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EPT Barcelona Main Event – Day 1B Report
Posted by: Jo Martin - Wed, 2013-09-04 04:26
The second and last say 1 flight of the
EPT’s Barcelona Main Event saw a massive starting field of 708 players pour into the casino. After 8 levels of action, only 440 of them remained standing. The player who finished the day with the largest stack was Florian-Dimitrie Duta, who had 187k chips bagged. The headlines were stolen by FC Barcelona soccer player Gerard Pique though, who not only played on Day 1B but managed to have his ticket punched for Day 2 too.
With everyone accounted for, the second day 1 flight took the total number of participants to 1,226. That however is still not the final number yet: registration will remain open right until the start of Day 2, so a number of additional buy-ins may yet find their way into the prize-pool. Given the high number of Day 1B starters, the organizers were forced to make most of the tables 10-handed.
Needless to say, the eyes of the media were on the table where Pique took his seat and proceeded to play Candy Crush on his phone for most of the day. At that table, an interesting hand developed between Zsolt Vasvenszki and Michael Brady. On a flop of 10,5,4, the two of them shoved all-in, unable to get away from the perfect hand situation in which they found themselves: Vasvenszki had a set of 5s against Brady’s set of 10s. The turn was the 5c and the tables were radically turned. The river was a brick and Brady had his
poker tournament life curbed.
Steven Silverman may have been on a roll lately, but he failed to get anything going on Day 1B. He was eliminated before the end of the hostilities.
Maksim Bura on the other hand had a great Day 1B run: he finished with 160k chips. Aku Joentausta and Vladimir Troyanovskiy advanced as well.
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