2013 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona

€5,300 Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info

2013 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
55
Prize
€942,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€5,984,900
Entries
1,230
Level Info
Level
36
Blinds
200,000 / 400,000
Ante
50,000

More Level 3 Eliminations

Level 3 : 100/200, 0 ante
Player Chips Progress
Dawid Paczka
Dawid Paczka
Busted
Salvatore Bonavena it
Salvatore Bonavena
EPT 1X Winner
Busted
Christophe Malaurie fr
Christophe Malaurie
Busted
Pierre Neuville be
Pierre Neuville
Busted
Arjun Pasricha in
Arjun Pasricha
Busted
Ahmed Abd El Fathah
Ahmed Abd El Fathah
Busted
Adria Maria Balaguer mt
Adria Maria Balaguer
Busted
Alejandro Quattrini
Alejandro Quattrini
Busted
Paulo Figueiredo Ribeiro
Paulo Figueiredo Ribeiro
Busted
Britt Petersen
Britt Petersen
Busted
Nuno Pereira Ascensao
Nuno Pereira Ascensao
Busted
Senol Karahasan tr
Senol Karahasan
Busted
Einar Lindestad
Einar Lindestad
Busted
Gordon Huntly gb
Gordon Huntly
Busted

Four-Bet Ship From Kuo

Level 3 : 100/200, 0 ante

We picked up with the action on a flop of {6-Diamonds}{2-Spades}{10-Hearts} to see Kitty Kuo heads up with Anthony Mowad. Mowad fired 1,600 and Kuo came over the top with a raise to what looked to be 3,800. Mowad called the raise but in doing so tossed out four red T1,000 chips on top of his bet. This was more chips than Kuo's raise and Kuo insisted that the move must be a raise. The floor was called and they agreed, ruling a raise to 6,000.

The very moment that the raise was made valid, Kuo snap-shoved her entire stack all in for a four-bet raise to 22,475. Mowad tanked for quite some time.

"Would you should me your hand?" he asked.

Kuo merely shook her head to signify a no.

He mucked his hand - the {J-Diamonds}{J-Hearts} - face up, and watched as Kuo scooped up the pot. This win boosted Kuo's stack up to about 31,000.

Player Chips Progress
Kitty Kuo tw
Kitty Kuo
31,000 1,000

Tags: Kitty Kuo

Negreanu So Close

Level 3 : 100/200, 0 ante

Peter Kresz, a PokerStars Qualifier from Hungary opened from early position and got a call from Daniel Negreanu who announced “This could be the one.” as he put in the chips. Two more callers behind and we saw a flop of {3-Diamonds}{j-Hearts}{7-Clubs}. Kresz continued for 525 and got calls from Negreanu and the small blind. {3-Hearts} on the turn and Kresz ploughed on betting another 1,500. This time Negreanu was the only caller and they saw a river of {q-Diamonds}. Kresz bet for the last time, 2,100. Negreanu held his cards up and released them in frustration. “So close.” He said. “So far.” replied Kresz and turned over his {3-Clubs}{3-Spades} for quads. “Oh wow, thank God. I had a pair and a flush draw.” claimed Negreanu.

Balsiger Doubles Opponent

Level 3 : 100/200, 0 ante

We arrived at the table in time to see a short stacked player all in and at risk before the flop for his last 9,775 against Jake Balsiger. The hands were turned over to find that the players were racing for Balsiger's opponent's tournament life.

Balsiger: {A-Hearts}{Q-Spades}
Opponent: {J-Hearts}{J-Spades}

The board ran out {8-Diamonds}{5-Clubs}{4-Clubs}{2-Clubs}{J-Clubs} and Balsiger was unable to improve. He shipped double up chips across the table and watched as his own stack shrunk to just about 17,500.

Player Chips Progress
Jake Balsiger us
Jake Balsiger
17,500 -12,500

Tags: Jake Balsiger

Assorted Counts

Level 3 : 100/200, 0 ante
Player Chips Progress
Christophe De Meulder be
Christophe De Meulder
61,000 31,000
Zsolt Vasvenszki hu
Zsolt Vasvenszki
60,000 -6,000
Vitaly Lunkin ru
Vitaly Lunkin
43,000 13,000
Sam Cohen us
Sam Cohen
38,000 8,000
Andrey Zaichenko ru
Andrey Zaichenko
36,000 6,000
Andrew Moreno us
Andrew Moreno
35,000 -3,700
Sofia Lovgren se
Sofia Lovgren
31,000 1,000
Liv Boeree gb
Liv Boeree
24,500 -5,500
Angel Guillen mx
Angel Guillen
23,000 -7,000
Richard Wong
Richard Wong
22,000 22,000
Daniel Negreanu ca
Daniel Negreanu
18,000 -500
Pratyush Buddiga us
Pratyush Buddiga
14,000 14,000
Jonathan Little us
Jonathan Little
9,000 -21,000

Kim Back To Starting Stack

Level 3 : 100/200, 0 ante
Brian Kim
Brian Kim

Brian Kim's European Poker Tour Barcelona Main Event hadn't started too well, as he slipped down to around 18,000 or so, but he's not back to nearly the stack he began the day with thanks to a little backdoor help.

On the final board of {J-Hearts}{5-Spades}{3-Clubs}{10-Spades}{8-Spades}, there was approximately 5,500 in the middle. Kim had fired a bet of 4,750 after his opponent checked to him, and the player sat in the tank for a minute or two prior to making the call. Kim tabled the {Q-Diamonds}{9-Clubs} for a rivered queen-high straight and scooped in the pot. His opponent didn't show.

This is the second EPT event that Kim has played in his poker career, having first fired in the 2013 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final €10,000 Main Event last season in May. In that event, Kim's run was cut short when 12th-place finisher Clyde Tjauw Foe flushed away Kim's set of eights before Vasili Firsau eliminated him a few hands later.

Player Chips Progress
Brian Kim us
Brian Kim
29,000 29,000

Tags: Brian Kim

O’Dwyer Limps Along

Level 3 : 100/200, 0 ante
Steve O'Dwyer
Steve O'Dwyer

Fresh from his success in the Super High Roller, where he finished 3rd for €355,100, PokerStars player Steve O'Dwyer from Ireland is back in action at the Main Event today. He’s proved that he can adapt to almost any situation in poker, so it will be fascinating to see if he can navigate his way through such a large field.

Kenneth Kui limped from early position and O’Dwyer was happy enough to play along and put in his 200 chips to call. There were four more callers including seat 7, Glib Kovtunov in the seat 8 and the small and big blinds. Six players saw a flop of {9-Diamonds}{8-Spades}{3-Diamonds}. It was checked to Kovtunov who bet 600 and found his only caller in seat 7. They both checked a turn of {q-Clubs} and when the {9-Spades} came on the river Kovtunov called a bet of 1,200 and mucked when he saw his opponents {q-Hearts}{j-Clubs}.

Various Chip Counts

Level 3 : 100/200, 0 ante
Player Chips Progress
Marc-Andre Ladouceur ca
Marc-Andre Ladouceur
50,000 20,000
Shannon Shorr us
Shannon Shorr
49,000 4,000
Martin Finger de
Martin Finger
EPT 1X Winner
45,000 15,000
Marvin Rettenmaier de
Marvin Rettenmaier
34,000
Juan Manuel Pastor es
Juan Manuel Pastor
34,000 34,000
Ilari Sahamies fi
Ilari Sahamies
31,000 1,000
Mike McDonald ca
Mike McDonald
EPT 1X Winner
31,000 31,000
Harley Stoffmaker ca
Harley Stoffmaker
30,000
Ludovic Lacay fr
Ludovic Lacay
EPT 1X Winner
29,000 -1,000
Fatima Moreira De Melo nl
Fatima Moreira De Melo
28,500 -1,500
Luca Pagano it
Luca Pagano
26,500 4,000
Konstantin Puchkov ru
Konstantin Puchkov
25,000 -5,000
Manig Loeser de
Manig Loeser
EPT 1X Winner
23,500 23,500
Jake Cody gb
Jake Cody
22,000
Davidi Kitai be
Davidi Kitai
EPT Main Event Champion
EPT 1X Winner
Winamax
22,000 22,000
Pierre Neuville be
Pierre Neuville
19,200 -10,800
Randal Flowers us
Randal Flowers
15,000 -15,000
Lex Veldhuis nl
Lex Veldhuis
14,150 -15,850
Juha Helppi fi
Juha Helppi
14,000 2,000
Eilert Eilertsen
Eilert Eilertsen
Busted
Kyriakos Mitsopoulos
Kyriakos Mitsopoulos
Busted
Andrey Gulyy ru
Andrey Gulyy
Busted
Alexander Isenberg
Alexander Isenberg
Busted