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2013 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona

€5,300 Main Event
Dias: 6
Event Info

2013 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona

Resultado Final
Vencedor
Mão Vencedora
55
Prémio
€942,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€5,984,900
Entradas
1,230
Informações sobre o nível
Nível
36
Blinds
200,000 / 400,000
Ante
50,000

€5,300 Main Event

Dia 6 Iniciado

Who Will Become the EPT10 Barcelona Champion? We'll Find Out Today

Empty feature table before the final 9 players retook their seats
Empty feature table before the final 9 players retook their seats

What a way to kick off Season 10 of the European Poker Tour! The EPT10 Barcelona Main Event drew an astounding 1,234 players to the Casino Barcelona, and after an intense week of play we're down to the final table of eight. Perhaps the most accomplished player remaining is Tom “hitthehole” Middleton, who begins with the chip lead for the third day in a row!

Middleton received tremendous support from his fellow Brits, both live and online, and we expect he'll have a rowdy and boisterous rail here today. Likewise, last year two Finns, Ilari Sahamies and Joni Jouhkimainen (the latter is chip leader at the €10,000 High Roller final table), must have set a precedent by wearing sparkly fedoras at the final table because this year the two Finns remaining, Kimmo Kurko and Pasi Sormunen, have taken to wearing the same hats. The question is, can either of them do what their countrymen failed to do last year and capture the title?

Others still in contention include Kresten Nielsen, who is second in chips with 7.3 million, and Eduard Bhaggoe, the short stack with 1.615 million. The remaining eight players are guaranteed at least €102,430, but all of them have their eyes firmly fixed on the €1,067,000 first-place prize, which also comes with the coveted trophy and stylish SLYDE watch.

Here's a look at the EPT10 Barcelona final table:

SeatPlayerCountyCount
1Andreas ChristoforouCyprus2,560,000
2Kimmo KurkoFinland2,265,000
3Pasi SormunenFinland3,070,000
4Tom Middleton*UK9,850,000
5Eduard BhaggoeNetherlands1,615,000
6Luca Fiorini*Italy4,610,000
7Kresten Nielsen*Denmark7,300,000
8Benoit GuryFrance5,610,000

*PokerStars Qualifier

The sixth and final day will kick off at 1:00 p.m. CET at the Casino Barcelona, though the live stream that we'll reporting off of is on a one-hour delay. Be sure to check the PokerNews live coverage in a couple of hours for all action and eliminations on the way to crowning the latest EPT champion.

While you wait, check out this video on how to enjoy the beach here in Barcelona:

Seat 8: Benoît “beubeu08bg“ Gury, 35, Ardennes, France (5,610,000)

Benoit Gury
Benoit Gury

Gury discovered poker in 2008 during an evening with friends. He started playing live cash games and, motivated by his success, then started playing on PokerStars. He also started watching a lot of videos, including EPT finals.

Benoit was absolutely passionate about his new hobby and, at the end of 2009 he started playing live tournaments, where he also performed well. But the turning point in his poker career was when he qualified for the 2012 French TV show “Direct Poker” and then won it. He said: “Playing poker on TV, it is very stressful! Everything happens very quickly ... but it's great!”

Gury’s prize was a sponsorship contract with PokerStars.fr worth $100,000 in tickets for EPTs, France Poker Series tourneys and the French Championship of Online Poker. His biggest cash before now was making the final of a PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino EPT Grand Final €1k side event.

*Courtesy of PokerStars

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Seat 7: Kresten Nielsen, 25, Haslev, Denmark – PokerStars qualifier (7,300,000)

Kresten Nielsen
Kresten Nielsen

Kresten "Big Toro" Nielsen, also known as 'The Killer' in his native Denmark, has never had a big live cash but he has a couple of big cashes on PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. He's played some EPTs before, his first being the most memorable. It was in 2008 in Copenhagen and he knocked out so many players on the first day that the local Ace magazine put him on the cover of their daily news letter, naming him Kresten 'The Killer “. The name has stuck ever since. Nielsen won his seat to EPT Barcelona in a €320 Deep Hyper-Turbo qualifier in June.

*Courtesy of PokerStars

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Seat 6: Luca Fiorini, 43, Rome, Italy – PokerStars qualifier (4,610,000)

Luca Fiorini
Luca Fiorini

Luca Fiorini used to run a franchise chain of estate agents in Rome but gave it up to focus on poker. He has been playing poker seriously for around four years now. He only ever plays tournaments, travelling once a month to destinations around his native Italy including Sanremo. He also plays online a lot where his best result was finishing second in a PokerStars.it Sunday Special for €20,000. He came to Barcelona without his girlfriend Romana because he says he needs to concentrate but joked: “If I win, we’ll get married, buy a house and have children. Not if I come second though!” Fiorini won his seat to Barcelona on PokerStars.it.

*Courtesy of PokerStars

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Seat 5: Eduard Bhaggoe, 37, Rotterdam, Netherlands (1,615,000)

Eduard Bhaggoe
Eduard Bhaggoe

Eduard Bhaggoe is a recreational player who doesn't play online but enjoys the live poker scene enormously. He has been playing poker for around seven years, mainly in Holland. This is his third EPT – he also competed at EPT Berlin and Dortmund. At last season’s EPT Barcelona, Bhaggoe’s wife Siema played the Main Event but was eliminated just short of the money on Day 3 by Team PokerStars SportStar Fatima Moreira de Melo. They also had their luggage stolen at the airport so not an ideal trip. He said this one is going a lot better! This time around, Siema is railing him, alongside his brother who also plays poker from time to time.

*Courtesy of PokerStars

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Seat 4: Tom “hitthehole” Middleton, 26, Leeds, UK – PokerStars Qualifier (9,850,000)

Tom Middleton
Tom Middleton

Tom Middleton has put in a strong performance at EPT Barcelona and it is not really surprising that he has made the final – having been the overnight chip leader three days in a row. Middleton – known as "Middy" to his friends (who include Team PokerStars Pro Jake Cody et al) - is a high-stakes online player with numerous big online scores to his name including second place in a multi-entry $1k event on Full Tilt Poker for $160,000, winning a Full Tilt Poker $1k for $97,000 and third in a WCOOP $500 rebuy for $84,000. He also has a string of live tournament results with winnings totaling nearly $1 million. He won his seat to EPT Barcelona on PokerStars in June.

*Courtesy of PokerStars

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Seat 3: Pasi Sormunen, 41, Riihimaki, Finland (3,070,000)

Pasi Sormunen
Pasi Sormunen

Pasi Sormunen, 41, is a businessman who considers himself a recreational player only, taking up the game three years ago. Like his fellow Finn Kimmo Kurko, Sormunen’s first major successes came at home where he finished third in the 2010 Midnight Sun event and then won the 2012 Helsinki Freezeout two years later. Pokeritieto.com reporter Juhani Tyriseva said: "He's not afraid to put his chips in. And that's his strength. No fear, it's just for fun." Proof of this swashbuckling approach was all too clear at EPT London in March, when he tried to bluff Ruben Visser with ace-high. Visser showed a full house and went to win the title, Sormunen finished 15th for £20,000.

*Courtesy of PokerStars

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Seat 2: Kimmo Kurko, 30, Tampere, Finland (2,265,000)

Kimmo Kurko
Kimmo Kurko

Kimmo Kurko is a fulltime poker player who turned pro in 2008 after a win in Helsinki. He followed this up a year later by winning an EPT5 Sanremo €2,000 event. It was enough to make him a regular on the European circuit, with earnings to date of more than $1.1 million. Pokeritieto.com reporter Juhani Tyriseva said: "He's a lot like Juha Helppi. He doesn't make many mistakes."

*Courtesy of PokerStars

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Seat 1: Andreas “daskalos20” Christoforou, 32, Nicosia, Cyprus (2,560,000)

Andreas Christoforou
Andreas Christoforou

Andreas Christoforou has been a professional multi-table tournament player for the last four years. The Cypriot plays all the Sunday majors and made a Super Tuesday final table on PokerStars as recently as July playing under the name “daskalos20”. Christoforou also plays as “o daskalos” on Full Tilt and has cashed for more than $1.25m across the two sites. This is already his largest live cash but he had a couple of deep runs at the WSOP where small cashes could have been bigger.

“I will do my best but I know it’s tough ... I’m an experienced player, I know what to do, but I have to be lucky as well,” said Christoforou.

*Courtesy of PokerStars

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