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EPT Barcelona will open Season 10 and the tour will again partner with the Estrellas Poker Tour to create Spain’s largest-ever poker festival. The Festival runs August 26-September 7, 2013 and the whole event will once again take place in an annexe of the Casino de Barcelona at Hotel Arts Barcelona, providing a fantastically spacious venue in a very luxurious setting. Close to 2,000 players took part last season and this Festival will kick Season 10 off in style - make sure you are there.

EPT Barcelona Main Event

The €5,000 + €300 Main Event will take place September 1-7, and will attract the best players from around the world, including hundreds of PokerStars qualifiers. Last season's event was a spectacular success with by far the biggest field the tournament has ever drawn. More than 1,000 players competed, making it the biggest poker tournament ever held in Spain, and the Main Event prize pool topped €5,000,000! Belarussian player Mikalai Pobal scooped the massive €1,007,700 first prize after beating Finland’s Ilari Sahamies.

Estrellas Poker Tour Barcelona

Estrellas Poker Tour events will take place August 28-September 1, and will conclude the ESPT Season 4 schedule. The Main Event will feature a €1,000 + €100 buy-in and a €850,000 guarantee and this is one of Spain’s most eagerly-anticipated live poker tournaments. For more information on the Estrellas Poker Tour, visit the official website: www.estrellaspokertour.com



this thread for news, updates, follow the progress of UK players etc

Please post if you are there/how you get on etc

Good luck to Deadman, Mitch , Fred, Alex and Scotty  whom I knew are playing .

Estrellas field is huge, 1635 in acc Pokerstars blog.

This week's Estrellas Poker Tour event in Barcelona has just become the biggest freezeout event in PokerStars tour history.

Up until today, the 1,626-strong field at UKIPT Nottingham held the record for the biggest PokerStars event. It seemed like a tough record to beat.

But, this week, the Estrellas event simply blew up. Six hundred seventy-five people signed up for Day 1A Wednesday. This morning, the Day 1B field and queue for alternates was huge. At the dinner break tonight, at least 960 people had taken their seats for the €1,100 Main Event, taking the total number of players to at least 1,635.

Edgar Stuchly, President of the EPT, said, "I'm incredibly proud to be part of the biggest live poker tournament that PokerStars has ever held. Last year's player numbers in Barcelona - both Estrellas and the EPT - were sensational. It is fantastic that we have beaten our own record and also now that of the 2011 PCA and UKIPT Nottingham. I want to thank all our players who have made this possible - and also my team who have worked so hard and are so dedicated."

Quite amazing numbers here. 100 people queuing for the 200 side with 3 hours before it starts!

After 6 levels of the main event yeaterday...

 (http://i1210.photobucket.com/albums/cc416/cambridgealex/null_zps113db021.jpg)

Waiting list for cash games...

(http://i1210.photobucket.com/albums/cc416/cambridgealex/null_zps5eeef739.jpg)

Must be 100+ on most lists- I was 76th after two hours!

Grats PVAS2

The Main Event

Yesterday, the Day 1a field attracted 518 entrants, and today the field is expected to be even bigger

Day 1a chip leader, Dragan Kostic, who bagged up 215,000 after eight 75-minute levels of play on Sunday.

308 made it through to Day 2

reports and chip counts at http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/tournaments/ept/season-10/ept-barcelona/main-event-22/

I saw Paul finalled an event in Barca?

How did he finish please?

Jack Salter heads the UK challenge on 103,100 with Tom Middleton 92,700 and Sky Poker pundit Ryan Spittles 78,800 also doing wel. Toby Lewis returns with just 8,800.

http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/ept/2013/ept10-barcelona-paul-vas-nunes-looking-t-141067.html (http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/ept/2013/ept10-barcelona-paul-vas-nunes-looking-t-141067.html)

Fantastic, wp.

thank you

Well done to Paul!

Thanks :)

Took more than a few coolers and suck outs. The real story imo was the 6th place finisher who was disabled (unsure of condition) and couldn't move hands or head/face or hardly speak at all and had his brother tell him what was happening and what moves to make for him. Very inspirational and I actually felt bad to cooler him with JJ vs K5 on J55 flop for the biggest pot of the tournament and to knock him out in 6th later but that's poker.

I also need to learn how to close these tournaments...

In Crete poker stars blog is banned thankfully blonde isn't

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708 runners for the Main 1b

this made 1226 for the total field

728 through to Day 2


"a 1,200-plus player turnout most certainly tops last year's Barcelona best of 1,082.

As far as breaking the all-time high for non-PCA European Poker Tour events of 1,240 set in Sanremo during Season 6 is concerned, that remains to be seen once registration officially closes at the start of tomorrow's Day 2. Amazing, in any case, to consider the growth in Barcelona since Alex Stevic topped 229 to win the first ever EPT Main Event here in Season 1. "


chip counts and updates at http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/ept/2013/ept10-barcelona-night-falls----and-a-rec-141094.html

Sick result Paul. Congrats.

http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/ept/2013/ept10-barcelona-from-chile-to-barcelona-pablo-tavitian-leads-main-event-141155.html

235 left after Day 2

In the top ten...

"Not far behind is Niall Farrell from Scotland, who is turning 2013 into his own. After an impressive week at EPT London earlier this year, where he finished second in a side event and tenth in the Main Event, he took to Las Vegas over the summer, earning five World Series of Poker cashes, including a runner-up spot in a $3K hold'em event. Now he's turning his attention to a deep run in Barcelona, bagging up 444,000."

Seat draw for today, payouts and chip counts are on

http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/tournaments/ept/season-10/ept-barcelona/main-event-22/

hit that hole

First to a Mill oi oii

When is it appropriate to start singing Middy Middy Middy

Excited

always!!!

79 remain headed into Day 4

today's seat draw. I have highlighted the Brits left

467,000 is the average


Table   Seat   Player Name   Country   Chips
1   1   Mike Watson   Canada   386,000
1   2   Niall Farrell   UK   912,000
1   3   Kevin Iacofano   UK   122,000
1   4   Eduard Bhaggoe   Netherlands   106,000
1   5   Guillermo Olvera   Mexico   381,000
1   6   Kent Lundmark   Sweden   501,000
1   7   Pasi Sormunen   Finland   588,000
1   8   Eli Heath   UK   139,000
                
2   1   Dimitar Danchev   Bulgaria   376,000
2   2   Luca Fiorini   Italy   526,000
2   3   Danny Covyn   Belgium   405,000
2   4   Manuel Cuberos   Spain   295,000
2   5   Sebastian Von Toperczer   Germany   195,000
2   6   Raphael Halfon   France   765,000
2   7   Jonas Lauck   Germany   490,000
2   8   Julian Thomas   Germany   197,000
                
3   1   Zsolt Vasvenszki   Hungary   363,000
3   2   Sean Wilson   Canada   186,000
3   3   Christophe De Meulder   Belgium   334,000
3   4   Florian-Dimitrie Duta   Romania   386,000
3   5   Thomas Butzhammer   Germany   827,000
3   6   Nils Jarefjall   Sweden   695,000
3   7   David Kaufmann   Germany   233,000
3   8   Ramsey Khoury   USA   163,000
                
4   1   Henri Benoni   France   307,000
4   2   Michael Skender   Germany   454,000
4   3   Lukas Berglund   Sweden   136,000
4   4   Petra Hruskova   Slovakia   492,000
4   5   Stefan Tobias Kolossow   Germany   806,000
4   6   Parker Talbot   Canada   486,000
4   7   Francesco Delfoco   Italy   250,000
4   8   Dmitry Yurasov   Russia   648,000
                
5   1   Andrey Danilyuk   Russia   395,000
5   2   Andreas Christoforou   Cyprus   825,000
5   3   Maximilian Senft   Austria   347,000
5   4   Christopher Andler   Sweden   533,000
5   5   Alejandro Belluccia   Argentina   871,000
5   6   Dermot Blain   Ireland   230,000
5   7   Jacek Markowski   Germany   780,000
5   8   Antonio Lacirignola   Italy   396,000
                
6   1   Nicolau Villa-Lobos   Brazil   192,000
6   2   Jacob Rasmussen   Denmark   936,000
6   3   Mikalai Pobal   Belarus   71,000
6   4   Sergei Chantcev   Russia   829,000
6   5   Aliaksei Boika   Belarus   124,000
6   6   Miklos Zsuffa   Hungary   451,000
6   7   Glib Kovtunov   Ukraine   532,000
6   8   Max Greenwood   Canada   243,000
                
7   1   Jamila Von Perger   Germany   636,000
7   2   Max Ruess   Sweden   265,000
7   3   Douglas Souza   Brazil   326,000
7   5   Michel Eid   Lebanon   638,000
7   6   Thomas Middleton   UK   1,030,000
7   7   Valentino Konakchiev   Bulgaria   597,000
7   8   Rens Feenstra   Netherlands   328,000
                
8   1   Benoit Gury   France   445,000
8   2   Madis Muur   Estonia   777,000
8   3   Anaras Alekberovas   Lithuania   422,000
8   4   Thomas Hartmann   Germany   173,000
8   5   Albert Daher   Lebanon   512,000
8   6   Jacques Torbey   Lebanon   505,000
8   7   Dragan Kostic   Spain   608,000
8   8   Emilio Jimenez Bueno   Spain   250,000
                
9   1   Martin Staszko   Czech Republic   389,000
9   2   Divkovic Dejan   Bosnia & Herzegovina   272,000
9   3   Kresten Nielsen   Denmark   507,000
9   4   Kimmo Kurko   Finland   581,000
9   5   Jari Haanniemi   Finland   706,000
9   6   Kevin Vandersmissen   Belgium   970,000
9   7   Ryan Spittles   UK   281,000
9   8   Yannick Frenette   Canada   506,000
                
10   1   Clement Thumy   France   473,000
10   2   Siddharth Jain   India   302,000
10   3   Alain Jean Debackere   Estonia   437,000
10   4   Russell Thomas   USA   302,000
10   5   Erwann Pecheux   France   921,000
10   6   Alejandro Perez Torres   Spain   990,000
10   7   Denis Pisarev   Russia   556,000
10   8   Yakov Onuchin   Russia   257,000

1      1,067,000   
2      625,000   
3      440,500   
4      328,000   
5      253,000   
6      188,000   
7      143,000   
8      102,430   
9      79,000
down to
79            12,500

Live stream is now up!

http://www.pokerstars.tv/poker-video-5156-eptlive.html

No hole cards until the final on Saturday though

Middy such a champ. Coming back to day 5 as CL w/23 villains to defeat

Getting excited. Updates are a joke btw - not one for middy all day then a slow roll saying he has 170k 20 mins before wnd

Does anyone know how he got all his chips?  He hasn't been mentioned in the updates at all and went from 1.3m to over 4m without a mention!

End of Day 4 Chip Counts


Tom Middleton   3,986,000   
Alejandro Perez   3,336,000   
Anaras Alekberovas   2,638,000   
Kimmo Kurko   2,427,000
Andreas Christoforou   2,252,000   
Emilio Jimenez   2,243,000   
Madis Müür   2,056,000   
Benoit Gury   1,940,000   
Niall Farrell   1,862,000   
Eduard Bhaggoe   1,637,000   
Luca Fiorini   1,607,000   
Stefan Kolossow   1,511,000   
Sergei Chantcev   1,472,000   
Valentino Konakchiev   1,321,000   
Rens Feenstra   1,255,000   
Florian-Dimitrie Duta   1,101,000   
Lukas Berglund   782,000   
Nicolau Villa-Lobos   778,000   
Jamila Von Perger   712,000   
Pasi Sormunen   703,000   
Michel Eid   560,000
Denis Pisarev   319,000   
Kresten Nielsen   264,000   
Julian Thomas   230,000   

1      1,067,000   
2      625,000   
3      440,500   
4      328,000   
5      253,000   
6      188,000   
7      143,000   
8      102,430   
9      79,000   
10      65,600   
11      65,600   
12      58,980   
13      58,980   
14      52,940   
15      52,940   
16      46,940   
17      46,940   
18      40,940   
19      40,940   
20      40,940   
21      34,950   
22      34,950   
23      34,950   
24      29,270

Good luck to Middy and Firaldo tomorrow

Good luck tomorrow to both.

generally by being an absolute boss who plays awesome.

That and he's an absolute top bloke so deserves to start with more chips anyway.

go on Middy! What a hero.

Gwan the middy

Middy and Firaldo HU would be pretty fkn epic

This, if anyone's ever due then it's probably Middy, silly good.

Middy has a great table draw tomorrow imo.

Anaras Alekberovas, 2,638,000, Lithuania, PokerStars Player, 1, 1
Madis Muur, 2,056,000, Estonia, PokerStars Player, 1, 2
Kimmo Kurko, 2,382,000, Finland, , 1, 3
Emilio Jimenez Bueno, 2,242,000, Spain, PokerStars Player, 1, 4
Denis Pisarev, 319,000, Russian Federation, PokerStars Player, 1, 5
Stefan Kolossow, 1,511,000, Germany, PokerStars Qualifier, 1, 6
Nicolau Villa-Lobos, 778,000, Brazil, PokerStars Player, 1, 7
Jamila Von Perger, 702,000, Germany, PokerStars Player, 1, 8

Luca Fiorini, 1,607,000, Italy, PokerStars Player, 2, 1
Eduard Bhaggoe, 1,637,000, Netherlands, , 2, 2
Michel Eid, 560,000, Lebanon, , 2, 3
Chantcev Sergei, 1,472,000, Russian Federation, PokerStars Qualifier, 2, 4
Niall Farrell, 1,862,000, United Kingdom, PokerStars Player, 2, 5
Valentino Konakchiev, 1,331,000, Bulgaria, PokerStars Player, 2, 6
Benoit Gury, 1,940,000, France, PokerStars Player, 2, 7
Rens Feenstra, 1,255,000, Netherlands, PokerStars Player, 2, 8

Tom Middleton, 3,986,000, United Kingdom, PokerStars Qualifier, 3, 1
Lukas Berglund, 772,000, Sweden, PokerStars Qualifier, 3, 2
Kresten Nielsen, 269,000, Denmark, PokerStars Qualifier, 3, 3
Pasi Sormunen, 703,000, Finland, , 3, 4
Florian-Dimitrie Duta, 1,101,000, Romania, , 3, 5
Julian Thomas, 230,000, Germany, PokerStars Player, 3, 6
Andreas Christoforou, 2,258,000, Cyprus, PokerStars Player, 3, 7
Alejandro Perez Torres, 3,300,000, Spain, 3, 8

He has 3 skandis on his left? Lol

Nice to be on the left of the other two big stacks though.

Cypriot player on his right very good and solid with tons of results on pokerstars platform

Best Of Luck Firaldo and Middy. Come on you Brits. Get it won.  ;slavedriver;  ;goodluck; ;goodluck;

Middy could have 3 skandis for breakfast :)

daskalos20

Cypriots and Scandis....this is Middy and he's feasted in Burger Kimg tonight so he's "fuelled" up.

They're and irrelevance.

<3333

Feature table with middy starting in about 10 mins.

Link?

EPT live

Get the stars tv app if you can its decent.

http://www.pokerstars.tv/poker-video-5156-eptlive.html

Lots of shortish stacks on his table and he is on the direct left of the 2 other big stacks.  It's a great draw.  Will be interesting to see how active he is.

TY.

 Sammy just tweeted this - haven't seen for ages, thought blondes who hasn't seen should. Comedy

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHMf7IOe8GM

I CAWL YA MATE <3

My fav is whys there a f****n dog in there

"he did not muck"

Havent seen that before  rofl  3 to 5 J4 is live

Had not seen that before. It's to the same tune as some MC Devo song, right?

Very amusing.

Glglglgl to both Middy and Firaldo.

there's a tune?

A little bit slower i think. Wish I knew more of the backstories but still quality and gls to #teambrit.

Boom AA>QTdd Q727dd for 7.5m

Not followed much poker this year, however getting excited about Middy's chances, really hope he gets the rub today, he really deserves a big title.

What's the backstory to "why is there dog there"?

oi oi we have a final, 1/8 with just the 9.8m

Oioiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Gowan Middyyyyyyyyyy.

I am going to watch this on the live stream from 1pm today while grinding 8 tables around it #treat

Best of luck to Mr.Middleton today!

Good luck today Middy!

Tom Middleton   9850000   
Kresten Nielsen   7300000   
Benoit Gury   5610000   
Luca Fiorini   4610000   
Pasi Sormunen   3070000   
Andreas Christoforou 2560000   
Kimmo Kurko   2265000   
Eduard Bhaggoe   1615000   


1      1,067,000   
2      625,000   
3      440,500   
4      328,000   
5      253,000   
6      188,000   
7      143,000   
8      102,430


Funk/sweat thread at http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=62167.msg1837473#new

What a HERO! Probably no-one more universally loved.