2019 888poker LIVE Festival Barcelona

Main Event
Day: 1c
Event Info

2019 888poker LIVE Festival Barcelona

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
53
Prize
€110,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€1,100
Prize Pool
€551,000
Entries
551
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
160,000

Cortes Pushes Into Sowa

Level 10 : 600/1,200, 1,200 ante
Jesus Cortes
Jesus Cortes

Jesus Cortes opened to 2,300 at the end of the previous level and picked up two callers. Gereon Sowa in the big blind squeezed to 12,500 and Cortes moved all in. The action folded to Sowa, who asked for a count. Cortes' all in was for 79,200 and that proved to be too much for Sowa.

On the feature table, Ladislao Dalfo Battle lost a bigger pot with queens against the {10-Spades}{7-Spades} of Tarmo Tammel and dropped below the starting stack.

Further assorted counts can be found below.

Player Chips Progress
Andrea Salamone it
Andrea Salamone
210,000
50,000
50,000
Day 1C Chip Leader
Claudio Di Giacomo it
Claudio Di Giacomo
155,000
40,000
40,000
Jon Gurrutxaga es
Jon Gurrutxaga
120,000
35,000
35,000
Raul van Boxtel nl
Raul van Boxtel
110,000
98,000
98,000
Svitlana Derevlianko ru
Svitlana Derevlianko
110,000
-25,000
-25,000
Gereon Sowa de
Gereon Sowa
100,000
10,000
10,000
Jesus Cortes es
Jesus Cortes
100,000
20,000
20,000
Tarmo Tammel ee
Tarmo Tammel
93,400
-26,600
-26,600
Antonio Perez Vico Barba es
Antonio Perez Vico Barba
80,000
10,000
10,000
Vivian Saliba br
Vivian Saliba
70,000
22,000
22,000
Maria Kaslivtseva ru
Maria Kaslivtseva
60,000
60,000
60,000
Indrani Sarasingh tt
Indrani Sarasingh
28,000
-10,000
-10,000
Ladislao Dalfo Battle es
Ladislao Dalfo Battle
27,000
-93,000
-93,000

Tags: Gereon SowaJesus CortesLadislao Dalfo BattleTarmo Tammel

Salamone Pulls Further Ahead

Level 10 : 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

A bigger pot was brewing and chip leader Andrea Salamone pushed on the {q-Clubs}{10-Hearts}{9-Spades}{10-Clubs}{9-Clubs} river. His opponent gave it some thought and called, which prompted Salamone to roll over the {a-Diamonds}{9-Hearts} for a full house.

His opponent mucked and the dealer revealed his {a-}{q-Hearts} briefly to then push the chips to Salamone. The Italian was busy to stack them neatly once more in piles of 20, and has pulled further away at the top of the leaderboard.

Player Chips Progress
Andrea Salamone it
Andrea Salamone
280,000
70,000
70,000
Day 1C Chip Leader

Tags: Andrea Salamone

Four Bullets; Four-Way All In; Best Hand Preflop Ends Up Fourth

Level 10 : 600/1,200, 1,200 ante
jesper Hansen
jesper Hansen

Some crazy action took place over on table 16 and ended in a four-way all in. It started rather innocent with a raise to 3,000 by Ricardo Graells and a call by Jesper Hansen and Silviu Baltateanu, who had just re-entred on his fourth bullet for Day 1c. Albert Grané in the big blind pushed for 30,800 and Graells moved all in over the top.

Hansen gave it some thought and called all in, as did Baltateanu.

Silviu Baltateanu: {9-Diamonds}{8-Diamonds}
Albert Grané: {a-Clubs}{9-Clubs}
Jesper Hansen: {10-Diamonds}{10-Clubs}
Ricardo Graells: {a-Hearts}{k-Clubs}

Hansen was ahead with his pocket pair, but the board of {q-Clubs}{8-Clubs}{3-Hearts}{j-Clubs}{10-Spades} saw his hand go from best to fourth and the Dane hit the rail. Baltateanu initially celebrated as he hit a straight but was then reminded that Grané had turned the nut flush and Graells won the side pot with the nut straight.

Player Chips Progress
Albert Grané es
Albert Grané
120,000
120,000
120,000
[Removed:97] ch
[Removed:97]
85,000
70,000
70,000
Jesper Hansen dk
Jesper Hansen
Busted
Silviu Baltateanu ro
Silviu Baltateanu
Busted

Tags: Albert GranéJesper HansenSilviu Baltateanu

Van Boxtel Busts One

Level 10 : 600/1,200, 1,200 ante
Raul van Boxtel
Raul van Boxtel

A shorter stack had been already all in and three players remained active. A bet by Raul van Boxtel on the {j-Spades}{9-Clubs}{7-Diamonds}{a-Spades}{6-Spades} river forced folds from Pietro Robbiano and the fourth player in the hand, and van Boxtel turned over {k-Spades}{8-Spades} for the back door flush to secure the knockout, the short stack had {a-Diamonds}{10-Hearts} for top pair.

"Did you see that? He called with king-eight and one spade on the flop," Robbiano said, half in Spanish, half in Italian. Robbiano and van Boxtel are both above the average with fewer than half the field remaining.

Player Chips Progress
Raul van Boxtel nl
Raul van Boxtel
120,000
10,000
10,000
Pietro Robbiano it
Pietro Robbiano
95,000
20,000
20,000

Tags: Pietro RobbianoRaul Van Boxtel

Final Break on Day 1c

Level 10 : 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

Four levels in a row after the dinner break would have been three hours of play, and that was considered as too long. As a result, a short 10-minute break has been added after the end of level 10 and the screens show 117 players out of 262 entries remaining. Another two 45-minute levels will decide who makes it through to Day 2.

Level: 11

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 1,600

Gorman Doubles

Level 11 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

A raise to 3,200 vby Albert Gorman was called by Dorde Jovanovic and one further player. The big blind pushed all in for around 60,000 and Gorman called all in for 50,400. Jovanovic asked for a rough count on both and folded, and the big blind ended up heads-up in the showdown with {5-Clubs}{5-Diamonds} against the {a-Clubs}{q-Diamonds} of Gorman.

"I folded pocket nines," Jovanovic said and saw the board run out {8-Spades}{7-Clubs}{2-Spades}{q-Hearts}{2-Diamonds} to give Gorman a pair of queens.

Player Chips Progress
Dorde Jovanovic cs
Dorde Jovanovic
110,000
Albert Gorman
Albert Gorman
110,000

Tags: Dorde JovanovicAlbert Gorman