EPT Barcelona has already crowned several champions, and we got to know the latest one overnight as the €1,100 buy-in Estrellas Poker Tour Main Event finished, which, with 7,138 entries, became the second biggest tournament in the EPT's 20-year history.
Amateur beats the pros
The top 19 players entered the final day and a €625,000 prize awaited the winner. The chipleader here was Santiago Nadal with a huge stack of up to 36,000,000. With the second biggest stack here worth 17,700,000 was Parker Talbot. At the other end was Sylvain Berthelot who had the smallest stack, just 11 blinds.
However, even the fact that he entered the final table with the smallest stack didn't stop him from making the final table. In addition, amateur player Sylvain Berthelot, who had only $7,440 worth of winnings up until yesterday, was also able to get in on the deal that took place after Talbot busted out in fourth place (€227,000).
The players negotiated a deal in which pro Martin Zamani took the biggest payday, €463,250. However, with €45,100 left to play for the winner, Sylvain Berthelot had a chance to take home even more than Zamani. Sylvain Berthelot was the winner in the end, too, after defeating Santiago Nadal in the final short heads-up match to take home €499,224.
| PLACE | PLAYER | COUNTRY | PRIZE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sylvain Berthelot | France | €499,224* |
| 2 | Santiago Nadal | Mexico | €394,526* |
| 3 | Martin Zamani | United States | €463,250* |
| 4 | Parker Talbot | Canada | €227,000 |
| 5 | Jean Benvenga | Switzerland | €173,000 |
| 6 | Francesco Macri | Italy | €136,400 |
| 7 | Stanislav Vinicenko | Lithuania | €104,500 |
| 8 | Johannes Verhagen | Netherlands | €79,400 |
Estrellas High Roller final today
The Estrellas High Roller moves into its final today with a buy-in of €2,200, an entry count of 2,064 and a prizepool of €3,962,880. There is €600,000 waiting for the winner and 26 players will be battling it out for that amount. Leading them is German player Berthold Winz with a stack of up to 7,455,000. In second place is American player Rania Nasredddine with a stack of 4,900,000. They all have at least €15,000 in the bag.
TOP 10:
| Place | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Berthold Winz | Germany | 7,455,000 | 93 |
| 2 | Rania Nasreddine | United States | 4,900,000 | 61 |
| 3 | Anton Kraous | Bulgaria | 4,600,000 | 58 |
| 4 | Alex Sampirisi | Italy | 3,710,000 | 46 |
| 5 | Cedric Schwaederle | France | 3,700,000 | 46 |
| 6 | Grzegorz Kozieja | Poland | 3,105,000 | 39 |
| 7 | Maciej Komorowski | Poland | 2,960,000 | 37 |
| 8 | Weiran Pu | China | 2,815,000 | 35 |
| 9 | Cherish Andrews | United States | 2,700,000 | 34 |
| 10 | Bernat Carreras | Spain | 2,585,000 | 32 |
EPT Super High Roller final today
Another final table awaits us today in the EPT Super High Roller with a buy-in of €100,000, 41 entries and a prizepool of €3,977,820. Only 6 players could make it to the ITM and that's exactly how many will meet in the final. All of them have already pocketed a minimum of €278,400 and the winner will be waiting for €1,372,420.
Leading the finalists is Sean Winter with a stack of 3,400,000, who is joined by names like Seth Davies, Jesse Lonis, Kayhan Mokri, Patrik Antonius and Santhosh Suvarna.
| Rank | Player | Country | Stack | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sean Winter | United States | 3,400,000 | 68 |
| 2 | Seth Davies | United States | 2,755,000 | 55 |
| 3 | Jesse Lonis | United States | 1,510,000 | 30 |
| 4 | Kayhan Mokri | Norway | 1,340,000 | 27 |
| 5 | Patrik Antonius | Finland | 650,000 | 13 |
| 6 | Santhosh Suvarna | India | 595,000 | 12 |
EPT Main Event kicked off yesterday
The EPT Barcelona Main Event kicked off yesterday with a buy-in of €5,300, with players also able to take advantage of one re-entry. Yesterday's Flight 1A produced 697 entries and 223 advancers. The current chipleader is Joost Hollak from the Netherlands with a stack of 364,500.
However, the field also includes Erik Bauer (178,000), Kenny Hallaert (164,000), Aliaksandr Shylko (118,000), Maria Ho (107,000), Sam Greenwood (101,000), Alex Keating (100.000), Patrik Jarosh (98.500), Peter Turmezey (85.500), Marle Spragg (66.000), Mike Watson (47.000), Josef Šnejberg (45.000), Patrik Karabinčík (32.000), Gábor Felsen (30.000) and Sebastian Schulze (13.500).
The very first EPT winner, Alexander Stevic in 2004, was also in action yesterday. Back then, the Main Event had a buy-in of €1,000 and attracted 229 entries. Alexander took home €80,000 for the win then, but he couldn't advance from 1A now.
Source - EPT, Pokernews, PSLive, Flickr
