2012 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona

Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info

2012 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
aa
Prize
€1,007,550
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€5,247,700
Entries
1,082
Level Info
Level
34
Blinds
120,000 / 240,000
Ante
30,000

Others Spotted

It's a tough looking spot for Anton Wigg, the Swede is stuck to the right of compatriot and fellow EPT winner Michael Tureniec.

Wigg just bet 3,650 on the river a {6-Diamonds}{10-Hearts}{2-Diamonds}{K-Spades}{4-Clubs} board only to have an opponent raise to 10,000. Wigg had two 5,000 blue chips ready to make the call but after some thought, elected to instead muck his hand.

Player Chips Progress
Zimnan Ziyard gb
Zimnan Ziyard
30,000
EPT 1X Winner
Martin Jacobson se
Martin Jacobson
30,000
Ben Wilinofsky ca
Ben Wilinofsky
30,000
EPT 1X Winner
Michael Tureniec se
Michael Tureniec
30,000
EPT 1X Winner
Anton Wigg se
Anton Wigg
30,000
EPT Main Event Champion
EPT 1X Winner
Kenny Hallaert be
Kenny Hallaert
30,000

De Meulder vs. Boatman

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

Team PokerStars Pro Matthias De Meulder happens to be sitting at the same table as the EPT veteran Barney Boatman and the two got into an early battle. We caught the action on the board reading {2-Hearts} {4-Spades} {A-Hearts} and Boatman fired a bet of 1,850 from under the gun. De Meulder, who was on the button, made the call and both saw the {J-Hearts} appear on the turn.

Boatman bet another 2,000 and De Meulder called again. The dealer opened the {2-Spades} on the river and both players checked. Boatman showed his hand first which was {6-Clubs} {6-Hearts} for a two pair, but De Meulder opened {A-Clubs} {4-Clubs} for a higher two pair and collected the pot.

Tags: Barney BoatmanMatthias de Meulder

Juha Helppi Himself to Chips

Juha Helppi has a tricky table draw with John Juanda and Andrew Lichtenberger both sat to his left, so he concentrated on taking chips from Borge Dypvik, who sits to his right.

The two were heads up to the turn of a {9-Hearts}{j-Diamonds}{8-Spades}{9-Spades} board and Helppi called a 1,050 bet in position. Dypvik had seen enough and check-folded to a 2,000 bet on the {3-Spades} river.

Player Chips Progress
Juha Helppi fi
Juha Helppi
34,000
John Juanda id
John Juanda
30,000
Poker Hall of Famer
EPT 1X Winner
Andrew Lichtenberger us
Andrew Lichtenberger
30,000
$25K Fantasy

Tags: Andrew LichtenbergerJohn JuandaJuha HelppiBorge Dypvik

Level: 2

Blinds: 75/150

Ante: 0

Early Loss for Chouity

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

Andreas Vlachos from Greece opened the hand in the cutoff seat with a 750 raise and was called by the Dutch player Oscar Kemps in the big blind as well as the 2010 EPT Grand Final, Monte Carlo winner Nicolas Chouity under the gun and they went three-way into the flop.

The dealer opened {4-Spades} {A-Hearts} {4-Diamonds} which was checked by all three. Kemps bet 1,450 {7-Hearts} on the turn, Chouity made the call and Vlachos folded.

The two remaining players saw {2-Spades} come on the river and Kemps lead again for 5,100 and Chouity went along with the call. Kemps flipped {7-Clubs} {7-Diamonds} for a full house and Chouity mucked.

Tags: Nicolas Chouity

Great Dane

It's over five years since Peter Jepsen won EPT Warsaw back in 2007 but the Dane is back here for the start of EPT season 9. He's just picked up a small pot when he fired out bets of 1,075 and 1,600 on the turn and river of a {3-Diamonds}{K-Clubs}{10-Hearts}{3-Hearts}{10-Spades} board against Luis Maria Rodriguez with the latter calling him down.

Jepsen showed {A-Clubs}{K-Hearts} which was good enough for the pot.

Player Chips Progress
Peter Jepsen dk
Peter Jepsen
32,000
2,000
2,000
EPT 1X Winner

Don't Mess With the Champ

Team PokerStars Pro and still World Series of Poker champion for another month, Pius Heinz, had to fire three bullets to dislodge Andrey Ivlev from a hand.

Heinz check-raised Ivlev's 550 c-bet up to 1,525 on a {k-Spades}{10-Clubs}{j-Clubs} flop, and then went on to bet 2,850 and 6,425 on the {8-Diamonds}{5-Hearts} turn and river. He was in the big blind and his Russian opponent called the first bet but tank-folded to the river bet.

The German is nearing getting back to his starting stack with 27,000.

Player Chips Progress
Pius Heinz de
Pius Heinz
27,000
-3,000
-3,000

Tags: Pius Heinz

Can't Caj a Break

On a flop of {10-Spades}{8-Hearts}{3-Clubs}, Erik Cajelais raised a donk-bet from the big blind from 300 to 800 but his opponent the made the call. The {8-Spades} turn and {K-Spades} river were checked down and Cajelais' foe showed {9-Spades}{9-Clubs} and the French-Canadian mucked.

Player Chips Progress
Erik Cajelais ca
Erik Cajelais
29,000
-1,000
-1,000

Tags: Erik Cajelais