Five qualifiers who took part in Sunday’s #EPT100 Qualifiers Freeroll have set off this morning with their Team PokerStars Pro partners on leg 1 of the EPT100 Takedown challenge. The aim: to take the most popular pic at a Barcelona landmark. Please LIKE your favourite pic - which will help determine how many chips your team receives tonight in the final part of the challenge – a 5-max tourney. Voting ends 3pm CET.
EPT regular and Slovenia’s #3 player Primoz Adamic is teamed with Jake Cody, Gianfranco Visalli with Theo Jorgensen, Luciana Manolea with Christophe de Meulder, Mateusz Młynarczyk with George Danzer and Bud Downes with Joao Nunes. Their hectic day of activities and challenges includes Jet Ski rides, lunch at a top restaurant, one-on-one training, and a seat in the EPT100 5-max Challenge tourney, to win EPT side event buy-ins.
Every time I go into the tournament area, it's with the complete and total aim of getting the latest action, then I spot someone and think "Oh, I better write his name down," and then I spot another. And another.
With each and every sojourn on to the floor, there's a whole new set of former EPT winners, Team PokerStars Pros, WSOP bracelet winners or November Niners to add to the player list. With people still signing up to enter, it's a never-ending task at this point.
Eugene Katchalov opened the action for 300 and only the player on the button decided to take on the Team PokerStars Pro, so it was a heads-up flop of .
Both players checked and saw the turn card . Katchalov check-called a bet of 700 and when the river completed the board there was no further action. Katchalov turned over but the turn card had bested him as his opponent showed .
The tournament room not only features Main Event and €2k Estrallas High Roller action, the television crew is also recording an episode of the Shark Cage tv show.
Currently at it are Fatima Moreira de Melo, Griffin Benger, Jonathan Duhamel, Igor Kurganov, and one qualifier. The Shark Cage tv show will air later this year, and players are competing for a one million dollar first prize.
With an open to 200 and two callers Barny Boatman put in the extra from the big blind and four players saw a flop of . Boatman checked as did the other three players and the dealer put out the turn card .
A bet of 600 from Boatman got the job done as the other three threw their cards in and a small early pot was pushed his way.
Among those playing today is Norwegian legend Thor Hansen as well as former winners Joao Barbosa, David Vamplew and the most awesomely upbeat man in the room, Team PokerStars Pro Jan Heitmann.
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. Katchalov check-called a bet of 700 and when the river 
completed the board there was no further action. Katchalov turned over 
but the turn card had bested him as his opponent showed 
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. Boatman checked as did the other three players and the dealer put out the turn card 
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