€10,300 EPT High Roller Day 1 | 2022 PokerStars EPT Barcelona

08-19-2022 22:32 UTC+2

Player	Chips	Progress
Tauan De Oliveira Naves	160,000
Alex Kulev	75,000	24,000
Dan Smith	65,000	22,000
Oleg Nikolaenko	65,000
Ognyan Dimov	45,000
Rui Miguel	45,000
Nick Petrangelo	40,000
Michael Addamo	40,000	-10,000

Five-Bet Wins Margets the Pot

Connor Richards

Level 8 : Blinds 400/800, 800 ante

Leo Margets opened to 1,700 in early position before Vincent Cavailles three-bet to 4,700 from the hijack. Action then folded to Ronan Sweeney on the button, who cold-four bet to 8,000.

Margets was undeterred and put in a fifth bet to 20,000. Cavailles snap-folded and Sweeney took less than a minute to fold.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ronan Sweeney	100,000	100,000
Leo Margets	85,000	59,800
Vincent Cavailles	30,000

Tags: Leo Margets Ronan Sweeney Vincent Cavailles

08-19-2022 22:21 UTC+2

Vieira All In Versus Martirosian

Mike Patrick

Level 8 : Blinds 400/800, 800 ante

With just under 50,000 in the pot on a completed board of , Joao Vieira moved all in from the big blind for his last 27,300 chips.

Artur Martirosian had him covered, but just barely with just under 30,000.

Martirosian used his last two time banks to ponder his decision before folding to save his remaining stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Joao Vieira	75,300	23,000
Artur Martirosian	29,700	-20,300

Tags: Artur Martirosian Joao Vieira

08-19-2022 22:11 UTC+2

Juanda Spikes River to Double Through Lococo

Connor Richards

Level 8 : Blinds 400/800, 800 ante

Luis Pinto raised in middle position before Alejandro Lococo flat-called from the cutoff. John Juanda three-bet jammed a stack of 15,100 from the small blind and Pinto folded, while Lococo made the call to put the 2015 EPT Barcelona Main Event champion at risk.

John Juanda:
Alejandro Lococo:

It looked like Juanda would be going home as the flop of and on the turn did not help him. However, the river brought the to save the EPT champion.

Player	Chips	Progress
Alejandro Lococo	116,000	46,000
Luis Pinto	40,000
John Juanda	35,000	-10,000

Tags: Alejandro Lococo John Juanda Luis Pinto

08-19-2022 22:05 UTC+2

Updated Chip Counts

Mike Patrick

Level 8 : Blinds 400/800, 800 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Orpen Kisacikoglu	273,500	105,500
Nacho Barbero	244,000	112,000
Tom Orpaz	233,000	24,300
Eelis Parssinen	205,000	105,000
Andre Akkari	181,500	109,000
Georgi Sandev	159,500	52,500
Aleksejs Ponakovs	154,000	34,000
Francisco Benitez	140,000	-11,000
Ben Heath	123,000	44,000
Mustapha Kanit	121,900	5,400
Dragos Trofimov	106,300	300
Dario Sammartino	102,400	42,400
Johan Guilbert	99,000	-16,000
Kyriakos Papadopoulos	93,000	-17,000
Adrian Mateos	91,000	34,400
Andrea Ricci	66,400	17,800
Kitty Kuo	25,200	-2,300
Paulina Loeliger	10,300	-42,700
Simon Brandstrom	Busted

08-19-2022 21:48 UTC+2

Antonius Shoves on Fellow Finn

Connor Richards

Level 8 : Blinds 400/800, 800 ante

Patrik Antonius opened to 2,000 from the hijack and fellow Finnish player Tomi Brouk three-bet to 6,000 from the cutoff. The action folded back around to Antonius and he four-bet jammed a stack of around 25,000. Brouk laid it down.

The next hand, Antonius again opened to 2,000 and everyone folded to win him the pot without a fight.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tomi Brouk	40,000	40,000
Patrik Antonius	32,000	20,000

Tags: Patrik Antonius Tomi Brouk

08-19-2022 21:46 UTC+2

Vogelsang Sent to the Rail

Mike Patrick

Level 8 : Blinds 400/800, 800 ante

Cards were on the backs and a healthy pot was being pushed to Ehsan Amiri, while Tom Vogelsang had a massage cut short early by his elimination.

Vogelsang held on a board of , while Amiri held [has] for a winning full house of sevens full of aces.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ehsan Amiri	148,000	2,500
Tom Vogelsang	Busted

Tags: Ehsan Amiri Tom Vogelsang

08-19-2022 21:40 UTC+2

Some Chip Counts as Addamo Enters

Connor Richards

Level 8 : Blinds 400/800, 800 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Andres Korn	135,000	85,000
Anton Wigg	115,000	63,000
Timothy Adams	110,000	-5,000
Romain Lewis	105,000	58,000
Leonard Maue	75,000
Will Kassouf	70,000	40,800
Erik Seidel	65,000	-10,000
Parker Talbot	55,000	2,000
Niklas Astedt	55,000	-36,000
Michael Addamo	50,000	50,000
Faraz Jaka	15,000	-95,000

Level: 8

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 800

08-19-2022 21:32 UTC+2

Tkatschew Raises Weissman; Farrell Takes a Small Pot

Connor Richards

Level 7 : Blinds 300/600, 600 ante

Niall Farrell opened to 1,300 from early position and Morten Hvam defended out of the big blind.

Hvam checked on the flop of and folded when Farrell fired a continuation bet.

At another table, action folded to Joey Weissman in the small blind and he completed for 600. Alexander Tkatschew checked his option in the big blind.

The flop landed to Weissman led out for 600. Tkatschew put in a small raise to 1,400 and Weissman quickly folded.