2014 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 Barcelona

€50,000 Super High Roller
Day: 1
Event Info

2014 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 Barcelona

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
qj
Prize
€896,434
Event Info
Buy-in
€48,500
Prize Pool
€3,697,155
Entries
77
Level Info
Level
23
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000

€50,000 Super High Roller

Day 1 Completed

Ryan Fee Leads After a Record-Breaking Day 1

Level 8 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
Fee bags the Day 1 chip lead
Fee bags the Day 1 chip lead

Day 1 of the €50,000 Super High Roller from European Poker Tour Barcelona has come to a close. This event marked a spectacular start to the 100th EPT event ever held, and an elite record-breaking field of competitors were in the mix.

The biggest story of the day was that of the size of the field. At the completion of play, things had grown to 56 unique entries with 15 reentries. That meant a total of 71 entries and the largest €50,000 Super High Roller in Barcelona history. What's more is that players still have the option to enter and reenter up until the start of play on Day 2, which will be on Tuesday at 12 p.m. local time. If you just happen to have an extra €50,000 lying around, Casino Barcelona is where the action will be.

Following the completion of the first eight levels of play — of which players began with 250,000 in chips — Ryan Fee finished on top of the leaderboard with 919,000 in his stack.

RankPlayerChips
1Ryan Fee919,000
2Sam Trickett725,000
3Ole Schemion665,000
4Martin Jacobson620,000
5Bryn Kenney605,000
6Andrew Pantling605,000
7Jean-Noel Thorel540,000
8Scott Seiver538,000
9Dan Shak528,000
10Daniel Colman473,000

Fee scored two big eliminations to highlight his day. First, he busted Dong Kim with ace-king versus tens by hitting a king on the flop. Then right at the end of the day, Fee sent Mike McDonald packing. It was McDonald's second time busting the event, but he will still be able to reenter once more before Day 2 begins.

Among the faces in the field for Day 1 were Dan Smith and Vitaly Lunkin, both former champions of this event. Smith won the inaugural €50,000 Super High Roller in Barcelona, an event that took place in Season 9. Lunkin is the defending champion of the event after having topped the field in Season 10. Both players survived the first starting day and will be back in action on Day 2 in their continued quest for a second title.

Also moving on to Day 2 was Erik Seidel. What's interesting about Seidel is that he made the final table in both Season 9 and Season 10 in this event, meaning an appearance this year would earn him three in a row. McDonald also achieved this feat, but it will left to be determined as to whether or not he will enter for a third time and chase a third final table.

Then there were 2014 WSOP November Niners Jorryt van Hoof and Martin Jacobson. Van Hoof is the chip leader of the WSOP Main Event and started at the same table as his fellow November Niner. The two got in some early practice hands against one another, but Jacobson was moved a couple hours into the day, so any more playing experience will have to wait until later on.

Other notables advancing to Day 2 were Team PokerStars Pros Jason Mercier, Vanessa Selbst, and Daniel Negreanu. Negreanu has fired two bullets in the event, but he's got more than enough big buy-in experience to justify his reentry actions.

All of the remaining players will be back on Tuesday at 12 p.m. local time for Day 2, and anyone who has busted can still reenter up until that point. New players may also buy in up until the start time, and word on the street is that there could be a few brand new competitors to start the day.

For now, that's the end of PokerNews' coverage from Barcelona, but be sure to tune back in for Day 2. Until then, enjoy a fun twist to the welcome video done by Remko Rinkema:

End-of-Day Chip Counts (full)

Level 8 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
Player Chips Progress
Ryan Fee us
Ryan Fee
919,000 69,000
Sam Trickett gb
Sam Trickett
885,000 160,000
Mustapha Kanit it
Mustapha Kanit
Winamax
836,000 465,298
Ole Schemion de
Ole Schemion
733,000 68,000
Andrew Pantling ca
Andrew Pantling
659,000 54,000
Martin Jacobson se
Martin Jacobson
620,000 305,000
Bryn Kenney us
Bryn Kenney
605,000 355,000
Jean-Noel Thorel fr
Jean-Noel Thorel
540,000 -327,000
Scott Seiver us
Scott Seiver
538,000 88,000
Dan Shak us
Dan Shak
528,000 278,000
Ismail Erkenov ru
Ismail Erkenov
525,000 155,000
Daniel Colman us
Daniel Colman
473,000 223,000
Jorryt van Hoof nl
Jorryt van Hoof
458,000 -2,000
Jake Schindler us
Jake Schindler
450,000 200,000
Thomas Muehloecker at
Thomas Muehloecker
413,000 213,000
Juha Helppi fi
Juha Helppi
398,000 -22,000
Saar Wilf il
Saar Wilf
397,000 147,000
Talal Shakerchi gb
Talal Shakerchi
393,000 253,000
Vanessa Selbst us
Vanessa Selbst
378,000 -92,000
Jason Mercier us
Jason Mercier
362,000 -8,000
Vitaly Lunkin ru
Vitaly Lunkin
356,000 91,000
Martin Finger de
Martin Finger
EPT 1X Winner
348,000 56,000
Tony Gregg us
Tony Gregg
345,000 50,000
Olivier Busquet us
Olivier Busquet
338,000 -72,000
Mikael Thuritz se
Mikael Thuritz
335,000 85,000

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Bag and Tag

Level 8 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

Day 1 has come to a close, and players are bagging and tagging their chips. Chip counts and a recap will follow shortly.

Kanit Finishes the Holz-Job

Level 8 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
Mustapha Kanit
Mustapha Kanit

"Good luck me" said Fedor Holz as he called all in from the big blind. Mili seconds before, it had been Mustapha Kanit who had pushed all in from the small blind, effectively risking less than 40,000 of his well earned chips.

Holz had the best of it with {A-Spades}{4-Hearts} as Kanit had {Q-Hearts}{9-Diamonds}.

Holz predicted he would again double up and start his comeback, but this time it wouldn't be like that. The {Q-Spades}{3-Spades}{7-Diamonds} flop favored Kanit, and the {K-Hearts} and {10-Spades} didn't change a thing.

"It was a pleasure guys" said Holz as he shook hands with all the players on the table. Kanit almost started a (slow) clap, but stopped after Holz said "Oh no you don't!" Holz announced he would be coming back, hoping to get his old seat back.

Player Chips Progress
Fedor Holz de
Fedor Holz
Busted

Tags: Fedor HolzMustapha Kanit

Colman Moves All In Against Peters

Level 8 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

Daniel Colman bet 35,000 on the paired {K-Clubs}{6-Clubs}{6-Hearts} flop, and David Peters made the cal to see the {9-Diamonds} land on the turn. Colman bet 132,000 and was all in. Peters tanked for a bit, then folded, and Colman — the winner of the 2014 World Series of Poker $1,000,000 Big One for One Drop — scooped in the pot.

Player Chips Progress
David Peters us
David Peters
337,000 87,000
Daniel Colman us
Daniel Colman
250,000

Tags: Daniel ColmanDavid Peters

The Daily EPT11 Player of the Year Update for 8-18-14

Level 8 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

The European Poker Tour Season 11 Player of the Year race is just beginning, and as you know players will accumulate points in all events throughout Season 11, regardless of the buy-in level. In addition, all of the Festival Events (Estrellas, UKIPT, Eureka, FPS, IPT) that combine with an EPT tour stop have been eligible for Player of the Year points.

The Global Poker Index (GPI) points formula, which will be used to determine the EPT11 POY, is a bit complicated, but you can read about all the details here.

Since the EPT11 POY Race has just started and a leaderboard hasn't been established, we thought we'd offer you EPT10's final POY Leaderboard, which saw German wunderkind Ole Schemion walk away with the title after a heated race.

Ole Schemion

PlacePlayerPoints
1Ole Schemion1,337.74 pts
2Thomas Muhlocker1,194.65 pts
3Alex Bilokur1,113.61 pts
4Stephen Chidwick981.23 pts
5Jack Salter948.78 pts
6Andrew Chen948.47 pts
7Georgios Karakousis931.22 pts
8Atanas Kavrakov922.82 pts
9Adrian Mateos891.41 pts
10David Vamplew865.70 pts

We'll be bringing you daily updates on the Player of the Year race, so be sure to keep an eye out for those.

Tags: EPT Player of the YearEPT POYGlobal Poker IndexGPI

Holz Flops the World in Five-Bet Pot, But Doesn't Win

Level 8 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
Fedor Holz
Fedor Holz

Doug Polk raised to 9,500 from the button, and Mustapha Kanit three-bet to 25,500 from the small blind. Fedor Holz, who made quite the comeback earlier today, cold four-bet to 65,000. Polk quickly folded, but Kanit bumped up the action one more time by making it 101,000. Holz called in position, and the two of them saw a flop in an already huge pot.

The flop came down {10-Hearts}{J-Diamonds}{2-Diamonds}, and Kanit bet out 58,000 with around 120,000 behind. Holz shoved all in and Kanit made the call.

Kanit: {A-Hearts}{K-Diamonds}
Holz: {9-Diamonds}{10-Diamonds}

The flop came about as good as they could come for Holz who hit a pair, flush draw, and backdoor straight draw. For Holz, Kanit had about the best hand in this spot possible: two overs and a gut shot.

The {8-Spades} on the turn was of no real influence, and you could see the tension grow on both of their faces.

The {Q-Clubs} on the river was anything but a blank and Kanit secured his double up. A composed Holz cut out 180,500 to sent to his neighbor while Kanit fist pumped towards one of the railers, but didn't cheer too loud.

"Make sure you mention that I started this all," said Doug Polk.

"Make sure you mention that he mentioned wanting it mentioned," laughed Olivier Busquet.

Busquet and Polk got into a fun little raising war concerning the mentions, but we'll just leave it at that.

Player Chips Progress
Mustapha Kanit it
Mustapha Kanit
Winamax
370,702 33,702
Fedor Holz de
Fedor Holz
36,000 -281,000

Tags: Fedor HolzMustapha KanitDoug PolkOlivier Busquet