We found EPT regular Paul Berende waiting in the line for this afternoon's €2,000 event. "I literally just busted," he laughed. "I got moved tables and this guy shoved for 16 big blinds and I picked up nines in the big blind and called off and he turned over aces! He shouldn't have aces there!"
We're not entirely sure how it exactly happened, but Dominik Nitsche just wagered all of his chips on a board with from the big blind. His opponent had and wouldn't hit his straight or ace to eliminate his German foe; on the river.
With tables breaking all the time some players are having to readjust to ever changing dynamics. Both Scott Seiver and Niall Farrell have moved from their original tables and are now sat at the same table.
Farrell opened for 4,500 and got a call from Seiver and the player in the big blind. There was no action until the river as the cards came out . It was checked to Seiver and he used that opportunity to bet 10,500 and take it down without further fuss.
It looks like Martin Finger has been surpassed for now as the chip leader in the European Poker Tour Barcelona Main Event. Tobias Rohe, another player from Germany, has 415,000 in chips.
November Niner Sylvain Loosli opened to 4,500 and he received three calls, amongst them small blind Rumen Nanev and the big blind.
All players checked on , and Loosli bet 9,000 on the -turn. Just the player not in the blinds made the call, and the fell on the river. Loosli checked, and called (almost) all in for under 15,000.
Loosli's opponent mucked, and Loosli did the same.
As the dust settles on what’s left of the registration desk, which currently lies in pieces after processing a record number of players in the space of 48 hours, it’s worth taking a step back to ask just what’s behind this enormous surge for EPT100.
For the record some 1,496 players walked through the tournament door, stumping up €5,000 as they did so. Taking the average height, if you laid each player on the floor, head to toe, they would stretch from the doors of Casino Barcelona to the foot of the Sagrada Familia, still leaving a few spare to reach the gift shop. That, as the PokerStars Blog reports, is more than 2.6km away.
The last time we caught up with Dmitry Yurasov he lost a chunk of chips with a fairly weak holding. Now he had got to the river of a board reading against Ismael Bojang and threw out a bet of 27,500. It didn’t look like Bojang was loving life but nevertheless he made the call.
Yurasov tabled for the flush and all Bojang could do was tap the table and count his remaining chips.
Dutch player Rien Wijermars has been knocked out of the tournament. He was up to 100,000 in chips, but lost all of those to one aggressive player.
The biggest chunk of chips he lost in a button versus big blind situation where Wijermars three bet, and then five bet with from the big blind. His opponent had opened the button, and four bet with . The queens held up, and Wijermars was left with about 30,000.
An orbit or what later, Wijermars three bet shoved from the big blind with , and ran into the of the same player again. Again no suck out for Wijermars, and he can concentrate on other things than the Main Event for the rest of the week.
Matthias De Meulder is out, the Belgian Team PokerStars Pro slow-played aces and check-called three streets, eventually calling all in only to find Grzergorz Derkowski managed to backdoor into a flush to eliminate him.