2019 PokerStars.es EPT Barcelona

€5,300 EPT Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info

2019 PokerStars.es EPT Barcelona

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
66
Prize
€1,290,166
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,300
Prize Pool
€9,641,800
Entries
1,988
Level Info
Level
35
Blinds
200,000 / 400,000
Ante
400,000
Players Info - Day 1a
Entries
726
Players Left
259

Welcome to the 2019 PokerStars.es EPT Barcelona €5,300 Main Event

Piotr Nurzynski
Piotr Nurzynski

The European Poker Tour returns to Casino Barcelona for the 15th year running and the success story kicked off back in 2004 when Alexander Stevic became the inaugural EPT Main Event champion. Ever since the stop at the Spanish Riviera has cemented the status as the most popular stop of the year and a record field of 1,931 entries emerged in 2018.

Players from 10 different countries lifted the EPT Main Event trophy in Barcelona with Sweden and Germany providing three champions while two players from Poland came out on top twice.

The defending champion of the record-breaking event is Piotr Nurzynski, who took two years off to travel and played a €250 satellite on PokerStars while in South America to win his Main Event package, which he turned into a payday of €1,037,109.

The biggest and busiest stop of the calendar year has already set the bar of expectations very high with record fields in the Campeonato de España de Poker and the €1,100 EPT National, which attracted a field of 4,682 entries and concluded last night with the victory of Markku Koplimaa. All other side events are also up in numbers and that promises big things for the flagship tournament of the festival in the days to come.

EPT History in Barcelona at a glance

YearEntresPrize PoolWinnerCountryFirst Prize (in EUR)
2004229€ 229,000Alexander StevicSweden€ 80,000
2005327€ 1,300,000Jan BoubliFrance€ 416,000
2006480€ 2,304,000Bjørn-Erik GlenneNorway€ 691,000
2007543€ 4,181,100Sander LyloffDenmark€ 1,170,700
2008619€ 4,952,000Sebastian RuthenbergGermany€ 1,361,000
2009479€ 3,832,000Carter PhillipsUSA€ 850,000
2010758€ 3,790,000Kent LundmarkSweden€ 825,000
2011811€ 4,055,000Martin SchleichGermany€ 850,000
20121082€ 5,247,700Mikalai PobalBelarus€ 1,007,550
20131234€ 5,984,900Tom MiddletonUK€ 942,000
20141496€ 7,255,600Andre LettauGermany€ 794,058
20151694€ 8,215,900John JuandaIndonesia€ 1,022,593
20161785€ 8,657,250Sebastian MalecPoland€ 1,122,800
2017*1682€ 8,157,700Sebastian SorenssonSweden€ 987,043
20181931€ 9,365,350Piotr NurzynskiPoland€ 1,037,109

*held as PokerStars Championship

All players in the 2019 PokerStars.es EPT Barcelona €5,300 Main Event receive 30,000 in chips and ten levels of 60 minutes each are scheduled on each Day 1. A single re-entry and two entries in total are available for all those that bust and the participants can re-enter the same day, the following starting day or before the start of Day 2.

There will be a break every two levels and a 75-minute dinner break takes place after the completion of level 8. Furthermore, the tournament also features the new popular big blind ante format and a 30-second shot clock will be implemented at the start of Day 3.

Day 1 Level Structure

LevelDurationSmall BlindBig BlindBig Blind Ante
160 min100100 
260 min100100100
BREAK 20 min    
360 min100200200
460 min100300300
BREAK 20 min    
560 min200400400
660 min200500500
BREAK 20 min    
760 min300600600
860 min400800800
DINNER BREAK 75 min    
960 min5001,0001,000
1060 min6001,2001,200

Stay tuned for all the action from the tables for what shapes up to be one of the biggest poker tournaments of the year. The PokerNews team will be on the floor to provide all the action from start-to-finish.

Tags: Alexander StevicPiotr Nurzynski