Main Event Day 2 | 2017 PokerStars Championship Barcelona

08-23-2017 21:00 UTC+2

Salazar Sanchez Soars to Top on Day 2, Money Bubble Looms in Barcelona Main Event

Christian Zetzsche

Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

The 2017 PokerStars Championship Barcelona €5,300 Main Event saw another 13 players buy in before the cards got underway for Day 2 at the annex of Casino Barcelona to create a field of 1,682 entries and a prize pool of €8,157,700 emerged. The money spots and min-cash of €8,740 are not too far away with 287 hopefuls advancing to Day 3 and 247 spots are being paid, while all eyes are set on the trophy and enormous first-place payout of €1,410,000.

Leading the field of hopefuls after a total of 14 levels of 75 minutes each is Colombia's Mauricio Salazar Sanchez with 507,000, narrowly edging out Rosen Angelov (497,500) and Sergey Sergeev (470,500). Among the other big stacks are Paraskevas Tsokaridis (428,500), Mark Roovers (406,500), Jussi Nevanlinna (394,000), Patrick Leonard (394,000), and Kyle Bowker (392,500). Raffaele Sorrentino's bid to become the first ever two-time champion of the series is still intact, the 2017 PokerStars Championship presented by Monte-Carlo Casino winner claimed 300,000 to his name for Day 3.

Two PokerStars Team Pros made it through to Day 3 with Andre Akkari (202,500) and Jeff Gross (29,000), while their team mates Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Felipe Ramos, Marcin Horecki and Jake Cody were all sent to the rail. Cody was among the first casualties of the day when his ace-king failed to get there against Didier Mazairac's pocket nines.

By then, 2016 EPT Barcelona runner-up Uri Reichenstein was also out already, losing all his chips in the first level in a set-under-set nightmare against Tobias Peters. Defending champion Sebastian Malec, who emerged victorious one year ago against Reichenstein in one of the most epic final hands at this very venue, would also run out of chips eventually. Malec three-bet shoved with ace-nine suited and Zinan Xu called with queen-jack suited, also of spades, to spike a jack on the turn.

Other notables that were eliminated on Day 2 include 2015 EPT Barcelona champion John Juanda, who's top pair was no good against the nut straight of Nikolaos Triantafyllou, Dan Colman, Nicolas Chouity, Kimmo Kurko, Sergio Aido, Bruno "Kool Shen" Lopes, Vladimir Troyanovskiy, Bruno Politano, David Peters, Bryn Kenney, Dominik Nitsche, Ivan Luca and Isaac Haxton to name just a few. Troyanovskiy and Politano fell in quick succession to [Removed:43], and the Frenchman made it through with 240,000.

Day 3 will recommence with level 15 and blinds of 2,000/4,000 and a running ante of 500. A total of five levels of 90 minutes each are scheduled and the money bubble is expected to burst within the first two levels, action resumes at 12 p.m. noon local time. The PokerNews live reporting team will bring you all the action from the floor, so stay tuned and check back regularly.

Main Event Day 3 Seat Draw

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	1	Yaron Zeev Malki	Bulgaria	392,000	98
1	2	Stefan Huber	Switzerland	133,500	33
1	3	Nuno Pereira Ascensao	Portugal	158,500	40
1	4	Jose Latorre	Spain	231,500	58
1	5	Ricardo Graells	Switzerland	91,000	23
1	6	Michael Howard	United Kingdom	161,500	40
1	7	Joni Jouhkimainen	Finland	61,000	15
1	8	Per Hildebrand	Sweden	61,500	15

2	1	Daan Mulders	Netherlands	83,500	21
2	2	Christian Jeppsson	Sweden	47,500	12
2	3	Alexander Gross	Germany	25,500	6
2	4	Juri Mereu	Italy	315,000	79
2	5	Alfonso Cabrera Amestica	Mexico	163,500	41
2	6	Aleksandr Gofman	Russia	401,000	100
2	7	Jeff Gross	United States	29,000	7
2	8	Anthony Chimkovitch	Belgium	240,000	60

3	1	Bartolome Gomila	Spain	100,500	25
3	2	Lauri Varonen	Finland	52,500	13
3	3	Anton Kraus	Bulgaria	221,000	55
3	4	Michal Lubas	Poland	35,000	9
3	6	Rosen Angelov	Bulgaria	497,500	124
3	7	Leoonardo Baena	Brazil	110,500	28
3	8	Jamila Von Perger	Germany	51,500	13

4	1	Jordan Saccucci	Canada	310,000	78
4	2	Michal Schuh	Czech Republic	157,000	39
4	3	Andre Akkari	Brazil	202,500	51
4	4	Aki Furgyov	Bulgaria	252,500	63
4	5	Kalidou Sow	France	240,000	60
4	6	Mark Teltscher	United Kingdom	82,000	21
4	7	Patrick Leonard	United Kingdom	394,000	99
4	8	Luigi Shehadeh	Italy	325,000	81

5	1	Ryhor Karapanau	Belarus	77,500	19
5	2	Juan Pastor	Argentina	160,000	40
5	3	Liwei Sun	Italy	54,500	14
5	4	Arnaud Enselme	France	48,000	12
5	5	Julien Rouxel	United Kingdom	344,500	86
5	6	Matas Cimbolas	Lithuania	92,000	23
5	7	Alex Jennings	United Kingdom	117,000	29
5	8	Davide Suriano	Italy	101,500	25

6	1	Antal Roth	Hungary	237,500	59
6	2	Alexandros Papadopoulos	Greece	88,000	22
6	3	Andrius Bielskis	Lithuania	105,500	26
6	4	Pavel Nikolaev	Moldova	232,000	58
6	5	Juan Tome Perez	Spain	110,000	28
6	6	Roi Pereira Conde	Spain	97,500	24
6	7	Wim Neys	Belgium	115,000	29
6	8	Carlos Lopez	Spain	276,000	69

7	1	Didier Mazairac	Belgium	121,500	30
7	2	Sergey Lebedev	Russia	63,500	16
7	3	[Removed:146]	France	247,500	62
7	4	Cosmin Joldis	Romania	210,000	53
7	5	Dimitrios Farmakoulis	Greece	161,500	40
7	6	Durdy Babylov	Turkmenistan	36,000	9
7	7	Thomas Muehloecker	Austria	126,500	32
7	8	Georgios Sotiropoulos	Greece	28,000	7

8	1	Victor Ilyukhin	Russia	325,000	81
8	2	Jan Cvach	Czech Republic	200,500	50
8	3	David Algarra Vidana	Spain	122,500	31
8	4	Julien Perouse	France	256,000	64
8	5	Rustam Hajiyev	Azerbaijan	161,500	40
8	6	Giuliano Bendinelli	Italy	71,000	18
8	7	Antonios Koukouras	Greece	297,000	74
8	8	Adrian Mateos	Spain	200,000	50

9	1	Luke Brereton	United Kingdom	189,500	47
9	2	Lachezar Plamenov Petkov	Bulgaria	128,500	32
9	3	Florian-Dimitrie Duta	United Kingdom	220,000	55
9	4	Kjell Ove Dyb	Norway	113,000	28
9	5	Xuan Nguyen	France	90,000	23
9	6	Ralf Czerlinsky	Germany	154,500	39
9	7	Francisco Pinho Correia	Brazil	126,000	32
9	8	Ivan Gabrieli	Italy	107,000	27

10	1	Scott Wellenbach	Canada	249,500	62
10	2	James Romero	United States	398,000	100
10	3	[Removed:43]	France	227,500	57
10	4	Daniel Carlsson	Sweden	77,500	19
10	5	Roman Emelyanov	Russia	19,500	5
10	6	Govert Metaal	Netherlands	266,500	67
10	7	Emin Aghayev	Azerbaijan	155,500	39
10	8	Jan-Eric Schwippert	Germany	62,000	16

11	1	Sam Greenwood	Canada	105,000	26
11	2	Daniel Smiljkovic	Germany	155,500	39
11	3	Jordan Westmorland	United Kingdom	321,000	80
11	4	Paraskevas Tsokaridis	Greece	428,500	107
11	5	Andrew Moreno	United States	90,000	23
11	6	Alex Komaromi	Uruguay	245,500	61
11	7	Oren Rosen	Israel	102,500	26
11	8	Jussi Nevanlinna	Finland	394,000	99

12	1	Krzysztof Dulowski	Poland	56,500	14
12	2	Piotr Wroblewski	Poland	327,000	82
12	3	Georges Hanna	Lebanon	270,500	68
12	4	Zachary Korik	United States	139,000	35
12	5	Frederico Spilimbergo Volpe	Brazil	421,000	105
12	6	Quentin Lecomte	France	208,599	52
12	7	Sergio Alonso Camunas	Spain	191,000	48
12	8	Dimitrios Michailidis	Greece	260,000	65

13	1	Gavin O'Rourke	Ireland	74,000	19
13	2	Zinan Xu	China	164,500	41
13	3	Martin Toth	Slovenia	218,000	55
13	4	Arezki Belaidi	Canada	431,000	108
13	5	Valentin Anghel	Romania	171,000	43
13	6	Pim Kuipers	Netherlands	322,000	81
13	7	Ivan Kiselev	Russia	137,500	34
13	8	Steven Van Zadelhoff	Netherlands	50,000	13

14	1	Dawid Borkowski	Poland	131,500	33
14	2	Shiguang Zeng	China	91,500	23
14	3	Miltiadis Kyriakides	Greece	252,500	63
14	4	Tatjana Zizic	New Zealand	74,000	19
14	5	Gabriel Chiva	Romania	135,000	34
14	6	Jorgen Schjetne	Norway	88,500	22
14	7	Dmitry Vitkind	Russia	293,000	73
14	8	Preben Stokkan	Norway	231,500	58

15	1	Juha Helppi	Finland	335,000	84
15	2	Stephan Zesiger	Switzerland	64,000	16
15	3	Luigi Guida	Italy	179,000	45
15	4	Kevin Barden	Germany	210,500	53
15	5	Raffaele Sorrentino	Italy	300,000	75
15	6	Najib Kamand	United Kingdom	39,000	10
15	7	Jose Nunez Fernandez	Spain	88,000	22
15	8	Heorhii Doroshev	United Kingdomraine	199,000	50

16	1	Erik Peters	Netherlands	107,500	27
16	2	Asi Moshe	Israel	411,500	103
16	3	Gustavo Mastelotto	Brazil	129,500	32
16	4	Sebastian Sorensson	Sweden	150,000	38
16	5	Ji Zhang	Germany	110,500	28
16	6	Mihails Morozovs	Latvia	200,000	50
16	7	Pedro Baptista Martinho Cabeca	Portugal	26,000	7
16	8	Jamie Whyte	Ireland	210,000	53

17	1	Stephan Hirzel	Switzerland	48,500	12
17	2	Mauricio Salazar Sanchez	Colombia	507,000	127
17	3	Diogo Veiga	Portugal	134,500	34
17	4	Dmitry Chop	Russia	151,500	38
17	5	Anatoly Chen	Russia	428,000	107
17	6	Patrick Caveriviere	France	49,500	12
17	7	Shaun Hegarty	Ireland	193,500	48
17	8	Nick Petrangelo	United States	80,000	20

18	1	Ladislav Cerveny	Slovakia	50,000	13
18	2	Mihai Manole	Romania	171,500	43
18	3	Piotr Zawadzki	Poland	60,500	15
18	4	Philipp Lutkemeier	Germany	141,500	35
18	5	Kent Roed	Norway	210,000	53
18	6	Ramon Miquel Munoz	Spain	220,000	55
18	7	Michal Rudnik	Poland	31,500	8
18	8	Morten Klein	Norway	101,000	25

19	1	Martin Stausholm	Denmark	144,500	36
19	2	Gabriel Subirana Lopez	Spain	231,000	58
19	3	Jaromir Hanel	Czech Republic	249,500	62
19	4	Srdjan Patkovic	Sweden	97,500	24
19	5	Akin Tuna	Germany	343,500	86
19	6	Aleksandr Ovechkin	Russia	258,000	65
19	7	Petar Kalev	Bulgaria	93,000	23
19	8	Rafael Bertani	Brazil	371,000	93

20	1	Aladin Reskallah	France	248,000	62
20	2	Liow Ming Kee	Malaysia	114,000	29
20	3	Simeon Naydenov	Bulgaria	230,000	58
20	4	Usman Siddique	United Kingdom	172,500	43
20	5	Dirk Gerritse	Netherlands	327,500	82
20	6	Alexandr Merzhvinskii	Russia	139,500	35
20	7	Aram Sargsyan	Armenia	323,500	81
20	8	Sebastian Przadka	Poland	50,500	13

21	1	Adrian Voiculescu	Romania	118,500	30
21	2	Gregory Janin	France	125,000	31
21	3	Andrew Hedley	United Kingdom	86,000	22
21	4	Christophe Bouziane	France	230,000	58
21	5	Albert Daher	Lebanon	35,000	9
21	6	Hady El Asmar	Lebanon	111,500	28
21	7	George Ana	Romania	102,000	26
21	8	Kilian Hyun Woo Loeffler	Germany	244,500	61

22	1	Jackson White	United States	297,000	74
22	2	Maksim Prokhorov	Russia	349,000	87
22	3	Soren Hansen	Denmark	203,500	51
22	4	Igor Yaroshevskyy	United Kingdomraine	61,500	15
22	5	Dario Sammartino	Italy	355,500	89
22	6	Alessandro Piekazewicz	Brazil	69,000	17
22	7	Daniel Hoy-Nielsen	Ireland	97,000	24
22	8	Erik Friberg	Sweden	218,000	55

23	1	Abdelhakim Zoufri	Netherlands	34,500	9
23	2	Jordan Kaplan	United States	138,000	35
23	3	Enrico Frattaroli	United Kingdom	66,000	17
23	4	Boris Kolev	Bulgaria	115,500	29
23	5	Manuel Nunez	Spain	203,000	51
23	6	Nadia Wanzi	Netherlands	200,000	50
23	7	Hans Sybrandi	Netherlands	58,000	15
23	8	David Docherty	United Kingdom	59,500	15

24	1	Alvaro Puchol Vina	Spain	123,000	31
24	2	Erik Walfridsson	Sweden	152,500	38
24	3	Johan Rimestad	Denmark	131,500	33
24	4	Sebastian Ruiz Figueroa	Chile	358,500	90
24	5	Vladimir Geshkenbein	Russia	200,000	50
24	6	Dietrich Fast	Germany	124,500	31
24	7	Jose Calvo Rodriguez	Spain	106,000	27
24	8	Aaron Rivero Daly	Spain	188,000	47

25	1	Donald Duarte Sierra	Nicaragua	397,000	99
25	2	Moshe Refaelowitz	Israel	110,000	28
25	3	Lee Hon Cheong	Hong Kong	44,500	11
25	4	Adrian Veghinas	Romania	30,500	8
25	5	James Gilbert	Costa Rica	68,000	17
25	6	Gilles Huet	France	118,500	30
25	7	Martin Prado	Argentina	118,000	30
25	8	Fabrice Maltez	France	174,500	44

26	1	Brian Kaufman Esposito	Uruguay	267,000	67
26	2	Diego Valadares Bittar	Brazil	191,000	48
26	3	Bartosz Piesiewicz	Poland	62,500	16
26	4	Michel Melo Santos	Brazil	48,000	12
26	5	Alex Difelice	Canada	255,000	64
26	6	Thomas Haarstad	Norway	56,000	14
26	7	Menelaos Pissarides	Cyprus	52,500	13
26	8	Markus Garberg	Norway	52,000	13

27	1	Niek Minten	Netherlands	179,500	45
27	2	Sascha Hollm	Germany	128,500	32
27	3	Igor Dubinskyy	United Kingdomraine	115,000	29
27	4	Aymon Hata	United Kingdom	354,500	89
27	5	Cathal Shine	Ireland	103,000	26
27	6	Albert Balayn	France	169,000	42
27	7	Yuriy Kudrynskyy	United Kingdomraine	275,500	69
27	8	Markus Grabher	Austria	216,000	54

28	1	Gerald Karlic	Austria	214,000	54
28	2	Aeragan Arunan	United Kingdom	270,000	68
28	3	Panagiotis Matrakas	Greece	385,500	96
28	4	Hans Midjord	Faroe Islands	132,000	33
28	5	Jakub Senk	Czech Republic	133,000	33
28	6	Javier De Vicente	Spain	120,000	30
28	7	Mark Roovers	Netherlands	406,500	102
28	8	Vladislav Donchev	Bulgaria	78,000	20

29	1	Mykhailo Hladilin	United Kingdomraine	133,000	33
29	2	Johnny Hansen	Denmark	145,000	36
29	3	Alexandru Baron	Canada	173,500	43
29	4	Goran Mandic	Croatia	121,500	30
29	5	Dmytro Samoilenko	United Kingdomraine	73,000	18
29	6	Terry Nichols	United States	91,500	23
29	7	Alberto Bari	Argentina	167,500	42
29	8	Jans Arends	Netherlands	158,500	40

30	1	Tsugunari Toma	Japan	311,500	78
30	2	Luigi Serricchio	Italy	82,000	21
30	3	Ruben Velasco	Spain	272,500	68
30	4	Mikita Badziakouski	Belarus	194,500	49
30	5	Vladimir Lappo	Belarus	174,500	44
30	6	John Sarailis	Macedonia	332,000	83
30	7	Frank Stumpf	Germany	104,500	26
30	8	Emanuel Kristan	Austria	71,000	18

31	1	Paul Newey	United Kingdom	83,000	21
31	2	Rene Van Krevelen	Netherlands	134,500	34
31	3	Samuel Vousden	Finland	255,000	64
31	4	Jonas Lauck	Germany	197,500	49
31	5	Marius Sebu	Norway	159,000	40
31	6	Kevin Stani	Norway	200,000	50
31	7	Gary Hasson	Belgium	135,000	34
31	8	Michel Dattani	Portugal	87,000	22

32	1	Alex Spencer	United Kingdom	58,500	15
32	2	Philippe D'Auteuil	Canada	175,000	44
32	3	Samu Riihela	Finland	60,000	15
32	4	Viktor Kudinov	Russia	187,000	47
32	5	Jose Astima	France	85,000	21
32	6	Kyle Bowker	United States	392,500	98
32	7	Xavier Carriere	France	200,000	50
32	8	Denys Shafikov	United Kingdomraine	61,000	15

33	1	Jean Paul Zaffran	Israel	78,000	20
33	2	Cristiano Oliveira	Portugal	127,500	32
33	3	David Splettstoesser	Germany	217,500	54
33	4	Maria Lampropulos	Argentina	199,500	50
33	5	Jonathan Proudfoot	United Kingdom	205,500	51
33	6	Aleksey Ponakov	Latvia	337,000	84
33	7	Salvatore Camarda	Italy	161,000	40
33	8	Dmitry Yurasov	Russia	331,000	83

34	1	Benjamin Rolle	Germany	399,500	100
34	2	Antonius Krijn	Netherlands	215,500	54
34	3	Tibor Nagygyorgy	Hungary	144,500	36
34	4	Victor Choupeaux	France	206,000	52
34	5	Tobias Peters	Netherlands	324,000	81
34	6	Rens Feenstra	Netherlands	190,000	48
34	7	[Removed:413]	France	260,000	65
34	8	Hugo Gomes Andrade	Portugal	315,500	79

35	1	Alexis Fleur	France	118,000	30
35	2	Martin Aasen Lunde	Norway	247,000	62
35	3	Andreas Olympios	United Kingdom	79,500	20
35	4	Said El Yousfi	Switzerland	202,000	51
35	5	Alan Mehamed	Spain	195,000	49
35	6	Renjun Yang	China	45,500	11
35	7	Sergey Sergeev	Russia	470,500	118
35	8	Jasper Meijer Van Putten	Netherlands	242,500	61

36	1	Benjamin Richardson	Australia	267,000	67
36	2	Alberto Ortiz Such	Spain	198,000	50
36	3	Shawn Buchanan	Canada	53,000	13
36	4	Upeshka De Silva	United States	125,000	31
36	5	Jakub Wojtas	Germany	166,000	42
36	6	Saar Wilf	Israel	163,500	41
36	7	George Mcdonald	United Kingdom	408,500	102
36	8	Diego Ventura	Peru	143,000	36

Tags: Andre Akkari Bertrand Grospellier Bruno Lopes Bruno Politano Bryn Kenney Daniel Colman David Peters Didier Mazairac Dominik Nitsche Felipe Ramos Isaac Haxton Ivan Luca Jake Cody Jeff Gross John Juanda Jussi Nevanlinna Kimmo Kurko Kyle Bowker Marcin Horecki Mark Roovers Nicolas Chouity Nikolaos Triantafyllou Paraskevas Tsokaridis Patrick Leonard Sebastian Malec Sergio Aido Tobias Peters Uri Reichenstein Vladimir Troyanovskiy Zinan Xu

08-23-2017 18:22 UTC+2

Defending Champion Sebastian Malec Eliminated

Christian Zetzsche

Level 13 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

The camera crews rushed to the table of Sebastian Malec after the defending champion announced all in out of the blinds. Zinan Xu took a long time before opting to call and Malec turned over . Xu only had but spiked a jack on the turn to eliminate Malec in the penultimate level of Day 2.

Player	Chips	Progress
Zinan Xu	110,000	6,900
Sebastian Malec	Busted

Tags: Sebastian Malec Zinan Xu

08-23-2017 16:13 UTC+2

2015 EPT Barcelona Winner John Juanda Eliminated

Yori Epskamp

Level 11 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

John Juanda - EPT12 Barcelona Main Event Champion

Nikolaos Triantafyllou raised to 3,500 from middle position and John Juanda defended his big blind. On the flop, Juanda check-called a 4,200 bet from Triantafyllou. The turn was the and Juanda check-called 12,000, leaving himself with around 25,000.

On the river, Juanda checked a third time. Triantafyllou emptied the clip and moved all in, and Juanda splashed in his stack after thirty seconds.

Nikolaos Triantafyllou:
John Juanda:

Triantafyllou held the nuts and the 2015 EPT Barcelona Main Event winner was eliminated.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nikolaos Triantafyllou	142,000	82,000
John Juanda	Busted

Tags: John Juanda Nikolaos Triantafyllou

08-23-2017 16:10 UTC+2

Lejal Busts Troyanovskiy and Politano

Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Vladimir Troyanovskiy shoved for approximately 22,000 and [Removed:43] called from one seat over.

Vladimir Troyanovskiy:
[Removed:43]:

The board came and Troyanovskiy was sent to the rail.

A few minutes later, Lejal called a raise and Bruno Politano three-bet to 12,000. The initial raiser folded and Lejal called. After the flop, Lejal checked and Politano bet 20,000 with around as much behind before calling the shove of Lejal.

Bruno Politano:
[Removed:43]:

The turn and river were of no help for Politano and he also joined the rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
[Removed:43]	270,000	138,300
Vladimir Troyanovskiy	Busted
Bruno Politano	Busted

Tags: Bruno Politano Vladimir Troyanovskiy

08-23-2017 16:05 UTC+2

Stuer Set Up; Leonard Cracks Aces

Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Julian Stuer and Andreas Allsalu got their stacks in after a flop of and Stuer found himself on the wrong end of a set-over-set scenario with . Allsalu had and held up thanks to the turn and river.

The hand was barely over when Stuer was in the next pot already and raised to 3,500. Patrick Leonard three-bet and Sachin Joshi four-bet to 23,800. Stuer quickly folded while Leonard called. On the flop, Leonard moved all in and Joshi quickly called for what appeared to be 48,000.

Sachin Joshi:
Patrick Leonard:

The turn was a blank, but Leonard got there thanks to the on the river.

Player	Chips	Progress
Patrick Leonard	280,000	70,000
Andres Allsalu	93,000	10,500
Julian Stuer	27,000	-53,000
Sachin Joshi	Busted

Tags: Andres Allsalu Julian Stuer Patrick Leonard Sachin Joshi

08-23-2017 14:24 UTC+2

Mateos Chips Up Through Soika

Christian Zetzsche

Level 10 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

Ihar Soika raised to 3,000 and Adrian Mateos from one seat over in the cutoff three-bet to 9,000, which Soika called. On the flop, Soika checked and called a bet of 7,500 by Mateos.

The same action repeated on the turn for 25,000 before the river went check, check. Soika rolled over and Mateos claimed the pot with . The Spaniard just signed up before the start of Day 2 and has ran up quite an impressive stack already.

Player	Chips	Progress
Adrian Mateos	195,000	112,500
Ihar Soika	95,000	-18,500

Tags: Adrian Mateos Ihar Soika

08-23-2017 12:39 UTC+2

Latorre Smashes Through 400k

Yori Epskamp

Level 9 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Start-of-the-day chipleader Jose Angel Latorre blasted out of the gates in a massive confrontation that left Tomi Brouk empty-handed after the dust had settled.

Latorre raised to 2,000 from under the gun, Tomi Brouk three-bet to 7,000 in middle position, Latorre four-bet to 23,000, and Brouk called. The flop was and Latorre continued with 19,500. Brouk took some time before making the call.

On the turn, Latorre cut out a bet of 44,000 and Brouk went deep in the tank. After several minutes, he cut out the calling chips and bolstered the pot to more than 100k.

The river was the and Latorre moved all in. Brouk sighed deep, as if he felt what was coming, and flicked in a calling chip to call off his last 70,000.

Jose Latorre:
Tomi Brouk:

Brouk's gut feeling was right, as Latorre had rivered the higher set to knock him out. Just like that, the Finn, who started the day with 160,800, was gone. Latorre is now swinging almost twice the stack of his nearest challenger.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jose Latorre	410,000	166,200
Tomi Brouk	Busted

Tags: Jose Angel Latorre

08-23-2017 12:30 UTC+2

Jake Cody Eliminated

Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Vitor Peixoto Moreira raised to 2,200 from under the gun and Didier Mazairac called on the button. Jake Cody moved all in for 21,100 out of the big blind and that forced out Moreira, while Mazairac gave it some thought and called.

Jake Cody:
Didier Mazairac:

The board came and Cody joined the rail early on Day 2.

Player	Chips	Progress
Didier Mazairac	58,000	23,500
Jake Cody	Busted

Tags: Didier Mazairac Jake Cody Vitor Peixoto Moreira

08-23-2017 10:34 UTC+2

Get Ready For Day 2 of the 2017 PokerStars Championship Barcelona Main Event

Yori Epskamp

Team PokerStars Pro Andre Akkari had a strong showing on Day 1b

After two starting days, a bumper field of 1,670 players has been trimmed down to about half its original size. 852 players will be back at noon local time to play the second day of the 2017 PokerStars Championship Barcelona Main Event in the packed Casino Barcelona. Late registration will be open up until the start of Day 2, and several more players are expected to take a shot at the already smashed €7 million guaranteed prize pool.

Leading the way is Spain's Jose Angel Latorre with 243,800 in chips. The 32-year old high-stakes Sit & Go specialist, who relocated to London to play in the shared liquidity player's pool on PokerStars, claimed the chip lead on Day 1b after a late-night surge. In close contention are Xavier Carriere (205,700), Vladimir Geshkenbein (200,000), Adalfar Morales Gamarra (192,900), and Usman Siddique (191,000).

A lot of notables are still left in the field, including Team PokerStars Pro's Andre Akkari (123,300), Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier (57,700), Felipe Ramos (41,300), Jeff Gross (40,700), Jake Cody (22,000), and Marcin Horecki (15,300). Sebastian Malec, who won last year's EPT Barcelona Main Event, bagged 61,000 and is still in contention for another title bid.

Day 2 will feature six levels of 75-minutes each, with a 20-minute break after every two levels. The blinds will resume at 500/1,000 with a running ante of 100. Play will be suspended around 8:20 p.m. local time when chips will be bagged and tagged for the night. Follow PokerNews throughout the day for all the updates from the vibrant Spanish city.

Level	Duration	Small Blind	Big Blind	Ante
9	75 min	500	1,000	100
10	75 min	600	1,200	200
11	75 min	800	1,600	200
12	75 min	1,000	2,000	300
13	75 min	1,200	2,400	400
14	75 min	1,500	3,000	500