€10,300 High Roller Day 2 | 2014 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 Barcelona

08-26-2014 12:43 UTC+1

Player	Chips	Progress
Stephen Chidwick	410,000 111,000	111,000
Vitaly Lunkin	330,000 112,400	112,400
Fedor Holz	270,000 53,700	53,700

Oliver Price	265,000 80,400	80,400
Timothy Adams	260,000 68,100	68,100
Vanessa Selbst	176,000 29,000	29,000

Robin Ylitalo	165,000 121,800	121,800

Marvin Rettenmaier	145,000 6,500	6,500
Thomas Muehloecker	135,000 90,500	90,500
Alex Bilokur	125,000 23,900	23,900
Salman Behbehani	120,000 28,600	28,600
Michael Tureniec	107,000 62,300	62,300

Dominik Nitsche	90,000 40,000	40,000
Griffin Benger	63,000 36,300	36,300
Ole Schemion	60,000 14,500	14,500
Jose Barbero	60,000
Maxi Lehmanski	52,000 2,500	2,500
Davidi Kitai	47,000 3,100	3,100

Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier	42,100 19,800	19,800

Gaelle Baumann	38,000 52,900	52,900

Dylan Linde	37,800 37,800	37,800
Bryn Kenney	26,800 21,200	21,200

Larrabe Out

Donnie Peters

Level 12 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante

Andoni Larrabe, Spanish World Series of Poker November Niner, has been eliminated.

Player	Chips	Progress
Andoni Larrabe	Busted

Tags: Andoni Larrabe

08-26-2014 12:35 UTC+1

Player	Chips	Progress
Max Greenwood	315,000 121,800	121,800
Jean-Noel Thorel	270,000 106,000	106,000
Nicolas Chouity	220,000 52,000	52,000

Kyle Julius	176,000 97,500	97,500
Mickey Petersen	138,000 18,500	18,500

Mark Teltscher	98,000 53,100	53,100

Senh Ung	72,000 72,000	72,000
Yann Dion	72,000 12,000	12,000
Martin Jacobson	70,000 150,000	150,000
Alex Kravchenko	62,000 14,100	14,100

Marc-Andre Ladouceur	50,000 3,000	3,000

Mateos Diaz Doubles Through Boss

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Frank Op de Woerd

Level 12 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante

Simon Boss found himself slim when he called Mateos Diaz's shove on . Boss had just the tens and sixes to improve with his as Mateos Diaz showed . The on the river was a blank, and Mateos Diaz doubled through his Suisse opponent.

Player	Chips	Progress
Adrian Mateos Diaz	230,000 111,000	111,000
Simon Boss	120,000 62,500	62,500

Tags: Adrian Mateos Simon Boss

08-26-2014 12:15 UTC+1

Berglund Doubles Metaal

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Frank Op de Woerd

Level 12 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante

Govert Metaal has doubled through Lukas Berglund.

Berglund opened under the gun, and called Metaal's shove with pocket treys. Metaal had pocket aces and that hand held up.

"He was still in doubt, I even told him he could fold" laughed the still short stacked Metaal.

Player	Chips	Progress
Lukas Berglund	140,000 28,700	28,700
Govert Metaal	46,000 24,100	24,100

Tags: Govert Metaal Lukas Berglund

08-26-2014 12:07 UTC+1

ElkY, The Early Years Part 1

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Remko Rinkema

Level 12 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante

Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier sat down with PokerNews.com to talk about his first ever EPT experience.

Back in 2005, the man known as ElkY, was mostly famous for excelling at Starcraft in South-Korea while trying out online poker on the side. Grospellier got lucky in a satellite for video gamers and all of a sudden he found himself playing EPT Deauville.

Tags: Bertrand Grospellier

Level: 12

Blinds: 1,200/2,400

Ante: 300

08-26-2014 11:59 UTC+1

€3,851,400 Up for Grabs

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Frank Op de Woerd

Level 11 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Well, it's not really so much up for grabs just yet, as the remaining 176 players will have to battle hard for to even make it to the money, but the prize pool for the event has been released. With 393 total entries, the prize pool generated has come to €3,851,400.

The first-place prize and all other prizes aren't available yet, but we will post them when they become known.

Interesting note is that this €10,300 High Roller from the European Poker Tour Barcelona has a larger prize pool than 64 of the 100 EPT main events ever held.

08-26-2014 11:57 UTC+1

Wilf and Shorr Out, Gieles In

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Frank Op de Woerd

Level 11 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Saar Wilf has been eliminated from the tournament, we saw him storming off but have no further details.

Shannon Shorr is also out of the tournament. He had queens all in against the tens of German player Gereon Sowa. Shorr hit a set of queens, but Sowa back doored into a flush to eliminate Shorr.

Meanwhile, we just saw Luuk Gieles for the first time this tournament. He bought in for 25 big blinds this morning, but is already up some for the day.

Player	Chips	Progress
Luuk Gieles	50,000
Saar Wilf	Busted
Shannon Shorr	Busted

Tags: Luuk Gieles Saar Wilf Shannon Shorr

08-26-2014 11:54 UTC+1

Mandavia Doubles Through Joentausta

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Frank Op de Woerd

Level 11 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Aku Matti Joentausta opened the cutoff to 4,500, and Ankush Mandavia on the button shoved all in for 32,200. Both blinds folded, and Joentausta thought about it for some time before calling.

Joentausta:
Mandavia:

Mandavia flopped top two, but he was anything but safe: . The on the turn only made matters worse, but the on the river was a blank and Mandavia doubled up.