Level 17
: 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante
The remaining 185 players have bagged and tagged for the night. End-of-day chip counts and a recap will follow shortly.
2019 PokerStars.es EPT Barcelona
€1,100 EPT National
Day: 1a
Event Info
2019 PokerStars.es EPT Barcelona
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€1,100
Prize Pool
€4,541,540
Entries
4,682
Level
40
Blinds
600,000 / 1,200,000
Ante
1,200,000
Players Left 1 / 4682
Filter
(1)
Level 17
: 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante
The full chip counts of all 185 Day 1a survivors will be published when PokerNews receives them and a recap of today's action are to follow.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
915,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
||
|
830,000
170,000
|
170,000 |
|
676,000
136,000
|
136,000 |
|
558,000
558,000
|
558,000 |
|
556,000
56,000
|
56,000 |
|
554,000
554,000
|
554,000 |
|
|
550,000
290,000
|
290,000 |
|
538,000
538,000
|
538,000 |
|
517,000
13,000
|
13,000 |
|
509,000
509,000
|
509,000 |
|
505,000
505,000
|
505,000 |
|
466,000
156,000
|
156,000 |
|
438,000
23,000
|
23,000 |
|
418,000
68,000
|
68,000 |
|
414,000
414,000
|
414,000 |
|
||
|
408,000 | |
|
397,000
7,000
|
7,000 |
|
392,000
42,000
|
42,000 |
|
388,000
128,000
|
128,000 |
|
381,000
381,000
|
381,000 |
|
378,000
378,000
|
378,000 |
|
371,000
46,000
|
46,000 |
|
369,000
29,000
|
29,000 |
|
360,000
360,000
|
360,000 |
|
342,000
342,000
|
342,000 |
Level 17
: 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante
The first flight of the €1,100 EPT National of the 2019 PokerStars European Poker Tour Barcelona has wrapped up with 15:10 seconds remaining at Level 17. This first flight attracted a massive field of 1,240 poker enthusiasts but only 185 of them were able to find a bag at the end of the night.
Leading the Day 1a pack is Dejan Jakovljevic, from Netherlands, with an impressive stack of 915,000 . Other top stacks include Alen Alencar (830,000), Diego Falcone (676,000), Jai Saha (596,000), Alexis Urli (558,000), Junzhong Loo (554,000), and Raffaele Sorrentino (517,000).
Sorrentino has over $2,139,000 in total live earnings on his poker resume. He has won multiple tournaments including the €5,300 Main Event of the 2017 PokerStars Championship Monte-Carlo. He also got third in the €5,300 Main Event of the 2017 PokerStars Championship Barcelona.
Other big names who will return for Day 2 include Rafi Elharar (342,000), Matias Ruzzi (181,000), Pedro Cairat (102,000) and Remi Castaignon (95,000). Ruzzi won this same tournament in 2014 and Cairat took it down in 2017. They will both be looking to claim the title a second time.
Some of the players who took a shot at the flight but couldn’t make it to the money were PokerStars Ambassadors Felix Schneiders, Maria Konnikova, and Andre Akkari as well as Joao Simao, Katie Lindsay, Alexandre Reard, Florian Duta, Ari Engel, Kitty Kuo, Russell Thomas, Ivo Donev, Cathal Shine, and Matthias Tikerpe.
They. as well as many others, will have the option to try their luck in any of the remaining flights. Day 1b will conclude shortly and the other two starting days will take place on Thursday August 22. Day 1c will start at noon, and Day 1d turbo will get underway at 7 p.m.
The survivors of all four starting flights will combine for Day 2 on Friday August 23rd at 12 p.m.
Stay tuned to PokerNews throughout this event as the PokerNews Live Reporting Team provides you with all the action from the felt.
€1,100 EPT National
Day 1a Completed
