€5,300 EPT Main Event Dia 3 | 2022 PokerStars EPT Barcelona

They’ve already made it this far in a record-shattering field of 2,294 players and survived the money bubble. Now the 210 remaining on Day 3 of the €5,300 2022 PokerStars and Barcelona©Casino European Poker Tour Main Event have their eye on the final table and, ultimately, the €1,714,000 top prize.

Leading the way is Norway’s Kayhan Mokri, who has just $21,000 in live tournament earnings but 1,303,000 chips, nearly 300,000 more than his closest challenger.

That happens to be someone who is no stranger to lifting an EPT trophy. Just three months ago, Marcelo Simoes beat a field of 1,073 in Monte Carlo to win €939,840. He currently sits in second place with 1,068,000 as he tries to become only the third player with multiple EPT titles, and the first ever to go back-to-back.

Another player with good memories of Casino Barcelona is Simon Brandstrom. The Swedish pro has had three years to call himself the reigning EPT Barcelona champion and has put up a valiant defense of his title, taking 473,000 into Day 3. Another past winner here, 2016 champion Sebastian Malec, is sitting on 156,000.

2022 EPT Barcelona Day 3 Top 10 Chip Counts

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count	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 Landrom	Frace	775,000	129
10	Catalin Ciurea	Romania	770,000	128

Former PCA champions Maria Lampropulos (517,000) and Chino Rheem (365,000), as well as 2017 Prague champion Kalidou Sow (502,000) and 2014 Monte Carlo champion Antonio Buonanno (622,000), are also still alive in the hunt to add another EPT crown.

Other notable names on Day 3 include Artur Martirosian (814,000), Gaelle Baumann (408,000), Timothy Adams (387,000), and PokerStars ambassador Benjamin Spragg (144,000), while Stephen Chidwick (148,000) and David Peters (36,000) find themselves near the bottom of the leaderboard.

Day 3 will begin at noon local time on Level 17, with blinds at 3,000-6,000 and a 6,000 big blind ante. Play will consist of six 90-minute levels, with a 20-minute break after each level and a 75-minute dinner break after Level 20. A shot clock will be introduced starting today, with players receiving five time bank cards.

The PokerNews live reporting team will be on hand providing updates throughout Day 3 as the ultimate prize, victory in this record-setting event, inches closer and closer.

TABLE	SEAT	PLAYER	COUNTRY	CHIPS	BIG BLINDS
1	1	Lukasz Golczyk	Poland	116,000	19
1	2	Jamila von Perger	Germany	156,000	26
1	3	Kacper Pyzara	Poland	268,000	45
1	4	Jaspal Brar	Canada	226,000	38
1	5	Marcelo Mesqueu	Brazil	1,068,000	178
1	6	Bruno Pega	Argentina	621,000	104
1	7	Leo Margets	Spain	264,000	44
1	8	Ryan Yu	Canada	551,000	92

2	1	Jack Sinclair	Austria	208,000	35
2	2	John Dwyer	United Kingdom	97,000	16
2	3	Fabiano Kovalski	Brazil	291,000	49
2	4	Ryhor Karapanau	Latvia	99,000	17
2	5	Sonny Franco	France	150,000	25
2	6	Vladimir Andjelic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	362,000	60
2	7	Marius Gicovanu	Romania	127,000	21
2	8	Mateusz Moolhuizen	Netherlands	359,000	60

3	1	Julien Martini	France	217,000	36
3	2	Martin Olali	Ireland	368,000	61
3	3	Per Gustafsson	Sweden	589,000	98
3	4	Marcin Horecki	Poland	77,000	13
3	5	Daniel Kyosev	Bulgaria	151,000	25
3	6	Baard Dahl	United Kingdom	378,000	63
3	7	Sebastian Toro Henao	Colombia	824,000	137
3	8	Cameron Robertson	New Zealand	120,000	20

4	1	Belarmino De Souza	Brazil	548,000	91
4	2	Imed Mahmoud	Tunisia	175,000	29
4	3	David Truong	Netherlands	158,000	26
4	4	Giuseppe Zarbo	Italy	84,000	14
4	5	Andrei Boghean	Romania	399,000	67
4	6	Bruno Volkmann	Brazil	414,000	69
4	7	Oskar Massesson	Denmark	42,000	7
4	8	Muhamet Perati	Italy	275,000	46

5	1	Vincent Mozgawa	France	260,000	43
5	2	Mateus Endo	Brazil	301,000	50
5	3	Nacho Barbero	Argentina	93,000	16
5	4	Daewoong Song	South Korea	116,000	19
5	5	Max Avela	Finland	304,000	51
5	6	Lois Dufouleur	France	402,000	67
5	7	Vahe Martirosyan	Armenia	523,000	87
5	8	Martin Stausholm	Denmark	89,000	15

6	1	Boris Kuzmanovic	Croatia	172,000	29
6	2	Morten Klein	Norway	297,000	50
6	3	Andre Marques	Portugal	733,000	122
6	4	Simon Brandstrom	Sweden	473,000	79
6	5	Reddy Patur	USA	184,000	31
6	6	Tommy Beuker	Netherlands	104,000	17
6	7	Virgile Turchi	France	282,000	47
6	8	Victor Vozian	Romania	123,000	21

7	1	Peter Jaksland	Denmark	175,000	29
7	2	Catalin Ciurea	Romania	770,000	128
7	3	Claudio Di Giacomo	Italy	175,000	29
7	4	Usman Ulhaq	United Kingdom	800,000	133
7	5	Nohad Teliani	Canada	135,000	23
7	6	Sebastian Malec	Poland	156,000	26
7	7	Pawel Brzeski	Poland	158,000	26
7	8	Guilherme Ramalho	Brazil	329,000	55

8	1	Michael Wang	USA	322,000	54
8	2	Tigran Harutyunyan	Armenia	78,000	13
8	3	Igor Pihela	Estonia	453,000	76
8	4	Jose Montes	USA	208,000	35
8	5	Alexandru Cinca	Romania	79,000	13
8	6	Remigiusz Wyrzykiewicz	Poland	576,000	96
8	7	Alberto Stegeman	Netherlands	230,000	38
8	8	Jack Salter	United Kingdom	224,000	37

9	1	Oscar Mas	Spain	117,000	20
9	2	Valentin-Marius Cristea	Romania	182,000	30
9	3	Paul Ephremsen	United Kingdom	143,000	24
9	4	Rui Milhomens	Morocco	556,000	93
9	5	Andrija Cvetkovic	Croatia	159,000	27
9	6	Paul Fischill	Austria	655,000	109
9	7	Alexandru Brumaru	Romania	208,000	35
9	8	Atanas Kavrakov	Bulgaria	182,000	30

10	1	Stephen Kehoe	Ireland	456,000	76
10	2	Dragos Trofimov	Moldova	283,000	47
10	3	Nikola Gunchev	Bulgaria	350,000	58
10	4	Johan Guilbert	France	127,000	21
10	5	Ryo Kotake	Japan	284,000	47
10	6	Cyril Bremond	France	68,000	11
10	7	Cameron Couch	Australia	174,000	29
10	8	Vladas Tamasauskas	Lithuania	235,000	39

11	1	Adi Rajkovic	Austria	271,000	45
11	2	Motokatsu Uhara	Japan	150,000	25
11	3	Ibrahim Ghassan	Lebanon	354,000	59
11	4	Xuan Liu	Canada	302,000	50
11	5	Alessandro Grilli	Italy	125,000	21
11	6	Daniel Birkmose	Denmark	562,000	94
11	7	Xavier Cortazar Vidal	Spain	238,000	40
11	8	Manuel Saavedra	Spain	479,000	80

12	1	Dante Goya Fernandes	Brazil	223,000	37
12	2	Bart Lybaert	Belgium	231,000	39
12	3	Alexandre Vuilleumier	France	302,000	50
12	4	Lucas Silva Rocha	Brazil	626,000	104
12	5	Bartlomiej Machon	Poland	218,000	36
12	6	Felipe Fontoura	Brazil	375,000	63
12	7	Lander Lijo	Spain	243,000	41
12	8	Sergi Panella Navarro	Spain	207,000	35

13	1	Mathieu Goncalves	France	49,000	8
13	2	Said Chegdane	Italy	261,000	44
13	3	Maria Lampropulos	Argentina	517,000	86
13	4	Paulina Loeliger	USA	306,000	51
13	5	Stanislavs Macugins	Latvia	295,000	49
13	6	Marco Guibert	Argentina	300,000	50
13	7	Tien Dung Pham	Vietnam	269,000	45
13	8	Ameer Wakil	Canada	171,000	29

14	1	Marcin Jaworski	Poland	62,000	10
14	2	Kayhan Mokri	Norway	1,303,000	217
14	3	Sander Berndsen	Netherlands	515,000	86
14	4	Cyril Mazet	France	125,000	21
14	5	Michael Pinto	Netherlands	644,000	107
14	6	Timothy Adams	Canada	387,000	65
14	7	Kimmo Kurko	Finland	386,000	64
14	8	Jordan Saccucci	Canada	542,000	90

15	1	Gabriel Moura	Brazil	475,000	79
15	2	Andres Carrillo Luna	Colombia	373,000	62
15	3	Martin Wong	USA	148,000	25
15	4	Vladimir Erceg	Serbia	194,000	32
15	5	Elm Cherto	Spain	530,000	88
15	6	Youness Ait Hssain	France	317,000	53
15	7	Jung Ho Im	South Korea	312,000	52
15	8	Simon Mattsson	Sweden	304,000	51

16	1	Danilo Velasevic	Croatia	91,000	15
16	2	David Peters	USA	36,000	6
16	3	Gaelle Baumann	France	408,000	68
16	4	Carlos Ribeiro	Brazil	439,000	73
16	5	David Dahan	Israel	216,000	36
16	6	Chakib M'hiri	Tunisia	274,000	46
16	7	Nilo Rodriguez	Argentina	350,000	58
16	8	Emmanuel Lopez	Argentina	444,000	74

17	1	Maher Nouira	Tunisia	386,000	64
17	2	Byron Kaverman	USA	132,000	22
17	3	Igor D'Ursel	France	175,000	29
17	4	Casey Kastle	Slovenia	354,000	59
17	5	Mustafa Biz	Turkey	528,000	88
17	6	Vasyl Pidhrusnyi	Ukraine	107,000	18
17	7	Manuel Oshea	Spain	240,000	40
17	8	Ramiro Petrone	Uruguay	561,000	94

18	1	Thomas Rauhut	Germany	267,000	45
18	2	Gabriel Nedelcu	Romania	591,000	99
18	3	Giuliano Bendinelli	Italy	274,000	46
18	4	Juan Gonzalez Venzano	Argentina	99,000	17
18	5	Anthony Cierco	France	45,000	8
18	6	Kent Roed	Norway	110,000	18
18	7	Alexandre Landron	France	775,000	129
18	8	Chino Rheem	USA	365,000	61

19	1	Fredrik Skarfstad	Sweden	293,000	49
19	2	Artur Martirosian	Russia	814,000	136
19	3	Igor Yaroshevskyy	Ukraine	116,000	19
19	4	Florin Pandilica	Romania	206,000	34
19	5	Daniel Camelo Da Silva	Brazil	349,000	58
19	6	Giovanni Petroni	Italy	539,000	90
19	7	Stephen Chidwick	United Kingdom	148,000	25
19	8	Steven Warburton	United Kingdom	575,000	96

20	1	Joris Ruijs	Netherlands	879,000	147
20	2	Noah Boeken	Netherlands	62,000	10
20	3	Pedro Chaves	Brazil	643,000	107
20	4	Manuel Fritz	Austria	222,000	37
20	5	Stefan Schillhabel	Germany	222,000	37
20	6	Mikael Ecanvil	France	186,000	31
20	7	Enrico Mosca	Italy	155,000	26
20	8	Olli Muukkonen	Finland	118,000	20

21	1	Gergely Kulcsar	Hungary	203,000	34
21	2	Scott Margereson	United Kingdom	993,000	166
21	3	Conor Bergin	Ireland	96,000	16
21	4	Gianluca Escobar	Italy	58,000	10
21	5	Seth Davies	USA	480,000	80
21	6	Torben Sorensen	Denmark	611,000	102
21	7	Christian Grundtvig	Denmark	677,000	113
21	8	Anton Kraous	Bulgaria	555,000	93

22	1	Carlos Chang	Taiwan	430,000	72
22	2	Radoslav Stoyanov	Bulgaria	926,000	154
22	3	Antonio Buonanno	Italy	622,000	104
22	4	Patrik Jaros	Czech Republic	497,000	83
22	5	Benjamin Pollak	France	238,000	40
22	6	Guiseppe Moio	Italy	723,000	121
22	7	Pim Kuipers	Netherlands	466,000	78

23	1	Mario Navarro	Spain	29,000	5
23	2	Michel Dattani	Portugal	392,000	65
23	3	Dean Arsenie	Canada	552,000	92
23	4	Slobodan Ruzicic	Serbia	192,000	32
23	6	Jimmy Guerrero	France	740,000	123
23	7	Daniel Merrilees	Spain	585,000	98
23	8	Kavin Shah	Australia	524,000	87

24	1	Jelle Moene	Netherlands	108,000	18
24	2	Ivan Zhechev	Bulgaria	180,000	30
24	4	Dennis Kobbero	Denmark	86,000	14
24	5	Michal Wojtkowiak	Poland	472,000	79
24	6	Hamed Sedini	France	300,000	50
24	7	Kalidou Sow	France	502,000	84
24	8	Pedro Cavalieri	Brazil	732,000	122

25	1	Peterson Machado	Brazil	584,000	97
25	2	Benjamin Diebold	USA	345,000	58
25	3	Samuele Lo Presti	Italy	253,000	42
25	4	Harry Lodge	United Kingdom	162,000	27
25	5	Andres Korn	Argentina	71,000	12
25	6	Jerwin Pasco	Philippines	174,000	29
25	8	Alex Rodriguez	Spain	94,000	16

26	1	Wojciech Szczytkowski	Poland	499,000	83
26	2	Alex Kulev	Bulgaria	238,000	40
26	3	Yannick Cardot	France	185,000	31
26	4	Benjamin Spragg	United Kingdom	144,000	24
26	6	Takao Shimizu	Japan	124,000	21
26	7	Ibrahim Aksu	Turkey	447,000	75
26	8	Daniel Sanchez Sautua	Spain	53,000	9

27	1	Gonzalo Pro	Spain	728,000	121
27	2	Georgi Sandev	Bulgaria	424,000	71
27	3	Le Huong Ly	Vietnam	223,000	37
27	4	Memeche Slimane	France	360,000	60
27	5	Thibault Letort	France	143,000	24
27	7	Alexandre Ventura	Spain	375,000	63
27	8	Xiaoyun Li	China	174,000	29

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