Main Event Day 1c | 2017 888Live Poker Festival Barcelona

05-21-2017 02:37 UTC+2

Alec Torelli and William Kassouf Bag Big on Day 1c of the 2017 888Live Barcelona Main Event

Christian Zetzsche

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 200 ante

William Kassouf among big stacks for Day 1c

The third and final starting day of the 2017 888Live Poker Festival Barcelona €1,100 Main Event promised to be big, and would not disappoint. A total of 325 entries brought a bigger field than both previous starting days combined and the total field stands at 610 entries thus far, eclipsing the initial guarantee of €500,000 by far.

The registration remains open until the first card of Day 2 on Sunday, May 21st is dealt as of 2 p.m. local time at Casino Barcelona, and only then the prize pool information will be finalized. Defending 888Live champion Catalin Pop, who emerged victorious this February at the King's Casino in Rozvadov, is still on track to make it back-to-back Main Event titles and already claimed the trophy and a payday of €40,000 in the €2,200 High Roller two days ago. Pop needed a few extra bullets and managed to bag up 115,000, good enough for more than average when the action resumes on Day 2.

It was a tight race for the lead after Day 1c in the last two levels of the night, and Rodrigo Serrano seemed to be poised for the spotlight overnight after winning an incredible three-way all in with pocket kings versus ace-king suited and pocket aces when the case king appeared on the flop. Serrano dropped some chips after and claimed 207,800 to his name. However, it ultimately was Norway's Terje Sirenes (253,900) who edged out Alec Torelli (244,900) at the top of the counts.

Other big stacks and notables through to Day 2 include Arturo Jose Asensio Pobo (197,800), William Kassouf (192,200), Ben Morrison (172,200), Cate Hall (163,200), Harcharan Dogra Dogra (150,300), Jonathan Montes (128,400), Stacy Matuson (118,800), Kelly Kellner (96,000), and Francois Evard (89,000). Kassouf scored a big pot at the end of the night when flopping two pair and ousting an opponent who put his hopes on top pair and a flush draw.

It was a rough day for the 888poker ambassadors, though, as only Bruno Politano advanced with a stack of 84,300. Natalie Hof could not get much going and lost her short stack with queens to fives, Bruno Kawauti entered and played very few hands before being sent to the rail. Kara Scott, Nicolau Villa-Lobos and Sofia Lovgren were also gone before the dinner break, and Lovgren re-entered before bowing out in the last level of the night with queen-ten against the ace-ten of Jonathan Montes.

Michael Mizrachi and Patrik Antonius entered late, but neither lasted two levels at the tables. Mladen Ivanov, Valerie Ross, Fraser MacIntyre, Max Rotko, Daragh Davey and €2,200 High Roller 4th-place finisher Peter Jaksland were also among those to join the rail throughout the day. Jaksland had to re-enter and four-bet shoved with pocket tens out of the blinds in the second last level of the night. Cate Hall reshoved with pocket kings and the Dane found no help.

Eventually, less than 120 players bagged up chips for the night and 197 players so far have a stack for Day 2. The action will resume with blinds of 1,200/2,400 and a running ante of 300. At least 10 levels and up to 12 levels are scheduled for the penultimate day of the tournament, while the winner will then be determined on Monday. The PokerNews live reporting team will be on the floor to provide the action until the last river card is dealt.

€1,100 Main Event Day 2 Seat Draw

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count
1	1	Carlos Avila Ortega	Spain	40,900
1	2	Abel Martinez Gil	Spain	34,400
1	3	Simone Speranza	Italy	163,700
1	4	Jonas Kannosto	Finland	35,200
1	5	Marc Andre Furstenau	Germany	74,800
1	6	Carlo Constanzia	Italy	56,600
1	7	Marco Speranza	Italy	66,800
1	8	Alexander Zubov	Russian Federation	187,600

2	1	Ricardo Juan Graells	Spain	64,600
2	2	Jordi Corominas Puig	Spain	52,000
2	3	Hector Robles	Romania	46,600
2	4	Alberto Flores Trujillo	Spain	40,000
2	5	Didac Garcia Diaz	Spain	114,500
2	6	Guillermo Cedres Seijas	Spain	57,400
2	7	Sofian Benaissa	France	86,600
2	8	Jose Luis de Castro	Spain	91,000
2	9	Dominique Terzian	France	26,500

3	1	Evgenii Cherniak	Russian Federation	137,600
3	2	Frank Blumlein	Germany	80,600
3	3	Richard Edmondson	UK	100,000
3	4	Mariano Recuenco Martin	Spain	54,500
3	5	Wassim Ayari	France	93,700
3	6	Gregor Waltermann	Germany	103,600
3	7	Abel Durban Sala	Spain	80,000
3	8	Halldor Sverrisson	Iceland	55,900

4	1	Alessandro Surini	Italy	91,400
4	2	Jordi Ribatallada Ruiz	Spain	75,700
4	3	Jose Manuel Planells Castillo	Spain	196,100
4	4	Francisco Jose Garcia Martin	Spain	140,200
4	5	Jose Manuel Henriques	Portugal	190,000
4	6	Gilles Silbernagel	France	16,800
4	7	Pedro Miguel Giminez	Spain	22,100
4	8	Andras Bucher	Hungary	47,800

5	1	Mattia Verzeletti	Italy	30,500
5	2	Jani Haarala	Finland	40,900
5	3	Jose Alberto Lopez Gonzalez	Spain	98,200
5	4	Anton Nikolin	Russian Federation	137,000
5	5	Said Bichbiche	France	36,000
5	6	Oleg Egorov	Russian Federation	15,100
5	7	Lauri Saaskilahti	Finland	104,800
5	8	Jose Maria Mejias Collado	Spain	100,000

6	1	Alexey Dubrovkin	Russian Federation	60,900
6	2	Marwan Salamoun	USA	120,300
6	3	Sergio Alonso Camunas	Spain	67,000
6	4	Alejandro Peinado Guillen	Spain	122,500
6	5	Andrej Desset	Slovakia	39,000
6	6	Marco Regonaschi	Italy	80,000
6	7	Joaquim Aribau Cano	Spain	43,800
6	8	Nedzad Bibezic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	75,700

7	1	Cyrille Dupessey	France	44,000
7	2	Josep Maria Galindo Lopez	Spain	41,000
7	3	[Removed:312]	Lithuania	188,800
7	4	Kaido Koorits	Estonia	93,200
7	5	Francesc Mateu Munoz Bieto	Spain	51,500
7	6	Sebastian Tusal	Spain	48,400
7	7	James Grogan	Ireland	48,100
7	8	Jose Gomez Botia	Spain	90,000

8	1	Balazs Somodi	Hungary	99,900
8	2	Hristian Panchev	Bulgaria	229,900
8	3	Giovanni Di Ceglie	Croatia	138,000
8	4	Haykel Cherif Vidal	Spain	159,000
8	5	Alain Riss	France	88,000
8	6	Miri Hamza	Germany	142,000
8	7	Toni Batinjan	Unknown	58,300
8	8	Andres Vinas	Spain	87,000

9	1	Basem Davas	Ukraine	57,000
9	2	Alessandro Predaroli	Italy	43,500
9	3	Dominik Maska	Germany	61,900
9	4	Caglar Genc	UK	19,900
9	5	Anika Johannsdottir	Iceland	76,600
9	6	Enrico Camosci	Italy	56,000
9	7	Rodrigo Serrano	Spain	207,800
9	8	Arturas Kulbis	Lithuania	46,600

10	1	Alejandro Vazquez Gomez	Spain	184,400
10	2	Javier Sanchez Miguel	Spain	136,000
10	3	David Xarau Navarro	Spain	101,400
10	4	Daniel Lopez	Spain	126,500
10	5	Edgar Pujal Garcia	Spain	98,800
10	6	Filippo Lazzaretto	Italy	119,200
10	7	Fernando Cornadas Herra	Spain	140,300
10	8	Thierry Gogniat	France	70,400

11	1	Ema Zajmovic	Canada	30,600
11	2	Lucia Martinez	Spain	268,800
11	3	Gregory Torrents	France	76,600
11	4	Sebastian Langrock	Germany	71,100
11	5	Alessio Sardone	Italy	90,500
11	6	Jose Antonio Gascon Garcia	Spain	117,900
11	7	Carlos Garcia Rodriguez	Spain	51,700
11	8	Luca Trapasso	Italy	92,700
11	9	[Removed:204]	Spain	27,700

12	1	Brian Rockvam	USA	84,400
12	2	Tomas Fara	Czech Republic	207,100
12	3	Ramlal Basdeo	Trinidad and Tobago	26,200
12	4	Jaako Wilska	Finland	70,100
12	5	Pierre Remy	France	24,600
12	6	Juan de la Cruz	Spain	35,800
12	7	Clemente Castro	Spain	104,900
12	8	Roberto Lanero	Spain	55,000
12	9	Ben Morrison	UK	172,200

13	1	David Murillo Parda	Spain	74,300
13	2	Daniel Soler	Spain	165,600
13	3	Edgar Casanova	Spain	71,600
13	4	Roberto Lopez	Spain	57,400
13	5	Bruno Politano	Brazil	84,300
13	6	Van Hiep Tran	Germany	29,900
13	7	Alec Torelli	USA	244,900
13	8	Ivan Lutsiv	Greece	73,300
13	9	Georgios Cyprus	Greece	25,000

14	1	Philip Klasson	Sweden	31,700
14	2	Marti Roca	Spain	73,500
14	3	Marco Hakli	Spain	160,900
14	4	Roberto Sorzano Torres	Spain	166,900
14	5	Steven Flacco	USA	96,000
14	6	Sergio Gimenez Gomez	Spain	56,700
14	7	William Kassouf	UK	192,200
14	8	Jaime Victor Soler Puig	Spain	149,000
14	9	Jose Maria Gallego Tortosa	Spain	42,200

15	1	Gabriel Podovei	Romania	180,700
15	2	Helder da Silva Rego	Portugal	42,300
15	3	Brigido Delfa Cucart	Spain	58,500
15	4	Federico Grasso	Italy	62,700
15	5	Jens Hansen	Denmark	44,400
15	6	Paul Testud	France	55,000
15	7	Ramon Sanchez Delgado	Spain	58,800
15	8	Chuc Khuu	UK	123,000
15	9	Manuel Sanchez Morito	Spain	85,700

16	1	Nikolay Petkov	Bulgaria	34,800
16	2	Constantin Erhan	Romania	40,000
16	3	Oscar Romero	Spain	236,700
16	4	Francisco Irles	Spain	50,000
16	6	Federico Cirillo	Italy	49,700
16	7	Harcharan Dogra Dogra	Spain	150,300
16	8	Lemir Abillamaa	Lebanon	92,400
16	9	Francois Evard	Switzerland	89,000

17	1	Javier Martinez Perez	Spain	86,200
17	2	Samuel Hernandez	Spain	247,600
17	3	Ionel Catalin Pruna	Romania	44,500
17	4	Joaquin Exposito	Spain	134,000
17	5	Felix Osterland	Germany	107,000
17	6	Cedric Garcia	France	106,000
17	7	Isabel Baltazar	France	91,500
17	8	Arturo Jose Asensio Pobo	Spain	197,800
17	9	Do Chung Tran	Germany	173,400

18	1	Jose Antonio Bordas Neriz	Spain	95,900
18	2	Barham Kakahama	Sweden	134,500
18	3	Antonio Saez Zamorano	Spain	106,900
18	4	Gerhard Schober	Austria	59,600
18	5	Besmir Hodaj	Italy	136,700
18	6	Matthew Judd	USA	32,300
18	7	Xavi Riera	Spain	40,000
18	8	Stacy Matuson	USA	118,800
18	9	Marc Pujol	Spain	105,200

19	1	Simen Gulbrandsen	Norway	112,600
19	2	Fares Shehadeh	Italy	59,200
19	3	Fernando Pons	Spain	132,800
19	4	Fernando Campomar Concha	Spain	160,000
19	5	Per Sandqvist	Sweden	65,400
19	6	Aleksandr Kacharov	Russian Federation	71,700
19	7	Sasa Lalos	Austria	91,600
19	8	Cristian Ciuperca	Romania	76,800
19	9	Stefan Eriksson	Sweden	77,900

20	1	Yannick Pernot	France	128,100
20	2	Carl Ohlund	Sweden	59,800
20	3	Kimmo Kurko	Finland	20,800
20	4	Andre Andrade	Portugal	77,800
20	5	Maya Geller	USA	102,900
20	6	Gordon Huntly	UK	70,200
20	7	Sascha Ranzinger	Austria	40,600
20	8	Jaime Rueda Sampedro	Spain	37,200
20	9	Herbert Okolowitz	Germany	29,500

21	1	Nikolaos Paparis	Greece	90,300
21	2	Benjamin Ane	France	10,400
21	3	Luigi Shehadeh	Italy	152,600
21	4	Kelly Kellner	Canada	96,000
21	5	Benjamin Garcia Rivera	Spain	120,700
21	6	Liudmila Mitianova	Russian Federation	105,200
21	7	Yoav Mermelstein	Israel	57,700
21	8	Leonardus Horzelenberg	Netherlands	71,000
21	9	Kaspar Druml	Sweden	37,800

22	1	Vitaly Tevis	Russian Federation	179,700
22	2	Alexey Antokhin	Russian Federation	101,100
22	3	Hampus Persson	Sweden	47,000
22	4	Jose Maria Echevarne Gomez	Spain	215,000
22	5	Sergi Escote	Spain	188,000
22	6	Terje Sirenes	Norway	253,900
22	7	Bruno Aguilar	Spain	59,300
22	8	Sergi Solano	Spain	96,700
22	9	Jesper Hansen	Denmark	114,600

23	1	Hector Mendoza de Sojo	Spain	46,500
23	2	Guillem Cusco Bach	Spain	79,500
23	3	Javier de Vicente Miquel	Spain	71,000
23	4	Catalin Pop	Romania	115,000
23	5	Juan de Diego	Spain	27,600
23	6	Jonathan Montes	Spain	128,400
23	7	Leonardo Armino	Netherlands	22,400
23	8	Artur Yarovoy	Russian Federation	69,800
23	9	Cate Hall	USA	163,200

Tags: 888Live Alec Torelli Arturo Jose Asensio Pobo Bruno Kawauti Bruno Politano Catalin Pop Cate Hall Daragh Davey Francois Evard Harcharan Dogra Dogra Jonathan Montes Kelly Kellner Max Rotko Michael Mizrachi Mladen Ivanov Natalie Hof Patrik Antonius Peter Jaksland Rodrigo Serrano Sofia Lovgren Stacy Matuson Valerie Ross William Kassouf

05-21-2017 00:40 UTC+2

Serrano's Miracle

MrPaulSeaton

Level 11 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Of all the ways to make 250,000 chips, Rodrigo Serrano may have chosen the absolute hardest route, but somehow, he got there.

Pre-flop, Serrano was in first position and made it 3,500 to go. Antonio Carica Sastre called in the next seat, but when the play was folded round to Liudmila Mitanova, who raised all-in for 75,000. Serrano moved all-in himself for a little more still, but behind him, Sastre called it off!

Liudmila Mitanova:
Rodrigo Serrano:
Antonio Garcia Sastre:

An incredible set of hands, but the drama was only beginning. To gasps from the massed throng on the rail, the flop came , giving a gobsmacked Serrano a miracle set with the case king. The turn was the and the river , meaning Serrano made a miracle full house and victory at the expense of two players.

"This is such a joke!" muttered a disgruntled Sastre as he walked out. Serrano had the ultimate punchline right there.

Player	Chips	Progress
Rodrigo Serrano	250,000	250,000
Liudmila Mitanova	Busted
Antonio Garcia Sastre	Busted

Tags: Rodrigo Serrano Liudmila Mitanova Antonio Garcia Sastre

05-21-2017 00:19 UTC+2

Kassouf Finds a Fold

MrPaulSeaton

Level 11 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

William Kassouf bet 6,000 into a pot of around 10,500 after the board had fallen until the turn.

Benjamin Garcia Rivera was Kassouf's opponent, and he made it 15,000, prompting some words form Kassouf.

"You got very lucky on the turn."

Luck or not, Kassouf found the fold and that gives Garcia Rivera one of the biggest stacks in the room. Kassouf, while not short at a three-bet more than the average, has work to do to get back to his former position in the field.

Player	Chips	Progress
Benjamin Garcia Rivera	163,800	38,800
William Kassouf	87,600	-32,400

Tags: William Kassouf Benjamin Garcia Rivera

05-20-2017 22:07 UTC+2

MacIntyre Meets his Nemesis

Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Fraser MacIntyre has been eliminated and Catalin Pop stacked far more chips, the Romanian then confirmed what happened. According to Pop, he raised to 2,500 and MacIntyre defended the big blind before check-calling a bet for 4,500 on the flop. After the turn, MacIntyre check-raised all in for 35,000 with ace-king and Pop snap-called with a set of sixes.

Player	Chips	Progress
Catalin Pop	155,000	60,000
Fraser MacIntyre	Busted

Tags: Catalin Pop Fraser MacIntyre

05-20-2017 21:14 UTC+2

Kellner On Fire but Kiefel Krushing

MrPaulSeaton

Level 8 : 400/800, 100 ante

Kelly Kellner in jovial mood at the table as always, here on Day 1c of the 888Live Main Event in Barcelona.

An interesting two hands emerged from a fun table wihch features the newly-re-entered Cate Hall, everyone's favourite travelogue-posting high stakes cash game strategy whizz and Kelly Kellner who, and let's be clear about this, is one heck of a passionate Canadian.

A situation developed at the table which led to a poser from Torelli, but before that, let's rewind to the start of the hand with Kellner's tale of what happened.

"I had King-Jack, and called a bet in late position, I think it was 1,800. The flop came [Kc-Qc-Jh] with two clubs, I had no clubs, so he bet 3,500 and I called. The turn was the and he bet 7,500 so I called again. On the river, he bet 12,000, about half his stack, so I moved in and started singing the Canadian National Anthem."

Wait, what? Yep, it's true. Kellner began the Canadian National Anthem, a full rendition of it. He's where Torelli comes in. He pitched the question to Twitter.

Guy stands up and starts singing the Canadian national anthem after being ALL-IN on the river. Do you... @888poker #888livebarcelona
— Alec Torelli (@AlecTorelli)

Proving that while we count chips while you riffle them, we can call a situation and voted a). Fortunately for the Canadian player, Kellner's opponent went with b), paying Kellner off and busting the tournament.

"He called me, showed a king and walked off. I got right to the end of the anthem too, and it's a long one, maybe two minutes. It's a Canadian crush."

Kellner also took part in the next hand, which was bumped to 2,500 pre-flop. The bet was made by a gentleman in middle position, and called not only by Kellner but raised to 7,500 by Philipp Kiefel in the big blind. Both opponents called.

On the flop of , the gentleman in middle position open-shoved for 3,100. Kellner called that bet, but open-folded to Kiefel's re-shove. He was right to do so, with Kiefel's way ahead of his opponent's . The turn and river kept it that way, and good humour between Kellner and Kiefel.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kelly Kellner	125,000	95,000
Philipp Kiefel	57,000	57,000

Tags: 888Live Alec Torelli Cate Hall Kelly Kellner

05-20-2017 18:18 UTC+2

Matuson Channels Her Inner Kassouf

MrPaulSeaton

Level 4 : 150/300, 25 ante

Stacy Matuson hasn't cashed live since last year's infamous WSOP Main Event, where the hand that made William Kassouf the overnight fame-bomb of poker defined her Main Event. She may have folded to Kassouf's "Nine high like a boss", but Matuson then got pretty unlucky to bust soon after and the pair never got the chance to renew acquaintances at that tournament.

Fast-forward 10 months and both players are here on Day 1c of the 888Live Main Event in Barcelona, patched up as they are for 888Poker. Matuson had started steadily in this hand, but by the end of it, she'd talked as much as her pal 'Willy K' from that infamous hand.

The hand Matuson just took part in didn't involve Kassouf, but she kicked off the action by opening to 675 chips from early position. Called in two places, the flop of saw Kaspar Druml bet 3,500 from the small blind. Matuson alone called.

The turn of saw a bet of 10,050 from Druml called by Matuson, but on the river of , Druml moved all-in for 33,000 chips. Matuson only had 20,000 to her name and a massive decision on her hands.

"I don't know how I can fold this." she exalted. "You raised me pre. I need some time, are you guys all right with this?"

The rest of table gave polite nods.

"This could be your big bluff." Matsuon continued.

"You think I'm bluffing. Really?" asked Druml.

"Three sixes? You weren't afraid of the river. Aces is no good, you know that, right? I know you don't have the set."

All right, so she didn't mention monkey nuts or macadamia nuts, but the spirit was there.

Eventually, Matuson called and showed , better than Druml's and good enough for a 76,000-chip pot.

"Woo! Ship it!" Matuson yelled. "I'm fearless, baby. I've done very well in tournaments, look me up."

Player	Chips	Progress
Stacy Matuson	76,000	76,000
Kaspar Druml	9,500	9,500

05-20-2017 17:54 UTC+2

Flacco Busts Zawadowicz

Christian Zetzsche

Level 4 : 150/300, 25 ante

Steven Flacco was the first to raise and picked up two callers in Pawel Zawadowicz and Bruno Politano called out of the blinds. The flop came and Politano bet, both opponents called.

On the turn, Politano and Flacco checked and Zawadowicz bet 8,000, which resulted in a fold from Politano and a call by Flacco. After the river, Flacco bet 11,000 and Zawadowicz had less than that left, called all in. Flacco turned over the for the nut flush and Zawadowicz mucked his cards and headed to the rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
Steven Flacco	75,000	25,000
Bruno Politano	26,000	-4,000
Pawel Zawadowicz	Busted

Tags: Bruno Politano Pawel Zawadowicz Steven Flacco

05-20-2017 15:49 UTC+2

Steimer Flushed Away

MrPaulSeaton

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

Theo Steimer had called the all-in move of Guillermo Cedres Seijas on a board showing and when Seijas turned over for the nut flush, Steimer's were crushed.

Maybe it was due to being stunned, but Steimer sat resolutely in his chair until the dealer burned and turned the inconsequential on the river, but Steimer was well covered and Seijas had doubled his starting stack in less than a level. Steimer eventually departed while the other five players at the table picked apart the hand.

Player	Chips	Progress
Guillermo Cedres Seijas	60,000	60,000
Theo Steimer	Busted

Tags: Theo Steimer

05-20-2017 13:02 UTC+2

Welcome to Day 1c of the 888Live Barcelona Main Event

MrPaulSeaton

Cate Hall will be back in action with a final shot to make Day 2

With two Day 1 flights already in the can, we are back in action from 3.00pm local time at the Casino Barcelona for the final Day 1 flight as players take on the €1,000+100 entry Main Event.

We've had 276 entries to date, with 101 players already bagging chips to take through to tomorrow's Day 2. Who can join them today from what is sure to be a star-stacked field? Yesterday saw players such as William Kassouf and Cate Hall register but bust early to leave themselves ready to battle on Day 1c.

Other pros from the 888Poker stable looking to race through to Day 2 will include Bruno Politano and Kara Scott, who arrived yesterday and were part of the Welcome Party where 888Poker pledged to 'Take Back the Game' for the players with a host of new benefits, schemes and bonuses designed to reward players of all levels. Given the huge €500,000 prize-pool on offer here in Barcelona, those players are looking to catch their first reward in the Catalan capital by winning a major trophy and banking a serious sum of money.

The Pokernews team will be around the tables all day to bring you the action from Day 1c of the 888Live Barcelona Main Event from big pots to bust-outs and everything in between. As they say in Spain, Vamos!