€5,300 Main Event Day 2 | 2016 PokerStars.es EPT Season 13 Barcelona

€5,300 Main Event

Day 2 Completed

08-24-2016 20:45 UTC+1

Nicolas Chouity Leads After Day 2 of the 2016 EPT13 Barcelona Main Event

Christian Zetzsche

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

Day 2 of the record-breaking 2016 PokerStars.es EPT Season 13 Barcelona €5,300 Main Event saw more than 900 players return to tables at the Casino Barcelona and another 28 hopefuls opted to buy in with a fresh stack of 30 big blinds.

This boosted the overall attendance to 1,785 entries, and the prize pool of €8,657,250 was to be shared among the top 359 spots. The minimum cash is worth €5,630, while the winner walks home with a life-changing payday of €1,122,800.

Before the cards went back underway, the EPT's Neil Johnson announced news about the expansion of the PokerStars brand on the live circuit with the Championship and Festival series at various old and new destinations such as Panama, Macau, Atlantic City and Barcelona - promising more games, more days and more events.

Once play resumed, the seat open came in steady and at a frantic pace. Paul Hoefer lost with ace-queen to the pocket queens of fellow German Julian Stuer, while Xuan Liu turned two pair and ran into the slow-played set of aces by Wael Sarkis. Former PCA champion Dominik Panka got three-outered by Alexander Lakhov and German wunderkind Fedor Holz, who won the €50,000 Super High Roller a few days ago, lost with top pair to an overpair.

Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Yaxi Zhu, Janne "Savjz" Mikkonen, Leo Fernandez, Theo Jorgensen, George Danzer and defending Joh Juanda all fell before the money. Alexandros Kolonias and Jeremy Nock put their hopes on spades, but Adem Marjanovic had tens for the overpair to hold up and join the big stacks. At almost the same time, Niall Farrell played a huge pot with ace-king and Alin Grasu looked him up with queens to bust the EPT12 Malta winner. Other former EPT champions to join the rail before the money included David Vamplew, Oleksii Khoroshenin, Dzmitry Urbanovich, Michael Tureniec, and Steve O'Dwyer also all ran out of chips before the hand-for-hand mode began.

In the last few seasons, the money was usually reached in the first few levels of Day 3, however, thanks to the new 20% payout structure, the bubble in fact burst in the middle of level 14. Yann Pineau emerged as bubble boy after calling all in with a pair of tens on a nine-high board only to see Neculai Macovei turn over a full house with five-three. More than 60 players were eliminated in the money in the last half hour still, including Fatima Moreira de Melo, Maria Lampropulos, Per Linde, Alen Bilic, Chris Moorman, Pablo Gordillo and Ivan "negriin" Luca.

Only 294 hopefuls advanced to Day 2 after six 75-minute levels and EPT6 Grand Final champion Nicolas Chouity claimed the lead with impressive 559,000. He is closely followed by Austria's Adem Marjanovic (542,500) and Uri Reichenstein (518,000) also put more than half a million into his bag. Other big stacks and notables for Day 3 include IPT7 Malta champion Georgios Zisimopoulos (462,000), Martin Kabrhel (458,500), aforementioned Alin Grasu (437,000); Gleb Tremzin (428,000), and Diego Zeiter (383,500).

Team PokerStars is represented by the Team Pros Jake Cody (284,500), Jason Mercier (266,500) and Felipe Ramos (63,000), while Team Online's Mikhail Shalamov ran pretty well and bagged up 377,500. Some further EPT champions through to Day 3 were Harrison Gimbel (216,500), Kent Lundmark (179,000), Ognyan Dimov (173,500), Michael Eiler (167,500), Mike McDonald (124,000), Ronny Kaiser (99,600), Dimitar Danchev (80,000) and Davidi Kitai (57,000). The 2016 November Niner Vojtech Ruzicka will return with 72,000.

Action resumes tomorrow at 12 p.m. noon local time when another five levels of 90 minutes each are scheduled. The full chip counts after Day 2 and redraw for Day 3 will be published as soon as the PokerNews live reporting team receives them.

Tags: Adem Marjanovic Alexander Lakhov Alexandros Kolonias Alin Grasu Bertrand Grospellier Chris Moorman David Vamplew Diego Zeiter Dimitar Danchev Dominik Panka Dzmitry Urbanovich Fatima Moreira De Melo Fedor Holz Felipe Ramos George Danzer Georgios Zisimopoulos Ivan Luca Jake Cody Janne "Savjz" Mikkonen Jason Mercier Jeremy Nock John Juanda Leo Fernandez Maria Lampropulos Michael Eiler Michael Tureniec Mike McDonald Niall Farrell Paul Hoefer Ronny Kaiser Steve O'Dwyer Theo Jorgensen Vojtech Ruzicka Wael Sarkis Xuan Liu Yann Pineau Yaxi Zhu

08-24-2016 20:44 UTC+1

Day 3 Seat Draw

Christian Zetzsche

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

Table	Seat	Name	Country	Chips
1	1	Ronny Kaiser	Switzerland	99500
1	2	Lucian Draghici	Canada	170000
1	3	Sam Mao	UK	413500
1	4	Miroslav Forman	Czech Republic	295000
1	5	Andrejs Maklecovs	Latvia	59500
1	6	Vasyl Zabrodskyy	Ukraine	318500
1	7	Stefan Huber	Switzerland	80500
1	8	Jose Quintas	Portugal	172000

2	1	Paul van't Veer	Netherlands	92000
2	2	Jani Sointula	Finland	69500
2	3	Yannick Autaa	France	414500
2	4	Gytis Bernatavicius	Lithuania	169000
2	5	Michael Howard	Ireland	120500
2	6	Tuukka Meklin	Finland	211000
2	7	Michael Kane	UK	253500
2	8	Cyriel Dohmen	Netherlands	275000

3	1	Georgios Zisimopoulos	Greece	462000
3	2	Vojtech Ruzicka	Czech Republic	72000
3	3	Jake Cody	UK	284500
3	4	Jiachen Gong	Canada	136000
3	5	Fady Kamar	Lebanon	74500
3	6	Jarno Roine	Finland	188000
3	7	Joel Nystedt	Sweden	270000
3	8	Olli Autiö	Finland	100500

4	1	Rui Sousa	Portugal	305000
4	2	Yordan Mihaylov Petrov	Bulgaria	414500
4	3	Yigal Papi	Israel	130500
4	4	Per Hol	Norway	30500
4	5	Leo Margets	Spain	123500
4	6	Adem Marjanovic	Austria	542500
4	7	Albert Puigsech	Spain	346500
4	8	Adam Jaguscik	Poland	177500

5	1	Fedor Truntsev	Russia	115500
5	2	Dieter Albrecht	Switzerland	188000
5	3	Alex Ward	UK	156500
5	4	Andreas Freund	Austria	344500
5	5	Evangelos Terzoudis	Greece	117500
5	6	Adam Owen	UK	168000
5	7	Terrence Ryan	USA	72500
5	8	Leo Yan Ho Cheng	Canada	148500

6	1	Mike McDonald	Canada	124000
6	2	Padraig O'Neill	Ireland	305000
6	3	Chance Kornuth	USA	160000
6	4	Kevin Andriamahefa	Canada	222500
6	5	Vasili Firsau	Belarus	152000
6	6	Florian Bordet	France	71500
6	7	Volodymyr Yastreb	Ukraine	82000
6	8	Michal Rudnik	Poland	311500

7	1	Carter Swidler	Canada	96500
7	2	Alisan Holozlu	Germany	200000
7	3	Darius Narmontas	Lithuania	99000
7	4	Patrick Kasebzarif	Canada	228000
7	5	Chebli Chebli	Lebanon	148500
7	6	Alexander Greenblatt	USA	121500
7	7	Manlio Iemina	Italy	257000
7	8	Michael Eiler	Germany	176000

8	1	Diego Zeiter	Switzerland	387500
8	2	Martin Arce Llobera	Argentina	84500
8	3	Wael Sarkis	Lebanon	201800
8	4	Hanyang Peng	China	226000
8	5	Jeffrey Mulder	Canada	177500
8	6	Diego Casco	Uruguay	176000
8	7	Stephen Malone	Ireland	169500
8	8	Craig Mehlbaum	Netherlands	80000

9	1	Morten Mortensen	Denmark	180600
9	2	Igor Devkin	Russia	48500
9	3	Peter Sven Andersson	Sweden	119500
9	4	Yorane Kerignard	France	122500
9	5	Gilles Huet	France	198500
9	6	Brian Tae-Hyun Yoon	USA	120000
9	7	Andrey Kotelnikov	Russia	33500
9	8	Igor Yaroshevskyy	Ukraine	278500

10	1	Parker Talbot	Canada	131000
10	2	Abdelhakim Zoufri	Netherlands	255500
10	3	Mikhail Korotkikh	Russia	160000
10	4	Jason Koon	USA	167000
10	5	Felipe Ramos	Brazil	63000
10	6	Jason Mercier	USA	266500
10	7	Jorge Abreu	Portugal	172000
10	8	Alejandro Belluccia	Argentina	226000

11	1	Andreas Hoivold	Norway	366500
11	2	Alin Grasu	Romania	437000
11	3	Philippe Souki	UK	197000
11	4	Simon Appleby	UK	222500
11	5	Alessio Di Cesare	Italy	63500
11	6	Marcos Paton Bao	Spain	92500
11	7	Marco Caza	Canada	399000
11	8	Zorlu Er	Turkey	204000

12	1	Diogo Cardoso	Portugal	283500
12	2	Gary Swan	UK	45000
12	3	Dimitrios Farmakoulis	Greece	233000
12	5	Bradley Myers	USA	63500
12	6	Elliot Smith	Canada	138000
12	7	Pavel Plesuv	Moldova	333000
12	8	Uri Reichenstein	Germany	518000

13	1	Pascal Vos	Netherlands	41500
13	2	Marc Trijaud	France	43500
13	3	Connor Drinan	USA	39000
13	4	Adrian Attenborough	Australia	273500
13	5	Ibrahim Ghassan	Lebanon	173500
13	6	Andrea Cortellazzi	Italy	128000
13	7	Lars Tungel	Sweden	247500
13	8	Tony Blanchandin	France	73500

14	1	Simon Lofberg	Sweden	416500
14	3	Luiz Orrico	Italy	329500
14	4	Marcelo Mereles Motta	Paraguay	282500
14	5	Hila Dan	Romania	105000
14	6	Sam Chartier	Canada	211500
14	7	Dimitar Danchev	Bulgaria	80000
14	8	Zoltan Ban	Czech Republic	155000

15	1	Alexey Romanov	Russia	255000
15	2	Neculai Macovei	Romania	354000
15	3	Yung Hwang	USA	202000
15	4	Harcharan Dogra Dogra	Spain	169500
15	5	Xixiang Luo	China	394500
15	6	Stefan Vogt	Germany	150500
15	7	Shmuel Madar	Israel	174500
15	8	Ottavio Tassone	Canada	120500

16	1	Tobias Revenas	Sweden	126500
16	2	Davidi Kitai	Belgium	57000
16	3	Andreas Chalkiadakis	Greece	63500
16	4	Lars Gabrielsson	Sweden	173500
16	5	Steven Watts	UK	36500
16	6	Konstantin Puchkov	Russia	201000
16	7	Sergii Zubariev	Ukraine	121500
16	8	Nicholas Galtos	Australia	65500

17	1	Daniel Nagao	Brazil	234500
17	2	Bahram Chobineh	Iran	36500
17	3	Francois Billard	Canada	83000
17	4	Cheng-Wei Yin	Belgium	106500
17	5	Aku Joentausta	Finland	370500
17	6	Atanas Kavrakov	Bulgaria	72500
17	7	Matthew Moss	UK	78500
17	8	Keith Johnson	UK	107000

18	1	Rafael Rojano Ramos	Spain	121500
18	2	Conor Beresford	UK	268500
18	3	Kimmo Kurko	Finland	129000
18	4	Luca Moschitta	Italy	75000
18	5	Alexander Prokudin	Russia	280500
18	6	Thomas De Rooij	Netherlands	383500
18	7	Christian Jeppsson	Sweden	393000
18	8	Olov Jansson	Sweden	99000

19	1	Luis Manuel Fernandez Pola	Spain	187500
19	2	Markus Durnegger	Austria	189000
19	3	Jan Nakladal	Czech Republic	147500
19	4	Jasper Meijer van Putten	Netherlands	183500
19	5	Paul van Oort	Netherlands	232500
19	6	Matas Cimbolas	Lithuania	148000
19	7	Sam Grafton	UK	268500
19	8	Jose Maria Vendrell Schwaiger	Spain	65000

20	1	Thomas Miller	USA	167500
20	2	Jaroslaw Sikora	Poland	88000
20	3	Iani Tulica	Romania	77600
20	4	Victor Bogdanov	Russia	160500
20	5	Henri Koivisto	Finland	66500
20	6	Rumen Nanev	Bulgaria	65000
20	7	Wahid Patel	UK	275000
20	8	Pakinai Lisawad	Thailand	145000

21	1	Nicholas Palma	USA	295000
21	2	Michele Bianchi	Switzerland	123000
21	3	Byron Kaverman	USA	216000
21	4	Ramil Yusupov	Russia	179000
21	5	Alexandros Vlachakis	Greece	166000
21	6	Sebastian Malec	Poland	452000
21	7	Jaroslaw Lipien	Poland	176500
21	8	Van Hiep Tran	Germany	147500

22	1	Ivan Deyra	France	105500
22	2	Spyridon Koukouris	Greece	305000
22	3	Tomasz Gluszko	Poland	331000
22	4	Steven Van De Moer	Belgium	113500
22	5	Jimmy Guerrero	France	175000
22	6	Paul Gresel	Netherlands	137500
22	7	Damien Luis	France	63000
22	8	Jerry Odeen	Sweden	71000

23	1	Jonathan Gray	UK	101500
23	2	Anooj Saareen	UK	440500
23	3	Przemyslaw Misztela	Poland	34000
23	4	Ilari Sahamies	Finland	90500
23	5	Gaelle Baumann	France	115000
23	6	Pavel Pravduhin	Russia	56500
23	7	Nicolas Chouity	Lebanon	559000
23	8	Shivan Abdine	Australia	316500

24	1	Darryll Fish	USA	128500
24	2	Nicolas Gil Friedli	Switzerland	179500
24	3	Stephan Zesiger	Switzerland	99500
24	4	Steven van Zadelhoff	Netherlands	23000
24	5	Gaetano Preite	Italy	166000
24	6	Abdelkader Benhalima	Algeria	55000
24	7	Ognyan Dimov	Bulgaria	173500
24	8	Adrien Delmas	France	176000

25	1	Yuval Friedman	Israel	240000
25	2	Sergei Chantcev	Russia	221500
25	3	Pavel Veksler	Israel	271500
25	4	Preben Stokkan	Norway	36000
25	5	Narcis-Gabriel Nedelcu	Romania	225500
25	6	Aram Sargsyan	Armenia	328000
25	7	Hani Bahna	Canada	138000
25	8	Elie Ghazal	Lebanon	37000

26	1	Roar Wang	Norway	126000
26	2	Simion Gunter	Germany	103000
26	3	Didier Bauduin Mazairac	Belgium	246000
26	4	Oleksii Kravchuk	Ukraine	55000
26	5	Martin Kabrhel	Czech Republic	458500
26	6	Abel Durban	Spain	51500
26	7	Massimo Mosele	Italy	49000
26	8	Andrej Punka	Latvia	148500

27	1	Dara O'Kearney	Ireland	50500
27	2	Benjamin Peter Raven	UK	74000
27	3	Patrick Brooks	UK	143000
27	4	Raffaele Castro	Switzerland	31500
27	5	Andrey Sharonov	Russia	65500
27	6	Albert Mykhaylyuta	Ukraine	74500
27	7	Anthony Edouard Chimkovitch	Belgium	144000
27	8	Jose Astima	France	96000

28	1	Nandor Solyom	Romania	80500
28	2	Simon Mattsson	Sweden	136000
28	3	Chen-An Lin	Taiwan	156500
28	4	Nuno Capucho	Portugal	102000
28	5	Tomas Macnamara	UK	230000
28	6	Glib Kovtunov	Ukraine	96500
28	7	Ove Andre Stenberg	Norway	54000
28	8	Andreas Bremer	Germany	24000

29	1	Sascha Hollm	Germany	68500
29	2	Bryn Kenney	USA	303500
29	3	Kitty Kuo	Taiwan	180000
29	4	Thomas Eychenne	France	88000
29	5	Tim Hubert Verheyen	Belgium	93000
29	6	Daniel Peche	Germany	78000
29	7	Benjamin Saada	France	70000
29	8	Avi Binyamin	Israel	256000

30	1	Gergely Bartos	Hungary	118500
30	2	Jonathan Pigeon	France	159500
30	3	Eugene Katchalov	Ukraine	76500
30	4	Vasileios Chalkidis	Greece	174500
30	5	Pasha Ahadpour Khanghah	Azerbaijan	255000
30	6	Alessandro Sarro	Italy	142500
30	7	Robert Lipkin	USA	379000
30	8	Tobias Hausen	Germany	188000

31	1	Gleb Tremzin	Russia	428000
31	2	Philipp Gruissem	Germany	180000
31	3	Cristian Andres Rotondo	Argentina	116500
31	4	Nuno Pereira Ascensao	Portugal	265000
31	5	Christophe Larquemin	France	62500
31	6	Taichi Yoneya	Japan	379500
31	7	Aharub Khatri	Kenya	200000
31	8	Thomas Clack	UK	212500

32	1	Marko Neumann	Germany	49000
32	2	Jerome Sgorrano	Belgium	326500
32	3	Michael Addamo	Australia	211500
32	4	Abbas Moradi	Canada	384000
32	5	Kestutis Gecevicius	Lithuania	319000
32	6	Paul Dando	UK	40000
32	7	Alessandro Borsa	Italy	302500
32	8	Mark Roovers	Netherlands	168500

33	1	Mihai Niste	Romania	341500
33	2	Pavlos Xanthopoulos	Greece	298000
33	3	Diogo Veiga	Portugal	248500
33	4	Ramon Miguel Munoz	Spain	431500
33	5	Andrew Abernethy	UK	119000
33	6	Petar Petrov	Bulgaria	206500
33	7	Alexis Ibarrola	France	122500
33	8	Chi Daniel Tang	UK	263000

34	1	Anthony Kelly	UK	34000
34	2	Miguel Mora Hernandez	Spain	147500
34	3	Kent Lundmark	Sweden	179000
34	4	Alexandru Baron	Canada	248500
34	5	Mikhail Molchanov	Russia	473000
34	6	Norbert Berent	Poland	201500
34	7	Ping Liu	USA	295000
34	8	Peyman Luth	Germany	197500

35	1	Sam Greenwood	Canada	21000
35	2	Erik Friberg	Sweden	75500
35	3	Damien Cayet	France	233000
35	4	Aki Virtanen	Finland	192500
35	5	Steffen Sontheimer	Germany	130500
35	6	Traian Bostan	Romania	227500
35	7	Harrison Gimbel	USA	216500
35	8	Tarek Bouchama	France	63500

36	1	Andrey Volkov	Russia	121000
36	2	Fabiano Kovalski	Brazil	116000
36	3	Govert Metaal	Netherlands	97500
36	4	Makarios Avramidis	Greece	153000
36	5	Vladimir Troyanovskiy	Russia	177000
36	6	Elcio Luiz Romao	Brazil	238000
36	7	Ciaca Paul	Romania	86000
36	8	Slaven Popov	Bulgaria	81000

37	1	Mikhail Shalamov	Russia	377500
37	2	Dorian Rios Pavon	Venezuela	310000
37	3	Jean-Jacques Zeitoun	France	100500
37	4	Filipe Oliveira	Portugal	292000
37	5	Niall Murray	UK	350000
37	6	Ryan Mcgarry	Canada	274000
37	7	Maxim Klopotok	Ukraine	124000
37	8	Erik Sens	Netherlands	166500

08-24-2016 20:40 UTC+1

End-Of-Day Counts (full)

Christian Zetzsche

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

Player	Chips	Progress
Nicolas Chouity	559,000

Adem Marjanovic	542,500
Uri Reichenstein	518,000
Mikhail Molchanov	473,000
Georgios Zisimopoulos	462,000
Martin Kabrhel	458,500
Sebastian Malec	452,000

Anooj Saareen	440,500
Alin Grasu	437,000
Ramon Miguel Munoz	431,500
Gleb Tremzin	428,000
Simon Lofberg	416,500 392,300	392,300
Yordan Mihaylov Petrov	414,500
Yannick Autaa	414,500 366,300	366,300
Sam Mao	413,500 -84,500	-84,500
Marco Caza	399,000 219,000	219,000
Xixiang Luo	394,500 332,800	332,800
Christian Jeppsson	393,000 381,400	381,400
Diego Zeiter	387,500 4,000	4,000
Abbas Moradi	384,000 322,800	322,800
Thomas De Rooij	383,500 303,500	303,500
Taichi Yoneya	379,500 -50,500	-50,500
Robert Lipkin	379,000
Mikhail Shalamov	377,500

Aku Joentausta	370,500 90,500	90,500

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08-24-2016 19:55 UTC+1

Day 2 Finished

Christian Zetzsche

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

All tables have eventually completed their hands and the chips are bagged up. A recap of today's action will be available shortly.

08-24-2016 19:50 UTC+1

End-Of-Day Notables and Big Stacks

Christian Zetzsche

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

Player	Chips	Progress
Nicolas Chouity	559,000 9,000	9,000

Adem Marjanovic	542,500 142,500	142,500
Uri Reichenstein	518,000 128,000	128,000
Mikhail Molchanov	473,000 113,000	113,000
Georgios Zisimopoulos	462,000 102,000	102,000
Martin Kabrhel	458,500 193,500	193,500
Sebastian Malec	452,000 192,000	192,000

Anooj Saareen	440,500 324,400	324,400
Alin Grasu	437,000 37,000	37,000
Ramon Miguel Munoz	431,500 6,500	6,500
Gleb Tremzin	428,000 334,000	334,000
Yordan Mihaylov Petrov	414,500 -10,500	-10,500
Diego Zeiter	383,500 3,500	3,500
Robert Lipkin	379,000 -21,000	-21,000
Mikhail Shalamov	377,500 320,500	320,500

Andreas Hoivold	366,500 58,100	58,100

Jerome Sgorrano	326,500 176,500	176,500
Kestutis Gecevicius	319,000 84,000	84,000
Bryn Kenney	303,500 108,500	108,500
Miroslav Forman	295,000 -30,000	-30,000
Jake Cody	284,500 76,500	76,500

Jason Mercier	266,500 106,500	106,500

Byron Kaverman	216,500 26,500	26,500
Philipp Gruissem	180,000 111,200	111,200
Kitty Kuo	180,000 30,000	30,000

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08-24-2016 19:43 UTC+1

Ivan Luca Among Late Casualties

Christian Zetzsche

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

Ivan Luca had an above-average stack for most of the day, but ultimately fell just before the end of Day 2. According to Jerome Sgorrano, he first tried to bluff the Belgian and then called a raise to 7,000 by Vojtech Ruzicka. Kestutis Gecevicius three-bet to 23,000 and Ruzicka folded.

Luca shoved for 55,000 and Gecevicius reluctantly called it off with . The Argentinian showed pocket aces and Gecevicius flopped top pair, turned two pair and rivered a full house.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ivan Luca	Busted

Tags: Ivan Luca Jerome Sgorrano Kestutis Gecevicius Vojtech Ruzicka

08-24-2016 19:43 UTC+1

Queens Fall to Kings

Christian Zetzsche

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

Among those to join the line at the payout desk were Frederic Schwarzer, Pablo Gordillo, Daniel Jones - who ran tens into aces, and Fatima Moreira de Melo. The PokerStars Sports Star had queens, but could not get there to beat the kings of her opponent.

Player	Chips	Progress
Pablo Gordillo	Busted
Frederic Schwarzer	Busted
Arsh Grover	Busted
Daniel Jones	Busted
Fatima Moreira de Melo	Busted

Tags: Daniel Jones Fatima Moreira De Melo Frederic Schwarzer Pablo Gordillo

08-24-2016 19:40 UTC+1

Martin Toth Busts to Ryan Terence L

Christian Zetzsche

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

Martin Toth joined the rail after putting his hopes on on a flop of . Ryan Terence L was ahead with the anyways, and locked up the pot with the turn with the nut flush. Toth was among some 60 players eliminated in the final 30 minutes of the day, as the screens only show 300 hopefuls remaining.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ryan Terence L	255,000 131,700	131,700
Martin Toth	Busted

Tags: Martin Toth Ryan Terence L

08-24-2016 19:29 UTC+1

Five Big Stacks Head to Last Five Hands

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

Just five more hands will be played before players bag and tag their chips and look forward to a Day 3 of the EPT Barcelona Main Event.

Nicolas Chouity is edging the field right now as the final hands are about to be played, with Sam Mao sure to be in and around the chip lead when that happens, having crushed his way up to just under half a million. He's a little clear of Ramon Miguel, who also cashed in the Estrellas Main Event this week in his home country. Pasha Khanghah has enjoyed a stellar day at the felt, while Diego Zeiter will hope to finish higher than 58th place, his highest EPT Main Event cash at present, which came in April's Monte Carlo leg.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nicolas Chouity	550,000 342,900	342,900

Sam Mao	498,000 13,000	13,000
Ramon Miguel Munoz	425,000 10,000	10,000
Pasha Ahadpour Khanghah	390,000 267,800	267,800
Diego Zeiter	380,000 30,000	30,000