Second Verse, Bigger Than the First
Welcome back to the Casino de Barcelona for Day 1b of the eighth annual EPT event here.
Yesterday's kickoff welcomed 346 players to the felt, and that was the small half. Today's flight could approach 500 players, and smashing last year's record attendance of 758 seams like a near-lock. We've got another great crowd of the Team PokerStars family slated to join up today, including 2011 bracelet winners Eugene Katchalov, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, and Jason Mercier. Liv Boeree was just spotted walking around the hallways, and we also expect to see the likes of Daniel Negreanu, Viktor Blom, Jonathan Duhamel, and the local favorite, Juan Manuel Pastor.
The players are swarming into the building right now, and the chairs are filling in one-by-one. The start time is just ten minutes away, and we'll be back then with the shuffle-up-and-deal!