Main Event Day 2 | 2018 PokerStars.es EPT Barcelona

Main Event

Day 2 Completed

08-29-2018 22:33 UTC+1

Wilinofsky Bags the Chip Lead Again; 259 Go Through in Record-Breaking EPT Barcelona Main Event

AaronMcBride

Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

After nearly eight hours of poker, the PokerStars European Tour Barcelona Main Event Day 2 has come to an end after the money bubble burst on what was a record-breaking day.

There was a confirmed total of 1,931 entrants to set a new EPT Main Event record and a generated prize pool of €9,365,350 with a first-place prize worth €1,611,500.

A confirmed 259 players will return at noon on Thursday, August, 30 for Day 3 with former EPT Berlin Main Event winner Ben Wilinofsky leading the way with a chip stack worth 850,000. Wilinofsky has been a dominant force since Day 1a where he bagged the overall chip lead then too.

Close behind him is David Petrzelka (771,000), Almedin Imsirovic (723,000), Michal Lubas (712,000) and Tony Broekhof (703,500).

Well-known faces Dominik Panka (603,000), Mark Radoja (511,000), Ben Heath (476,000), Shaun Deeb (363,000), Taylor Black (313,000), Niall Farrell (220,000), Alexandre Reard (216,500), Seth Davies (198,000), Team PokerStars Pro Jaime Staples (196,000), and last year's PokerStars Championship Barcelona winner Sebastian Sorensson (84,000) also found a bag at the end of the night.

Patrik Antonius (310,000) and Viktor "Isildur1" Blom (50,000) will also return for Day 3. The pair has fought storied rivalries online, including an illustrious clash in the biggest online cash game pot of all time worth over 1.3 million dollar. As faith would have it, the former adversaries were seated next to each other on Day 2. Both of them made it through to Day 3, although Blom is still very short. Interestingly enough, the pair has once again drawn the same table and will maybe rekindle some of their old magic on Thursday.

Viktor_Blom_Patrik_Antonius — Like old times: Viktor Blom and Patrik Antonius battling it out.

Action of the day
The action got underway at around 12:30 pm local time after a Crazy Pineapple Flip Out hand took place that saw Eric Lenoir get his hands on a coveted $30,000 Platinum Pass, that includes entry to the $25K PokerStars Players NL Hold'em Championship, held in the Bahamas in January 2019.

The Main Event then got cards in the air, and it wasn't before long that Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu got all his chips into the middle and put his tournament life on the line. Negreanu was on the button with ace-ten and called by Kunal Manohar Punjwani with king-nine of clubs. The flop kept Negreanu in the lead but gave Manohar Punjwani a flush draw. The ace on the turn was great for Negreanu, but the river deuce of clubs saw his hopes of a deep run come to an end, and the Canadian departed from the field.

Team PokerStars Pros Jeff Gross, Leo Fernandez, Randy Lew, Fatima Moreira de Melo, Andre Akkari, Maria Konnikova, and Muskan Sethi all did well to make Day 2 but were unable to turn their efforts into a cash.

Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Anthony Zinno, Vojtech Ruzicka, Kitty Kuo, Ivan Luca, Tony Miles,Bryn Kenney, Adrian Mateos, Jack Salter, Tom Middleton and Tom Hall also all came and went throughout the day.

Wilinofsky, who started the day second in the overall chip counts with 330,000, was able to maintain his momentum throughout the day and in one hand even correctly read his opponent's hand before it was revealed to the table. Wilinofsky bet 70,000 on a jack-four-seven-deuce-four board, and Jean Sierra Oddone called and was eliminated when Wilinofsky tabled king-jack. Sierra Oddone mucked, but the dealer was asked to reveal the hand and Wilinofsky corrected read it as jack-ten.

When the bubble loomed, and hand-for-hand play began, and there were three players all at risk, but all survived. Volodymyr Drokin, Ilya Etko, and David Domjan, who was all in for a single small blind, managed to win their respective hands and keep their Main Event dream alive.

Zorlucan Er was then eliminated by Ming Xi after the former ran his pocket queens into pocket aces and got no help from the board, which meant it was pure bubble time.

The unlucky player was to be Guillaume Diaz who found himself all in from the big blind for just 4,000. He would face Adrian State, who had got Niall Farrell to fold on the ace-nine-eight flop. As the crowd and camera crew gathered Diaz flipped over queen-four and needed a lot of help against State's top pair with ace-king. The turn ten card gave Diaz outs, and some of the rail called for a jack on the river, but it was not to be after the eight of clubs fell to confirm Diaz as the bubble boy.

The field then quickly dropped to the remaining 259 who all bagged and tagged for Day 3.

PokerNews will be back on Day 3 to continue coverage of the all the action from the PokerStars EPT Barcelona Main Event.

Guillaume_Diaz — EPT Monte Carlo National winner Guillaume Diaz bubbled the EPT Barcelona Main Event.

Tags: Alexandre Reard Ben Heath Ben Wilinofsky Daniel Negreanu Dominik Panka Mark Radoja Niall Farrell Seth Davies Shaun Deeb Taylor Black

08-29-2018 22:23 UTC+1

Day 3 Seating and Chip Counts

Yori Epskamp

Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	1	Tomasz Pająk	Poland	86,000	17
1	2	Viktor Blom	Sweden	50,000	10
1	3	Victor Chong	Malaysia	321,000	64
1	4	Patrik Antonius	Finland	310,000	62
1	5	Jack Wu	Taiwan	219,000	44
1	6	[Removed:30]	France	59,000	12
1	7	Ahmad Shams	UK	129,500	26
1	8	Kunal Manohar Punjwani	India	232,000	46

2	1	Artur Martirosian	Russia	191,000	38
2	2	Dominik Panka	Poland	603,000	121
2	3	Jean Desmottes	France	130,500	26
2	4	Anatoly Filatov	Russia	228,000	46
2	5	Jaromir Hanel	Czech Republic	155,500	31
2	6	Teun Mulder	Netherlands	207,000	41
2	7	Chris Moorman	UK	67,000	13

3	1	Sebastian Sorensson	Sweden	84,000	17
3	2	Scott Sanders	USA	122,000	24
3	3	Julien Sitbon	France	267,000	53
3	4	Jeosafat Cruz Escobedo	Mexico	82,500	17
3	5	Aleksei Savenkov	Russia	176,500	35
3	6	Manfred Sierke	Malta	26,000	5
3	7	Mustapha Kanit	Italy	266,000	53
3	8	Wladimir Stepanian	Armenia	183,500	37

4	1	Ange Cucchi	France	46,000	9
4	2	Johan Storaakers	Sweden	251,000	50
4	3	Eric Rabut	France	43,000	9
4	4	Emrah Cakmak	France	281,500	56
4	5	Jeffrey Hakim	Lebanon	106,500	21
4	6	Felipe Costa	Brazil	58,500	12
4	7	Jason Lavallee	Canada	180,550	36
4	8	Pasi Sormunen	Finland	221,000	44

5	1	Jaime Staples	Canada	196,000	39
5	2	Robert Heidorn	Germany	130,000	26
5	3	Nauvneel Shivm Kashyap	Australia	154,000	31
5	4	Ben Heath	UK	476,000	95
5	5	Joao Da Silva Santos	Brazil	157,500	32
5	6	Arnaud Enselme	France	81,000	16
5	7	David Petrzelka	Czech Republic	771,000	154
5	8	Michal Mrakes	Czech Republic	250,000	50

6	1	Justin Nicola Ligeri	USA	329,500	66
6	2	Jack Sinclair	UK	189,500	38
6	3	Luke Edwards	Australia	126,500	25
6	4	Fernando Pons	Spain	678,500	136
6	5	Andres Korn	Argentina	433,000	87
6	6	Rodrigo Marques Carmo	Portugal	365,000	73
6	7	Upeshka Desilva	USA	122,000	24
6	8	Johan Rimestad	Denmark	513,500	103

7	1	Winfred Yu	Hong Kong	215,000	43
7	2	Hady El Asmar	Lebanon	194,000	39
7	3	Zorlu Er	Turkey	156,500	31
7	4	Angelos Pettas	Greece	95,000	19
7	5	Javier Garcirreynaldos Barral	Spain	128,000	26
7	6	Steven Van Zadelhoff	Netherlands	115,000	23
7	7	Shaun Deeb	USA	363,000	73
7	8	Eric Lenoir	Belgium	123,000	25

8	1	Siarhei Chudapal	Belarus	534,000	107
8	2	Gerald Ringe	UK	107,500	22
8	3	Oliver Weis	Germany	628,500	126
8	4	Guntis Aleskins	Latvia	90,000	18
8	5	Mykola Yarmola	Ukraine	79,000	16
8	6	Waldemar Peter	Germany	50,000	10
8	7	Fabien Motte	France	209,000	42
8	8	Patryk Poterek	Poland	350,000	70

9	1	Laszlo Molnar	Hungary	34,000	7
9	2	Elias Talvitie	Finland	193,000	39
9	3	Patrick Stacey	Canada	121,000	24
9	4	Ognyan Dimov	Bulgaria	202,000	40
9	5	Ali Imsirovic	USA	723,000	145
9	6	Vitalijs Zavorotnijs	Latvia	191,500	38
9	7	Milad Oghabian	Netherlands	136,500	27
9	8	Piotr Nurzynski	Poland	531,000	106

10	1	Paul Kristoffersson	Sweden	136,000	27
10	2	Chin Wei Lim	Malaysia	55,500	11
10	3	Luis Rodriguez Cruz	Spain	270,500	54
10	4	Enrico De Rosa	Italy	496,000	99
10	5	Jonathan Therme	France	192,500	39
10	6	Atanas Kavrakov	Bulgaria	99,000	20
10	7	Dimitrios Michailidis	Greece	484,000	97
10	8	Ho Tien Cheung	Netherlands	138,000	28

11	1	Sebastian Miranda	Argentina	71,000	14
11	2	Rabah Ait-Abdelmalek	France	300,000	60
11	3	[Removed:431]	Germany	370,000	74
11	4	Christopher Brammer	UK	119,500	24
11	5	Yi Ang Lin	Argentina	261,000	52
11	6	Andre Busato De Oliveira	Brazil	313,500	63
11	7	Pablo Banfi	Argentina	24,500	5
11	8	Joao Baumgarten	Brazil	198,000	40

12	1	Renato Kaneoya	Brazil	75,000	15
12	2	Giancarlo Monti	Switzerland	68,000	14
12	3	Imad Derwiche	France	130,000	26
12	4	Patrick Clarke	Ireland	560,000	112
12	5	Ben Wilinofsky	Canada	850,000	170
12	6	Mohammed Ifzail	UK	236,500	47
12	7	Javier Fernandez Alonso	Spain	485,000	97
12	8	Ka Kwan Lau	UK	137,000	27

13	1	Dario Sammartino	Italy	118,000	24
13	2	Miguel Silva	Belgium	294,500	59
13	3	Stefan Dimitrov	Bulgaria	274,500	55
13	4	Daniel Erlandsson	Sweden	311,000	62
13	5	Michael Tureniec	Sweden	242,000	48
13	6	Anthony Chimkovitch	Belgium	201,000	40
13	7	Anthony Mowad	USA	108,500	22

14	1	Enrico Camosci	Italy	121,000	24
14	2	Michael Chi Zhang	UK	517,500	104
14	3	Gergely Bartos	Hungary	419,500	84
14	4	Alfred Karlsson	Sweden	79,500	16
14	5	Nan Hong	China	199,000	40
14	6	Fernand Dos Santos Ferreira	Portugal	75,000	15
14	7	William Blais	Canada	282,500	57
14	8	Julien Pieffet	Angola	279,000	56

15	1	Jani Vilmunen	Finland	75,500	15
15	2	Martin Olali	Ireland	84,000	17
15	3	Tony Broekhof	Netherlands	703,500	141
15	4	Leo Margets	Spain	313,500	63
15	5	Rene Kuehlman	Netherlands	636,000	127
15	6	Hoi Hoo Leung	Netherlands	93,500	19
15	7	Rui Ferreira	Portugal	204,000	41
15	8	Romain Lefebvre De Rieux	France	67,000	13

16	1	Seth Davies	Canada	197,500	40
16	2	Carlos Hey De Lima	Brazil	69,000	14
16	3	Michael Kane	UK	209,000	42
16	4	Bulent Demirtas	Germany	53,000	11
16	5	Fabiano Kovalski	Brazil	350,000	70
16	6	Joel Isla Gonzalo	Spain	605,000	121
16	7	Anton Johansson	Sweden	187,000	37
16	8	Donald Duarte Sierra	Nicaragua	122,500	25

17	1	David Pedro Leja	Mexico	370,500	74
17	2	Guoliang Wei	China	94,500	19
17	3	Philipp Kober	Austria	119,000	24
17	4	John Juanda	Indonesia	154,500	31
17	5	Roope Tarmi	Finland	137,000	27
17	7	Kalidou Sow	France	32,000	6
17	8	Niall Farrell	UK	220,000	44

18	1	Samuel Gillis	UK	104,500	21
18	2	Martin Stoyanov	Bulgaria	118,000	24
18	3	Tigran Harutyunyan	Armenia	150,000	30
18	4	Feras Abid	Finland	281,000	56
18	5	Karam Alfonse	Lebanon	150,000	30
18	6	Stefan Jedlicka	Austria	339,500	68
18	7	Nikolaos Lampropoulos	Greece	99,500	20
18	8	Taylor Black	USA	343,000	69

19	1	Erik Peters	Netherlands	113,000	23
19	2	Andrey Sharonov	Russia	126,500	25
19	3	Jans Arends	Netherlands	237,500	48
19	4	Achille Voltolina	Italy	229,000	46
19	5	Antonin Teisseire	France	51,000	10
19	6	Emile Schiff	Jamaica	233,500	47
19	7	Salem Cherrati	France	252,000	50
19	8	Alain Goldberg	France	89,500	18

20	1	Joao Valli	Brazil	42,500	9
20	2	Alexander Ivanov	Russia	80,000	16
20	3	Aaron Rivero Daly	Spain	546,000	109
20	4	Arthur Conan	France	33,500	7
20	6	Jeremy Saderne	France	70,500	14
20	7	Benjamin Pollak	France	273,500	55
20	8	Volodymyr Drokin	Ukraine	171,500	34

21	1	Mikalai Vaskaboinikau	Belarus	187,000	37
21	2	Haoxiang Wang	China	426,000	85
21	3	Christian Hoffmann	Germany	135,500	27
21	4	Jiri Horak	Czech Republic	277,500	56
21	5	Nariman Yaghmai	Iran	538,000	108
21	6	Paul Pires Trigo	France	109,000	22
21	7	Johannes Klasson	Sweden	150,000	30
21	8	Pavel Plesuv	Moldova	416,500	83

22	1	Mark Radoja	Canada	511,000	102
22	2	Adrian Constantin	Romania	403,500	81
22	3	Mathias Siljander	Finland	59,000	12
22	4	Matthias Tikerpe	Estonia	294,000	59
22	5	Sergey Aristov	Russia	153,000	31
22	6	Jens Kyllonen	Finland	164,000	33
22	7	Antonios Koukouras	Greece	167,000	33
22	8	Jamie O'Connor	UK	266,000	53

23	1	Victor Ionut Dota	Romania	190,500	38
23	2	Yiannis Liperis	UK	336,000	67
23	3	Erik Von Buxhoeveden	Austria	306,000	61
23	4	Klas Lofberg	Sweden	630,500	126
23	5	Antoine Labat	France	174,500	35
23	6	Pedro Marques	Portugal	205,000	41
23	7	Timur Kurbanov	Russia	228,000	46
23	8	Raul Martinez	Spain	423,500	85

24	1	Georges Hanna	Lebanon	468,500	94
24	2	Marco Regonaschi	Italy	75,000	15
24	3	Alexandre Reard	France	216,500	43
24	4	Ariel Silveiro Celestino	Brazil	352,000	70
24	5	Henok Tekle Mariam	Netherlands	112,500	23
24	6	Rafael Lopes Monteiro	Brazil	243,000	49
24	7	Johan Creutz	Sweden	352,500	71
24	8	Benny Spindler	Germany	66,500	13

25	1	Jussi Nevanlinna	Finland	133,500	27
25	2	Manuel Bardon Oshea	Spain	342,000	68
25	3	Hongbin Guo	Australia	265,000	53
25	4	Denys Shafikov	Ukraine	97,500	20
25	5	Adrian State	Romania	282,000	56
25	6	Shakhabiddin Muradov	Latvia	450,000	90
25	7	Serhii Holodiuk	Ukraine	46,000	9
25	8	Niek Minten	Netherlands	215,000	43

26	1	Erwann Pecheux	France	28,500	6
26	2	Marton Czuczor	Hungary	57,000	11
26	3	Ming Xi	China	436,000	87
26	4	Luis Faria	Portugal	396,000	79
26	5	Mykhailo Gutyi	Ukraine	79,000	16
26	6	Jonathan Proudfoot	UK	122,000	24
26	7	Luke Haward	UK	354,500	71
26	8	Oliver Bithell	UK	200,000	40

27	1	Michal Lubas	Poland	712,000	142
27	2	Salvatore Camarda	Italy	205,000	41
27	3	Olvedo Heinze	Netherlands	110,000	22
27	4	Daniel Wilson	Ireland	72,000	14
27	5	Dmytro Shuvanov	Ukraine	147,500	30
27	6	Majid Ejlal Noubarian	Iran	78,000	16
27	7	Joel Lehtinen	Finland	239,000	48
27	8	Aleksei Gortikov	Russia	82,000	16

28	1	Usman Siddique	UK	262,500	53
28	2	Simon Mattsson	Sweden	444,500	89
28	3	Luca Frigerio	Italy	216,000	43
28	4	Daniel Nietrzebka	Poland	98,500	20
28	5	Haoran Haoranyi	China	164,000	33
28	6	Leonardo Parmiggiani	Italy	182,500	37
28	7	Werner Lootsma	Netherlands	249,000	50
28	8	Frank Naranjo Bedoya	Colombia	70,000	14

29	1	Mark Buckley	Ireland	410,000	82
29	2	Sebastian Gohr	Germany	130,000	26
29	3	Benjamin Raven	UK	45,500	9
29	4	Heinz Schlueter	Germany	113,000	23
29	5	Danut Chisu	Romania	154,000	31
29	6	Osvaldo Lewis	Argentina	160,000	32
29	7	Matas Cimbolas	Lithuania	242,500	49
29	8	Thiago Signorelli Viana	Italy	198,500	40

30	1	Aki Pyysing	Finland	57,500	12
30	2	Danny Tang	UK	290,500	58
30	3	Mikolaj Zawadzki	Poland	344,000	69
30	4	Carlos Branco	Portugal	187,000	37
30	6	Sasidhar Bobba	USA	121,000	24
30	7	Chen An Lin	Taiwan	108,000	22
30	8	Robin Hegele	Germany	218,000	44

31	1	Martin Alfonsin	Argentina	166,000	33
31	2	Yen Han Chen	Taiwan	42,000	8
31	3	Vojtech Skalak	Czech Republic	244,000	49
31	4	Janos Kurtosi	Hungary	344,000	69
31	5	Laurynas Levinskas	Lithuania	242,500	49
31	6	Harpreet Gill	Canada	60,000	12
31	7	Maxi Lehmanski	Germany	169,000	34
31	8	Pedro Cairat	Argentina	138,000	28

32	1	David Domjan	Germany	17,500	4
32	2	Tom Alner	UK	168,000	34
32	3	Timur Margolin	Israel	299,000	60
32	4	Jean-louis Perez	France	31,500	6
32	5	Sulaiman Sesay	France	116,500	23
32	6	Renjun Yang	China	565,000	113
32	7	Sergio Da Silva	Portugal	147,000	29
32	8	Lauren Roberts	USA	173,000	35

33	1	Adrovan Rodrigues Junior	Brazil	113,000	23
33	2	Ali Tariq	UK	417,000	83
33	3	Evgenii Sboev	Russia	291,500	58
33	4	Leonardo Giotti	Italy	177,000	35
33	5	Franck Makaci	France	191,000	38
33	6	Marius Conan	France	84,000	17
33	7	Jes Bondo	Denmark	287,000	57
33	8	Rifat Palevic	Sweden	641,000	128

08-29-2018 21:17 UTC+1

End of Day Chipcounts (full)

Gaelle Jaudon

Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Ben Wilinofsky	850,000 20,000	20,000

David Petrzelka	771,000 662,900	662,900
Almedin Imsirovic	723,000 63,000	63,000
Michal Lubas	712,000 610,000	610,000
Tony Broekhof	703,500 575,700	575,700
Fernando Pons	678,500 -71,500	-71,500
Rifat Palevic	641,000 599,000	599,000
Rene Kuhlman	636,000 636,000	636,000
Klas Lofberg	630,500 583,500	583,500
Oliver Weis	628,500 572,700	572,700

Joel Isla	605,000 573,000	573,000
Dominik Panka	603,000 263,000	263,000

Renjun Yang	565,000 65,000	65,000
Patrick Clarke	560,000
Aaron Rivero Daly	546,000 438,600	438,600
Nariman Yaghmai	538,000 28,000	28,000
Siarhei Chudapal	534,000 341,900	341,900
Piotr Nurzynski	531,000 403,300	403,300

Michael Chi Zhang	517,500 437,900	437,900
Johan Rimestad	513,500 383,800	383,800
Mark Radoja	511,000 131,000	131,000
Enrico De Rosa	496,000 46,000	46,000
Javier Fernandez Alonso	485,000 75,000	75,000
Dimitrios Michailidis	484,000 457,200	457,200
Ben Heath	476,000 356,000	356,000

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08-29-2018 21:12 UTC+1

Play Finishes For The Day

AaronMcBride

Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

The play has finished for the day in the EPT Barcelona Main Event with 259 players progressing to tomorrow's Day 3. A recap of the day's action will be posted later on this evening followed by the full end-of-day chip counts.

08-29-2018 21:10 UTC+1

Eliminations

AaronMcBride

Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Dmitrii Grinenko	Busted
Diego Dos Santos	Busted
Georgios Kitsios	Busted
Christophe Palmeri	Busted
Nicolas Naftule	Busted
Jean Thomas	Busted
Benny Glaser	Busted
Dean Clay	Busted
Felipe Salgado	Busted
Marcin Chmielewski	Busted
Bernhard Haider	Busted
Ilya Etko	Busted
Lawrence Bayley	Busted
Richard Kirsch	Busted
Florian Bethouart	Busted
Iacopo Brandi	Busted

08-29-2018 21:00 UTC+1

Day 2 Photos

Yori Epskamp

Photos by Neil Stoddart / PokerStars.

08-29-2018 20:54 UTC+1

Post-Bubble Eliminations

AaronMcBride

Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

The following players have all exited the tournament and will take home €8,150.

Player	Chips	Progress
Anton Dmitriev	Busted
Leroy De Bruijn	Busted
Paul Fontan Castrillon	Busted
Heidi May	Busted
Artan Dedusha	Busted
Florian Bordet	Busted
[Removed:44]	Busted
Beka Iordanishvili	Busted
Mikhail Kovalyuk	Busted
Miguel Use	Busted
Pauli Ayras	Busted
Roberto Rodriguez Carrera	Busted
Mohamed Touahri	Busted
Jorge De Oliveira Lopez	Busted
Aaron Lim	Busted