Level: 6
Blinds: 300/500
Ante: 500
2019 888poker LIVE Festival Barcelona
Main Event
Day: 1c
Event Info
2019 888poker LIVE Festival Barcelona
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€1,100
Prize Pool
€551,000
Entries
551
Level
31
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
160,000
Players Left 1 / 551
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Level 5
: 200/400, 400 ante
In a preflop limped pot, 888poker qualifier Pavel Komashenko opted to jam for just over 10,000 out of the blinds and an equally short-stacked Corrado Martinelli called it off with 
for fever chips.
Komashenko tabled 
and the board came 
.
"I had three four of clubs," Raul van Boxtel said in table chat and bumped fists with Martinelli, who will likely re-enter soon.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
Busted |
Level 5
: 200/400, 400 ante
Maurizio Pili appears to be the current chip leader with 120,000 and sits next to Tom-Aksel Bedell. Gabriel Podovei busted with 
in a four-bet jam pot against two players, one of which was Kully Sidhu with queens. However, neither survived as ace-king scored a double knockout.
Podovei re-entered and Sidhu is expected to do the same.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
120,000
120,000
|
120,000 |
|
55,000
55,000
|
55,000 |
|
35,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
|
|
32,000
32,000
|
32,000 |
|
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
29,000
29,000
|
29,000 |
|
28,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
|
||
|
|
25,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
|
15,000
33,000
|
33,000 |
|
Busted | |
Level 5
: 200/400, 400 ante
At the very end of the previous level, Silviu Baltateanu limped in and Sonny Franco raised to 1,500. One player called in middle position and Baltateanu then limp-raised to 6,000. Franco jammed for 26,000 and the cold-caller folded, while Baltateanu called.
Sonny Franco: 
Silviu Baltateanu: 
The board came 
and Franco headed to the rail.
"This tournament is starting to get expensive, fifth entry," Franco said on his way out.
The clash came just a few minutes after Baltateanu had made a big scene out of his cards being mucked by the dealer when he was standing next to the chair but not in his seat.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
70,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Level: 5
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 400
Level 4
: 100/300, 300 ante
A raise to 800 was called three ways, which included Carmen Zainescu and Matthijs van den Broek. Pablo Rojas then raised to 5,000 and that forced folds all around. Van den Broek then reraised and Rojas called all in for the last 15,500.
Pablo Rojas: 
Matthijs van den Broek: 
The board came 
and that spelled the end for Rojas.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
52,000
52,000
|
52,000 |
|
50,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
Busted |
Level 4
: 100/300, 300 ante
Defending champion Adrian Costin Constantin has re-entered and his predecessor, the 2017 champion and 2018 finalist Luigi Shehadeh, is now also in contention. Shehadeh shares a table with Sonny Franco and Silviu Baltateanu.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
45,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
|
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
||
|
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
|
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
|
26,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
Level 4
: 100/300, 300 ante
Gabriel Podovei raised the cutoff and Italo Martin Palao Modena three-bet to 2,000 from the button, which Antonio Perez Vico Barba in the small blind and Kully Sidhu in the big blind called. On the 
flop, the action checked to Palao Modena and he continued for 4,200 with 10,000 behind.
Vico Barba folded and Sidhu glanced at the stack of his opponent before pushing all in. Podovei let go and the Italian snap-called.
Italo Martin Palao Modena:
Kully Sidhu:
On top of the flush draw, Sidhu picked up even more outs on the 
turn, but the 
river was a blank.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
38,000
38,000
|
38,000 |
|
|
32,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
|
|
15,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
|
|
12,000
18,000
|
18,000 |
Level 4
: 100/300, 300 ante
Francesco Di Profio has now managed to more than double his stack early on each of the three starting days, but failed to bag and tag the previous two days. Whether or not the third time will be a charm remains to be seen, as Di Profio is on the way for a third attempt tight now.
Also at more than two times the starting stack in the poker room is Antonin Teisseire, Carmen Zainescu, Yaron Ben Avi and Silviu Baltateanu have started well, too.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
65,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
61,000
31,000
|
31,000 |
|
50,000
19,000
|
19,000 |
|
|
42,000
12,000
|
12,000 |
|
|
40,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
Level 4
: 100/300, 300 ante
The €165 Mega Knockout Side Event attracted a big field of 344 entries the previous night and a prize pool of €33,024 emerged. Of the buy-in €100 went to the prize pool and each knockout secured another payday of €50 for the winner of the hand.
Play was halted at around 3 a.m. local time and the final nine players returned to play down to a champion as of 3 p.m. local time. The field was quickly reduced to the final five when Michail Tastanis pushed over the top of a raise by Luis Larrosa and a jam by Juan Batalle. Larrosa as second-biggest stack in the hand called with nines and Larrosa showed 
. Tastanis only had 
, but spiked an ace on the flop and river to send two players to the rail.
From there on out, Tastanis had a massive lead and claimed the trophy soon after. The Greek will also be back for Day 2 of the Main Event as he advanced from Day 1a with a big stack of 243,000.
Final Result €165 The Mega Knockout
| Place | Winner | Country | Prize (in EUR) | Prize (in USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michail Tastanis | Greece | 7,450 | $8,324 |
| 2 | Juan Roca | Spain | 4,800 | $5,363 |
| 3 | Patrick Scaramozza | Italy | 3,300 | $3,687 |
| 4 | Luis Larrosa | Spain | 2,224 | $2,485 |
| 5 | Juan Batalle | Spain | 1,575 | $1,760 |
| 6 | Pablo Battista | Italy | 1,155 | $1,291 |
| 7 | Lorenzo Amadeo | Italy | 910 | $1,017 |
| 8 | Nikita Iakushev | Russia | 725 | $810 |
| 9 | Alfons Rodergas | Spain | 595 | $665 |
