With over 40,000 in the pot on a flop, Andre Marques bet 27,500 from the big blind. Dario Sammartino called under the gun and the duo saw the on the turn.
Both players now checked, and the hit the river. After using a pair of time banks, Marques bet 35,000, which after using a time bank of his own Sammartino called.
Marques showed , while Sammartino showed for the superior ace-high to earn a pot that takes his stack to 300,000.
John Juanda open-shoved his short stack of around 45,000 from the cutoff and was called by Rui Neves Ferreira in the big blind.
John Juanda:
Rui Neves Ferreira:
The 2015 EPT Barcelona Main Event champion had run into aces and he let out a sigh as the board landed to improve Ferreira to a set. The board then finished out to give Juanda a meaningless two pair and mark his elimination.
"Two pair no good?" Juanda joked before wishing good luck to table mate and fellow Asia-Pacific native David Yan.
Approximately 30,000 was in the middle already on a flop of which Ehsan Amiri checked in the big blind to Ionut-Lucian Colciar who also checked under the gun.
The players also checked the turn, but on the river, Amiri led out for 25,000 and was called by Colciar.
Amiri showed for top pair, top kicker and the winner to add to his stack which entered the day second in the chip counts.
Among those who bagged are EPT champions John Juanda and Simon Brandstrom. The veteran Indonesian poker pro took down the 2015 EPT Barcelona Main Event, while the Swede won the previous edition of the tournament in 2019.
Also on the hunt for an EPT title as the series closes out are big names like Dan Smith, Nacho Barbero, Ben Heath, Niklas Astedt, PokerStars ambassadors Andre Akkari, Ramon Colillas and Alejandro Lococo and 2019 PCA champ Chino Rheem, who made a crazy soul read on Day 1 before bagging a starting stack of 50,000.
Israel's Jacob Amsellem bagged the chip lead with a stack of over 340 big blinds, while other big stacks include Ehsan Amiri (412,500), Andre Machado (397,500) and WSOP bracelet winner Yuliyan Kolev, who could break out his KFC bucket if he makes it deep.
Action will pick up on Level 12 with blinds of 1,000/2,000/2,000 and with levels lasting 50 minutes in duration after some changes to the schedule. The event is scheduled to play for three days and prize pool information should be made available later in the day.
Stay tuned as the PokerNews live reporting team is on-site here at Casino Barcelona and ready to bring readers updates on the Day 2 action.