€5,300 EPT Main Event Dia 2 | 2022 PokerStars EPT Barcelona

2022-08-18 03:02 UTC+2

Kayhan Mokri Leads 210 Players as Bubble Bursts on Day 2 of €5,300 EPT Main Event

BrandonBloom

Nível 16 : Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

It was another action-packed day at the 2022 PokerStars and Barcelona©Casino European Poker Tour as the field on Day 2 of the €5,300 EPT Main Event was whittled down to only 210 remaining contenders by the end of the night.

The record-breaking EPT Main Event starting field of 2,294 players created a €11,125,900 prize pool, and the eventual winner will receive €1,714,000, while the runner-up will also take home a seven-figure payout of €1,027,470.

Kayhan Mokri leads the remaining 210 players by a good margin, finishing the day with a solid stack of 1,303,000 chips, good for 217 big blinds when play resumes.

Brazil’s Marcelo Simoes (1,068,000) recently won the EPT Main Event in Monte Carlo for €939,840, and he was the only other player to bag over a million chips today. He was seen winning a huge pot with boat over boat near the end of the day as he attempts to continue what would be a highly-improbable run in the culmination of another EPT Main Event victory.

€5,300 EPT Main Event Day 2 Top Ten Counts

RANK	PLAYER	COUNTRY	CHIPS	BIG BLINDS
1	Kayhan Mokri	Norway	1,303,000	217
2	Marcelo Simoes	Brazil	1,068,000	178
3	Scott Margereson	United Kingdom	993,000	166
4	Radoslav Stoyanov	Bulgaria	926,000	154
5	Joris Ruijs	Netherlands	879,000	147
6	Sebastian Toro Henao	Colombia	824,000	137
7	Artur Martirosian	Russia	814,000	136
8	Usman Ulhaq	United Kingdom	800,000	133
9	Alexandre Landron	France	775,000	129
10	Catalin Ciurea	Romania	770,000	128

Others who bagged a stack by day’s end include Ramiro Petrone (561,000), Maria Lampropulos (517,000), Seth Davies (480,000), defending EPT Barcelona Main Event champ Simon Brandstrom (473,000), Gaelle Baumann (408,000), Timothy Adams (387,000), Chino Rheem, Michael Wang (322,000), Julien Martini (217,000), Stephen Chidwick (148,000), PokerStars Ambassador Benjamin Spragg (144,000), Johan Guilbert (127,000), and David Peters (36,000).

In the penultimate level of the day, the bubble burst to send all of the remaining players into the money. The payouts were planned to pay the top 327 finishers, but Emmanuel Rouvet, Daan Mulders, and Oliver Bosch were all eliminated on the money bubble, and the trio split the 326th and 327th place prizes to receive €5,907 each.

Those who found themselves without any chips at the end of the day include PokerStars Ambassadors Alejandro Lococo, Sam Grafton, Jen Shahade, Ramon Colillas, and Andre Akkari. Among others who fell were Adrian Mateos, Erik Seidel, Maria Ho, Patrik Antonius, Mikita Badziakouski, Benny Glaser, Kitty Kuo, Sam Greenwood, Sergio Aido, Jason Wheeler, Sofia Lovgren, Uri Reichenstein, Francisco Benitez, and John Juanda.

The action is slated to resume at 12 p.m. noon on Thursday, August 18. When players return, they will resume play in Level 17 with blinds at 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 big blind ante.

Stay tuned as the PokerNews team continues to provide updates until a winner is crowned, along with coverage of other events from the coast of Catalonia at Casino Barcelona.

Tags: Benjamin Spragg Kayhan Mokri Marcelo Simoes

2022-08-17 23:59 UTC+2

Simoes Breaks a Million with Boat Over Boat Cooler

BrandonBloom

Nível 16 : Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

With roughly 420,000 chips in the pot on a completed board, Marcelo Simoes was in the big blind with chips over the betting line. Cameron Robertson was on the button and put Simoes all in, and Simoes quickly called as he jumped up and clapped in celebration before he turned over for a flopped boat, while Robertson held for an inferior flopped boat.

Cameras swooped in to record the Brazilian stacking up all of his new chips, which took him several minutes to stack as he moved over the 1 million chip mark.

Simoes recently won the EPT Main Event in Monte Carlo for €939,840, and he hopes this could help propel him to another improbable run.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Marcelo Simoes	1,080,000	1,080,000
Cameron Robertson	110,000	-265,000

Tags: Cameron Robertson Marcelo Simoes

2022-08-17 23:37 UTC+2

Marques Nears a Million

Nível 16 : Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

With roughly 140,000 in the pot on a completed board of , Laurence Stein jammed his final 70,000 into the middle from the small blind and was snap-called by Andre Moreira Marques in late position.

Laurence Stein:
Andre Moreira Marques:

Stein's flush on the turn was crushed on the river by Marques' now quad aces which took the pot and pushed Marques' his stack to nearly 1,000,000.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Andre Marques	975,000	470,000
Laurence Stein	Eliminado

Tags: Andre Moreira Marques Laurence Stein

2022-08-17 22:49 UTC+2

Adams Makes Royal Flush to Double

BrandonBloom

Nível 15 : Blinds 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

Timothy Adams had gotten his stack of 184,000 in from the cutoff and was at risk against Alexandre Garcia Vargas in the big blind.

Timothy Adams:
Alexandre Garcia Vargas:

It was a classic flip, and the flop gave Adams additional outs with a flush draw. The turn was an interesting one and the table reacted accordingly, as Adams vaulted ahead but needed to avoid the board pairing. The dealer burned and turned, and put the onto the felt to complete the board, giving Adams a royal flush to stay alive in grand fashion.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Timothy Adams	378,000	143,000
Alexandre Garcia Vargas	55,000	-101,500

Tags: Alexandre Garcia Vargas Timothy Adams

2022-08-17 22:33 UTC+2

78 Countries Represented in Biggest EPT Main Event In History

connorrichards

Nível 15 : Blinds 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

European Poker Tour history was made this week as the €5,300 Barcelona EPT Main Event drew 2,294 runners to be the largest EPT Main Event field ever.

The field is 15% bigger than the field of 1,988 entries from the 2019 EPT Barcelona Main Event, which set the previous record. The prize pool is also bigger as well, €11,125,900 compared to the €9,641,800 from three years ago.

With 1,686 unique entries this year, the 2016 EPT Barcelona Main Event still holds the record for the biggest EPT Main Event in terms of unique entrants. That year, there were 1,785 unique runners.

Biggest EPT Main Events of All Time

RANK	EVENT	ENTRIES	PRIZE POOL
1	EPT Barcelona 2022	2,294	€11,125,900
2	EPT Barcelona 2019	1,988	€9,641,800
3	EPT Barcelona 2018	1,931	€9,365,350
4	EPT Barcelona 2016	1,785	€8,657,250
5	EPT Barcelona 2015	1,694	€8,215,900
6	PCA 2011	1,560	$15,132,000
7	PCA 2010	1,529	$14,831,300
8	EPT Barcelona	1,496	€7,255,600
9	PCA 2009	1,347	$12,674,000
10	EPT Sanremo 2010	1,240	€6,014,000

Nationality Statistics

The largest EPT Main Event in history attracted players from 78 countries, three more than the 75 countries that were represented at in the 2019 EPT Barcelona Main Event. France (210 players) and Italy (136 players) were the most represented countries, respectively making up 12.46% and 8.07% of the field.

France's Gaëlle Baumann made Day 2 of the EPT Main Event

Spain (115 players), Brazil (85 players) and the Netherlands (81 players) were the next most represented, followed by the United Kingdom (81 players), Germany (65 players), Romania (56 players) and the United States (51 players).

Spain's Adrian Mateos played the EPT Main Event

Other countries represented in the 2022 EPT Barcelona Main Event include Costa Rica (three players), Iceland (three players), Kyrgyzstan (two players) the Philippines (one player), Panama (one player) and Venezuela (one player).

A full breakdown of the nationality statistics for the 2022 EPT Barcelona Main Event is available in the table below.

COUNTRY	PLAYERS	PERCENTAGE	COUNTRY	PLAYERS	PERCENTAGE
France	210	12.46%	Estonia	7	0.42%
Italy	136	8.07%	Morocco	7	0.42%
Spain	115	6.82%	Armenia	6	0.36%
Brazil	85	5.04%	Iran	6	0.36%
Netherlands	84	4.98%	Serbia	6	0.36%
United Kingdom	81	4.80%	Slovenia	6	0.36%
Germany	65	3.86%	Kazakhstan	5	0.30%
Romania	56	3.32%	Mexico	5	0.30%
Sweden	52	3.08%	Moldova	5	0.30%
USA	51	3.02%	Uruguay	5	0.30%
Poland	48	2.85%	Jordan	4	0.24%
Canada	37	2.19%	Luxembourg	4	0.24%
Bulgaria	36	2.14%	Peru	4	0.24%
Norway	33	1.96%	Azerbaijan	3	0.18%
Finland	32	1.90%	Costa Rica	3	0.18%
Japan	30	1.78%	China	3	0.18%
Ukraine	30	1.78%	Iceland	3	0.18%
Denmark	29	1.72%	Lebanon	3	0.18%
Belgium	28	1.66%	New Zealand	3	0.18%
Hungary	27	1.60%	Taiwan	3	0.18%
Russia	27	1.60%	Tunisia	3	0.18%
Ireland	24	1.42%	Dominican Republic	2	0.12%
Argentina	23	1.36%	Kyrgyzstan	2	0.12%
Austria	22	1.30%	Malaysia	2	0.12%
Portugal	22	1.30%	Panama	2	0.12%
Israel	20	1.19%	Thailand	2	0.12%
Switzerland	19	1.13%	United Arab Emirates	2	0.12%
Greece	17	1.01%	Vietnam	2	0.12%
Australia	15	0.89%	Algeria	1	0.06%
Belarus	15	0.89%	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1	0.06%
Turkey	14	0.83%	Cyprus	1	0.06%
Lithuania	13	0.77%	Faroe Islands	1	0.06%
Czech Republic	12	0.71%	Indonesia	1	0.06%
India	12	0.71%	Jamaica	1	0.06%
Hong Kong	10	0.59%	Montenegro	1	0.06%
Latvia	10	0.59%	Paraguay	1	0.06%
Colombia	9	0.53%	Philippines	1	0.06%
Croatia	9	0.53%	Slovakia	1	0.06%
South Korea	9	0.53%	Venezuela	1	0.06%

2022-08-17 22:29 UTC+2

Brandstrom Drills a Draw to Survive

Nível 15 : Blinds 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

After Simon Brandstrom raised to 8,000 in middle position, Peter Jaksland three-bet to 21,000 from the cutoff.

Brandstrom called, leaving himself less than 100,000 behind for the flop.

He checked to Jaksland, who bet 26,000. Brandstrom then gave his next move approximately two minutes of thought before moving all in. Jaksland snap-called to put the defending champion at risk.

Simon Brandstrom:
Peter Jaksland:

Brandstrom needed help as he only had a double gutshot straight draw to work with, as his king wouldn't help against Jaksland's aces.

The turn brought the giving no help to Brandstrom, but the on the river gave Brandstrom a king-high straight to survive and keep his reign as champion alive.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Simon Brandstrom	240,000	50,000
Peter Jaksland	229,000	-76,000

Tags: Peter Jaksland Simon Brandstrom

2022-08-17 22:06 UTC+2

Bubble Bursts; Rouvet, Mulders, and Bosch Split the Money

BrandonBloom

Nível 15 : Blinds 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

During the hand-for-hand phase, three players bowed out at the same time. In the first hand, Felipe Ketzer raised to 9,000 from the hijack and Emmanuel Rouvet three-bet jammed from the small blind for 87,000. Action folded back to Ketzer who made the call.

Emmanuel Rouvet:
Felipe Ketzer:

The board ran out and Ketzer won the pot, ending Rouvet's tournament life on the bubble.

In the second hand, after Ramiro Petrone raised to 10,000 in early position, Daan Mulders three-bet to 27,000 on the button.

Petrone then moved all-in, and Mulders called off for 125,000.

Daan Mulders:
Ramiro Petrone:

Mulders had run into the ultimate preflop cooler on the bubble. The dealer spread a flop of , giving Petrone top set, but Mulders now had a gutshot straight draw.

The turn and river couldn't save Mulders however, and he was also eliminated on the bubble.

In another hand, with roughly 100,000 in the pot on a completed board, Oliver Bosch was in the big blind and had check-called all in for his stack of approximately 120,000 against Kayhan Mokri in early position.

There was a long period of anticipation as the two players awaited the other tables to complete their hands on the bubble. The two talked to each other, but never fully revealed their holdings. Reportedly, Bosch had said he had a pair, but when he was asked if it was the same pair, he responded with "no chance", leaving both players uncertain as to who would win the pot.

Eventually, numerous cameras swarmed the table and the players chuckled at the sheer amount of people surrounding them. The tournament director then instructed the players to simultaneously turn over their cards.

Bosch showed , but it was no good as Mokri tabled to claim the pot and eliminate Bosch, who would chop the minimum payouts with the other players eliminated on the bubble.

As a result, Rouvet, Mulders, and Bosch will split the 326th and 327th place money, collecting €5,907 each.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Kayhan Mokri	700,000	522,000
Ramiro Petrone	646,000	146,000
Felipe Ketzer	505,000	130,000
Emmanuel Rouvet	Eliminado
Daan Mulders	Eliminado
Oliver Bosch	Eliminado

Tags: Daan Mulders Emmanuel Rouvet Felipe Ketzer Kayhan Mokri Oliver Bosch Ramiro Petrone

2022-08-17 22:04 UTC+2

Jordon Takes a Chance, Avoids Bubbling

connorrichards

Nível 15 : Blinds 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

During hand-for-hand play on the stone money bubble, Gabriel Nedelcu open-jammed a big stack from the cutoff. Terence Jordon called from the small blind with the effective stack of 154,000.

"I have ace-ten," Jordan said to the shock of those at and around the table. "I know I'm in front of him."

Jordan, who sat beneath a Panama hat and had a small wooden alligator atop his cards, asked Nedelcu what he had. The opponent admitted that he hadn't looked at his cards.

"Do you have an ace?" the Brit inquired.

"No it's a four," Nedelcu said as he peeked at one card.

As the other all-in hands played out across the tournament room, Jordon called a friend and described his bubble predicament through the phone.

"I know it's a fold," he shrugged. "I'm not here to win 8,000 pounds."

Terence Jordon:
Gabriel Nedelcu:

Jordon was indeed ahead but a nine in the window on the flop of gave his opponent the lead.

"There's a nine," Jordon said into his phone.

The on the turn didn't change things but the on the river saved Jordon from bubbling, though it took him a moment to realize it.

"Oh, it's a ten!" he cheered.

"Was that you, Terry?!" a friend asked after the action.

"I took a chance," Jordon said. "I knew he was light."

Terence Jordon Survives Bubble — Terence Jordon Survives the Bubble

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Gabriel Nedelcu	250,000	150,000
Terence Jordon	154,000	-296,000

Tags: Gabriel Nedelcu Terence Jordon

2022-08-17 21:37 UTC+2

Ruijs Ruins Cuellar's Ill-Timed Bluff

Nível 15 : Blinds 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

A massive pot was just passed to Joris Ruijs as Diego Cuellar was seen leaving the tournament floor.

"It's amazing what some people will do", said one of Ruijs' tablemates as he stacked an absolute gift that has seen him soar to one of the biggest stacks in the room.

According to Ruijs, he raised to 8,000 under the gun and was called by Cuellar in the big blind.

The flop came and after Cuellar checked, Ruijs bet 8,000. Cuellar then check-raised to 22,000, which Ruijs called.

On the turn, Cuellar bet 64,000 and Ruijs called.

The river brought the and Cuellar jammed 263,000 into a roughly 200,000 chip pot.

Ruijs happily called to see Cuellar only had , while he held for a flopped set to take the huge pot and eliminate Cuellar just shy of the bubble.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Joris Ruijs	750,000	470,000
Diego Cuellar	Eliminado

Tags: Atanas Malinov Joris Ruijs

2022-08-17 21:13 UTC+2

Pham Sends Shuchleib Home Before Bubble

Nível 15 : Blinds 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

On a flop of , Victor Shuchleib moved his last 23,000 chips into the middle from the small blind and was instantly called by Tien Dung Pham in the cutoff.

Victor Shuchleib:
Tien Dung Pham:

Shuchleib had flopped top two pair, but he was outflopped by Pham who had drilled Broadway.

The on the turn and on the river couldn't save Shuchleib, and he was eliminated just a few spots away from the money.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Tien Dung Pham	240,000	-41,000
Victor Shuchleib	Eliminado

Tags: Tien Dung Pham Victor Shuchleib