Pokerstars.com EPT Barcelona: Day 1A - Interactive

[NoflopsHomer]

Welcome to Barcelona for the start of Season 4 of the EPT. Play begins here at 5pm (4pm UK time). I believe the structure has been modified slightly, and now includes the 500/1000 level just to make it even more sick. An additional day has also been added so that the final table will get a full day to itself. The tournament is capped at 600 runners and it looks as though we'll probably reach that number.

If there's anyone you wish us to follow, please let us know here and we'll do our best.

[AdamG]

Welcome to Barcelona for the start of Season 4 of the EPT. Play begins here at 5pm (4pm UK time). I believe the structure has been modified slightly, and now includes the 500/1000 level just to make it even more sick. An additional day has also been added so that the final table will get a full day to itself. The tournament is capped at 600 runners and it looks as though we'll probably reach that number.

If there's anyone you wish us to follow, please let us know here and we'll do our best.

good luck to the english and lets hope a fellow blonde makes a good cash at barca!!!!!! good luck to all

[action man]

we got a list of the blondeites playing?

[jambo22]

Hi,
Can you look out for Phil Starrs

Cheers

[dino1980]

 

Updated on Dan 'Lucky Scrote' Carter please, not sure if he's playing today or tomorrow.

[Djinn]

Well, we're set up in the bar/press room which was the scene of our update last year, perched on some kind of sofa using a succession of small, round coffee tables as desks.  It looks like an hour in advance just isn't enough to bag a proper table - I didn't think it was possible for the press to become more numerous, but multiply they have, and the pretty much guaranteed-sellout crowd is going to be thronged by comparable numbers of media.  That won't, of course, be a problem until three days from now - expect each Day One to have around 300 runners wedged into it.  And hidden in there are probably way more players we know than we suspect currently...as soon as any kind of list shows up, you'll get it.

Spotted (but not necessarily playing today):
Isabelle Mercier
John Shipley
Blondeite 'doobs'
Sverre Sundbo
Rolf Slotboom
Mark Vos
ActionJeff

Er... there were more at the Pokerstars Party, I think, but I can't really recall.  I can tell you that the sea is nice and warm at 1am.  The weather in Barcelona is textbook sunny, and the 5pm starts daily mean that we may even get a chance to see some of the beautiful city, missed spectacularly last year but lurking gloriously for whenever we crawl out of bed.

[NoflopsHomer]

Jen's middle name is 'Anders'



Made my day.

[snoopy1239]

Have many American players made the trip?

[Djinn]

Have many American players made the trip?

Not sure yet - it looks like more might be over jet lag tomorrow...

But we do know that rumours of Daniel Negreanu's putting in an appearance look to be founded - he is playing tomorrow, now that he's joined forces with Pokerstars.  It's believed he's not a big fan of the transatlantic commute, so he's probably here on an extended trip to encompass the WSOPE and maybe EPT London too. 

[Djinn]

And while the Day 1a Runners List is still being processed by the casino and has yet to make its way into Mad Harper's hands, here's another list, with which she rightly assumed we'd all be pacified: a list of qualifiers, buyers-in via Stars and sponsored players.

Andre   Akkari
Karkus   Andras
Isaac   Baron
Pascal   Barrau
Lukas   Benkovic
Noah   Boeken
Daniel   Bokesch
Martin   Clemmensen
Gregory   Dyer
Tim   Flanders
Philippa   Flanders
Jimmy   Fricke
Carlos   Frontelo
Gentili   Gianluca
Jose   Giner
Bertrand   Grospellier
Randy   Haddox
Pham   Hai
Eric   Hardt
Rakita   Heijnen
Anders   Henriksson
William   Hill
Mats   Iremark
Nikolaus   Jedlicka
Janne   Juutilainen
Matt   Kay
Cort   Kibler-Melby
Samuel   Laborde
Florian   Langmann
Ville   Laukkanen
Jens   Lundgren
Lee   McCreery
Sorel   Mizzi
Clayton   Mozdzen
Philippe   Narboni
Rayan   Nathan
Ketul   Nathwani
Patrik   Neckelmann
Haby   Nicolas
Morten   Nielsen
Walter   Oaquim
Annette   Obrestad
David   Robinson
Alexander   Roumeliotis
Sebastian   Ruthenberg
Charlotta   Sjödin
Benjamin   Sriqui
Philip   Starrs
Stephane   Subrenat
Sverre   Sundbo
Kovacs   Tamas
Stuart   Taylor
Katja   Thater
Peter   Toefting
Jon   Turner
Ville   Wahlbeck
Michael   Watson
Michael   Wong
Roman   Yitzhaki
Winfred   Yu
Andrey   Zaichenko
Jacques   Zaicik
Abraham   Rosenkrantz
Adam   Junglen
Aditya   Agarwal
Alexander   Jung
Anton   Smolyanskiy
Benjamin   Freeman
Brian   Green
Bryn   Kenney
Champie   Douglas
Chris   Bush
Clinton   Herring
Dag   Mikkelsen
Daniel   Negreanu
Daniel   Stern
Dario   Minieri
David   Anderson
Dennis   Plejdrup
Geir   Haugland
Geoffrey   Sanford
Gordon   Vayo
Greg   Raymer
Guilherme   Soares
Humberto   Brenes
Isabelle   Mercier
Jakob   Paulsen
Robert   Binelli
Jeff   Gray
Jeffrey   Garza
Joakim   Olsson
Joep   van den Bijgaart
Johan   Hermans
John   Shipley
Jorge   Correia
Jørgen   Kjerkol
Joris   Jaspers
Josh   Egan
Keven   Stammen
Konstantinos   Nanos
Leo   Wolpert
Lex   Veldhuis
Luca   Pagano
Marcel   Luske
Matthew   Graham
Ognyan   Ivanov
Olvedo   Heinze
Pascal   Choquet
Peter   Gelencser
Petri   Pietilä
Phillipe   D'Auteuil
Richard   Guttmann
Ryan   Jones
Sebastian   Zink
Simon   Wolf
Sonni   Petersen
Stefan   Jedlicka
Stephen   Devlin
Terrence   Chan
Thierry   van den Berg
Thomas   Tollund
Thomas   Bentham
Tommi   Mourujärvi
Vesa   Leikos
Ville   Salmi

[Dewi_cool]

Updates on Clinton Herring please,expect some fishy plays from him

[AndrewT]

Updates on Clinton Herring please,expect some fishy plays from him

Please Dewi, this is a serious update - it's not the plaice for such silly puns.

[Enhanced]

But we do know that rumours of Daniel Negreanu's putting in an appearance look to be founded - he is playing tomorrow, now that he's joined forces with Pokerstars.  It's believed he's not a big fan of the transatlantic commute, so he's probably here on an extended trip to encompass the WSOPE and maybe EPT London too. 

Based on his blog entry located here, it doesn't appear as if he has a problem with transatlantic commutes, based on the sheer number of flights he'll be taking back and forth. Seems like he even will fly London -> Las Vegas -> London just to be home for 6 days in between WSOPE and EPT London.

[NoflopsHomer]

Updates on Clinton Herring please,expect some fishy plays from him

Please Dewi, this is a serious update - it's not the plaice for such silly puns.

Stop it both of you, you're giving me a haddock.

[Djinn]

Now another list - this time of actual players, actually playing right now (they Shuffled Up and Dealt about 10 minutes ago):

Tim Flanders
Mickey Wernick
Annette Obrestad
Elky
Sebastian Riviere
Pippa Flanders
Katja Thater
Nicky Jedlicka
William Thorsson
Richard Ashby
Julian Thew
Johnny Lodden
Ram Vaswani
Dan Carter
Ramzi Jelassi
Roland de Wolfe
Rayan Nathan
Peter Gould
Patric Matensson

And sharing tables we have:
   
Jimmy Fricke
Rob Hollink
Jani Sointula

Johan Storakers
Michael Greco
Noah Boeken

Sverre Sundbo
Alan Smurfit
Sorel Mizzi
Stuart Fox