Play has now extended into level 26 on day three, where the blinds are 20,000-40,000 with a 4,000 running ante. They are playing down to a final eight tonight, come what may, and we will be here until the end too. 3.35pm: Mikael Lundell, Sweden, eliminated in 9th place, earning €74,000 When play has lasted this long, and all the remaining players … [Read more...]
EPT Barcelona: Level 26 updates
EPT Barcelona: Level 25 updates
The players have moved into level 25, with the blinds at 15,000-30,000, with a 3,000 ante. 3.10am: Findan Gavin wields his short stack and forces a fold from Daniele Mazzia on an innocuous jack-high flop. He then moves all in from the button on the final hand before the level change and there are still nine players moving into level 26. 2.55am: An … [Read more...]
EPT Barcelona: Level 24 updates
We are playing level 24 at EPT Barcelona, although the tournament director Thomas Kremser has announced a slight change to the blind structure and we'll stay with blinds of 12,000-24,000 with a 3,000 ante. We play until eight players remain this evening. 1.40am: Double up for Davidi Kitai, which gets him high-fiving his packed rail and takes him out … [Read more...]
EPT Barcelona: Level 23 updates
They're into level 23 at EPT Barcelona, where the blinds are 10,000 and 20,000, with an ante of 2,000. We'll go blow-by-blow until the final table of eight. 12.30am: Full chip counts with nine players remaining: Seat 1 - Martin Nielsen, Denmark, 398,000 Seat 2 - Davidi Kitai, Belgium, 365,000 Seat 3 - Dren Ukella, Germany, 1,088,000 Seat 4 - Mikael … [Read more...]
EPT Barcelona: Randall Flowers eliminated
Randall Flowers's reputation in EPT events took another step forward today but has ended in a 13th place finish. Flowers, who has been fitting in with the locals today by wearing a Barcelona football shirt (pretty famous in these parts), narrowly feel short of his 10th place finish in San Remo earlier this year, but recorded a no less impressive performance. Flowers … [Read more...]
EPT Barcelona: Shooting Star shoots another down
Sebastian Ruthenberg's lucky stars have heard a lot of thanking today, and they were just the recipient again of a heartfelt danke schoen from the German PokerStars player when he eliminated the serial EPT casher Jonas Molander. Jonas Molander, out Sebastian Ruthenberg The money was all in pre-flop and Ruthenberg had red eights, Molander black nines. … [Read more...]
EPT Barcelona: Man of Kent, spent
Supernova Elite Stephen Chidwick, one of the most feared players coming into today, is out. He pushed in with Kc-Td in late position but was called by Samuel Chartier who held an enviable pair of black aces. The flop brought him some hope in the form of a ten but no more. Stephen Chidwick In fact the river card sealed it, an ace to send the PokerStars … [Read more...]
EPT Barcelona: An Italian down
As previously mentioned, we're down to just two tables in Barcelona, and while one is under studio lights, the other is the prime focus of a scrum of press representatives unable to rely on a live televised feed. Italy has been spectacularly well represented here, both in terms of players and press, and they're out in force on that second table, where … [Read more...]
EPT Barcelona: Klausen and Ukella battle for lead
A few minutes back from the break and it's Jonas Klausen raising. It's folded to German player Dren Ukella sitting with a big stack of red chips. He signals his intention to move all-in, the stack is bigger than it looks making this a raise of 445,000, making for a pot totalling 1,104,000. It will make the new chip leader. Jonas Klausen Klausen, … [Read more...]
EPT Barcelona: The state of play at the dinner break
Players are now on a dinner break after four levels of play. We started today with 37, we're now down to just 16 players, each with an eye on the final table and that first prize of €1,361,000. At the front of the pack is Dren Ukella on 741,000, the rest are as follows... Feature table Mark Randall, USA, PokerStars qualifier, 173,000 Davidi … [Read more...]