€8,300 EPT Barcelona Main Event Day 1a | 2009 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona

09-04-2009 23:50 UTC+3

Lodden Back in the Game

[user46392]

Johnny Lodden, yoyo-ing about stack-wise in true Lodden fashion all day, pushed for around 10,000 to a raise. It folded back around to the raiser, who sighed and called.

Raiser: {6-Hearts}

Lodden:

Board: a moderately exciting but ultimately uneventful {4-Clubs}

Lodden thus yoyo-ed his way to a full double up to 22,000.

Tags: Johnny Lodden

09-04-2009 23:48 UTC+3

No Longer King Of The Kastle

[user76023]

Casey Kastle has dropped a big chunk of his stack after he called a raise and then open-pushed the flop of {K-Spades}

against his opponent while holding {K-Diamonds}

. He was called quickly though by {K-Clubs}

which avoided a ten on the {5-Spades}

turn and

river.

Level: 9

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 100

09-04-2009 23:42 UTC+3

It looks like Jonathan "FatalError" Aguiar was able to turn things right around despite having such a rough go of it the past few levels. We got to the table on the river with the final board reading {6-Diamonds}

. The pot sat at roughly 37,000 and Aguiar was acting out of the big blind position.

With 33,075 in his remaining stack, Aguiar moved all of them into the middle. HIs opponent gave somewhat of a disgusted shrug, but quickly made the call. Aguiar tabled {2-Spades}

for a full house. His opponents showed {5-Hearts}

for a flopped straight.

"Whew!" announced Aguiar as he counted down his remaining chips to double check the count. "He even turned two outs." he said.

Aguiar is now back over the century mark with 110,000 chips and feeling much, much better about things.

Tags: "FatalError"Jonathan Aguiar

09-04-2009 23:38 UTC+3

Meet Juan Maceiras

donpeters

Juan Maceiras is the latest team member of Team PokerStars Pro. He represents Spain and is extremely joyful to be playing such a prestige event in his home country, as he talks about in the following interview. Maceiras has over $350,000 in career tournament earnings with cashes coming in multiple other EPT events. He's cashed at EPT San Remo, Prague, Warsaw, and a previous season's Barcelona stop. Maceiras is registered to play tomorrow and our own Melissa Castello caught up with him briefly for a quick chat. Check it out.

09-04-2009 23:30 UTC+3

End of the Pierre - Nearly

[user46392]

William Reynolds opened for 2,100 and both the button and the small blind called before big blind Pierre Neuville moved in for 12,475 total. His opponents toppled like dominoes, and he picked the pot up there.

The next hand, though, he found himself looking at an {A-Clubs}

flop, blind on blind, and bet out. His opponent called and they saw a {Q-Clubs}

turn; this time Neuville checked. The big blind bet 5,500 and Neuville swiftly passed. Mr. Big Blind showed {5-Diamonds}

for a complete and slightly smug bluff.

Neuville on around 14,000.

Tags: Pierre Neuville

09-04-2009 23:29 UTC+3

"Vamos! Vamos! Vamos!"

donpeters

Marc Goodwin opened from under the gun to 2,300. The next player to act moved all in for 13,900 total. Action folded all the way around to Leo Margets in the big blind. She tanked for a minute or two before moving all in herself for 17,000 total. Goodwin folded, leaving his two opponents to battle it out.

Margets tabled {10-Clubs}

against her opponent's {A-Spades}

. The flop put Margets behind when it came {Q-Spades}

. The turn brought the {8-Spades}

, leaving her chasing two outs with one card to come.

The river saved Margets from being crippled when the {10-Diamonds}

was slapped on the felt. Margets sprung up in excitement and yelled, "Vamos! Vamos! Vamos!" before colleting her new chips. She now has about 34,000 chips.

Tags: Leo Margets Marc Goodwin

09-04-2009 23:25 UTC+3

Tough Times for Aguiar

donpeters

The past few levels have seen Jonathan "FatalError" Aguiar's stack dwindle from the monster he built it to be. From the starting stack of 30,000, Aguiar built up to around 120,000. That was well over a few hours ago and now Aguiar is sitting on just about 40,000 chips.

Just recently, Aguiar opened from under the gun with a raise to 1,900, but was three-bet by the player in the small blind who made it 5,350. Aguiar folded as he just can't seem to make anything work lately.

Tags: "FatalError"Jonathan Aguiar

09-04-2009 23:16 UTC+3

Greco Plays His Part

[user76023]

The former Eastender hoping to avoid a cliffhanger...

British actor Michael Greco continues to increase his stack. He bet 15,000 on the river of a {J-Diamonds}

which pushed Faraz Jaka off the pot.

09-04-2009 23:11 UTC+3

German Table

[user76023]

Katja Thater, Florian Langmann and last year's winner Sebastian Ruthenberg have all found themselves sharing a postively Germanic table with stacks of 37,000, 33,000 and 25,000 respectively.

Langmann though has managed to just take a pot off Thater, getting his compatriot to fold to a 6,200 bet on a {J-Clubs}

board.