Level: 4
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 400
2023 PokerStars EPT Barcelona
€1,100 Estrellas Poker Tour Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
2023 PokerStars EPT Barcelona
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1a
Buy-in
€1,100
Prize Pool
€7,102,080
Entries
7,398
Level
42
Blinds
1,000,000 / 2,000,000
Ante
2,000,000
Entries
353
Players Left
53
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Level 4
: Blinds 200/400, 400 ante
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Level 4
: Blinds 200/400, 400 ante
With about 3,500 in the pot and the board reading 6♣7♦4♣4♠. Remi Parpillon checked from the big blind and Brhanu Kndeneh Ayehu bet 1,000 from the button. Parpillon responded with a check-raise to 4,200 and after some brief consideration Ayehu made the fold. Perpillon showed 10♣5♥ for a semi-bluff as he took down the pot. Ayehu told his opponent he had folded ace-seven before congratulating him on hand.
Action was picked up on the very next hand at the same table, midway through a preflop raising war between Nikita Novikovs from middle position and Ayehu from the cutoff. Novikovs had put in a raise to 6,000 only for Ayehu to raise again to 14,000.
"You really have a hand right after getting bullied?" Novikovs asked his opponent. After about a minute he made the fold and Ayehu revealed A♣A♠ for the best possible hand as he took down a decent pot without having to see a flop.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
35,500
35,500
|
35,500 |
|
28,000
14,000
|
14,000 |
|
26,600
26,600
|
26,600 |
Level: 5
Blinds: 200/500
Ante: 500
Level 5
: Blinds 200/500, 500 ante
Three players limped in before Antonio Dascenzo raised to 2,800 from the cutoff. All three players called.
Action checked to Dascenzo on the flop of 3♠2♦2♥ and he continued for 6,100. All three of his opponents folded.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
35,000 |
Level 5
: Blinds 200/500, 500 ante
Duran Yildirim raised under the gun to 1,600. Gheorghe Marius Murgoci on the button responded with a three-bet to 4,000. Ricardo Graells in the small blind opted to cold four-bet to 10,000 and both Yildirim and Murgoci elected to fold.
After some table talk and speculation from fellow players, Graells jokingly announced to the table "Always Aces."
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
53,500
53,500
|
53,500 |
|
|
22,000
22,000
|
22,000 |
|
14,000
14,000
|
14,000 |
Level 5
: Blinds 200/500, 500 ante
Dmytro Rukin opened to 1,500 from the button and received calls from Aleksandr Kudriashov from the small blind and Jose Jaraiz Lopez from the big blind.
Action checked back around to Rukin, who made a continuation bet of 1,500 on the A♦K♣5♣ flop. Both Kudriashov and Lopez made the call.
All three players checked the 8♦ turn leading to the 7♠ river. Kudriashov checked and Lopez bet 3,500. Dmytro folded while Kudriashov made the call, tabling A♥6♥ for top-pair with a weak kicker. Lopez slid his cards into the muck and Kudriashov took down a decent pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
55,600
55,600
|
55,600 |
|
49,300
49,300
|
49,300 |
|
44,200
44,200
|
44,200 |
Level 5
: Blinds 200/500, 500 ante
The cutoff was all in and at risk for around 14,000 against Gheorghe Marius Murgoci on the button, who had his opponent slightly covered.
Cutoff: 9♥9♠
Gheorghe Marius Murgoci: Q♥Q♠
Murgoci had the better pair and improved to a full house as the board ran out 7♣K♦2♠Q♦7♠ to eliminate his opponent get himself back to starting stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
30,000
16,000
|
16,000 |
Level 5
: Blinds 200/500, 500 ante
Two players remained in the hand as the full board read 3♣10♠Q♦A♥A♦.
Michele Sanna in the hijack checked the action to Andrii Vakaliuk on the button. Andrii bet out for 8,600, leaving himself approximately 1,000 chips behind. Sanna raised enough to put Vakaliuk at risk, to which he made a quick call.
Andrii Vakaliuk: 3♦3♠
Michele Sanna: A♠10♥
Vakaliuk's flopped set had become a full house by the river. However, he was sent to the rail by the better full house of Sanna.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
47,000
47,000
|
47,000 |
|
Busted |
Level: 6
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 600
