The Estrellas Poker Tour is Back in Barcelona as Day 1b Kicks Off at 6 p.m.
The Estrellas Poker Tour is back in the beautiful city of Barcelona for the first time since 2016 as they take part in the PokerStars and Barcelona©Casino European Poker Tour festival.
The second flight of the Main Event tournament, Day 1b, will kick off at 6 p.m. local time.
It's worth remembering that the last time the €1,100 Main Event was held in Barcelona, Frenchman Mohamed Samri was the champion, conquering a record field of 4,682 players to take home the €353,220 first prize. Other past winners include Argentines Mario Javier Lopez and Matias Ruzzi, as well as German Soenke Jahn.
While the 2016 version of the tournament only had three starting flights, a potentially record-setting field is expected as we have arrived at the second of six starting flights that will go down inside the Casino Barcelona over the next three days. Registration for Day 1a remains open for the next few hours but at the time of publication, they've already received around 1,000 entries.
While players will still receive 30,000 chips to start their tournament, Day 1b is a turbo flight, meaning levels have been reduced from the 40 minutes players experienced in Day 1a to 30 minutes. The flight will conclude when they play down to 15% of the field and all players who survive to Day 2 will make the money. will pick up at the earliest level from the Day 1 flights.
With players allowed two entries per flight, players can potentially register a total of 12 times, giving great odds for this tournament to push past 2019's record prize pool of €3,343,590.
Follow all the updates right here on PokerNews to find out who wins this event on August 14th and to check out all of our coverage here at EPT Barcelona.