€10,000 High Roller Day 1 | 2012 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona

08-23-2012 20:23 UTC+2

Player	Chips	Progress
Taylor Paur	210,000 103,000	103,000
Jonathan Duhamel	167,000 27,000	27,000

JC Alvarado	164,000 114,000	114,000
Bryn Kenney	124,000 74,000	74,000
Carlos Mora Alvarez	90,000 35,000	35,000
Angel Guillen	88,000 21,000	21,000

Philipp Gruissem	75,000 25,000	25,000
Bertrand Grospellier	66,000 4,000	4,000

Christopher Brammer	60,000 3,000	3,000
Jason Mercier	51,000 500	500

Scott Seiver	46,000 58,000	58,000
Andrey Pateychuk	44,000 8,000	8,000

Mike McDonald	37,000 14,000	14,000

Pius Heinz	36,000 13,500	13,500

Kristijonas Andrulis	36,000
Dan Smith	32,000 31,500	31,500

Sorel Mizzi	23,000 41,000	41,000
Martin Staszko	19,000 33,000	33,000

Artem Litvinov	12,000 38,000	38,000

Two Dans Down

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	110,000 32,000	32,000
Christopher Brammer	82,000 22,000	22,000
Dani Stern	Busted
Dan Smith	Busted

Tags: Dan Smith Dani Stern Chris Brammer Rui Cao

08-23-2012 20:43 UTC+2

Last Six Hands

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Level 5 : 400/800, 100 ante

Players are now playing their final six hands of the day.

08-23-2012 20:58 UTC+2

Action Everywhere at EPT Barcelona

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Donnie Peters

Level 5 : 400/800, 100 ante

Super High Roller champion Dan Smith may well be crushing the side events at EPT9 Barcelona, but he's not been the only winner here in Spain. Find out who has been winning what by reading this article at the PokerStars Blog.

08-23-2012 20:58 UTC+2

A Few End-of-Day Counts

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Player	Chips	Progress
Taylor Paur	220,400 10,400	10,400
Jean-Noel Thorel	193,600 8,600	8,600
JC Alvarado	181,600 17,600	17,600
Jonathan Duhamel	140,100 26,900	26,900

Bertrand Grospellier	129,100 63,100	63,100

Angel Guillen	123,700 35,700	35,700

Jason Mercier	48,100 2,900	2,900

Pius Heinz	28,000 8,000	8,000

08-23-2012 21:04 UTC+2

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

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Donnie Peters

Level 5 : 400/800, 100 ante

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

08-24-2012 08:37 UTC+2

Chip Counts (full)

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Player	Chips	Progress
Taylor Paur	220,400
Jean-Noel Thorel	193,600
JC Alvarado	181,600
David Martirosyan	167,000 29,000	29,000
Igor Kurganov	151,600 47,600	47,600
Jonathan Duhamel	140,100

Timothy Adams	138,700 21,700	21,700
Ivan Arnau Roy	138,700 48,700	48,700
Tom-Aksel Bedell	133,600 83,600	83,600
Bryn Kenney	129,600 5,600	5,600
Bertrand Grospellier	129,100

Angel Guillen	123,700

Alex Bilokur	116,400 66,400	66,400
Andrey Gulyy	111,500 31,500	31,500
[Removed:119]	111,000 61,000	61,000
Laurent Polito	108,200
Andrew Lichtenberger	106,800 34,800	34,800
Masa Kagawa	106,100 56,100	56,100
Rui Cao	105,100 4,900	4,900
Gurgen Melkonyan	104,300
Reza Mostafavi	100,300 9,200	9,200
Stanislav Labutkin	99,800 49,800	49,800
Grzegorz Derkowski	93,600
Konstantin Puchkov	92,400 39,400	39,400
Andras Nemeth	90,200