- Day 2 of the Main Event of the European Poker Tour Barcelona brought together the returning players from both original starting days to merge into a single field of 697.
- A total of 1,234 players combined to register the second largest non-PCA event in tour history.
- The prize pool is roughly €6,000,000.
Day 2 of the Main Event of the European Poker Tour Barcelona brought together the returning players from both original starting days to merge into a single field of 697.
With registration open until the beginning of play today, 12pm local time, EPT officials hoped that this Main Event could break an EPT record for most runners in a non-PCA event.
At the end of play on Day 1B, the second of two Day 1’s, the field pushed upwards of 1226 players meaning that only another 15 shot takers would need to put up the $5000+$300 Main Event buyin to best the current record of 1240 held by Season 6’s stop of EPT Sanremo.
While the start of Season 10 in Barcelona came close, they would have to be runner-up to the record as the PokerStars Blog reported that the final numbers for EPT Barcelona maxed out at 1,234 players. That being the case, the prize pool swelled to roughly €6,000,000 and there were plenty of big names set to return to try and claim their share including quite a few Team PokerStars Pros, .
By midday on Day 2 we saw the elimination of former WSOP Champ Jonathan Duhamel as well as Dan Smith, Mickey Petersen, Eugene Katchalov, James Dempsey, Gaelle Baumann, Max Lykov, Marcel Luske, Vanessa Selbst, Bryn Kenney and High Roller Final Table finisher Fabian Quoss.
There were still plenty of big names to keep an eye on as Leo Margets, Erik Seidel, Kevin MacPhee, Vitaly Lunkin, Ivan Demidov, Theo Jorgensen, Jake Cody, Martin Staszko, Liv Boeree, Mike Watson, Dani Stern, Russell Thomas, Jonathan Little, Shannon Shore and Victor Ramdin were all still in action.
The winner of EPT Barcelona will take home €1,067,000 in first place prize money and a 183 runners will find themselves in the money with a min-cash being worth €8,680. For more EPT action, check out the live updates from the PokerStars Blog or watch the live-stream on EPT Live.
