Level: 25
Blinds: 20,000/40,000
Ante: 4,000
2009 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona
€8,300 EPT Barcelona Main Event
Day: 5
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2009 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona
Buy-in
€8,000
Prize Pool
€3,832,000
Entries
479
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
15,000
A former double glazing window salesman, Goodwin turned pro after finishing third in the Monte Carlo Millions in 2005 for $325,000. He has had numerous successes since then and in 2008 won the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Manchester tournament for £90,420.
He has played numerous EPTs and has cashed three times -– in Baden, Dublin and London. However, making the final table in Barcelona is his best EPT result to date. Marc is in the top 25 of the all-time money list for English poker players.
Supported throughout by his girlfriend Tamara, Lapossie has been a menace at the tables, impressing all with some massively accomplished and fiercely aggressive play.
This is his second EPT event and he spent much of day four on the featured table, where he'll return for the final third in chips.
He also narrowly missed a Latin American Poker Tour event final table, busting in 10th place in Vina Del Mar last January.
Those results, and his performance this week, demonstrate a development from online player, username “Bdybldngpkr,” to live tournaments. In the 10 months spent playing full time, Phillips has competed among the best in the game. “Online you play against the same people and get a feel for how they play,” he said. “Ninety percent of them might play full time. In EPTs there’s a mix of pros and recreational players. But I approach it the same way.”
Smith usually plays mid-to-high-stakes cash games online and says that he plays full time “as long as you can count playing 15-20 hours a week as a job”. His biggest EPT cash to date was €25,000 in the €10,000 EPT Grand Final at Monte Carlo last season.
The Athens, Greece native began playing poker in 2006 and at the end of that year, qualified online for a tournament in Austria. It was the beginning of his live poker career and his game improved rapidly.
Known as “gkap13” online, Kapalas has earned more than $200,000 from poker, including seventh place in a WSOP $1,500 event this summer for $97,000. He also recently won $35,000 online -- his biggest online cash. He has made two final tables in EPT side events -- the €2,000 events in Barcelona and Prague –- but this is his best EPT performance to date.
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Carter Phillips of the USA leads the way with around 4.4 million, ahead of Marc Goodwin and Matt Lapossie.
Play is scheduled to start shortly.