EPT Barcelona thread

[Junior Senior]

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

[titaniumbean]

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

ya good idea [ ]

[smashedagain]

Stick pins on your pockets

[Simon Galloway]

Stick pins on in your pockets

[TightEnd]

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   

[TightEnd]

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

[cambridgealex]

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

[jackinbeat]

Stick pins on your pockets

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?

[Dewi_cool]

Stick pins on your pockets

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

[NigDawG]

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

[easypickings]

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

[pleno1]

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.

[The Camel]

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

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.

[scotty77]

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.

+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.

[Rupert]

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