Main Event Day 1a | 2012 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona

08-19-2012 16:24 UTC+3

Interesting EPT Barcelona Facts

MarcC

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It’s been on the EPT schedule since Season 1, and in fact was the first ever event.
No Spaniard has ever won the title. The closest to do so was Dragan Kostic and Jesus Cortes Lizano, who both finished as runner-up in Season 8 and Season 7 respectively.
No player has ever made the final table twice.
Many Americans have made the final table over the years including Phil Ivey (2nd in Season 3), Jason Mercier (6th in Season 5) and Adam Junglen (6th in Season 4), but Carter Phillips was the only American to win the event, doing so in Season 6 after conquering a field of 479 players for €850,000.
There have been two winners from Sweden (Season 1 & 7) and two from Germany (Seasons 5 & 8); while the other winners have hailed from France (Season 2), Norway (Season 3), Denmark (Season 4) and United States (Season 6).

Thanks to our colleague, Chad Hollaway, for these facts.

08-19-2012 16:28 UTC+3

Player	Chips	Progress
Liv Boeree	22,000 1,000	1,000

Who’s playing and well, who’s not?

MarcC

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It’s a big opening day for the new season with familiar faces playing, and some not…

Full story here.

08-19-2012 16:45 UTC+3

Player	Chips	Progress
Andrew Lichtenberger	56,000 26,000	26,000

Vladimir Geshkenbein	41,000 11,000	11,000

Masa Kagawa	38,000 15,000	15,000
Kenny Hallaert	38,000 8,000	8,000

Kent Lundmark	36,000 6,000	6,000

Juan Manuel Pastor	35,000 5,000	5,000

Lex Veldhuis	33,500 3,500	3,500

Henrique Pinho	33,000 3,000	3,000

Chris Brammer	33,000 3,000	3,000
John Eames	32,000 1,000	1,000
Jani Sointula	32,000 2,000	2,000
Pius Heinz	31,000 4,000	4,000

Anton Wigg	30,000

Dani Stern	29,000
Fernando Brito	29,000 -1,000	-1,000
Sebastian Ruthenberg	29,000

Michael Tureniec	28,500 -1,500	-1,500

Martins Adeniya	28,350 -1,650	-1,650
Liv Boeree	27,500 5,500	5,500

Zimnan Ziyard	27,000 -3,000	-3,000

Marcin Horecki	27,000 -3,000	-3,000

Mattias De Meulder	26,500 -3,500	-3,500
Barny Boatman	25,500 -4,500	-4,500

Peter Jepsen	25,000 -7,000	-7,000

Martin Hruby	25,000 -5,000	-5,000

In a three-way pot, it was checked to Risto Antero Ailamo who bet 3,600 on the river of a {5-Spades} {A-Spades} {A-Clubs} {Q-Hearts} {K-Spades} board, the big blind folded but Martin Jacobson check-raised to 12,300.

Ailamo didn't take too long to make the call but Jacobson showed {K-Clubs} {K-Hearts} for a rivered full house to beat Ailamo's smaller flopped full house holding of {5-Hearts} {5-Clubs} .

Player	Chips	Progress
Martin Jacobson	43,000 13,000	13,000

Tags: Martin Jacobson

08-19-2012 17:13 UTC+3

A Few More Chips Counts

MarcC

Player	Chips	Progress
Leo Margets	55,000 25,000	25,000

John Juanda	34,000 4,000	4,000

Joao Barbosa	22,000 -8,000	-8,000

Jannick Wrang	14,000 -16,000	-16,000

08-19-2012 17:21 UTC+3

Ngu Doubles Throught Andrulis

[user72235]

Jessica Ngu from Australia went all-in for around 6,700 from under the gun and found a customer in 2010 EPT Tallinn €10,000 High Roller champion Kristijonas Andrulis from Lithuania.

Ngu opened {5-Hearts} {5-Spades} and Andrulis showed {A-Spades} {K-Diamonds} .

The flop went {5-Clubs} {3-Diamonds} {2-Clubs} giving Ngu a set along with a huge relief. The {J-Diamonds} on the turn and {8-Spades} on the river made no changes and Ngu doubled up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kristijonas Andrulis	23,300
Jessica Ngu	13,400

Tags: Kristijonas Andrulis

08-19-2012 17:21 UTC+3

The Art of Not Folding

[user76023]

With Ernst Christian Stratmeyer already all in on the {6-Spades} {8-Spades} {3-Hearts} flop, Artem Litvinov checked the {6-Diamonds} turn and Alexander Roumeliotis bet 8,500. The Russian looked pained for several minutes before moving all in and his Swedish opponent instantly called.

Stratmeyer: {A-Diamonds} {Q-Diamonds}
Roumeliotis: {A-Clubs} {A-Hearts}
Litvinov: {Q-Clubs} {6-Clubs}

Litvinov's theatrics paid off and the {9-Hearts} river sent the other two players to the rail. Litvinov declared, "I bubbled the €50k yesterday, I'm going home tomorrow, I'm going to play every hand..."

Player	Chips	Progress
Artem Litvinov	75,000
Alexander Roumeliotis	Busted
Ernst Christian Stratmeyer	Busted

Tags: Artem Litvinov

08-19-2012 17:30 UTC+3

Folding to Finns

MarcC

The two Juhas, Helppi and Lauttamus, both have less than their starting stacks but are both going about getting back into it the right way.

Helppi barrelled from the small blind, getting his under the gun opponent off his hand on the turn on a {a-Spades} {5-Spades} {5-Diamonds} {j-Clubs} board.

Moments later we witnessed Lauttamus check-raise to 1,600 from the big blind after an opponent c-bet on a {j-Clubs} {10-Clubs} {10-Diamonds} flop. It did the tick as a fold was quick in coming.