2017 PokerStars Championship Barcelona

Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info

2017 PokerStars Championship Barcelona

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
ak
Prize
€987,043
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,300
Prize Pool
€8,157,700
Entries
1,682
Level Info
Level
41
Blinds
800,000 / 1,600,000
Ante
200,000

O'Neill Scores a KO

Level 2 : 75/150, 0 ante

A player under the gun opened for a raise to 500 and got three-bet by the man on his left to 1,250. Jack O'Neill wanted to up it even more, making it 3,500 in the big blind. The opener thought long and hard before mucking, but Alberto Serafim De Santana shoved it in there for 10,275. O'Neill snap-called.

O'Neill: {k-Clubs}{k-Diamonds}
De Santana: {q-Hearts}{q-Spades}

The board ran out {9-Diamonds}{4-Diamonds}{6-Clubs}{7-Spades}{2-Spades}.

Player Chips Progress
Jack O'Neill gb
Jack O'Neill
41,000
Alberto Serafim De Santana br
Alberto Serafim De Santana
Busted

Tags: Jack O'Neill

Small Pots Grow Big Quick

Level 2 : 75/150, 0 ante
Nick Petrangelo
Nick Petrangelo

In one of the last hands of the previous level, Nick Petrangelo opened the cutoff for 300 and received no fewer than 3 callers; the button and both blinds were all interested in seeing a flop.

Small blind Francois Corouge and big blind Liem Huynh checked on {10-Hearts}{7-Spades}{K-Hearts} and Petrangelo bet 800. Ricardo Tavares called from the button before small blind Corouge squeezed to 3,100. Huynh wasted no time calling.

Petrangelo glanced at his chips for a bit before he 3-bet to 8,000. Tavares thought about it for a just a bit before folding. Corouge thought about it a bit longer but eventually followed suit en folded as well. Huynh called.

The {2-Clubs} hit the turn and Huynh checked.

"You have 3 blues behind, right?" Petrangelo asked.

Huynh acknowledged he had 15,000 in blue chips and had about 2,000 or so more in smaller denomination chips.

Petrangelo bet 19,000, putting Huynh all in and leaving himself just 2,550 behind.

Huyhn tanked for under a minute and folded. Petrangelo silently mucked while raking in the chips.

Player Chips Progress
Nick Petrangelo us
Nick Petrangelo
WSOP 2X Winner
42,300 12,300

Tags: Nick Petrangelo

Level: 2

Blinds: 75/150

Ante: 0

Hallaert Still Hot

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

Few stars in the poker world are rising as fast as Kenny Hallaert's. The veteran grinder has been simply crushing since his WSOP Main Event final table appearance, racking up cash after cash and booking several hundred thousand dollars in winnings between his live and online scores since his turn on poker's biggest stage.

Here at PokerStars Championship Barcelona, Hallaert is already up to his old tricks. He scored an elimination in a recent hand with {j-Spades}{j-Diamonds}, having check-raised all in on the turn for 13,200 on a board of {5-Spades}{j-Clubs}{2-Spades}{10-Hearts} in a battle of the blinds. His opponent had bet an unknown amount with a T5,000 chip into a pot of 4,200, and that player couldn't get away from {a-Hearts}{a-}. The river was a {4-Hearts} and Hallaert scored the early knockout.

Player Chips Progress
Kenny Hallaert be
Kenny Hallaert
42,000 7,000

Tags: Kenny Hallaert

Margets Tangles With Jacks

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

Holding {J-Diamonds}{J-Clubs}, Leo Margets had 1,600 in front of her in the big blind and Alexander Paygusov had called from early position. On the button, Bertolt Schneider raised to 3,850, Margets called, and Paygusov called as well.

All players checked the {K-Clubs}{K-Diamonds}{3-Clubs} flop. Margets bet 3,500 on the {7-Diamonds} turn, Paygusov folded, and Schneider called. The river brought a third king with the {K-Spades} and both players checked again.

Margets showed her jacks, but Schneider slowly revealed {Q-Spades}{Q-Clubs} to scoop up the pot.

Player Chips Progress
Leo Margets es
Leo Margets
WSOP 1X Winner
Winamax
32,000 2,000
Bertolt Schneider de
Bertolt Schneider
32,000 32,000
Georgios Zisimopoulos gr
Georgios Zisimopoulos
30,000 30,000
Alexander Paygusov ru
Alexander Paygusov
29,000 29,000

Tags: Leo Margets

Good Start For Berende

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

Paul Berende, with a big smile on his face as always, told us about a hand he won early on. On the 5-handed table, Berende opened {10-}{10-} from the cutoff for 300. The big blind 3-bet to 1,200 and Berende called.

Both of them checked on {9-}{7-}{5-} rainbow and the {5-} hit the turn. The big blind checked, and called Berende's 1,500 bet. The river came a {3-} and the big blind checked again. Berende bet 3,600 and the big blind called. Berende showed his tens, the big blind mucked.

Player Chips Progress
Paul Berende nl
Paul Berende
36,000 6,000

Tags: Paul Berende

Aktulga Collects When Opponent Tries for Thin Value

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

There was a bloated pot of about 11,000 in the middle and a board of {6-Diamonds}{9-Diamonds}{k-Hearts}{8-Spades}{7-Clubs} on the felt between small blind Yigit Aktulga and his cutoff opponent. Aktulga checked on the end and after some tanking, his opponent flicked in a T5,000 chip and softly verbalized a bet we couldn't hear. Aktulga snap-called and collected the pot with {k-Spades}{k-Diamonds} when his opponent showed {7-Hearts}{6-Hearts} for two pair.

Player Chips Progress
Yigit Aktulga tr
Yigit Aktulga
40,000

Tags: Yigit Aktulga