We're down to our final 32 players, and they've been combined around the final four tables. A quick scan finds our last remaining woman, Isabel Clemente sitting with the shortest stack in the room -- about 185,000. She's not alone in short-stacked territory, though, and we count about a half-dozen players hovering around half the chip average or less.
Here are the rest of those suffering a bit of a chip deficiency right now:
Koen De Visscher is the latest casualty as we approach the sunset of Day 3 in Barcelona.
The Belgian raised from early position and Sigurd Andreas Eskeland peeled from the big blind to see a flop. Eskeland check-raised De Visscher's 55,000 c-bet up to 110,000. Call.
The turn fell and Eskeland moved all-in for around 360,000, covering the 317,000 that De Visscher had behind. He made the call all0in but was in trouble as the Norwegian tabled for two-pair, ahead of De Viddcher's . The river fell and that was that for last season's EPT Barcelona bubble boy.
First into the pot, Benjamin Juhasz opened to 35,000, and he found one caller in the form of Mario Adolfini in the blinds. Heads-up they went, and the dealer put out a flop. Adolfini opted to lead out into the pot, and he did so with an all-in shove for 169,000! Juhasz made the call, and he had the slightly bigger stack and the chance for the knockout as the cards were shown up.
From the cutoff seat, Saar Wilf raised to 30,000. Martin Schleich reraised from the button to 75,000 and then action fell to Leo Margets in the small blind. She reraised all in for approximately 475,000. Play moved back to Wilf and he reshoved for over 800,000, having Schleich and his last 750,000 or so covered. After a long time in the tank, Schleich mucked his hand and it was Wilf versus Margets for this one.
Wilf tabled the and was well ahead of the for Margets. She would need some help if she was going to stave elimination on this one. Schleich claimed to have folded two queens.
The flop came down and Margets couldn't find much to work with. The kings for Wilf stayed in the lead with two more cards to come.
The turn brought the and then the river finished things off with the . Margets hit the rail while Wilf moved to over 1.3 million in chips.
Seeing as he has about a million-chip lead right now, it's probably a good time to introduce you to Raul Mestre.
A Spaniard, Mestre's bio lists his origin as Valencia, just a short drive south of here along the Mediterranean. His first cash on record comes from 2006, and he made the final three tables of Spain's WPT event in both 2007 and 2008. The latter came in the same year as his career-best cash, a final-table appearance in Prague during Season 5. All together, he has more than a quarter-million dollars in earnings, and he'll be looking to add some more significant coinage to that record with a deep run here this week.
Eugene Katchalov and Alex Kravchenko may both be members of Team PokerStars Pro but there's no team in I when battle commences over the baize.
Kravchenko raised to 28,000 and both blinds called (Katchalov in the BB) to see a flop.
The action was checked to the Russian who continued for 42,000. The small blind took a long while to fold but Katchalov snap shoved when it was his time to act. Kravchenko poked out his bottom lip out, shrugged and made the call all-in for another 120,000 or so.
Katchalov: for a pair and flush draw.
Kravchenko: for top pair.
Katchalov got instant service on the turn to finish the act and eliminate Kravchenko.
Eugene Katchalov and Alex Kravchenko may both be members of Team PokerStars Pro but there's no team in I when battle commences over the baize.
Kravchenko raised to 28,000 and both blinds called (Katchalov in the BB) to see a flop.
The action was checked to the Russian who continued for 42,000. The small blind took a long while to fold but Katchalov snap shoved when it was his time to act. Kravchenko poked out his bottom lip out, shrugged and made the call all-in for another 120,000 or so.
Katchalov: for a pair and flush draw.
Kravchenko: for top pair.
Katchalov got instant service on the turn to finish the act and eliminate Kravchenko.
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flop. Eskeland check-raised De Visscher's 55,000 c-bet up to 110,000. Call.
and Eskeland moved all-in for around 360,000, covering the 317,000 that De Visscher had behind. He made the call all0in but was in trouble as the Norwegian tabled 
for two-pair, ahead of De Viddcher's 
. The river fell 
and that was that for last season's EPT Barcelona bubble boy.
flop. Adolfini opted to lead out into the pot, and he did so with an all-in shove for 169,000! Juhasz made the call, and he had the slightly bigger stack and the chance for the knockout as the cards were shown up.
and was well ahead of the 
for Margets. She would need some help if she was going to stave elimination on this one. Schleich claimed to have folded two queens.
and Margets couldn't find much to work with. The kings for Wilf stayed in the lead with two more cards to come.
and then the river finished things off with the 
for a pair and flush draw.
for top pair.