While the emotions are still fading in Casino Barcelona after the end of the historically biggest tournament that the EPT has ever hosted, players and spectators can now fully concentrate on the main tournament of the entire event. After including all those who jumped straight into day 2, it finally closed the number of entries at 2,120, thanks to which it became the second largest Main Event in the entire history of the EPT (the title is held by last year's Barcelona with 2,294 entries).
The final value of this year's prize pool rose to the limit of €10,282,000, which will be distributed among the top 303 players. They will take home prizes starting at €8,850 and ending at an astronomical €1,488,000 for the winner. Well, as for the names of the lucky ones who won't leave empty handed, we already know them - yesterday's day 2 ended the bursting of the bubble.
The long and demanding day, which you could also watch live via Live Stream, ended with a hand-for-hand phase, in which we were only waiting for the last elimination. The unpopular tournament phase lasted almost 2 hours, at the end of which Juan Maceiras finally became the unlucky one. He got all-in on the 9 4 7 flop, where he ran into a set of 4 4 under the hand of Jeffrey Hakim with Q 9 . Although the turn Q still conjured a glimmer of hope, the river A definitively decided his fate and the end of the second day of play.
Thus, 303 players successfully reached stack packing, who will start today's day 3 with the certainty of ITM. The Russian Eduard Barsegian is in the overall chip lead with a stack of 835,000, but closely behind him is Antoine Labat (731,000) and the Czech representative Petr Svoboda, whose 724,000 stack ranks him in 4th place!
Among the big names in world poker who will continue to fight for the title of EPT Champion, we will see names like Kayhan Mokri, Dominik Panka, Andre Akkari, Jack Sinclair, Jason Wheeler, Patrik Antonius, Maria Ho, Davidi Kitai, Benjamin Spragg, Juan Pardo or John Juanda.
Players return to the tables for day 3 today at noon, but you can look forward to another live streaming marathon from 12:30 p.m. to take you through the day's play. You can of course find the stream on our website in the TV section.
In addition to the Main Event, the €50,000 Super High Roller took place yesterday, in which the bravest players took care of 24 entries. The first day of play ended with the elimination of the Spanish soccer megastar Gerard Pique, who at least took €60,000 worth of mincash from this tournament for sixth place. The remaining five players will play today for the trophy and €442,440 reward, to which Tom Orpaz is currently closest:
- Erik Seidel – 615,000 (12bb)
- Justin Saliba – 900,000 (18bb)
- Biao Ding – 970,000 (19bb)
- Tsugunari Toma – 775,000 (16bb)
- Tom Orpaz – 2,740,000 (55bb)
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