2011 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona

Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info

2011 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a9
Prize
€850,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€4,055,000
Entries
811
Level Info
Level
34
Blinds
120,000 / 240,000
Ante
30,000

Main Event

Day 1a Completed

Official End-of-Day Chip Counts

Player Chips Progress
Martin Schleich de
Martin Schleich
EPT 1X Winner
182,100
Sam El Sayed
Sam El Sayed
163,200
Marcello Marigliano
Marcello Marigliano
160,800 100
Michele Aniello
Michele Aniello
150,900
Dimitar Danchev
Dimitar Danchev
145,100
Arie Ori Miller
Arie Ori Miller
144,300
Ohad Simhon
Ohad Simhon
135,800
Kevin Vandersmissen
Kevin Vandersmissen
133,200
Felix Bleiker
Felix Bleiker
130,700
Ivan Starostin
Ivan Starostin
125,700
Guillermo Garcia Gomez de Barreda
Guillermo Garcia Gomez de Barreda
124,600
David Sonelin
David Sonelin
124,400 7,400
Chris Moorman gb
Chris Moorman
122,975
Sybe Smit
Sybe Smit
121,300
Gabriel Goffi Moreira
Gabriel Goffi Moreira
120,600
Mickey Petersen
Mickey Petersen
117,800 22,800
Gunnar Rabe
Gunnar Rabe
113,800
Andre Akkari br
Andre Akkari
105,000
Michael Bonzon
Michael Bonzon
103,900
Andrej Vinogrodskij
Andrej Vinogrodskij
103,200
Dragan Kostic
Dragan Kostic
99,000
Ignat Liviu
Ignat Liviu
98,500
Simon Charette
Simon Charette
95,900 40,900
Andrey Gulyy
Andrey Gulyy
95,600
Jeffrey Hakim
Jeffrey Hakim
93,100

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Day 1a in the Bag; Huge Day 1b Likely in Store For Tomorrow

Level 9 : 400/800, 100 ante
Akkari over 100,000 chips after Day 1a
Akkari over 100,000 chips after Day 1a

Day 1a of the PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona is nine levels old, and we've already seen a pretty fine turnout for the opening day. A total of 346 players showed up to the Casino de Barcelona to play Day 1a, and several hundred more are expected tomorrow. Betting the over on last year's record of 758 seems like the correct side of the action right now, but Day 1b will tell us for certain.

Among the Day 1a crowd were a solid cross-section of the Team PokerStars family. The host country, Spain sent Juan Maceiras and newly-minted Team Pro Ana Marquez to the felt, and they were joined by an international crowd that included Andre Akkari, Vanessa Selbst, Theo Jorgensen, Alex Kravchenko, Lex Veldhuis, and Sebastian Ruthenberg, among others.

The early stages of the day -- as is often the case -- belonged to Vanessa Selbst alone. Right out of the starting gate, Selbst began taking her table to task, and she was up over 170,000 -- nearly six times the starting stack -- before the dinner break! She cooled off a bit through the middle stages, then rebounded, then dropped again to finish with 81,500 chips into the bag here at night's end. The Team Pros who are still flush with chips include Sebastian Ruthenberg, Andre Akkari, and Ville Wahlbeck.

While some have gone out to the bar to celebrate a successful day, others were already gathered there much earlier as they drowned away the sorrows of Day 1a. Pierre Neuville (who brought along some amazing Belgian chocolates for the media today) had a particularly bad go of it. Very early on, all the money went in on the river, and Neuville's full house had been one-outed by quad fives to rob him of most of his chips. The rest of his stack went soon thereafter, and Neuville was joined on the rail by the likes of Johnny Lodden, Veldhuis, Martin Hruby, and Sandra Naujoks. Both halves of the Spanish contingent -- Marquez and Maceiras -- were also eliminated during the last third of the day. Apart from the PokerStars family, we also lost a big group of notable players like Joe Ebanks, Davidi Kitai, former EPT Grand Final champion Nicolas Chouity, Jake Cody, and last year's EPT Player of the Year, Fernando Brito.

At the end of today's nine levels, everyone's chasing Martin Schleich, though. The PokerStars player appears to be holding the top spot with his count of 182,100, and we'll peg him as our tentative overnight chip leader. The board shows about 179 players left. The survivors will have the day off tomorrow, but they'll be back here at noon on Monday for the combined Day 2.

First, though, we've got a Day 1b to get through, and that will kick of at high noon tomorrow with a big, fresh new set of faces.

Until tomorrow, all that's left is goodnight!

More Names Bust

Level 9 : 400/800, 100 ante

Mathew Frankland and Ben Wilinofsky are two more players that made it to, but not beyond the final level of the day.

We not sure how Frankland busted but we know Wilinofsky was unlucky. He got it all in with preflop {10-Hearts}{10-Clubs} versus Kewin Charles Lambert with {a-Diamonds}{8-Diamonds}. The board ran {5-Clubs}{4-Clubs}{6-Spades}{7-Diamonds}{10-Diamonds} to make the American a set on the river but he was already drawing dead on the the turn to the Swiss' straight.

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Busquet Busto

Level 9 : 400/800, 100 ante

We just counted Olivier Busquet a moment ago, and he was enjoying a little up-trend to about 22,000. Just a moment later, though, we saw his seat card come across our desk, and that can only mean one thing. A quick check on his chair confirms the worst: Busquet is busto in Barcelona.

Tags: Olivier Busquet

Chippies!

Player Chips Progress
Vanessa Selbst us
Vanessa Selbst
131,000 23,000
Sebastian Ruthenberg de
Sebastian Ruthenberg
125,000 -15,000
Andre Akkari br
Andre Akkari
118,000 75,000
Ville Wahlbeck fi
Ville Wahlbeck
115,000 58,000
Chris Moorman gb
Chris Moorman
105,000 13,000
Bryn Kenney us
Bryn Kenney
71,000 1,000
Antonio Mattias
Antonio Mattias
66,000
Marcin Horecki pl
Marcin Horecki
54,000 30,000
Nacho Barbero ar
Nacho Barbero
53,000 -8,000
Tristan Clemencon fr
Tristan Clemencon
45,000 -3,000
Jan Skampa cz
Jan Skampa
EPT 1X Winner
45,000
Luca Pagano it
Luca Pagano
43,000 22,000
Martin Staszko
Martin Staszko
42,000 6,000
Alain Roy fr
Alain Roy
41,000
Benny Spindler de
Benny Spindler
28,000 4,000
Antonin Teisseire fr
Antonin Teisseire
25,000
Melanie Weisner us
Melanie Weisner
24,000 -11,000
David Vamplew gb
David Vamplew
EPT 1X Winner
23,000 -7,000
Andrew Teng gb
Andrew Teng
23,000 -32,000
Olivier Busquet us
Olivier Busquet
22,000 6,000
Matt Waxman us
Matt Waxman
19,000 7,000
Almira Skripchenko
Almira Skripchenko
18,000
Alex Kravchenko ru
Alex Kravchenko
15,000 -1,000
Theo Jorgensen dk
Theo Jorgensen
4,000 -6,000

Level: 9

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 100

Moorman Lets One Go

Level 8 : 300/600, 75 ante

Chris Moorman just had to let a hand go on the flop but he's still going along nicely with 92,000.

Sharkota Siarhei limped from UTG and called along with Ignat Liviu (BB) when Moorman raised to 2,100 from late position. The flop fell {5-Diamonds}{2-Diamonds}{4-Diamonds} and Moorman's 4,200 c-bet was check-raised to 10,250 by Siarhei. Liviu folded in the middle of the action and Moorman's cards didn't take too long in hitting the muck as well.

Tags: Chris Moorman