Main Event Day 1b | 2018 PokerStars.es EPT Barcelona

08-28-2018 17:43 UTC+1

Player	Chips	Progress
Mikko Hirvonen	77,000 47,000	47,000
Theo Jorgensen	69,000 44,000	44,000
Omar Lakhdari	53,000
Alexandre Reard	50,000 10,000	10,000
Richard Milne	47,000 14,000	14,000
Fraser Macintyre	41,000 11,000	11,000
Jan Bendik	40,000

Muskan Sethi	32,000 5,500	5,500
Fabrice Soulier	32,000
Felipe Ramos	30,000
Vasyl Zabrodskyy	29,000 1,000	1,000
Sebastian Malec	29,000 5,000	5,000

Barny Boatman	26,000 6,000	6,000

Kitty Kuo	18,000 13,000	13,000
Gaelle Baumann	13,000 20,000	20,000
Moundir Zoughari	Busted

Loosli Doubles Back to Starting Stack

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Will Shillibier

Level 6 : 200/500, 500 ante

Sylvain Loosli was all in with against an opponent holding

Loosli's all-in was for around 12,500 and the board came ensuring that he would double up back to starting stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sylvain Loosli	30,000 3,000	3,000

Tags: Sylvain Loosli

08-28-2018 17:31 UTC+1

Record Field Looming

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Yori Epskamp

Level 6 : 200/500, 500 ante

With 1,165 entries on Day 1b, the field is now up to 1,763 entries total and very close to breaking the EPT Main Event record from 2016 (1,785 entries).

08-28-2018 17:28 UTC+1

Farrell Explains Monster Stack

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Will Shillibier

Level 6 : 200/500, 500 ante

Niall Farrell was previously on a table with Heidi May in the secondary tournament room. That table now broke and he is now seated in the main tournament room with an impressive stack of 150,000 in front of him.

And how did he get those chips we hear you ask?

"You know when there are five cards on the board," said Farrell, "And you have two more cards in your hand. Well sometimes my two cards combine with the cards on the board to make the best hand...and they still go all in!"

Sounds simple...

Player	Chips	Progress
Niall Farrell	150,000 60,000	60,000

Tags: Niall Farrell

08-28-2018 17:26 UTC+1

Updated Chip Counts

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Will Shillibier

Level 6 : 200/500, 500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Chris Brammer	77,000 47,000	47,000
Heidi May	57,000 19,000	19,000
Federico Butteroni	41,000
Chi Zhang	40,000
Andre Akkari	40,000 9,000	9,000

Chris Moorman	39,000
Martin Jacobson	29,000 17,500	17,500
Pascal Lefrancois	13,000 17,000	17,000

08-28-2018 17:24 UTC+1

Updated Counts

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Yori Epskamp

Level 6 : 200/500, 500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Vlado Banicevic	80,000 80,000	80,000
Jonathan Therme	55,000 21,000	21,000
Simon Trumper	53,000 29,000	29,000
Yuri Ishida	40,000
Rens Feenstra	36,000 4,000	4,000
Kees van Brugge	30,200 1,200	1,200
Razvan Belea	30,000
Julien Sitbon	30,000 22,000	22,000
Sebastian Malec	24,000

Louis Salter	14,000 14,000	14,000

08-28-2018 17:09 UTC+1

Robbiani Eliminated by Alfonse

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Will Shillibier

Level 6 : 200/500, 500 ante

Pietro Robbiani was all-in and at risk with against the of Karam Alfonse.

The board ran out and Alfonse's tens held.

"Unbelievable," said Robbiani, getting to his feet and storming out of the tournament room.

Player	Chips	Progress
Karam Alfonse	35,000
Pietro Robbiani	Busted

Tags: Pietro Robbiani Karam Alfonse

08-28-2018 17:01 UTC+1

Day 1b Photos

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Yori Epskamp

Photos by Neil Stoddart & René Velli / PokerStars.

08-28-2018 16:57 UTC+1

Updated Chip Counts

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Will Shillibier

Level 6 : 200/500, 500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Patrik Antonius	69,000 11,000	11,000

Tom Hall	68,000 14,000	14,000
Sergio Garcia	62,000 28,000	28,000
Juha Helppi	52,000 23,500	23,500
Daniel Negreanu	51,000 5,000	5,000

Konstantin Puchkov	49,000 20,000	20,000
Andre Akkari	49,000 30,000	30,000

Dominik Panka	37,000 12,000	12,000

Michael Wang	31,000 2,000	2,000
Jans Arends	22,000 18,000	18,000
Tobias Peters	14,000 6,000	6,000
Daniel Tang	10,000 10,000	10,000

08-28-2018 16:56 UTC+1

Kuo Knocks One Out

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Yori Epskamp

Level 6 : 200/500, 500 ante

Pascal Levaudel was all in for 1,500 on the turn with the board reading and two players called, including Kitty Kuo. The river was the and Levaudel revealed . Kuo showed , the third player showed and the pot went to the Taiwanese pro.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kitty Kuo	31,000
Pascal Levaudel	Busted

Tags: Kitty Kuo