Also on the agenda yesterday was the final day of the Second Chance Super High Roller with a buy-in of €50,000, 26 entries and a prize pool of €1,261,260. A prize of €479,260 awaited the winner.
Only 5 players could make it to the ITM. Steve O'Dwyer finished in fifth place, Morten Klein took fourth place and Patrik Antonius took third place.
Immediately after his elimination, Leonard Maue and Nick Petrangelo made a deal, after which only one hand was played blind for the trophy. Nick Petrangelo took home the biggest prize of the tournament, €405,131. The winner was Leonard Maue, who won the trophy and €383,129.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leonard Maue | Germany | € 383,129 |
| 2 | Nick Petrangelo | United States | € 405,131 |
| 3 | Patrik Antonius | Finland | € 205,000 |
| 4 | Morten Klein | Norway | € 148,200 |
| 5 | Steve O'Dwyer | Ireland | € 119,800 |
PLO 10k final today
Wednesday was also the first day of the €10,200 buy-in PLO tournament, which brought 106 entries and a prizepool of €1,028,200. Only 15 players can make it to the ITM and €268,600 awaits the winner.
With 15 players through to today's final table, all of them already have at least €17,400 in their pockets. Leading this group is Patrick Kennedy with a stack of 850,000. The list also includes Mike Watson, who has the third largest stack.
TOP 10:
| Rank | Player | Country | Stack | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Patrick Kennedy | United Kingdom | 850,000 | 70 |
| 2 | Ka Kwan Lau | Spain | 716,000 | 59 |
| 3 | Mike Watson | Canada | 538,000 | 44 |
| 4 | Henri Puustinen | Finland | 357,000 | 29 |
| 5 | Christopher Philippou | Cyprus | 357,000 | 29 |
| 6 | Alexander Petersen | Denmark | 331,000 | 27 |
| 7 | Theo Jorgensen | Denmark | 311,000 | 25 |
| 8 | Jorryt Van Hoof | Netherlands | 299,000 | 24 |
| 9 | Mark Buckley | Ireland | 280,000 | 23 |
| 10 | Yuriy Boyko | Ireland | 242,000 | 20 |
All ITMs are now in the Main Event
The EPT Barcelona Main Event, with a buy-in of €5,300, an entry count of 1,975 and a prizepool of €9,578,750, burst its bubble early yesterday. This left 287 players rejoicing with a minimum prize of €8,700. However, as much as €1,512,000 awaits the winner here.
113 players have made it through to today's Day 4 and leading the way is Timothy Chung from Hong Kong with a stack of 1,571,000. All players here have already pocketed at least €15,350. Among the advancers are still names like Stephen Song (1,382,000), Rania Nasreddine (1,330,000), Simon Wiciak (840,000), David Coleman (615,000), Scott Margereson (520.000), Aliaksandr Shylko (467,000), Harry Lodge (348,000), Jack Sinclair (314,000), Byron Kaverman (257,000), Alexander "Wolfgang Poker" Seibt (146,000) and Ramon Colillas (127,000).
Play will also resume today from 12:00 noon, when the blinds will start at 5,000/10,000/10,000 and players will run 90-minute levels. You can also look forward to the live stream, which can be found on our website from 12:30pm.
Source - EPT, PSLive, Flickr, Pokernews
