2025 PokerStars EPT Barcelona

€5,300 Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
2025 PokerStars EPT Barcelona
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
ak
Prize
€1,217,175
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,300
Prize Pool
€9,918,250
Total Entries
2,045
Level Info
Level
37
Blinds
300,000 / 600,000
Ante
600,000
Players Info - Day 1a
Entries
715
Players Left
221
Players Left 1 / 2,045
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A Quick Bonus for Markus

Level 4 : Blinds 200/400, 400 ante

Markus Bonus raised from under the gun. Adam Martinsson and Julien Sitbon, both in the blinds, quickly called.

All three of them checked a flop of 4103 almost all at once. Martisson was as quicker to check the J turn where Sitbon bet 1,000.

Bonus immediately raised to 3,000 and both Martinsson and Sitbon snap-folded.

Tags: Adam MartinssonJulien SitbonMarkus Bonus

Prescott & Russell Straighten Out Each Other

Level 4 : Blinds 200/400, 400 ante

Mark Prescott opened to 1,100 on the button and Matthew Russell defended in the big blind.

Russell checked on the flop of 625 and Prescott checked back. Russell then bet 1,300 on the 3 turn and Prescott called.

Russell sized up to 2,300 on the 2 river and Prescott quickly raised to 6,000. Russell nearly tabled his hand as he didn't realize his opponent had raised.

"I have to see it," Russell said before calling.

Prescott tabled A4 for a straight, but Russell has the same straight with 84 as the two chopped the pot.

Tags: Mark PrescottMatthew Russell

Talboom Check-Raises Chelihi

Level 4 : Blinds 200/400, 400 ante

Rafik Chelihi raised in early position and Tom Talboom defended in the big blind.

Talboom checked on the flop of 428 and Chelihi continued for 1,500. Talboom check-raised to 5,200 and Chelihi called. Talboom then bet 4,500 on the 8 turn and Chelihi called.

Talboom checked on the 4 river and Chelihi bet 7,200. Talboom laid it down, which Chelihi said was the right move.

Tags: Tom TalboomRafik Chelihi

Brice Takes a Small One From Reard

Level 4 : Blinds 200/400, 400 ante

Christopher Brice defended from the big blind after Alexandre Reard opened from the hijack.

Brice checked the K8K flop, Reard continued for 600 and Brice called.

Reard fired a second barrel of 800 on the 2 turn, but Brice check-raised to 2,200. It didn't take long for Reard to fold.

Tags: Alexandre ReardChristopher Brice

A Deuce is Enough for Aissani

Level 4 : Blinds 200/400, 400 ante

Omar Del Pino raised to 800 from the hijack, and Mohamed Aissani in the small blind called. Jose Ruiz Chacon in the big blind, however, raised to 3,500. He was called by both Del Pino and Aissani.

Ruiz Chacon continued for 3,000 on the K32 flop. Del Pino folded, but Aissani check-called.

Both players checked the K turn and the J river, and Aissani flipped over A2 for two pair. Ruiz Chacon's cards went into the muck.

Tags: Omar Del PinoMohamed AissaniJose Ruiz Chacon

Level: 4

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 400

European Champions Battling

Level 3 : Blinds 100/300, 300 ante
Gerard Pique
Gerard Pique

Simon Wiciak in the hijack opened to 600. He was called by Davidi Kitai to his left and by former football player Gerard Piqué in the big blind.

Both Piqué and Wiciak checked the 3JA flop, but Kitai bet 900. Wiciak was the only one to call.

The 2023 EPT Barcelona champion then checked the 4 turn and folded to a bet of 2,700 from Kitai.

Tags: Simon WiciakGerard PiquéDavidi Kitai

Summer Reunion in Day 1A

Level 3 : Blinds 100/300, 300 ante
Kenny Hallaert
Kenny Hallaert

Three poker players who had career-defining runs earlier this summer in Las Vegas are back at it, now searching for an EPT Main Event title.

Leo Margets made history this summer as she became the first woman of poker's modern era to final table the WSOP Main Event, ultimately finishing in seventh place for $1.5 million. Margets is now building a stack in Day 1A, while the player who eliminated her, Kenny Hallaert, is doing the same after a deep run in the PokerStars Open Barcelona Main Event.

Meanwhile, fellow Main Event final tablist Adam Hendrix is also in the Day 1A field with double starting stack.

Adam Hendrix
Adam Hendrix
Leo Margets
Leo Margets

Tags: Adam HendrixKenny HallaertLeo Margets

Nasreddine Caught Bluffing

Level 3 : Blinds 100/300, 300 ante
Rania Nasreddine
Rania Nasreddine

Three-way on a flop of 108J, Gonzalo Gottlieb bet 1,800. He made the small blind fold, but last year's finalist Rania Nasreddine check-called from the big blind.

Gottlieb fired a second barrel of 3,500 on the 3 turn. Nasreddine check-called again, then led out for 8,800 on the 6 river.

Gottlieb eventually called with QQ and caught Nasreddine bluffing with K9.

Tags: Rania NasreddineGonzalo Gottlieb

Some Updated Counts

Level 3 : Blinds 100/300, 300 ante