2014 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 Barcelona

€10,300 High Roller
Day: 2
Event Info

2014 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 Barcelona

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a9
Prize
€747,200
Event Info
Buy-in
€10,000
Prize Pool
€3,851,400
Entries
393
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000

Chip Counts

Level 12 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante
Player Chips Progress
Stephen Chidwick gb
Stephen Chidwick
410,000 111,000
Vitaly Lunkin ru
Vitaly Lunkin
330,000 112,400
Fedor Holz de
Fedor Holz
270,000 53,700
Oliver Price gb
Oliver Price
265,000 80,400
Timothy Adams ca
Timothy Adams
260,000 68,100
Vanessa Selbst us
Vanessa Selbst
176,000 -29,000
Robin Ylitalo se
Robin Ylitalo
EPT Main Event Champion
EPT 1X Winner
165,000 121,800
Marvin Rettenmaier de
Marvin Rettenmaier
145,000 6,500
Thomas Muehloecker at
Thomas Muehloecker
135,000 -90,500
Alex Bilokur ru
Alex Bilokur
125,000 -23,900
Salman Behbehani us
Salman Behbehani
120,000 -28,600
Michael Tureniec se
Michael Tureniec
EPT 1X Winner
107,000 -62,300
Dominik Nitsche de
Dominik Nitsche
90,000 40,000
Griffin Benger ca
Griffin Benger
63,000 36,300
Ole Schemion de
Ole Schemion
60,000 14,500
Jose Barbero ar
Jose Barbero
60,000
Maxi Lehmanski de
Maxi Lehmanski
52,000 -2,500
Davidi Kitai be
Davidi Kitai
EPT Main Event Champion
EPT 1X Winner
Winamax
47,000 -3,100
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier fr
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier
42,100 19,800
Gaelle Baumann fr
Gaelle Baumann
Winamax
38,000 -52,900
Dylan Linde us
Dylan Linde
37,800 37,800
Bryn Kenney us
Bryn Kenney
26,800 -21,200

Berglund Doubles Metaal

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 us
Lukas Berglund
140,000 -28,700
Govert Metaal nl
Govert Metaal
46,000 24,100

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ElkY, The Early Years Part 1

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

€3,851,400 Up for Grabs

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.

Wilf and Shorr Out, Gieles In

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 nl
Luuk Gieles
50,000
Saar Wilf il
Saar Wilf
Busted
Shannon Shorr us
Shannon Shorr
Busted

Tags: Luuk GielesSaar WilfShannon Shorr

Mandavia Doubles Through Joentausta

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: {Q-Hearts}{10-Hearts}
Mandavia: {Q-Spades}{J-Clubs}

Mandavia flopped top two, but he was anything but safe: {Q-Clubs}{6-Hearts}{J-Hearts}. The {K-Clubs} on the turn only made matters worse, but the {3-Diamonds} on the river was a blank and Mandavia doubled up.

Player Chips Progress
Aku Matti Joentausta (Aku Joentausta) fi
Aku Matti Joentausta (Aku Joentausta)
124,500 -32,200
Ankush Mandavia us
Ankush Mandavia
70,400 5,400

Tags: Aku JoentaustaAnkush MandaviaAku Matti Joentausta