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EPT Barcelona: Day 2 is in the Books
Posted by: Jo Martin - Sun, 2014-08-24 08:37
The Main Event of the first stop of the
EPT’s 11th season has entered its second day, seeing more than 900 players return to its tables, from the initial starting field of 1,496.
The prize-pool of the Main Event was set to €7.25 million, which essentially means that the winner will walk away with some €1.26 million and no fewer than 239 players will get paid.
The end of the second day of action saw 292 players left standing, which means the money-bubble is near and the action is tighter than ever. The min-cash in the event is €8,050, so the stakes are indeed high and players do indeed have something to play for on the bubble.
The player who finished Day 2 with the largest stack of chips was poker pro Vojtech Ruzicka, who had 621k chips bagged.
Ruzicka finished way ahead of second-place man Nima Ahrary, who had 519.6k chips at the finish line. Others who finished with decent stacks were Martin Finger, Andrei Konopelko and Tobias Rohe.
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The story of Ruzicka’s day was one of adding to his stack little-by-little for the most part. Towards the end of it all though, he caught a massive pot from Dominik Nitsche, who got all his chips into the middle on pocket Ks, only to find that his opponent had filled a gut-shot straight on the river.
Max Pescatori was among those who finished the day with a decent stack as well: he had 294k chips bagged. Others who made the cut on healthy stacks were Kent Lundmark (who had 237.7k bagged) and Scott Seiver, who will return with 216.4k chips to his name.
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