The field has been reduced from 650 to 405 in the opening 90 minutes of play. The remaining players are now guaranteed €2,050.
2018 PokerStars.es EPT Barcelona
The tournament clock shows that there will be ten levels played today, with players bagging up at the end of Level 27.
There will be a 75-minute dinner break at the end of Level 25.
Sonny Franco raised to 22,000 and Vladimir Heinich defended his big blind.
The flop came ![]()
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and Heinich check-called 10,000.
The turn was the
and this time Heinich bet 35,000. Franco called. The river was the
and Heinich bet 60,000. Franco threw in a chip to call, but was shown ![]()
by his opponent for a runner-runner straight flush.
Andrei Nodea saw the player on his direct left move all in and reshoved before the rest of the table folded. Nodea held pocket jacks and was up against ace-six. The board ran out safe for the Romanian as he claimed a scalp and moved up to 385,000.
Former Portuguese reality TV star Claudio Coelho had only come into the day with a touch of 100,000 in chips, and had withered down to around half of that before he moved all in with ![]()
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Unfortunately for him, he had come up against the ![]()
of Brou Laurent. The board ran out ![]()
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and Coelho was eliminated.
Day 1a chipleader Maksim Bura came into play with a big stack worth 736,000 and has been able to continue his momentum. The Russian is now at with a 1,075,000 stack as he looks to make a deep similar to the one he achieved during the 2017 PokerStars Festival Marbella where he took 11th place in the € 330 No Limit Hold'em Marbella Cup.
Yiannis Liperis was all in and at risk with ![]()
against the ![]()
of Benjamin Abrahams. The board came ![]()
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and Liperis was eliminated, boosting Abraham's stack up to around 300,000.
Nível: 19
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 10,000