Main Event Dia 1a | 2017 PokerStars Championship Barcelona

2017-08-21 16:02 UTC+2

Gonzalez Doubles Through Smith

Nível 3 : 100/200, 25 ante

Fabrizio Gonzalez opened for 500 in the cutoff and got three-bet to 1,500 by his opponent in the next seat. Elliot Smith peeked at his holding in the small blind and then put in 4,500. Gonzalez jammed for about 6,300, chasing the squeezed player away, and Smith put him at risk.

Smith:
Gonzalez:

Gonzalez moved to exit, but the flop gave him new life with a set. A turn made things a bit hairy as he now had to dodge a bunch of cards, but the river was safe.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Elliot Smith	27,500 -6,000	-6,000
Fabrizio Gonzalez	14,500 14,500	14,500

Tags: Elliot Smith Fabrizio Gonzalez

2017-08-21 15:57 UTC+2

Updated Chip Counts

Nível 3 : 100/200, 25 ante

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Joao Vieira	44,000 14,000	14,000

John Juanda	42,000 7,000	7,000

Alan Lau	39,000
Vladimir Troyanovskiy	33,450
Stefan Schillhabel	32,000

Sergi Reixach	28,800
Dominik Nitsche	26,400

Mustapha Kanit	22,650

2017-08-21 15:42 UTC+2

Riseng More Than Doubles Up

KaleGozer

Nível 3 : 100/200, 25 ante

With three players active, the board was reading and Martin Riseng had checked. Aymon Hata bet 4,500 and the third player in the hand, Elie El Feghali, got the clock called on him before calling the 4,500.

Riseng took around twenty seconds before check-raising to 11,000. Hata folded and El Feghali quickly called. On the river, Riseng shoved 16,950 and El Feghali called after thinking another minute.

Riseng showed for the second nuts and El Feghali snap-mucked his hand face-down. Per PokerStars Championship rules (or basically, in any poker tournament), El Feghali was forced to show and was revealed.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Martin Riseng	66,000

Tags: Martin Riseng

2017-08-21 15:42 UTC+2

Kisacikoglu Thinks Better of it

Nível 3 : 100/200, 25 ante

Orpen Kisacikoglu opened for 525 in middle position and called a three-bet to 1,700 from an opponent in the big blind. Kisacikoglu peeled for bets of 1,800 on the flop and 5,100 on the turn as rolled off the deck. The big blind fired a third shell worth 9,200, and Kisacikoglu immediately cut out calling chips. However, he thought better of it and mucked after a minute or so.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Orpen Kisacikoglu	29,000 -4,500	-4,500

Tags: Orpen Kisacikoglu

2017-08-21 15:38 UTC+2

Updated Chip Counts

Nível 3 : 100/200, 25 ante

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Paul Newey	43,000 11,000	11,000
Juha Helppi	40,000 7,000	7,000

Leo Margets	36,400 4,400	4,400

Antoine Saout	32,200
Byron Kaverman	30,800 800	800

Mike Watson	30,000

Ryan Riess	26,000 3,000	3,000

David Peters	25,000 -3,000	-3,000

Thomas Muehloecker	24,500 -3,500	-3,500
Alex Papazian	17,300 3,675	3,675
Daniel Dvoress	6,025 -12,475	-12,475

2017-08-21 15:37 UTC+2

Fatehi Folds The River

KaleGozer

Nível 3 : 100/200, 25 ante

Ali Reza Fatehi raised to 500 in middle position, Fabrice Maltez raised to 1,500 on the button, and Fatehi called. On a board that ran down , Maltez wasted no time and instantly fired each street.

Fatehi check-called 1,600 from the Frenchman on the flop and 2,400 on the turn. On the river, the Iranian check-folded to a 5,000 bet. Fatehi is seated to the left of Charlie Carrel, who also opted to play Day 1a with the €25k High Roller being tomorrow.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Charlie Carrel	33,000
Ali Reza Fatehi	29,000

Tags: Charlie Carrel Ali Reza Fatehi

2017-08-21 15:19 UTC+2

Updated Counts

KaleGozer

Nível 3 : 100/200, 25 ante

David Peters, Upeskha De Silva and Byron Kaverman all joined in after the break.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Upeshka De Silva	40,000

Paul Berende	36,000
Byron Kaverman	30,000

David Peters	28,000

Ryan Riess	23,000 6,200	6,200

2017-08-21 15:16 UTC+2

Wang Takes One Down

KaleGozer

Nível 3 : 100/200, 25 ante

With the pot up to 14,000, Yang Wang moved all in on a board to put his opponent to the test for her remaining 8,000 in chips. After contemplating for a while, she opted to call it off.

Wang quickly showed , enough to beat his opponent's and send her to the rail.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Yang Wang	67,000

Tags: Yang Wang

2017-08-21 15:08 UTC+2

O'Dwyer Ousted Before Break

Nível 3 : 100/200, 25 ante

After presumably losing a big pot for most of his chips, Steve O'Dwyer was left with 1,500 when we took note of him just before break. The rest of his chips went in after he defended his big blind from an open by Uri Reichenstein and saw a flop. O'Dwyer put in his last 1,000, a pot-sized jam, and Reichenstein hemmed and hawed a bet before putting in the calling chip.

O'Dwyer:
Reichenstein:

O'Dwyer was ahead and favored to double, but the river after the turn meant he was finished after a short stay in the Main Event.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Uri Reichenstein	33,400 -3,800	-3,800
Steve O'Dwyer	Eliminado

Tags: Steve O'Dwyer Uri Reichenstein

2017-08-21 15:02 UTC+2

National Championship Coverage Under Way

Nível 3 : 100/200, 25 ante

While things are just getting going here in the €5,300 Main Event at PokerStars Championship Barcelona, they're winding down in the €1,100 National Championship, which drew the largest field in PokerStars Live history with 4,557 entries. Over 3,600 of those were unique entries as well, and the prize pool swelled to the point where first place is set to be awarded €575,000.

Given all that, PokerNews has decided to fire up some live coverage of the final table. Check out all of the updates here.