2012 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona

€10,000 High Roller
Day: 1
Event Info

2012 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
qq
Prize
€270,229
Event Info
Buy-in
€10,000
Prize Pool
€1,087,800
Entries
111
Level Info
Level
22
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
5,000

€10,000 High Roller

Day 1 Completed

Chip Counts (full)

Player Chips Progress
Taylor Paur us
Taylor Paur
220,400
Jean-Noel Thorel fr
Jean-Noel Thorel
193,600
JC Alvarado mx
JC Alvarado
181,600
David Martirosyan
David Martirosyan
167,000 29,000
Igor Kurganov ru
Igor Kurganov
151,600 47,600
Jonathan Duhamel ca
Jonathan Duhamel
140,100
Timothy Adams ca
Timothy Adams
138,700 21,700
Ivan Arnau Roy
Ivan Arnau Roy
138,700 48,700
Tom-Aksel Bedell no
Tom-Aksel Bedell
133,600 83,600
Bryn Kenney us
Bryn Kenney
129,600 5,600
Bertrand Grospellier fr
Bertrand Grospellier
129,100
Angel Guillen mx
Angel Guillen
123,700
Alex Bilokur ru
Alex Bilokur
116,400 66,400
Andrey Gulyy ru
Andrey Gulyy
111,500 31,500
[Removed:119]
[Removed:119]
111,000 61,000
Laurent Polito fr
Laurent Polito
108,200
Andrew Lichtenberger us
Andrew Lichtenberger
106,800 34,800
Masa Kagawa
Masa Kagawa
106,100 56,100
Rui Cao fr
Rui Cao
105,100 -4,900
Gurgen Melkonyan ru
Gurgen Melkonyan
104,300
Reza Mostafavi
Reza Mostafavi
100,300 -9,200
Stanislav Labutkin ru
Stanislav Labutkin
99,800 49,800
Grzegorz Derkowski pl
Grzegorz Derkowski
93,600
Konstantin Puchkov ru
Konstantin Puchkov
92,400 39,400
Andras Nemeth hu
Andras Nemeth
90,200

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Paur Leads After Day 1 of €10,000 High Roller

Level 5 : 400/800, 100 ante
Taylor Paur shines on Day 1
Taylor Paur shines on Day 1

Day 1 of the 2012 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona €10,000 High Roller has come and gone. It was a short day on the felt as play was halted early due to the Barcelona versus Real Madrid match tonight that many of the players were headed off to. After a total of 111 entries were tallied, 76 of them remained at the end of the night. Leading the way was Taylor Paur with 220,400 in chips.

Of those to play this event were Team PokerStars Pros Jonathan Duhamel, Angel Guillen, Jason Mercier, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Pius Heinz and Martin Staszko. Mercier was forced to quickly use his single reload after busting on the first hand he played, but went on to finish with 48,100. Of that bunch, Duhamel bagged the most chips with 140,100 in his bag at the end of the night.

Other notables to finish with solid stack sizes were Jean Noel Thorel (193,600), JC Alvarado (181,600) and Igor Kurganov (151,000).

The top 12 spots are planned to be paid out, with €359,000 going to the winner. Play is scheduled to resume tomorrow at 1:00 PM local time. The plan will be to play down to the final table before calling it quits. PokerNews will be on hand for all of the live updates, so be sure to join us then for the coverage.

Tags: Taylor Paur

Two Dans Down

Dan Smith
Dan Smith

Dan Smith won't be adding to his €50k crown here, he opened for 2,000 before Chris Brammer made it 5,025, Smith responded with a four-bet to 9,300 with around 25,000 behind.

Brammer tanked for a couple of minutes before setting the American all in, getting snap-called for his trouble.

Brammer: {9-Hearts}{9-Diamonds}
Smith: {A-Diamonds}{K-Diamonds}

The board ran out a Brit-friendly {5-Hearts}{9-Clubs}{3-Diamonds}{8-Hearts}{4-Hearts} to knock Smith out.

At the same time, Rui Cao had opened in the small blind to 2,200 and decided to make the call when Dani Stern pushed all in for around 22,000.

Cao: {K-Spades}{Q-Hearts}
Stern: {A-Diamonds}{8-Clubs}

The board came {2-Diamonds}{J-Diamonds}{7-Clubs}{A-Spades} and it looked all good for Stern but the river was the {10-Clubs} to make Cao's straight and a wordless "Ansky" left quickly.

Player Chips Progress
Rui Cao fr
Rui Cao
110,000 32,000
Christopher Brammer gb
Christopher Brammer
82,000 22,000
Dani Stern us
Dani Stern
Busted
Dan Smith us
Dan Smith
Busted

Tags: Dan SmithDani SternChris BrammerRui Cao

Updated Chip Counts

Player Chips Progress
Taylor Paur us
Taylor Paur
210,000 103,000
Jonathan Duhamel ca
Jonathan Duhamel
167,000 27,000
JC Alvarado mx
JC Alvarado
164,000 114,000
Bryn Kenney us
Bryn Kenney
124,000 74,000
Carlos Mora Alvarez
Carlos Mora Alvarez
90,000 -35,000
Angel Guillen mx
Angel Guillen
88,000 21,000
Philipp Gruissem de
Philipp Gruissem
75,000 25,000
Bertrand Grospellier fr
Bertrand Grospellier
66,000 -4,000
Christopher Brammer gb
Christopher Brammer
60,000 -3,000
Jason Mercier us
Jason Mercier
51,000 500
Scott Seiver us
Scott Seiver
46,000 -58,000
Andrey Pateychuk ru
Andrey Pateychuk
EPT 1X Winner
44,000 8,000
Mike McDonald ca
Mike McDonald
EPT 1X Winner
37,000 -14,000
Pius Heinz de
Pius Heinz
36,000 -13,500
Kristijonas Andrulis lt
Kristijonas Andrulis
36,000
Dan Smith us
Dan Smith
32,000 -31,500
Sorel Mizzi ca
Sorel Mizzi
23,000 -41,000
Martin Staszko cz
Martin Staszko
19,000 -33,000
Artem Litvinov ru
Artem Litvinov
12,000 -38,000

Jed-licked

Jani Sointula fired out 8,500 on the turn of a {4-Hearts}{2-Spades}{9-Hearts}{J-Diamonds} board with Nicklaus Jedlicka check-calling this bet.

On the {6-Hearts} river, the Austrian checked again and Sointula moved all in. Jedlicka, known by his online nickname "Kaibuxxe" made the call.

Sointula showed {2-Hearts}{2-Clubs} for a flopped set and Jedlicka mucked pushing 27,000 forward.

"Wait," he said, "Those aren't 1k chips?" He'd thought the bet was only 27,000 which would've left him a few chips left. He didn't make a deal of it though, simply shrugged and left the table.

Player Chips Progress
Jani Sointula fi
Jani Sointula
125,000 90,500
Nikolaus Jedlicka
Nikolaus Jedlicka
Busted

Tags: Nicklaus JedlickaJani Sointula