€5,300 Main Event Day 1a | 2016 PokerStars.es EPT Season 13 Barcelona

Player	Chips	Progress
Senh Ung	30,000	30,000
Barny Boatman	30,000	30,000
Ronald Keijzer	30,000	30,000
Juha Helppi	30,000	30,000
Stephen Chidwick	30,000	30,000
Adrian Mateos	30,000	30,000
Steve O'Dwyer	30,000	30,000
Robert Soogea	30,000	30,000
Andreas Hoivold	30,000	30,000
Paul Newey	30,000	30,000
Vitaly Lunkin	30,000	30,000
Bart Fergiatakis	30,000	30,000
Charlie Carrel	30,000	30,000
Shander de Vries	30,000	30,000
Simon Deadman	30,000	30,000
Shola Akindele	30,000	30,000
Joseph Cheong	30,000	30,000
Paul Berende	30,000	30,000
Bart Kuiper	30,000	30,000
Daniel Strelitz	30,000	30,000

Player

Chips

Progress

Senh Ung

30,000

Barny Boatman

30,000

Ronald Keijzer

30,000

Juha Helppi

30,000

Stephen Chidwick

30,000

Adrian Mateos

30,000

Steve O'Dwyer

30,000

Robert Soogea

30,000

Andreas Hoivold

30,000

Paul Newey

30,000

30,000

30,000

30,000

30,000

30,000

Shola Akindele

30,000

Joseph Cheong

30,000

Paul Berende

30,000

Bart Kuiper

30,000

Daniel Strelitz

30,000

The 2016 European Poker Tour Barcelona festival continues today with the €5,300 Main Event at 12 p.m. local time.

The sunny festival in Spain is always a very popular stop with the players, and 2016 is no different. Attendance records have been shattered over the weekend, with last year's record-breaking field of 1,694 players looking to be topped as well. Poker legend John Juanda is the defending champion, who topped last year's field to bank the massive first-place prize of €1,022,593. Juanda is already off to a good start to the weekend, finishing 11th in the Super High Roller (€105,300).

Plenty of big names are expected to be in the field today, including Leo Fernandez, Steve O'Dwyer, Stephen Chidwick, Pratyush Buddiga, Mateusz Moolhuizen, Faraz Jaka, Dario Sammartino, Simon Deadman, and Barny Boatman.

Day 1A will see eight 75-minute levels on the schedule, with players beginning with 30,000 in tournament chips and the blinds kicking off at 50/100. There will be a 75-minute dinner break at the end of Level 6, and play should wrap up around 11:55 p.m. tonight.

The cards will be in the air shortly, so be sure to keep it locked right here to PokerNews.com all day long.

PokerStars EPT Barcelona Main Event Champions

#	Month	Year	Players	Buy-in	Winner	Country	Prize
1	September	2004	229	€1,000	Alexander Stevic	Sweden	€80,000
2	September	2005	327	€4,000	Jan Boubli	France	€416,000
3	September	2006	480	€5,000	Bjørn-Erik Glenne	Norway	€691,000
4	August	2007	543	€8,000	Sander Lyloff	Denmark	€1,170,700
5	September	2008	619	€8,000	Sebastian Ruthenberg	Germany	€1,361,000
6	September	2009	478	€8,000	Carter Phillips	United States	€850,000
7	November	2010	757	€5,000	Kent Lundmark	Sweden	€825,000
8	August	2011	811	€5,000	Martin Schleich	Germany	€850,000
9	August	2012	1,082	€5,000	Mikalai Pobal	Belarus	€1,007,550
10	September	2013	1,234	€5,000	Tom Middleton	United Kingdom	€942,000
11	August	2014	1,496	€5,000	Andre Lettau	Germany	€794,058
12	August	2015	1,694	€5,000	John Juanda	Indonesia	€1,022,593

2016 PokerStars.es EPT Season 13 Barcelona

2016 PokerStars.es EPT Season 13 Barcelona

In The Field

Welcome To The 2016 EPT Barcelona Main Event!