€10,200 Mystery Bounty Day 1 | 2022 PokerStars EPT Barcelona

€10,200 Mystery Bounty

Day 1 Completed

08-09-2022 00:20 UTC+2

Igor Pihela Sr. Bags Big on Day 1 of EPT Barcelona €10,200 Mystery Bounty

Brandon Bloom

Level 8 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

The 2022 PokerStars and Barcelona©Casino European Poker Tour kicked off today, and the €10,200 Mystery Bounty was among the events that saw players flock to the felt at Casino Barcelona.

Estonia’s Igor Pihela Sr. bagged the top stack by a fairly large margin with 519,500 chips. The next biggest stack was bagged by another Igor, as Ukraine’s Igor Yaroshevskyy ended the day with 272,000, and South Korea’s Daewoong Song rounded out the top three on the leaderboard with 258,500.

€10,200 Mystery Bounty Day 1 Top Ten Chip Counts

RANK	PLAYER	COUNTRY	CHIP COUNT
1	Igor Pihela	Estonia	519,500
2	Igor Yaroshevskyy	Ukraine	272,000
3	Daewoong Song	South Korea	258,500
4	Orpen Kisacikoglu	England	256,500
5	Marcelo Bonanata Manfredini	Uruguay	245,500
6	Paulo Roberto Brombim Filho	Brazil	242,500
7	Ashkan Fattahi	Iran	225,000
8	Sam Grafton	England	221,000
9	Steve Fouad Savio	France	218,000
10	Dimitar Danchev	Bulgaria	202,500

There were 45 players who bagged a stack out of the 66 total entries today, although late registration remains open through the first two levels of Day 2. Only eight levels were played today, and the bounty component of the tournament will take effect tomorrow at the start of Level 13 when all remaining players will receive a "Mystery Bounty Token”.

Chipleader Pihela went on a run near the end of the day and never let up, securing the top spot in the standings by a sizeable amount. His son also plays poker, and they each have over $200,000 in live tournament earnings according to The Hendon Mob. The senior Pihela recently scored his biggest cash less than two weeks ago for a runner-up finish in his native Estonia which earned him €42,300, and he will soon be looking to top that result.

Other players to bag a stack include PokerStars Ambassador Sam Grafton (221,000), Steve O’Dwyer (179,500), Sam Greenwood (128,000), Mustapha Kanit (125,500), Stephen Chidwick (94,000), and Erik Seidel (45,000).

Day 2 will restart at 12:30 p.m. local time on Tuesday, August 9.

Stay tuned as the PokerNews team continues to provide updates until a winner is crowned, along with coverage of other events from the coast of Catalonia at Casino Barcelona.

Tags: Daewoong Song Erik Seidel Igor Pihela Igor Yaroshevskyy Mustapha Kanit Sam Grafton Sam Greenwood Stephen Chidwick Steve O’Dwyer

08-08-2022 23:40 UTC+2

Day 2 Seat Draw

Shirley Ang

Level 8 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Table	Seat	player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	1	Teun Mulder	Netherlands	183,000	61
1	2	Paul Newey	United Kingdom	94,000	31
1	3	Sirzat Hissou	Germany	117,000	39
1	4	Gab Yong Kim	South Korea	131,500	44
1	5	Erik Seidel	United States	45,000	15
1	6	Felipe Ramos	Brazil	109,500	37
1	8	Marcelo Bonanata	Uruguay	245,500	82

2	1	Emil Bise	Switzerland	83,500	28
2	2	Andres Carillo	Colombia	168,000	56
2	3	Andras Nemeth	Hungary	48,500	16
2	4	Steve O'Dwyer	Ireland	179,500	60
2	5	Ramiro Petrone	Uruguay	199,500	67
2	6	Mike Watson	Canada	168,000	56
2	7	Luc Greenwood	Canada	36,000	12

3	1	Sam Grafton	United Kingdom	221,000	74
3	3	Daniyar Aubakirov	Kazakhstan	56,000	19
3	4	Stephen Chidwick	United Kingdom	94,500	32
3	5	Steve Savio	France	218,000	73
3	6	Paulo Brombim	Brazil	242,500	81
3	7	Pedro Marques	Portugal	104,000	35
3	8	Aliaksei Boika	Belarus	55,500	19

4	1	Ameer Wakil	Canada	80,500	27
4	2	Jorryt van Hoof	Netherlands	153,500	51
4	3	Timothy Adams	Canada	12,500	4
4	5	Francisco Benitez	Uruguay	185,000	62
4	6	Levan Rcheulishvili	Germany	78,500	26
4	7	Anton Sazonau	Belarus	183,000	61

5	1	Sam Greenwood	Canada	128,500	43
5	2	Alberto Mejia	Colombia	57,000	19
5	3	Igor Pihela Sr.	Estonia	519,500	173
5	4	Daewoong Song	South Korea	258,500	86
5	6	Bejjani Kamal	Lebanon	65,000	22
5	8	Motoyoshi Okamura	Japan	89,000	30

6	1	Jean-Noel Thorel	France	165,000	55
6	2	Arthur Conan	United Kingdom	96,000	32
6	4	Ashkan Fattahi	Iran	225,000	75
6	5	Orpen Kisacikoglu	Turkey	256,500	86
6	7	Mustapha Kanit	Italy	125,500	42
6	8	Tom Vogelsang	Netherlands	140,000	47

7	1	Juan Navarro	Spain	127,000	42
7	2	Fabiano Kovalski	Brazil	167,000	56
7	3	Igor Yaroshevskyy	Ukraine	272,000	91
7	4	Gabriel Moura	Brazil	103,000	34
7	6	Bernd Gleissner	Germany	119,500	40
7	7	Dimitar Danchev	Bulgaria	202,500	68

08-08-2022 23:40 UTC+2

End-Of-Day Chip Counts (full)

Connor Richards

Level 8 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Igor Pihela	519,500 169,500	169,500

Igor Yaroshevskyy	272,000 74,000	74,000
Daewoong Song	258,500 58,500	58,500
Orpen Kisacikoglu	256,500 -13,500	-13,500
Marcelo Bonanata	245,500
Paulo Brombim	242,500
Ashkan Fattahi	225,000 160,000	160,000
Sam Grafton	221,000 -9,000	-9,000

Steve Savio	218,000 43,000	43,000
Dimitar Danchev	202,500 133,500	133,500

Ramiro Petrone	199,500 64,500	64,500
Francisco Benitez	185,000
Anton Sazonau	183,000 78,000	78,000
Teun Mulder	183,000 -7,000	-7,000
Steve O'Dwyer	179,500 29,500	29,500

Mike Watson	168,000 132,000	132,000

Andres Carrillo	168,000
Fabiano Kovalski	167,000 -6,000	-6,000
Jean-Noel Thorel	165,000 45,000	45,000
Jorryt Van Hoof	153,500 55,000	55,000
Tom Vogelsang	140,000 44,000	44,000
Gab Yong Kim	131,500 37,500	37,500
Sam Greenwood	128,500 -66,500	-66,500
Juan Navarro	127,000 127,000	127,000
Mustapha Kanit	125,500 25,500	25,500

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08-08-2022 23:36 UTC+2

Bag and Tag

Brandon Bloom

Level 8 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

The remaining players are bagging and tagging and will return tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. local time.

08-08-2022 23:33 UTC+2

Conan Almost Doubles

Daniel Williams

Level 8 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

In one of the last hands of the night there was a blind vs. blind battle on Table 7.

On the turn with the board reading Arthur Conan led 5,500 and was called by Aliaksei Boika.

The river was the and Conan fired another bet of 24,000 into a pot of 28,000, leaving himself a few big blinds behind and Boika went into the tank before eventually finding the call. Boika and his two pair could not beat the flopped set and Conan scoops the pot late in the day.

Player	Chips	Progress
Arthur Conan	77,000 23,000	23,000
Aliaksei Boika	55,000 -55,000	-55,000

Tags: Arthur Conan Aliaksei Boika

08-08-2022 23:27 UTC+2

Grafton Dominates and Eliminates Andersson

Connor Richards

Level 8 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Sven Andersson was all in for about 60,000 against Sam Grafton, who had him covered.

Sven Andersson:
Sam Grafton:

Grafton had his opponent dominated and the runout of didn't change things for Andersson to be eliminated in one of the final hands of the day.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sam Grafton	230,000 145,000	145,000

Sven Andersson	Busted

Tags: Sam Grafton Sven Andersson

08-08-2022 23:21 UTC+2

Four More Hands

Brandon Bloom

Level 8 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

The floor has announced that players will play four more hands before bagging for the day to return for tomorrow.

08-08-2022 23:12 UTC+2

Big Stacks Tangle

Connor Richards

Level 8 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Igor Pihela Sr. opened to 7,500 from middle position and Andras Nemeth defended from the big blind to see two of the biggest stacks in the tournament going at it.

Nemeth checked on the flop of and Pihela bet 7,000. Nemeth called. Nemeth checked again on the turn and Pihela checked back.

The river brought the and Nemeth led out with a bet of 23,000. Pihela called, only to muck when Nemeth showed for a rivered straight.

Player	Chips	Progress
Igor Pihela	350,000 -30,000	-30,000

Andras Nemeth	290,000 5,000	5,000

Tags: Andras Nemeth Igor Pihela Sr

08-08-2022 23:07 UTC+2

Pihela Picks Up Another One

Daniel Williams

Level 8 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Igor Pihela Snr, not be confused with his poker playing son Igor Pihela Jnr, has been accumulating chips the last few levels. The Estonian native, with just shy of $300,000 in Hendon Mob earnings, recently took down a large pot against Bernd Gleissner holding on .