€1,100 Estrellas Poker Tour Main Event
Day 1g Started
2023 PokerStars EPT Barcelona
€1,100 Estrellas Poker Tour Main Event
Day: 1g
Event Info
2023 PokerStars EPT Barcelona
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1g
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
1,800
Players Left
270
Players Left 1 / 7,398
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A massive crowd has already come through Casino Barcelona for the €1,100 Estrellas Poker Tour Main Event at the 2023 PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona. The field will only get bigger today when Day 1g begins at 11 a.m. local time, presenting another chance for players to join what could be a record-setting field.
Day 1g is the seventh of eight starting flights. There have already been 4,331 entries through the first six, with 650 players qualifying for Day 2. Avihai Smadga of Israel took the overall tournament chip lead yesterday with 983,000, followed close behind by Emmanuel Lopez (829,000) and James Akenhead (804,000).
Overall Top Ten Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Avihai Smadga | Israel | 983,000 |
| 2 | Emmanuel Lopez | Argentina | 829,000 |
| 3 | James Akenhead | United Kingdom | 804,000 |
| 4 | Pavlos Xanthopoulos | Greece | 799,000 |
| 5 | Oleksii Natoptanyi | Ukraine | 781,000 |
| 6 | Theodoros Ampelikiotis | Greece | 772,000 |
| 7 | Marcos Diego | Spain | 767,000 |
| 8 | Nabil Benchaouch | France | 729,000 |
| 9 | Vasyl Laba | Ukraine | 671,000 |
| 10 | Jose Rodriguez Zurita | Mexico | 610,000 |
Other players who are already in the money and waiting for Day 2 include Jack Salter (410,000), Francisco Benitez (240,000) Team PokerStars Pro Arlie Shaban (206,000), Adam Hendrix (121,000), and Martin Jacobson (103,000). Irene Albarran, the Team PokerStars Pro and Twitch streamer better known as “Frogy,” has 146,000, while fellow Team Pros Ramon Colillas and Benjamin Spragg are on short stacks each with 59,000.
Players on Day 1g begin with 30,000 chips and will play 30-minute levels until only 15 percent of the field remains. Late registration is open through the end of Level 10, and players are allowed one reentry per flight. There are already nearly 530 players signed up for this flight, but that number should grow exponentially over the course of the day. There will also be a Day 1h flight at 6 p.m. local time featuring 20-minute levels.
The remaining players from the Day 1 flights combine tomorrow at noon for Day 2, at which point the prize pool will be confirmed. It’s the goal of every player who takes to the felt today to be among them, and PokerNews will be following their journey the entire way and providing live updates.
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Level: 1
Blinds: 100/100
Ante: 100
Level 1
: Blinds 100/100, 100 ante
Play is now underway on Day 1g with 763 players currently registered.
Level 1
: Blinds 100/100, 100 ante
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Level 1
: Blinds 100/100, 100 ante
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Level 1
: Blinds 100/100, 100 ante
Philippe Le Touche raised to 700 from the cutoff before Mikko Ylamaki three-bet in the small blind to 2,500. Le Touche called and they went heads-up to the 2♣10♦3♥ flop.
Ylamaki led out for another 2,000 and Le Touche raised to 6,000. Ylamaki thought about the decision for a few seconds before tossing in a call.
He checked the K♦ turn and Le Touche checked back. Both players also checked the A♠ river and Ylamaki turned over J♣J♥ to win the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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Level 1
: Blinds 100/100, 100 ante
Mitsunobu Ojima opened to 300 in early position and got called by Mark Roberts in the big blind.
Both players checked the 2♣9♥2♠ flop, and it went to a turn.
The 8♥ hit the felt and Ojima called Robert's bet of 500.
The Irishman bet again on the 5♥ river, but his 1,500 bet was raised by Ojima, who made it 4,000. Roberts made an instant fold and conceded the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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Level 1
: Blinds 100/100, 100 ante
Xavier James and Aren Bezhanyan built a pot of around 17,000 heading to the turn on a board of 8♦J♣K♥4♥ when James, in the small blind, bet 11,000.
Bezhanyan then moved all in from the cutoff for 23,000, sending James deep into the tank. He thought about the decision for several minutes before letting his hand go.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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