888Live Barcelona €220 Opening Event Draws 720 Entries
The 2017 888Live Poker Festival Barcelona saw the final two starting days of the €200+20 Opening Event kick off at the Casino Barcelona and the card room was once again buzzing and bursting with action left and right. Day 1c attracted a total of 244 entries, while the fourth and final flight, a 15-minute level turbo heat, saw another 80 entries take to the felt and 21 players advanced with Marti Bonfill (269,500) at the top of the counts.
The last two starting days brought the total number of entries up to 720, creating a prize pool of €138,240, and 143 hopefuls will return to the tables as of 1 p.m. local time on Sunday to play down to a winner. The exact prize pool information will be released when the cards go back in the air, and it will be a long night before the champion gets to lift the trophy and take home a significant payday.
Day 1c was filled with plenty of action right from the start, and early in level three a 400 big blind pot emerged, in which Lauri Saaskilahti doubled to four times the starting stack after having flopped bottom two pair with nine-four suited. Sebastian Tusal had ace-king for top pair and top kicker, and both the turn and river bricked. Saaskilahti spent a big portion of the day at the top of the leader board, but several big clashes with Gabriel Pazos de la Torre saw the Finn drop back into the middle of the pack and put 146,000 in his bag.
It was no surprise to see Pazos de la Torre at the top of the counts, and the Spaniard also claimed the overall lead for Day 2 with massive 470,000. Other big stacks of the third flight include Andre Filipe Quelhas (341,000), Fernando Campomar Concha (337,500), David Rodriguez Lamas (302,500), Alberto Flores Trujillo (269,000), Yannick Pernot (265,500) and Maria Lozano Valero (255,500). Pernot scored a big knockout with ace-queen versus ace-king after spiking a queen in the last level of the night and Lozano Valero did so after holding up with kings against eights.
Other notables among the 1c survivors were Juan Font Espina (132,000), Marco Della Tommasina (79,500) and 888poker.es Freeroll qualifier Miguel Angel Rodriguez de la Rubia (61,500). Among those that failed to bag up chips were Sandro Hauser, "The Thunder" third-place finisher Roberto Perez, Juan Bastido Perez, Sally Stephens, Antonina Anapolska, Younesse Oualgasi and Robert Cazali.
Oualgasi was very active early on and his roller coaster ride ended in level nine after a three-way showdown with ace-eight versus pocket sevens and pocket kings. Until the end, the pace of eliminations stayed very high and late casualties included Atanas Petkov and Stian Bruheim, before just 48 participants bagged up chips for the night at the end of level 14.
Another Side Event also kicked off today and met it's guarantee. The €100+10 "The Breeze" Side Event saw a total of 210 entries, and at the time of writing, more than 50 players were still remaining with the top 24 spots all guaranteed at least €195. The first place comes with a payout of €4,870 and an 888Live winner trophy, however, the tournament may not necessarily crown a champion tonight. At 12 p.m. local time, "The Thunder" with the same level and blind structure saw 10 players return and Munir Iqbal Sanchez came out atop of a four-way ICM deal to become the first Side Event winner of the 12-day festival.
Full chip counts and the seat draw for Day 2 of the €200+20 Opening Event will be provided as soon as PokerNews receives them, and the live reporting team will be back at lunch time tomorrow when the action resumes in level 15 at blinds of 3,000-6,000 and a running ante of 500. The level duration increases to 40 minutes each and the tournament is scheduled to play down to a winner.
Opening Event Day 2 Seat Draw
| Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1 | Fernando Rebolledo Serrano | Spain | 46,000 |
| 3 | 2 | Pedro Galan de Miguel | Spain | 155,500 |
| 3 | 3 | Guillem Casas Ullastre | Spain | 71,000 |
| 3 | 4 | Adria Colomina Guitart | Spain | 91,000 |
| 3 | 5 | Juan Font Espina | Spain | 132,000 |
| 3 | 6 | Alain Riss | France | 70,000 |
| 3 | 7 | Aitor Martinez | Spain | 78,000 |
| 3 | 8 | David Alcoberro Melero | Spain | 127,500 |
| 3 | 9 | Jose Antonio de la Maza Segura | Spain | 118,000 |
| 4 | 1 | Gerard Roura Vidal | Spain | 55,000 |
| 4 | 2 | Raphael Levy | France | 63,500 |
| 4 | 3 | Sergi Monferrer | Spain | 166,500 |
| 4 | 4 | [Removed:400] | France | 137,500 |
| 4 | 5 | Kaido Koorits | Estonia | 140,500 |
| 4 | 6 | Maximiliano Alberto Avila | Italy | 104,000 |
| 4 | 7 | Alberto Somolinos Perez | Spain | 100,000 |
| 4 | 8 | Miguel Angel Rodriguez de la Rubia | Spain | 61,500 |
| 4 | 9 | Walter Sejdic | Bosnia Herzegovina | 118,000 |
| 5 | 1 | Jose del Aguila Gimenez | Spain | 138,000 |
| 5 | 2 | Xavier Sola Vall | Spain | 233,500 |
| 5 | 3 | Christophe Suter | Switzerland | 68,500 |
| 5 | 4 | Joachim Lob | Switzerland | 405,000 |
| 5 | 5 | Marco Cerio | Italy | 118,500 |
| 5 | 6 | Philippe Noble | France | 443,000 |
| 5 | 7 | Angel Callen Mozos | Spain | 84,000 |
| 5 | 8 | Oscar Perez Subirana | Spain | 81,500 |
| 5 | 9 | Martin Kilchenmann | Switzerland | 100,500 |
| 6 | 1 | Tommy Bjellers | Norway | 174,000 |
| 6 | 2 | Robert Sanchez Callol | Spain | 105,500 |
| 6 | 3 | Jaime Victor Soler Puig | Spain | 389,000 |
| 6 | 4 | Marco Della Tommasina | Italy | 79,500 |
| 6 | 5 | Jose Antonio Aviles Vera | Spain | 178,500 |
| 6 | 6 | Susana Bonastre Rodriguez | Spain | 58,500 |
| 6 | 7 | Guillem Cusco Bach | Spain | 43,000 |
| 6 | 8 | Ivan Olivas Uliaque | Spain | 276,500 |
| 6 | 9 | Omer Smidt | Israel | 180,000 |
| 6 | 9 | David Garcia Silva | Spain | 100,500 |
| 7 | 1 | Giovanni Cauteruccio | Italy | 275,000 |
| 7 | 2 | Mitchel Storie | Canada | 8,500 |
| 7 | 3 | Harcharan Dogra Dogra | Spain | 163,000 |
| 7 | 4 | Abel Durban Sala | Spain | 81,500 |
| 7 | 5 | Stefan van der Pol | Netherlands | 58,500 |
| 7 | 6 | Alexis Mazurier | France | 158,000 |
| 7 | 7 | Mikel Bagazgoitia Ezpeleta | Spain | 224,000 |
| 7 | 8 | Francisco Javier Garcia de Domingo Juan | Spain | 78,500 |
| 8 | 1 | Gervasio Valiente Nevot | Spain | 130,000 |
| 8 | 2 | Haykel Cherif Vidal | Spain | 126,000 |
| 8 | 3 | Dariusz Jedrzejczyk | Poland | 129,000 |
| 8 | 4 | Jose Valls Rebollar | Spain | 144,500 |
| 8 | 5 | Eduard Munoz Martin | Spain | 157,000 |
| 8 | 6 | Marc Esteve Gutierrez | Spain | 120,000 |
| 8 | 7 | Marwan Salamoun | USA | 62,000 |
| 8 | 8 | Jochen Kemmner | Germany | 61,500 |
| 8 | 9 | Borja Garcia Gala | Spain | 128,000 |
| 10 | 1 | Kleber da Silva | Brazil | 205,000 |
| 10 | 2 | [Removed:204] | Spain | 123,000 |
| 10 | 3 | Francesc Mateu Munoz Bieto | Spain | 253,500 |
| 10 | 4 | Oriol Balaguer Roman | Spain | 137,000 |
| 10 | 5 | Carlos Gonzalez Contreras | Spain | 113,000 |
| 10 | 6 | Jose Miguel Hernandez Mallorquin | Spain | 143,000 |
| 10 | 7 | David Crespo | Spain | 113,500 |
| 10 | 8 | Andre Filipe Quelhas | Portugal | 341,000 |
| 10 | 9 | Fernando Campomar Concha | Spain | 337,000 |
| 11 | 1 | Mariano Recuenco Martin | Spain | 73,500 |
| 11 | 2 | Sergi Escote Sanchez de Leon | Spain | 194,500 |
| 11 | 3 | Nicolas Miglietti Panzariello | Spain | 109,000 |
| 11 | 4 | Olga Mirasol | Spain | 75,000 |
| 11 | 5 | Nikolaos Roussos | Greece | 77,500 |
| 11 | 6 | Isidre Just Vivancos | Spain | 133,500 |
| 11 | 7 | Liviu Dan Tudor | Romania | 206,000 |
| 11 | 8 | Adria Palahi I Girona | Spain | 152,500 |
| 11 | 9 | Ivan Arcos Alba | Spain | 90,000 |
| 12 | 1 | Jordi Ribatallada Ruiz | Spain | 139,000 |
| 12 | 2 | Jon Ignacio Chipongian | Spain | 160,000 |
| 12 | 3 | Tomas Javanainen | Finland | 90,500 |
| 12 | 4 | Antonio Ruiz Santaella | Spain | 181,000 |
| 12 | 5 | Alejandro Espinosa Gutierrez | Spain | 70,500 |
| 12 | 6 | Juan Carlos Molina Martinez | Spain | 125,000 |
| 12 | 7 | David Raul Perez Apestegui | Spain | 34,500 |
| 12 | 8 | Yannick Pernot | France | 265,500 |
| 12 | 9 | Thomas Hargreaves | UK | 103,000 |
| 13 | 1 | Gregory Torrents | France | 105,000 |
| 13 | 2 | Juan Rivas Cabrera | Spain | 219,000 |
| 13 | 3 | Sergio Alonso Camunas | Spain | 455,000 |
| 13 | 4 | Carlos Vidal Barrios | Spain | 178,500 |
| 13 | 5 | Nil Micola Benaiges | Spain | 272,000 |
| 13 | 6 | Gheorghe Podovei | Romania | 219,000 |
| 13 | 7 | Jose Ivan Frias Marrero | Spain | 226,000 |
| 13 | 8 | Ruben Tack | Belgium | 84,500 |
| 13 | 9 | Alejandro Vazquez Gomez | Spain | 171,000 |
| 14 | 1 | German Bou Ternero | Spain | 72,000 |
| 14 | 2 | Benjamin Nodier | France | 132,000 |
| 14 | 3 | Marti Bonfill Babia | Spain | 269,500 |
| 14 | 4 | Flavio Damian Ibanoff | Argentina | 260,500 |
| 14 | 5 | Jonathan Bizarro de la Iglesia | Spain | 88,500 |
| 14 | 6 | Fernando Ortola Ferragud | Spain | 178,000 |
| 14 | 7 | Ignasi Cabrera Rogent | Spain | 319,500 |
| 14 | 8 | Frederic Pernot | France | 32,000 |
| 14 | 9 | Sergio Manuel Martinez Pascual | Spain | 254,000 |
| 15 | 1 | Sandro Hauser | Switzerland | 91,500 |
| 15 | 2 | Daniel Martinez Caballero | Spain | 93,500 |
| 15 | 3 | Pol Pardo Canto | Spain | 84,000 |
| 15 | 4 | Francisco Blazquez Gallego | Spain | 147,500 |
| 15 | 6 | Jordi Marcos Fernandez | Spain | 273,500 |
| 15 | 6 | Aleksei Istomin | Russian Federation | 45,500 |
| 15 | 7 | Alexander Beresnev | Russian Federation | 82,000 |
| 15 | 8 | Gareth Worthington | UK | 110,000 |
| 15 | 9 | Pau Ciuro | Spain | 178,000 |
| 16 | 1 | Pedro Jose Canado Julve | Spain | 155,000 |
| 16 | 2 | Javier Sanchez Miguel | Spain | 63,000 |
| 16 | 3 | Petru Tarlev | Portugal | 186,000 |
| 16 | 4 | Sergio Costa Carrasco | Spain | 244,500 |
| 16 | 5 | Andreu Martinez | Spain | 79,000 |
| 16 | 6 | Gerard Lleixa Aledo | Spain | 115,000 |
| 16 | 7 | Tuomas Ranta | Finland | 181,000 |
| 16 | 8 | Alberto Flores Trujillo | Spain | 269,000 |
| 16 | 9 | Borja Rilo Salazar | Spain | 63,000 |
| 17 | 1 | Rafael Achermann | Switzerland | 206,500 |
| 17 | 2 | Arnau Vazquez Guerrero | Spain | 101,000 |
| 17 | 3 | Marcos Paton Bao | Spain | 80,000 |
| 17 | 4 | Patrick Lebahr | France | 158,000 |
| 17 | 5 | Antonio Oscar Vallespi Fernandez | Spain | 225,000 |
| 17 | 6 | Wassim Ayari | France | 209,000 |
| 17 | 7 | Pedro Timiraos Paz | Spain | 56,000 |
| 17 | 8 | Josep Maria Galindo Lopez | Spain | 265,000 |
| 17 | 9 | Maria Lozano Valero | Spain | 255,500 |
| 18 | 1 | Didac Garcia Diaz | Spain | 209,000 |
| 18 | 2 | Aleix Ortega Gavalda | Spain | 118,000 |
| 18 | 3 | Juha Salminen | Finland | 131,000 |
| 18 | 4 | Suliko Kheladze | Georgia | 101,000 |
| 18 | 5 | Jordi Colldeforns Giralt | Spain | 170,500 |
| 18 | 6 | Gabriel Pazos de la Torre | Spain | 470,000 |
| 18 | 7 | Felipe Campins Gomez | Spain | 99,000 |
| 18 | 8 | Jose Luis Ruiz Blavia | Spain | 205,000 |
| 18 | 9 | Max Rotko | Finland | 138,000 |
| 19 | 1 | Kenneth Amell Boquera | Spain | 34,000 |
| 19 | 2 | Lauri Saaskilahti | Finland | 146,000 |
| 19 | 3 | Edgar Casanova | Spain | 150,000 |
| 19 | 4 | David Rodriguez Lamas | Spain | 302,500 |
| 19 | 6 | Daniel Arribas Franco | Spain | 119,000 |
| 19 | 7 | Jonas Abrahamsson | Sweden | 67,000 |
| 19 | 8 | Francois Evard | Switzerland | 209,000 |
| 19 | 9 | Renato Garcia Majuelo | Spain | 125,000 |
river for 137,500 in a battle cutoff versus button and Andre Filipe Quelhas demanded from the Finn to show the bluff after Pazos de la Torre had folded. Saaskilahti did so by flashing 
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fell on the turn. Now it checked to Saaskilahti, and the Finn bet 60,000. The third player in the hand folded and Pazos de la Torre check-raised all in.
and bagged the chip lead.
and Flores Trujillo checked. The cutoff moved all in and forced a fold to allow for the following three-way showdown:
turn nor the 
and Oller Martinez had the best of it.
, Miguel Angel Rodriguez de la Rubia faced a bet worth 7,000 and moved all in for his last 15,350. His opponent snap-called with 
and the Spaniard only had 
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