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Barcelona gets the new season of the EPT underway next week

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The €5,000 + €300 Main Event will take place August 19-25

Schedule etc at http://www.europeanpokertour.com/tournaments/barcelona/

looking forward to this!

really looking forward to going, should be a great 10 days.

Should be fun! Not going to be greedy, so will just shotgun the Estrellas main event.

my favourite stop and arguably my favourite city in the world, can't wait

In que for estellas main event sat

so jelly about this,

3 says 8th with 5 seats
         5th with 3 seats
         5th with 2 seats

wasnt meant to be. ENJOY

The European Poker Tour is back with Season 9 of the tour.

€50,000 Super High Roller  begins today.

Nearly 50 players are already confirmed to be registered and it's truly going to be a stacked field of participants.

According to the EPT, those set to play include Team PokerStars Pros Daniel Negreanu, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Jonathan Duhamel, Eugene Katchalov, Leo Fernandez and Jason Mercier. Others joining them on the felt will be Sam Chartier, Tobias Reinkemeier, Scott Seiver, Erik Seidel, Mike McDonald, Kyle Julius, Dan Shak, Steve O’Dwyer, Peter Jetten, Alec Torelli and Philipp Gruissem.

There's also rumor that the one and only Phil Ivey will be in the mix for this event, which is something no one will want to miss.

This elite, three-day event kicks off today at noon and all players will begin 250,000 in chips. The blinds kick off at 500/1,000/100 with all levels lasting an hour in length


http://uk.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-pokerstars-com-ept-barcelona/50-000-super-high-roller/

From jackinbeat on his online staking thread:

Oh and if anyone's in Barcelona, I'm hosting the Ministry Of Sound party this Friday at La Terrazza,  I'm sure I can work some free tickets, or more for high rollers. Message me on here or my facebook.

Matt  
 

Boosted by a ton of EPT regulars, the Estrellas Poker Tour Main Event attracted its biggest ever field this week with a total of 1,036 players, creating a massive prize pool of €1,004,920. A total of 128 players will make the money with the winner snagging an astonishing €200,000.

A total of 372 players are through to Day 2 with German player Thomas Butzhammer leading the field with 184,000. Team PokerStars Pro Jude Ainsworth is lying third with 164,400. Four EPT champions are still in the field including EPT Warsaw winner and EPT Champion of Champions Christophe Benzimra from France (58,700), Team PokerStars Pro EPT Dortmund winner Sandra Naujoks (14,200) and EPT Berlin winner Kevin MacPhee (53,100).

Xuan Liu was one of three members of the brand-new European Players Council competing and is through to Day 2 with 41,300. The other Team PokerStars Pros who are still in are Marcin Horecki, Juan Manuel Pastor and Ana Marquez while Friend of PokerStars Charlotte Van Brabander is sitting on 98,000 – more than double the average.

GL to the Brits

So much pickpocketing.
We just went out with some German friends, 2 guys approached then dresse in full policeman attire, say they're doing a drugs search. Snap got 1.5k. Later, stone cold sober walking down a strip friend has hands in pockets and still gets his phone somehow pinched.

I believe its the worst city in the world for it. Poker players are ripe.

Just a idea put money I'n shoe

Need to be wearing clown shoes with the money some ppl will have on them. Plus im imagining ppl will either have pumps or flipflops on.

Bum bags ftw.. When I was there I took out how much I thought I would need for the day and I kept everything in the knee pocket on my cargo/Bermuda shorts. Pickpockets hate them.

Just punch em in the mush is best way to combat the little bastards

ya good idea [ ]

Stick pins on your pockets

403 players ponied up €5,300 to enter EPT Barcelona Day1a, and 222 made it through

Chip leader was Aku Joentausta, from Finland, whose best EPT finish to date is 94th in Sanremo

1st    Aku Joentausta 236,200
2nd    Guy Thomas    211,000
3rd    Emanoil Savin    190,600
4th    Mauro Canavese 155,400
5th    Lex Veldhuis    148,800
6th    Antonin Duda   140,600
7th    Dimitar Danchev 138,100
8th    Zimnan Ziyard   137,900
9th    Alexander Debus 132,900
10th Samuel Rodriguez 123,200

Brits through

Barny Boatman   62,100   
Pete Linton   55,500   
Peter Akery   50,300   
John Eames   47,700
Ben Spraggons   47,200   
Ross Loggie   35,200   

Meanwhile Dan Smith won the High Roller, after a three way deal

1   Dan Smith   962,925   
2   JC Alvarado   788,674   
3   Mike Watson   399,500   
4   Ilari Sahamies   291,900   
5   Mike McDonald   215,100   
6   Erik Seidel   153,600   
7   Talal Shakerchi   138,300   
8   Jim McCrink   122,960

all info from www.pokerstarsblog.com

Dan Smith? Again? This guy is too sick. These are his biggest scores just in 2012:

17-Aug-2012      € 50,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller
EPT/Estrellas Poker Tour - Barcelona, Barcelona    1st    € 962,925    $ 1,183,100

28-Jun-2012        $ 5,000 No Limit Hold'em (Event #50)
43rd World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2012, Las Vegas    3rd       $ 368,943

Monte-Carlo®Casino EPT Grand Final, Monte Carlo    1st    € 118,000    $ 155,790
27-Apr-2012      € 5,000 No Limit Hold'em

Monte-Carlo®Casino EPT Grand Final, Monte Carlo    1st    € 250,500    $ 330,724
26-Apr-2012      € 5,000 No Limit Hold'em - 6 Max Turbo

Monte-Carlo®Casino EPT Grand Final, Monte Carlo    1st    € 152,980    $ 201,972
19-Apr-2012      € 1,000 No Limit Hold'em

22-Jan-2012      A$ 100,000 No Limit Hold'em - $100,000 Challenge
2012 Aussie Millions Poker Championship, Melbourne    1st    A$ 1,012,000    $ 1,041,828

from thehendonmob.com

That or broken glass, somehow has this conversation a few nights ago. Hope all have been safe so far in Barca.

I'm about today, watching my old colleagues being worked to the bone, 16 or 17 hour shifts for dealers are the norm so far, it's the first few days though, but even so, be nice to your dealers today and tomorrow especially, oh and I plan to have a few drinks being my last day in Barca for a while.

Met Mike Hill, top bloke, anyone know how he finished in the Estrella main, was in the money on Av stack last time I saw him?

55th

Possibly the worst registration process I've ever seen here this week. Spain is a joke

Massive plus one. Charming place, but incompetence is too much. The last time I played there was a Spanish poker tour event, where we played 3 and a half hour days, and couldn't persuade the organisers that it wasn't quite the normal thing. I made day 4 and barely got above the starting stack

Goog to write a huge post about this. Absolutely inexcusable. I cued up for over 6 hours to play 4 tournaments (1 I didn't even play) whilst I bought in online already.

So so many bad things.

You would think by season 9 things would have improved.

My favourite EPT is Deauville and the first time round it was awful.

But they have bucked their ideas up and it's very efficient now.

Shame Barca isn't as good.

+1

I think that they massively underestimated demand tho.  So many tournies cancelled.

Was in a 1 day supersat that with about 40 runners left was told that only 3 more levels were to be played as they couldn't run anything past 4.30am.  While everyone was up in arms, I do wonder if its local gaming laws that held them back.

But yeah the reg process was unreal.  Not enough staff to cope.

The cash games were insane.  I think the main poker room had like 20-25 tables and when I went there on Sunday there were about 10 open with literally hundreds of people on the list.  The casino just didn't have the dealers and I heard that they were doing some incred long days.

It's cos there's too many people here from the combined estrellas/ept. Can't complain too much

468 of 670 made it through 1b

A report of the day's play is at http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/ept/2012/ept9-barcelona-bahar-leads-on-day-joentausta-overall-097128.html

690 return for Day 2 today.

The dealer I know got shipped in on 2 weeks notice and are working 16 or 17 hour days, in shit air con, I'm surprised they're taking it so well.

I think it's a case of a victim of it's own success, the fields have just been overwhelming. Although the Spanish are not motivated by tips, it's just not in their culture. I've lived here on and off for 2 years, I'm no expert, but you just have to take a deep breath, and expect nothing to happen quickly, that's Spain, siesta's and more bank holidays than you can imagine. Once you've come to terms with that it's an amazing place to live. Just maybe not the best for logistics especially when poker tournaments and air con settings are involved..

John Juanda is the chip leader at the end of Day Two of EPT9 Barcelona, with 200 left

the record-breaking field weighed in at 1,082 players, meaning a prize pool of €5,247,700. The winner's cheque will be written for €1,007,550

Behind Juanda is Ilhari Sahamies.

Top ten

John Juanda   732400      
Ilari Sahamies   523500   
Samuel Rodriguez 455800      
Guy Bachar   448000   
Mauro Canavese 407100   
Marcos Fernandez 403400   
Anders Hansen   389900      
Aku Joentausta   388700   
Lucille Cailly   360700   

Dan Rudd top Brit with 299,200. Up the Mariners!

Ben Jackson   263000      
Peter Akery   138000      
Sam Holden   121900      
Zimnan Ziyard   106100   
Mathew Frankland   93900      
Jake Cody   89700
Roberto Romanello   72400      


http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/ept/2012/ept9-barcelona-john-juanda-runs-hot-to-l-097180.html

That Ben Jackson , is he Paul Jackson son?

If it's that Ben Jackson, yes

Yes frankie

This gif has made my week:

(http://i47.tinypic.com/anbux4.gif)

61 left headed into Day 4

A Brit in the top ten

Antonin Duda   1470000
Samuel Rodriguez   1416000   
Ilari Sahamies   1269000   
John Juanda   968000      
Fatima Moreira de Melo 955000   
Zimnan Ziyard   940000   
Marcos Fernandez   926000      
Lucille Cailly   902000      
Felix Kretchmann   867000      
Aku Joentausta   862000


Others

Roberto Romanello 671000
Daniel Rudd   635000
Ben Jackson     363000


1      1,007,550   
2      629,700   
3      404,050   
4      301,750   
5      230,900   
6      178,400   
7      125,950   
8      76,100   
9      55,100   
10      55,100   
11      46,700   
12      46,700   
13      40,400   
14      40,400   
15      34,650   
16      34,650   
17      29,400   
18      29,400   
19      29,400   
20      29,400   
21      29,400   
22      29,400   
23      29,400   
24      29,400   
25      24,650   
26      24,650   
27      24,650   
28      24,650   
29      24,650   
30      24,650   
31      24,650   
32      24,650   
33      20,000   
34      20,000   
35      20,000   
36      20,000   
37      20,000   
38      20,000   
39      20,000   
40      20,000   
41      16,800   
42      16,800   
43      16,800   
44      16,800   
45      16,800   
46      16,800   
47      16,800   
48      16,800   
49      16,800   
50      16,800   
51      16,800   
52      16,800   
53      16,800   
54      16,800   
55      16,800   
56      16,800   
57      14,150   
58      14,150   
59      14,150   
60      14,150   
61      14,150

67   Mathew Frankland   14,150   
113   Jake Cody   9,950   

Good luck to Zimnan.

He used to share a flat in Bournemouth with young Marius, who won the SPT Grand Final (or 6-Max, I forget which) last year. Marius now works in a Hotel, & Zimmy travels the world playing poker. Such is life.

He won an EPT late last year for a third of a mill, & had a decent WSOP, with 5 cashes, including a Final Table in the $5,000 Stud Hi-Lo of all things. He's a really decent chap, too.

GOGOGO Danny Rudd.

Also, when they were both starting out, he used to play in the same university games with a called Rupert, iirc.

24 remain, and Romanello is the last Brit standing

Samuel Rodriguez   5,330,000   
Jonathan Karamalikis   3,085,000   
Mikalai Pobal   2,745,000   
Antonin Duda   2,054,000   
Anton Sinel   1,974,000   
John Juanda   1,644,000   
Ole Schemion   1,571,000   
Lucille Cailly   1,431,000   
Elias Gutierrez Hernandez   1,290,000   
Javier Piazuelo   1,256,000   
Joni Jouhkimainen   1,161,000   
Ilari Sahamies   1,040,000   
Mauro Canavese   1,026,000   
Aku Joentausta   1,015,000   
Mikolaj Zawadzki   1,006,000   
Fatima Moreira de Melo   805,000   
Alex Casals   731,000   
Anaras Alekberovas   685,000   
Ibon Merino Borbolla   615,000   
Roberto Romanello   497,000   
Algirdas Saveikis   488,000   
Alain Roy   445,000   
Luis Rufas   405,000   
Morten Mortensen   392,000   

Dan Rudd 36th for €20,000
Zimnan Ziyard 44th for €16,800
Ben Jackson 53rd for €16,800

So once again it looks like we down to funking for Roberto in keeping our British hopes alive. I only know two people with chip shops and they are both awesome awesome poker players. :)

Maria is an awesome poker player?

Roberto just seems to know how to get there in these things. Hope he wins it

Oh. I only know 3 people with chip shops then :)

Lol!

Don't forget Greek Jack, who rents out a few I believe, & is there a kid in Leeds with some chippies - LilDave I think his name is? ;)

What the hell ??? Everyone I know owns a chip shop lol

Why no one mentioned about me !!!!

you aren't playing the EPT

We assumed that Herbie was referring to you, Frankie. No offence intended.

Lol... I know

Yeah Frankie is number 1 chippy for sure. He fry's the best fishes on and off the tables

"At times it has felt like the first main event of the new season has been headlined by Finnish players from the start. On day one Aku Joentausta held the lead. Then heads were turned by the return of Ilari Sahamies to live tournament poker. Then a third contender emerged in the form of 20-year-old Joni Jouhkimainen, whose recent form tipped us off to a likely final table appearance.

But there was another player, lost in the euphoria and waiting for his moment. That was Mikalai Pobal who tonight confounded everyone to pull off an unlikely win, one of the biggest surprises in tour history. He claimed the EPT Barcelona title, a HD3 Slyde watch, and €1,007,550. But the biggest surprise was that he was from Belarus, not Finland. "


(http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/assets_c/2012/08/mikalai_pobal_ept9bar_ftwrap-thumb-300x450-170951.jpg)

1   Mikalai Pobal   1,007,550   
2   Ilari Sahamies   629,700   
3   Joni Jouhkimainen   404,050   
4   Anaras Alekberovas   301,750   
5   Samuel Rodriguez   230,900   
6   Sinel Anton   178,400   
7   Antonin Duda   125,950   
8   John Juanda   76,100   
9   Ole Schemion   55,100   
10   Morten Mortensen   55,100   
11   Jonathan Karamalikis   46,700   
12   Mikolaj Zawadzki   46,700   
13   Alex Casals   40,400   
14   Aku Joentausta   40,400   
15   Elias Gutierrez Hernandez   34,650   
16   Fatima Moreira de Melo   34,650   
17   Javier Piazuelo   29,400   
18   Mauro Canavese   29,400   
19   Saveikis Algirdas   29,400   
20   Ibon Merino Borbolla   29,400   
21   Lucille Cailly   29,400   
22   Roberto Romanello   29,400


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