The oldest, most enduring and, according to most, the most popular stop of the EPT is back after a year, but as of yesterday, Casino Barcelona has opened its doors to players from all over the world. Traditionally, the opening €1,100 Main Event of the Estrellas subseries awaits them, which last year became the largest field ever produced by an EPT event. Among the 6,313 entries, the Dutchman Rick van Bruggen won the prize of €600,000.

Yesterday brought the first two flights of this tournament, but there are still six more ahead of us, which, together with the possibility of one re-entry to the flight, promise an attack on the mentioned record. Yesterday, the best 53 of the 353 participants from flight 1A managed to advance to the second day, then the evening turbo contributed another 155 entries, and 23 of them were candidates for the title. Home player Alex Baena took the overall lead with a stack of 559,000.

In addition to this event, the first day of the €10,200 Mystery Bounty event, intended for the richer ones, took place yesterday. The first day produced 56 entries, and at the end of the day, 30 advanced. At the start of day 2, the number of entries definitely rose to 79, but this means that the prize pool worth €371,300 will be divided among the 11 best players, among whom names like Daniel Rezaei, Kayhan Mokri, Sam Grafton, Aliaksand Shylko, Conor Beresford, Niklas Astedt, Erik Seidel or Keith Lehr.

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