2017 888Live Poker Festival Barcelona

Main Event
Day: 1c
Event Info

2017 888Live Poker Festival Barcelona

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
88
Prize
€110,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€1,100
Prize Pool
€584,640
Entries
609
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
20,000

Ruiz Garcia Takes the Lead

Level 6 : 250/500, 50 ante

Firat Cinar raised and called the three-bet to 3,600 by Jorge Ruiz Garcia to see a heads-up flop of {A-Spades}{7-Clubs}{4-Hearts}. Cinar bet 4,200 and Ruiz Garcia called before doing so again on the {J-Diamonds} turn for 7,000.

Cinar then shoved the {A-Clubs} river for around 30,000 and Ruiz Garcia quickly called. Cinar showed {A-Hearts}{8-Hearts} for trips aces and Ruiz Garcia tabled {A-Diamonds}{K-Clubs}, then celebrated the big pot. He counted his stack carefully and moved up to more than five times the starting stack.

Player Chips Progress
Jorge Ruiz Garcia es
Jorge Ruiz Garcia
160,000
117,500
117,500
Firat Cinar
Firat Cinar
Busted

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Second Break of the Day

Level 6 : 250/500, 50 ante

The screens show an 283-entry strong field and 243 players remain, they have been sent into a 15-minute break. After the next three levels, a 60-minute dinner break will follow before Day 1c wraps up after another two hour stint.

Level: 7

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 75

Updated Counts

Level 7 : 300/600, 75 ante
Player Chips Progress
Isabel Baltazar fr
Isabel Baltazar
130,000
-15,000
-15,000
Harcharan Dogra Dogra es
Harcharan Dogra Dogra
120,000
Alec Torelli us
Alec Torelli
115,000
115,000
115,000
William Kassouf gb
William Kassouf
98,000
51,000
51,000
Marc Pujol es
Marc Pujol
65,000
65,000
65,000
Bruno Politano br
Bruno Politano
48,000
3,000
3,000
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Catalin Pop ro
Catalin Pop
38,800
17,800
17,800
Francois Evard ch
Francois Evard
32,000
2,000
2,000
Mladen Ivanov bg
Mladen Ivanov
23,200
-1,800
-1,800
Nicolau Villa-Lobos br
Nicolau Villa-Lobos
21,000
-9,000
-9,000
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Cate Hall us
Cate Hall
7,000
-19,400
-19,400
Ramon Miquel Munoz es
Ramon Miquel Munoz
Busted

Matuson In Charge

Level 7 : 300/600, 75 ante

Stacy Matuson has dominated her table for much of the level, and is up to a six-figure stack after three-betting three hands in a row, once from the blinds and then twice in late position.

Elsewhere, William Kassouf is currently at 98,000 and on the feature table which you can watch right here.

Player Chips Progress
Stacy Matuson us
Stacy Matuson
115,000
43,000
43,000
William Kassouf gb
William Kassouf
98,000

Approaching 300 Entries on Day 1c

Level 7 : 300/600, 75 ante

The third and final starting day of the €1,100 Main Event here at Casino Barcelona turns out to be bigger than both Day 1a and 1b combined. So far there have been 296 entries, and the screens show 243 players remaining for an average of just over 36,000 in chips.

Hall In and Out

Level 7 : 300/600, 75 ante
Cate Hall was down, out...but has now re-entered.
Cate Hall was down, out...but has now re-entered.

Cate Hall busted €1,000+100 entry 888Live Barcelona Main Event just now, but having considered her options, she saw plenty of value in getting straight back in so has re-entered.

If that takes the sting of defeat from the following bust-out for her fans, all the better. It was Jesper Hansen who eliminated her, when the pair of them got the chips into the middle pre-flop. Hall held {K-Diamonds}{Q-Diamonds}, but couldn't catch Hansen's {7-Hearts}{7-Clubs} in a classic coinflip race.

Player Chips Progress
Jesper Hansen dk
Jesper Hansen
36,000
-19,000
-19,000
Cate Hall us
Cate Hall
30,000
23,000
23,000

Game Over for Stephens

Level 7 : 300/600, 75 ante
Sally Stephens
Sally Stephens

Sally Stephens walked out of the tournament area and to the media desk next to the feature table, then explained how she had just busted. Stephens and table neighbor Pedro Miguel Giminez were involved in the last hand and Stephens' pocket kings were no match to the flopped set of threes of the Spaniard.

"I won most of it in cash, so I didn't have to pay much to play today. But there were too many beats, I can't take it anymore." While Stephens can still re-enter until the start of Day 2, this now seems very unlikely.

Player Chips Progress
Pedro Miguel Giminez es
Pedro Miguel Giminez
62,000
Sally Stephens us
Sally Stephens
Busted

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