There's not much snow in Barcelona in August, which is how come it was poker under discussion when Lex Veldhuis met the World Champion skiers Petter and Tomas Northug this morning.
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Team PokerStars Pro and Season 5 EPT Barcelona champ Sebastian Ruthenberg is primed to make another go at the title. We're not sure how he got them all, but in the last couple levels Ruthenberg has chipped up to 292,000!
Here's a look back at the Season 5 final table:
| Buy-in | Entrants | Prize Pool | Number of Payouts |
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| €8,000 | 619 | €4,952,000 | 64 |
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
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| 1st | Sebastian Ruthenberg | Germany | €1,361,000 |
| 2nd | Fintan Gavin | Ireland | €792,000 |
| 3rd | Davidi Kitai | Belgium | €455,000 |
| 4th | Daniele Mazzia | Italy | €351,000 |
| 5th | Dren Ukella | Germany | €292,000 |
| 6th | Jason Mercier | United States | €227,800 |
| 7th | Samuel Chartier | Canada | €178,000 |
| 8th | Martin Nielsen | Denmark | €119,000 |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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292,000 | 206,000 |
We didn't catch the hand, but we do know that the Season 7 EPT Barcelona champ, Kent Lundmark, has been eliminated from the tournament. We were able to piece together some of the details, and we do know that Lundmark called off holding 
from the button on a board reading 
after Saab Rachad had moved all in from the big blind with 
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Meanwhile, Bryn Kenney has been eliminated from the tournament. He is already waiting to get back in action as an alternate in today's 4:00 PM €2,000 No-Limit Hold'em side event (Event #13).
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As is the case on Day 2s the players fly out of the door. The below will not be able to win more than a million Euros.
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Ouch, this was is going to smart for Nicholas Joseph Augustino.
The board was reading 
and his chips went flying in against Yves Pierre Maison.
Augustino: 
Maison: 
Augustino couldn't believe his bad luck in what was a 200,000 plus pot but the 
was the second best card he could've found on the turn, giving him a mix of flush outs and straight chops.
The on the river helped neither player and the Frenchman doubled up to over 210,000
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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The €50,000 Super High Roller fourth-place finisher Irari "Ziigmund" Sahamies is running good in the Main Event as well. He just busted an EPT regular from Czech Republic Vojtech Ruzicka.
Sahamies raised to 2,800 from an early position and Ruzicka on the Finn's immediate left went all-in. Action folded back to Sahamies and he made the call. Ruzicka showed 
and Sahamies opened .
The board was no help for the Czech and he hit the rail.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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258,000 | 171,300 |
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190,000 | 82,000 |
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157,000 | 56,000 |
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95,000 | 24,500 |
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89,000 | 37,000 |
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61,000 | 33,500 |
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55,000 | 42,800 |
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38,000 | 19,000 |
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25,000 | -58,200 |
Kyle Julius, runner-up from last season's PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, was involved in a four-way pot on the 
flop. The first two players checked and Julius bet 3,500. The player behind him called and the other two folded.
The turn was the and paired the board. Julius checked and his opponent bet 12,000. Julius took a minute and then check-raised to 25,000. His opponent quickly shoved for around 55,000-60,000, having Julius well covered. Julius quickly mucked and dropped back to 15,000 in chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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We decided to check in with the respective chip leaders from Days 1a and 1b, Guy Bachar and Aku Joentausta. The former began the day with 193,100 and had run it up to 325,000 here on Day 2, while the latter has gone from 236,200 to 320,000.
Likewise, Bachar's brother, Ziv, who is seated one table over, has run his start-of-the-day stack of 130,000 up to 205,000. Meanwhile, PokerStars high-stakes play Terje "Terkn89" Augdal has been eliminated from the tournament.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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325,000 | 131,900 |
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320,000 | 83,800 |
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205,000 | 75,000 |
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