Ahadpur Khangah Leads After PokerStars EPT Barcelona €100,000 Super High Roller Day 1
The 2018 PokerStars European Poker Tour Barcelona €100,000 Super High Roller field raced its way through eight 60-minute levels, and at the end of it, just 28 players out of 44 entries will advance to Day 2.
It looked like more would advance, but the late eliminations of Ali Reza Fatehi, Nick Petrangelo - one of two players to bust twice today - and Spaniard Adrian Mateos meant that just 28 will be coming back tomorrow.
Dario Sammartino, Wai Leong Chan and Luc Greenwood were the only other three players to bust on Day 2 and not re-enter, as the likes of Nick Petrangelo, Timothy Adams, Linus Loeliger, David Peters, Christoph Vogelsang and Seth Davies all jumped straight back in.
The number at the start of Day 2 will undoubtedly grow, as certain players take advantage of late registration being open until the start of Day 2, but several players have already assured themselves good stacks at the end of Day 1.
The chip leader heading into Day 2 is Ahadpur Khangah who, although coughing and spluttering off the tables, was the exact opposite when it came to the poker, bagging well in excess of one million chips with 1,155,000.
He was boosted by the elimination of Dario Sammartino who flopped two pair in a hand against Khangah. Unfortunately for him, Khangah rivered a better two pair and shoved into the Italian, who called and was eliminated.
Other big stacks include Pascal LeFrancois (647,000), David Peters (638,000), Seth Davies (622,000), Timothy Adams (587,000), Jan-Eric Schwippert (545,000) and Patrik Antonius (517,000). These are the only players who bagged at least two starting stacks.
Khangah will start Day 2 at 12:30 local time at Casino Barcelona with the chip lead, but with several other big names expected to join the field he might be hard-pushed to hold onto that!
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