jedinou zastávkou, ktorá sa bez výnimky odohrala každý jeden rok (aj v roku 2017, kedy sa EPT zmenilo na PSC). Všetko postupne eskalovalo až do roku 2022, kedy sa po neuveriteľnom heads-upe stal šampiónom toho najväčšieho Main Eventu za 1,491,133€ Talian Giuliano Bendinelli.
Minuloročné vydanie sa postaralo o prekonanie snáď všetkých svojich rekordov, no a aj vzhľadom na tohtoročný trend, ktorý sa niesol počas celého WSOP vo Vegas, mnohí očakávame ďalšie rekordné zápisy. Sledovať určite pozorne budeme 1,100€ ESPT Main Event, ktorý minulý rok prilákal do hry neuveriteľných 6,313 entries (prizepool 6,060,480€), ktoré znamenali to najväčšie hráčske pole spomedzi všetkých EPT eventov v histórií.
Samozrejme, počas týchto dvoch týždňoch sa bude na čo pozerať, no a medzi highlightami tejto zastávky opäť nechýba 10,200€ Mystery Bounty event, 550€ Estrellas cup, 2,200€ ESPT High Roller no i divácky zaujímavé High Rollery s buy-inmi od 25,000€ až po 100,000€.
# | NAME | COUNTRY | PRIZE |
1. | Mathias Duarte | URU | 192,000€ |
2. | Conor Beresford | UK | 100,000€ |
3. | Tom Orpaz | ISR | 143,200€ |
4. | Patrick Kennedy | UK | 52,100€ |
5. | Quan Zhou | CHI | 28,500€ |
6. | Erik Seidel | USA | 40,200€ |
7. | Ramon Kropmanns | BRA | 90,600€ |
8. | Ouassini Mansouri | FRA | 29,500€ |
# | NAME | COUNTRY | PRIZE |
1. | Felipe Ketzer | BRA | 255,480€ |
2. | Eduard Barsegyan | RUS | 164,700€ |
3. | Lei Yu | CHI | 109,200€ |
4. | Kayhan Mokri | NOR | 79,000€ |
5. | Ottomar Ladva | EST | 63,900€ |
# | NAME | COUNTRY | PRIZE |
1. | David Yan | NZL | 260,899€ |
2. | Pablo Brito | BRA | 204,441€ |
3. | Felipe Ketzer | BRA | 126,500€ |
4. | Hyun Kim | KOR | 93,900€ |
5. | Jean-Noel Thorel | FRA | 73,500€ |
6. | Biao Ding | CHI | 57,100€ |
# | NAME | COUNTRY | PRIZE |
1. | Tom Orpaz | ISR | 255,480€ |
2. | Kayhan Mokri | NOR | 164,700€ |
3. | Timothy Adams | CAN | 109,200€ |
4. | Nacho Barbero | ARG | 79,000€ |
5. | Kelvin Kerber | BRA | 63,900€ |
# | NAME | COUNTRY | PRIZE |
1. | Kayhan Mokri | NOR | 750,960€ |
2. | Jean-Noel Thorel | FRA | 471,500€ |
3. | Steve O´Dwyer | IRL | 314,300€ |
4. | Sam Grafton | UK | 209,600€ |
# | NAME | COUNTRY | PRIZE |
1. | Goran Mandic | CRO | €418,980* |
2. | Antoine Labat | FRA | €500,000* |
3. | Yunsheng Sun | CHI | €385,240* |
4. | Thomas Saminadin | FRA | € 215,390 |
5. | Conor Beresford | UK | € 165,230 |
6. | Rodrigo Noceda | MEX | € 126,630 |
7. | Candido Cappiello | ITA | € 96,960 |
8. | Bart Lybaert | BEL | € 74,130 |
9. | Edilson Marques | BRA | € 58,580 |
# | NAME | COUNTRY | PRIZE |
1. | Lucien Cohen | FRA | € 676,230 |
2. | Ferdinando D'Alessio | BEL | € 415,320 |
3. | Petros Karadimos | GRE | € 294,620 |
4. | Danilo Velasevic | SRB | € 232,090 |
5. | Ankit Ahuja | IND | € 177,810 |
6. | Avihai Smadga | ISR | € 136,850 |
7. | Parker Talbot | CAN | € 105,590 |
8. | Igor Kaufman | ISR | € 81,230 |
# | NAME | COUNTRY | PRIZE |
1. | Tom Orpaz | ISR | 442,440€ |
2. | Tsunugari Toma | JAP | 285,200€ |
3. | Biao Ding | CHI | 157,200€ |
4. | Erik Seidel | USA | 113,800€ |
5. | Justin Saliba | USA | 100,600€ |
6. | Gerard Pique | SPA | 65,000€ |
# | NAME | COUNTRY | PRIZE |
1. | Alex Keating | USA | 361,525€ |
2. | Paulius Plausinaitis | LIT | 223,450€ |
3. | Masato Yokosawa | JAP | 159,600€ |
4. | Daewoong Song | KOR | 122,800€ |
5. | Antonios Poziadis | MAL | 94,450€ |
6. | Daniel Rezaei | AUT | 72,650€ |
7. | Viacheslav Goryachev | RUS | 55,900€ |
8. | Bennani Chakib | MOR | 43,000€ |
9. | Christian David | ROM | 33,050€ |
# | NAME | COUNTRY | PRIZE |
1. | Sam Grafton | UK | 240,050€* |
2. | Timothy Adams | CAN | 195,240€* |
3. | Maher Nouira | TUN | 113,100€ |
4. | Morten Klein | NOR | 81,800€ |
5. | Steve O´Dwyer | IRL | 66,100€ |
# | NAME | COUNTRY | PRIZE |
1. | Tom-Aksel Bedell | NOR | 330,550€ |
2. | Roberto Sagra | ARG | 206,450€ |
3. | Juan Maceiras | SPA | 147,500€ |
4. | Alexander Petersen | DEN | 113,450€ |
5. | Tony Lin | CHI | 87,250€ |
6. | Lautaro Cabrerizo | SPA | 67,100€ |
7. | Felipe Ketzer | BRA | 51,650€ |
8. | Nikolaos Lampropoulos | GRE | 42,850€ |
9. | Alexi Komninos Skoulos | SWE | 35,700€ |
# | NAME | COUNTRY | PRIZE |
1. | Ottomar Ladva | EST | 207,300€* |
2. | Timothy Adams | CAN | 162,420€ |
3. | Maher Nouira | TUN | 95,100€ |
4. | Tsugunari Toma | JAP | 63,400€ |
# | NAME | COUNTRY | PRIZE |
1. | Ricardo De Andrade | POR | 374,064€ |
2. | Armin Rezaei | AUT | 233,890€ |
3. | Yaman Nakdali | SPA | 167,040€ |
4. | Marcos Kenne | BRA | 128,510€ |
5. | Frederic Breton | CAN | 98,850€ |
6. | Mikel Unanue | MEX | 76,030€ |
7. | Jan Bronkhorst | NET | 58,480€ |
8. | Vladislav Solovev | RUS | 44,990€ |
9. | Ismet Oral | TUR | 34,600€ |
# | NAME | COUNTRY | PRIZE |
1. | Ka Kwan Lau | HKG | 910,400€ |
2. | Ouassini Mansouri | FRA | 568,750€ |
3. | Vladas Tamasauskas | LIT | 406,250€ |
4. | Eric Sfez | FRA | 312,550€ |
5. | Maher Nouira | TUN | 240,400€ |
6. | Alexandre Reard | FRA | 184,950€ |
7. | Aleksandr Shevliakov | RUS | 142,300€ |
8. | Toby Joyce | IRL | 109,450€ |
9. | Francesco Pilato | ITA | 85,250€ |
# | NAME | COUNTRY | PRIZE |
1. | Simon Wiciak | FRA | 1,134,375€* |
2. | Joao Sydenstricker | BRA | 1,048,550€* |
3. | Carl Shaw | UK | 901,070€* |
4. | Santiago Plante | CAN | 511,300€ |
5. | Andre Akkari | BRA | 393,300€ |
6. | Ezequiel Waigel | ARG | 302,500€ |
7. | Curtis Knight | CAN | 232,700€ |
8. | Robin Ylitalo | SWE | 179,000€ |