A look at the EPT Barcelona tournament series

Season 10 of the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) launched in Barcelona, Spain, and so far so good for the popular tour as it celebrates its 10^th year of existence. Attendance has been rock-solid, the stars have come out for the tournaments, and the action has been intense. In this column we’ll take a look at some of the bigger moments from the EPT Barcelona series up to this point.

Estrellas Poker Tour Main Event

1,798 players made the €1,000 buy-in Main Event in Barcelona on the Estrellas Poker Tour the largest land-based tournament PokerStars has ever hosted. 1^st place was supposed to be for nearly €300,000, but a four-handed deal saw the remainder of the prize-pool divvied up between the remaining participants.

Here is how the tournament shook-out:

1. Jahn Soenke — €181,136
2. Paul vas Nunes — €204,589
3. M. da Fonseca — €158,475
4. Alin Sameeian — €121,000
5. Marc Pujol — €67,400
6. Paul Cusi — €53,800
7. Lukasz Roczniak — €41,100
8. Alfonso Amendola — €29,000

€50,000 EPT Barcelona Super-High-Roller

39 entrants and 12 reentries made the first Super-High-Roller on Season 10 of the PokerStars EPT a very successful affair. Also helping the cause was the star-power at the final table, specifically the final two players who hold 10 WSOP bracelets between them (with Erik Seidel the owner of eight of those beauties).  But when all was said and done it was two-time WSOP bracelet winner Vitaly Lunkin that would claim the top prize.

Here is a look at the final table payouts from the tournament:

1. Vitaly Lunkin – €771,300
2. Erik Seidel – €557,100
3. Steve O’Dwyer – €355,100
4. Mike McDonald – €269,400
5. David Benefield – €208,150
6. Ole Schemion – €159,200
7. Fabian Quoss – €128,515

Day 1a and Day 1b of the EPT Barcelona Main Event

A total of 1,225 players took part in the 2013 EPT Barcelona Main Event, including virtually every big name in poker, from Daniel Negreanu to Liv Boeree.  Right now it looks like just over 700 players will be returning for Day 2 of the tournament on Tuesday. Below you will find the official chip-counts from Day 1a, as the Day 1b chip-counts are not quite tallied as of yet.

Day 1a chip-leaders:

1. Dragan Kostic – 215,000
2. Niclas Adolfsson – 147,400
3. Rodrigo Sirichuk – 130,100
4. Nils Jarefjall – 129,900
5. Jacob Reffeldt Rasmussen – 128,300
6. Albert Daher – 127,700
7. Carlos Mora Alvarez – 125,200
8. Martin Diaz – 120,800
9. Miguel Gurrea Monton – 120,000
10. Rens Feenstra – 117,600

*Resources: http://www.europeanpokertour.com/tournaments/barcelona/

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