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EPT Barcelona Day 1B report
Posted by: James Carter. - Sat, 2008-09-13 03:10
The 321 players who hit the green felt on Day 1B of the EPT Barcelona set a new record for the event’s history, of 619 participants, who contributed to a prize-pool of almost $2 million. The Day 1B field included some of the biggest names in live poker. In addition to Isabelle Mercier and Daniel Negreanu, Bertrand Grospellier and Scotty Nguyen were also present.
Grospellier and Mercier were amongst those who headed for the rail early on and they were soon followed by Daniel Negreanu. Negreanu had started the day on a fast and furious pace, but ran into trouble afterwards, and never really stood a chance to make it to dinner-break.
He went all-in on a 4-card flush after the flop, holding a Kc,10c, and got called by an opponent who made three 2s. Negreanu’s flush draw failed to fill up on the turn and the river, and thus his day came to an end far faster than most would have anticipated.
Scotty Nguyen was also amongst those eliminated on Day 1B.
One of the more interesting hands of the day was played between William Thorson and an opponent who ended out busting him. Holding A,Q, Thorson was delighted to see the flop come Q,Q,4, and bet into the table pushing everyone out but one guy. The A on the turn made Thorson even happier as he landed a full house. Little did he know that the hand had already been decided by then. He fired out a bet again, got called and shoved all-in eventually, to find that the caller had rockets in his pocket.
Stephen Chidwick built a large stack early on and held on to it to end the day in possession of significant amount of ammo for Day 2.
Brice Cournut also had a nice run, and mustered a 94,000 large stack to finish third on the Day’s chip count leaderboard.
Sebastian Ruthenberg took down a nice pot in one of the last few hands that he played, to clinch the chip-lead with 110,000. He found a caller on a set that he flopped for his pocket 9s, and secured the chip lead seconds before the day was called.
