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EPT Barcelona Main Event – Day 2 Report
Posted by: Mark Baldwing - Wed, 2013-09-04 08:37
The poker world had to wait until the official beginning of the second day of the EPT’s Barcelona Main Event to find out the final numbers behind the competition. As the 697 survivors of the first two day 1 flights were joined by a few late registrants, the numbers were finally revealed: a total of 1,234 buy-ins went into the middle, creating a €5,984,900 prize-pool and setting a new
EPT Barcelona record. The resulting prize-pool is also the second largest ever registered on European soil.
According to the payout structure, the top 183 finishers would be paid, and the winner of the
poker tournament would go home €1,067,000 richer.
Six levels of action went into the day, at the end of which Pablo Alexander Tavitian emerged with the chip lead, having bagged 465k chips. Niall Farrell was second with 444k chips and Albert Daher was third, with 420.5k.
Gerard Pique, the FC Barcelona player, was the one who garnered the most press interest at the beginning of the day. He started with 23.1k chips to his name and he began building a larger stack, but then he ran straight into Carlos Mora Alvarez, who had earned his seat online through
PokerStars. Pique’s last chips were tossed into the middle on a board of 6c,4c,8s,9c, and it turned out he had a 5s, 6s for a weak middle pair and gutshot straight draw. Alvarez on the other hand had Qc, 8c for the flush and he sent the celebrity packing.
Pique was joined on the rail by James Dempsey, Stephen Chidwick, Jens Kyllonen, Daniel Alaei and Vitaly Lunkin, the winner of the Super High Roller.
Lunkin was bounced by Bulgaria’s Aleksandar Denishev.
PokerStars’ own Jason Mercier was also among the fallen, together with Liv Boeree, Max Lykov, Jonathan Duhamel and Marcel Luske.
Only at PokerStars will you be able to qualify for events like the EPT Barcelona Main Event for a handful of FPPs.
