The talk of the poker world right now is clearly the EPT Barcelona Main Event, celebrating its 20th anniversary with a buy-in of €5,300. It would have been fitting to break the record for this spectacular celebration, but that didn't happen. The Main Event brought in 1,975 entries, making it only the fourth biggest EPT Main Event.

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Just before the bubble
 

The prizepool stands at €9,578,750 and prize money awaits 287 players. The smallest prize is worth €8,700 and as much as €1,512,000 awaits the winner. There are 293 players through to today's Day 3, so play will start just before the bubble.

Leading the advancers is Kian Kiani with a stack of 775,000. However, there are also some familiar names like Rania Nasreddine (609,000), Stephen Song (459,000), Simon Wiciak (400,000), Scott Margereson (292,000), Ramon Colillas (268,000), Aliaksandr Shylko (259,000), Byron Kaverman (240,000), Aram Zobian (193.000), David Coleman (185,000), Alexander "Wolfgang Poker" Seibt (147,000), Fintan Hand (145,000), Jack Sinclair (116,000), Harry Lodge (115,000), Niklas Astedt (107,000), Parker Talbot (99,000), Marle Spragg (89,000) and Erik Seidel (65,000).

Day 3 of the EPT Barcelona Main Event kicks off at 12:00 noon on blinds of 2,000/4,000/4,000 and players will once again run through 90-minute levels. You can also look forward to the live stream, which will start at 12:30.

€50,000 SHR Second Chance

The first day of the Super High Roller Second Chance kicked off yesterday with a buy-in of €50,000, which brought 20 entries. However, this number is not final as registration is open until the start of Day 2.

13 players have advanced to Day 2 and they are led by Jesse Lonis and Nick Petrangelo with an identical stack of 650,000. Patrik Antonius, Sam Greenwood, Jean-Noel Thorel, Mike Watson and Leonard Maue are also among those advancing.

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