€5,300 EPT Main Event Day 2 | 2022 PokerStars EPT Barcelona

08-17-2022 23:30 UTC+1

Wong Doubles Through Debregeas

Sandra Barbour

Level 16 : Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Martin Wong raised to 11,000 under the gun and action folded to Loic Debregeas in the small blind who three-bet to 30,000. Wong responded by shoving for 81,000 and Debregeas snap-called.

Martin Wong:
Loic Debregeas:

The board came and Wong doubled up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Martin Wong	170,000 88,000	88,000
Loic Debregeas	92,000 48,500	48,500

Tags: Loic Debregeas Martin Wong

08-17-2022 23:46 UTC+1

Updated Chip Counts

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Sandra Barbour

Level 16 : Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Kayhan Mokri	1,340,000 -60,000	-60,000

Alexandre Landron	820,000 -30,000	-30,000
Antonio Buonanno	720,000 628,500	628,500

Paul Fischill	690,000 577,000	577,000
Gaelle Baumann	640,000 409,000	409,000
Sergi Navarro	270,000 270,000	270,000

08-17-2022 23:48 UTC+1

Lengthy Pot Results in Chop; Diebold Offers Sage Advice

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Brandon Bloom

Level 16 : Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Maher Nouira opened to 10,000 in the hijack and Tigran Harutyunyan jammed for 82,000 in the small blind. Pawel Brzeski was in the big blind and took several minutes to make a decision for his stack of approximately 20,000 with pay jumps near. Eventually, the floor warned him against stalling, and he put in his remaining chips. Nouira then took some time to make a decision.

"Why the f--- do you wait until now to think?" Ben Diebold asked Nouira. "I'm gonna call the clock on your ass if you don't hurry... you had eight minutes to think about it."

Nouira said he was "texting friends", and soon after, showed as he folded.

Pawel Brzeski:
Tigran Harutyunyan:

The board ran out , and the two players ended up chopping the anticlimactic pot.

"I'll give you a tip," Diebold offered Nouira some sage advice. "When he takes seven minutes with four big blinds, he's gonna go all in."

Player	Chips	Progress
Benjamin Diebold	350,000 -90,000	-90,000
Maher Nouira	340,000 105,000	105,000
Tigran Harutyunyan	90,000
Pawel Brzeski	30,000

Tags: Ben Diebold Maher Nouira Pawel Brzeski Tigran Harutyunyan

08-17-2022 23:49 UTC+1

Four More Hands

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Sandra Barbour

Level 16 : Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Four more hands will be played at each table before the remaining players bag and tag for the night.

08-17-2022 23:51 UTC+1

Liu Good at Showdown

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Connor Richards

Level 16 : Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Xuan Liu opened to 10,000 from the cutoff and saw a flop against two opponents, including Stephen Kehoe on the button.

The flop came and Liu continued for 10,000. Kehoe called. The turn brought the and Liu checked before Kehoe checked back. Liu checked again on the river and her opponent also checked.

Liu showed for a pair of fives, which was enough to win the pot as the Day 1b chip leader mucked.

Player	Chips	Progress
Xuan Liu	300,000 135,000	135,000
Stephen Kehoe	135,000 -190,000	-190,000

Tags: Xuan Liu Stephen Kehoe

08-17-2022 23:54 UTC+1

Adams Adds Before End of Night

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Mike Patrick

Level 16 : Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Timothy Adams raised to 10,000 under the gun and was called by Paulina Loeliger in the small blind and Michael Wang in the big blind.

On the flop, action was checked to Adams who bet another 10,000.

Loeliger folded, but Wang called.

On the turn, Wang checked again and Adams now sized up to 48,000. Wang was undeterred and made the call.

Wang quickly checked the river and after a brief deliberation, Adams slid out 122,000.

Wang gave his decision some thought before folding, sending a pot that brings Adams close to half a million as the evening draws to a close.

Player	Chips	Progress
Timothy Adams	495,000 117,000	117,000
Paulina Loeliger	370,000 296,000	296,000
Michael Wang	320,000 50,000	50,000

Tags: Michael Wang Paulina Loeliger Timothy Adams

08-18-2022 00:10 UTC+1

Play Has Halted for the Day

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Sandra Barbour

Level 16 : Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

The remaining players have bagged and tagged for the night. End-of-day chip counts and a recap will follow shortly.

08-18-2022 01:24 UTC+1

End-of-Day 2 Chip Counts (full)

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Brandon Bloom

Level 16 : Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Kayhan Mokri	1,303,000 -37,000	-37,000

Marcelo Simoes	1,068,000 -12,000	-12,000

Scott Margereson	993,000 -137,000	-137,000
Radoslav Stoyanov	926,000 651,000	651,000
Joris Ruijs	879,000 129,000	129,000
Sebastian Toro	824,000 89,000	89,000
Artur Martirosian	814,000 244,000	244,000

Usman Ulhaq	800,000 640,000	640,000
Alexandre Landron	775,000 -45,000	-45,000
Catalin Ciurea	770,000 668,000	668,000
Jimmy Guerrero	740,000 35,000	35,000
Andre Marques	733,000 -242,000	-242,000
Pedro Cavalieri	732,000 732,000	732,000
Gonzalo Pro	728,000 650,000	650,000
Guiseppe Moio	723,000 659,000	659,000
Christian Grundtvig	677,000 317,000	317,000
Paul Fischill	655,000 -35,000	-35,000
Michael Pinto	644,000 472,000	472,000

Pedro Chaves	643,000 523,000	523,000
Lucas Silva Rocha	626,000 480,500	480,500
Antonio Buonanno	622,000 -98,000	-98,000

Bruno Pega	621,000 378,000	378,000
Torben Sorensen	611,000 -79,000	-79,000
Gabriel Nedelcu	591,000 341,000	341,000
Per Gustafsson	589,000 526,500	526,500

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08-18-2022 02:00 UTC+1

Day 3 Seat Draw

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Brandon Bloom

Level 16 : Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

TABLE	SEAT	PLAYER	COUNTRY	CHIPS	BIG BLINDS
1	1	Lukasz Golczyk	Poland	116,000	19
1	2	Jamila von Perger	Germany	156,000	26
1	3	Kacper Pyzara	Poland	268,000	45
1	4	Jaspal Brar	Canada	226,000	38
1	5	Marcelo Mesqueu	Brazil	1,068,000	178
1	6	Bruno Pega	Argentina	621,000	104
1	7	Leo Margets	Spain	264,000	44
1	8	Ryan Yu	Canada	551,000	92

2	1	Jack Sinclair	Austria	208,000	35
2	2	John Dwyer	United Kingdom	97,000	16
2	3	Fabiano Kovalski	Brazil	291,000	49
2	4	Ryhor Karapanau	Latvia	99,000	17
2	5	Sonny Franco	France	150,000	25
2	6	Vladimir Andjelic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	362,000	60
2	7	Marius Gicovanu	Romania	127,000	21
2	8	Mateusz Moolhuizen	Netherlands	359,000	60

3	1	Julien Martini	France	217,000	36
3	2	Martin Olali	Ireland	368,000	61
3	3	Per Gustafsson	Sweden	589,000	98
3	4	Marcin Horecki	Poland	77,000	13
3	5	Daniel Kyosev	Bulgaria	151,000	25
3	6	Baard Dahl	United Kingdom	378,000	63
3	7	Sebastian Toro Henao	Colombia	824,000	137
3	8	Cameron Robertson	New Zealand	120,000	20

4	1	Belarmino De Souza	Brazil	548,000	91
4	2	Imed Mahmoud	Tunisia	175,000	29
4	3	David Truong	Netherlands	158,000	26
4	4	Giuseppe Zarbo	Italy	84,000	14
4	5	Andrei Boghean	Romania	399,000	67
4	6	Bruno Volkmann	Brazil	414,000	69
4	7	Oskar Massesson	Denmark	42,000	7
4	8	Muhamet Perati	Italy	275,000	46

5	1	Vincent Mozgawa	France	260,000	43
5	2	Mateus Endo	Brazil	301,000	50
5	3	Nacho Barbero	Argentina	93,000	16
5	4	Daewoong Song	South Korea	116,000	19
5	5	Max Avela	Finland	304,000	51
5	6	Lois Dufouleur	France	402,000	67
5	7	Vahe Martirosyan	Armenia	523,000	87
5	8	Martin Stausholm	Denmark	89,000	15

6	1	Boris Kuzmanovic	Croatia	172,000	29
6	2	Morten Klein	Norway	297,000	50
6	3	Andre Marques	Portugal	733,000	122
6	4	Simon Brandstrom	Sweden	473,000	79
6	5	Reddy Patur	USA	184,000	31
6	6	Tommy Beuker	Netherlands	104,000	17
6	7	Virgile Turchi	France	282,000	47
6	8	Victor Vozian	Romania	123,000	21

7	1	Peter Jaksland	Denmark	175,000	29
7	2	Catalin Ciurea	Romania	770,000	128
7	3	Claudio Di Giacomo	Italy	175,000	29
7	4	Usman Ulhaq	United Kingdom	800,000	133
7	5	Nohad Teliani	Canada	135,000	23
7	6	Sebastian Malec	Poland	156,000	26
7	7	Pawel Brzeski	Poland	158,000	26
7	8	Guilherme Ramalho	Brazil	329,000	55

8	1	Michael Wang	USA	322,000	54
8	2	Tigran Harutyunyan	Armenia	78,000	13
8	3	Igor Pihela	Estonia	453,000	76
8	4	Jose Montes	USA	208,000	35
8	5	Alexandru Cinca	Romania	79,000	13
8	6	Remigiusz Wyrzykiewicz	Poland	576,000	96
8	7	Alberto Stegeman	Netherlands	230,000	38
8	8	Jack Salter	United Kingdom	224,000	37

9	1	Oscar Mas	Spain	117,000	20
9	2	Valentin-Marius Cristea	Romania	182,000	30
9	3	Paul Ephremsen	United Kingdom	143,000	24
9	4	Rui Milhomens	Morocco	556,000	93
9	5	Andrija Cvetkovic	Croatia	159,000	27
9	6	Paul Fischill	Austria	655,000	109
9	7	Alexandru Brumaru	Romania	208,000	35
9	8	Atanas Kavrakov	Bulgaria	182,000	30

10	1	Stephen Kehoe	Ireland	456,000	76
10	2	Dragos Trofimov	Moldova	283,000	47
10	3	Nikola Gunchev	Bulgaria	350,000	58
10	4	Johan Guilbert	France	127,000	21
10	5	Ryo Kotake	Japan	284,000	47
10	6	Cyril Bremond	France	68,000	11
10	7	Cameron Couch	Australia	174,000	29
10	8	Vladas Tamasauskas	Lithuania	235,000	39

11	1	Adi Rajkovic	Austria	271,000	45
11	2	Motokatsu Uhara	Japan	150,000	25
11	3	Ibrahim Ghassan	Lebanon	354,000	59
11	4	Xuan Liu	Canada	302,000	50
11	5	Alessandro Grilli	Italy	125,000	21
11	6	Daniel Birkmose	Denmark	562,000	94
11	7	Xavier Cortazar Vidal	Spain	238,000	40
11	8	Manuel Saavedra	Spain	479,000	80

12	1	Dante Goya Fernandes	Brazil	223,000	37
12	2	Bart Lybaert	Belgium	231,000	39
12	3	Alexandre Vuilleumier	France	302,000	50
12	4	Lucas Silva Rocha	Brazil	626,000	104
12	5	Bartlomiej Machon	Poland	218,000	36
12	6	Felipe Fontoura	Brazil	375,000	63
12	7	Lander Lijo	Spain	243,000	41
12	8	Sergi Panella Navarro	Spain	207,000	35

13	1	Mathieu Goncalves	France	49,000	8
13	2	Said Chegdane	Italy	261,000	44
13	3	Maria Lampropulos	Argentina	517,000	86
13	4	Paulina Loeliger	USA	306,000	51
13	5	Stanislavs Macugins	Latvia	295,000	49
13	6	Marco Guibert	Argentina	300,000	50
13	7	Tien Dung Pham	Vietnam	269,000	45
13	8	Ameer Wakil	Canada	171,000	29

14	1	Marcin Jaworski	Poland	62,000	10
14	2	Kayhan Mokri	Norway	1,303,000	217
14	3	Sander Berndsen	Netherlands	515,000	86
14	4	Cyril Mazet	France	125,000	21
14	5	Michael Pinto	Netherlands	644,000	107
14	6	Timothy Adams	Canada	387,000	65
14	7	Kimmo Kurko	Finland	386,000	64
14	8	Jordan Saccucci	Canada	542,000	90

15	1	Gabriel Moura	Brazil	475,000	79
15	2	Andres Carrillo Luna	Colombia	373,000	62
15	3	Martin Wong	USA	148,000	25
15	4	Vladimir Erceg	Serbia	194,000	32
15	5	Elm Cherto	Spain	530,000	88
15	6	Youness Ait Hssain	France	317,000	53
15	7	Jung Ho Im	South Korea	312,000	52
15	8	Simon Mattsson	Sweden	304,000	51

16	1	Danilo Velasevic	Croatia	91,000	15
16	2	David Peters	USA	36,000	6
16	3	Gaelle Baumann	France	408,000	68
16	4	Carlos Ribeiro	Brazil	439,000	73
16	5	David Dahan	Israel	216,000	36
16	6	Chakib M'hiri	Tunisia	274,000	46
16	7	Nilo Rodriguez	Argentina	350,000	58
16	8	Emmanuel Lopez	Argentina	444,000	74

17	1	Maher Nouira	Tunisia	386,000	64
17	2	Byron Kaverman	USA	132,000	22
17	3	Igor D'Ursel	France	175,000	29
17	4	Casey Kastle	Slovenia	354,000	59
17	5	Mustafa Biz	Turkey	528,000	88
17	6	Vasyl Pidhrusnyi	Ukraine	107,000	18
17	7	Manuel Oshea	Spain	240,000	40
17	8	Ramiro Petrone	Uruguay	561,000	94

18	1	Thomas Rauhut	Germany	267,000	45
18	2	Gabriel Nedelcu	Romania	591,000	99
18	3	Giuliano Bendinelli	Italy	274,000	46
18	4	Juan Gonzalez Venzano	Argentina	99,000	17
18	5	Anthony Cierco	France	45,000	8
18	6	Kent Roed	Norway	110,000	18
18	7	Alexandre Landron	France	775,000	129
18	8	Chino Rheem	USA	365,000	61

19	1	Fredrik Skarfstad	Sweden	293,000	49
19	2	Artur Martirosian	Russia	814,000	136
19	3	Igor Yaroshevskyy	Ukraine	116,000	19
19	4	Florin Pandilica	Romania	206,000	34
19	5	Daniel Camelo Da Silva	Brazil	349,000	58
19	6	Giovanni Petroni	Italy	539,000	90
19	7	Stephen Chidwick	United Kingdom	148,000	25
19	8	Steven Warburton	United Kingdom	575,000	96

20	1	Joris Ruijs	Netherlands	879,000	147
20	2	Noah Boeken	Netherlands	62,000	10
20	3	Pedro Chaves	Brazil	643,000	107
20	4	Manuel Fritz	Austria	222,000	37
20	5	Stefan Schillhabel	Germany	222,000	37
20	6	Mikael Ecanvil	France	186,000	31
20	7	Enrico Mosca	Italy	155,000	26
20	8	Olli Muukkonen	Finland	118,000	20

21	1	Gergely Kulcsar	Hungary	203,000	34
21	2	Scott Margereson	United Kingdom	993,000	166
21	3	Conor Bergin	Ireland	96,000	16
21	4	Gianluca Escobar	Italy	58,000	10
21	5	Seth Davies	USA	480,000	80
21	6	Torben Sorensen	Denmark	611,000	102
21	7	Christian Grundtvig	Denmark	677,000	113
21	8	Anton Kraous	Bulgaria	555,000	93

22	1	Carlos Chang	Taiwan	430,000	72
22	2	Radoslav Stoyanov	Bulgaria	926,000	154
22	3	Antonio Buonanno	Italy	622,000	104
22	4	Patrik Jaros	Czech Republic	497,000	83
22	5	Benjamin Pollak	France	238,000	40
22	6	Guiseppe Moio	Italy	723,000	121
22	7	Pim Kuipers	Netherlands	466,000	78

23	1	Mario Navarro	Spain	29,000	5
23	2	Michel Dattani	Portugal	392,000	65
23	3	Dean Arsenie	Canada	552,000	92
23	4	Slobodan Ruzicic	Serbia	192,000	32
23	6	Jimmy Guerrero	France	740,000	123
23	7	Daniel Merrilees	Spain	585,000	98
23	8	Kavin Shah	Australia	524,000	87

24	1	Jelle Moene	Netherlands	108,000	18
24	2	Ivan Zhechev	Bulgaria	180,000	30
24	4	Dennis Kobbero	Denmark	86,000	14
24	5	Michal Wojtkowiak	Poland	472,000	79
24	6	Hamed Sedini	France	300,000	50
24	7	Kalidou Sow	France	502,000	84
24	8	Pedro Cavalieri	Brazil	732,000	122

25	1	Peterson Machado	Brazil	584,000	97
25	2	Benjamin Diebold	USA	345,000	58
25	3	Samuele Lo Presti	Italy	253,000	42
25	4	Harry Lodge	United Kingdom	162,000	27
25	5	Andres Korn	Argentina	71,000	12
25	6	Jerwin Pasco	Philippines	174,000	29
25	8	Alex Rodriguez	Spain	94,000	16

26	1	Wojciech Szczytkowski	Poland	499,000	83
26	2	Alex Kulev	Bulgaria	238,000	40
26	3	Yannick Cardot	France	185,000	31
26	4	Benjamin Spragg	United Kingdom	144,000	24
26	6	Takao Shimizu	Japan	124,000	21
26	7	Ibrahim Aksu	Turkey	447,000	75
26	8	Daniel Sanchez Sautua	Spain	53,000	9

27	1	Gonzalo Pro	Spain	728,000	121
27	2	Georgi Sandev	Bulgaria	424,000	71
27	3	Le Huong Ly	Vietnam	223,000	37
27	4	Memeche Slimane	France	360,000	60
27	5	Thibault Letort	France	143,000	24
27	7	Alexandre Ventura	Spain	375,000	63
27	8	Xiaoyun Li	China	174,000	29

08-18-2022 02:02 UTC+1

Kayhan Mokri Leads 210 Players as Bubble Bursts on Day 2 of €5,300 EPT Main Event

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Brandon Bloom

Level 16 : Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

It was another action-packed day at the 2022 PokerStars and Barcelona©Casino European Poker Tour as the field on Day 2 of the €5,300 EPT Main Event was whittled down to only 210 remaining contenders by the end of the night.

The record-breaking EPT Main Event starting field of 2,294 players created a €11,125,900 prize pool, and the eventual winner will receive €1,714,000, while the runner-up will also take home a seven-figure payout of €1,027,470.

Kayhan Mokri leads the remaining 210 players by a good margin, finishing the day with a solid stack of 1,303,000 chips, good for 217 big blinds when play resumes.

Brazil’s Marcelo Simoes (1,068,000) recently won the EPT Main Event in Monte Carlo for €939,840, and he was the only other player to bag over a million chips today. He was seen winning a huge pot with boat over boat near the end of the day as he attempts to continue what would be a highly-improbable run in the culmination of another EPT Main Event victory.

€5,300 EPT Main Event Day 2 Top Ten Counts

RANK	PLAYER	COUNTRY	CHIPS	BIG BLINDS
1	Kayhan Mokri	Norway	1,303,000	217
2	Marcelo Simoes	Brazil	1,068,000	178
3	Scott Margereson	United Kingdom	993,000	166
4	Radoslav Stoyanov	Bulgaria	926,000	154
5	Joris Ruijs	Netherlands	879,000	147
6	Sebastian Toro Henao	Colombia	824,000	137
7	Artur Martirosian	Russia	814,000	136
8	Usman Ulhaq	United Kingdom	800,000	133
9	Alexandre Landron	France	775,000	129
10	Catalin Ciurea	Romania	770,000	128

Others who bagged a stack by day’s end include Ramiro Petrone (561,000), Maria Lampropulos (517,000), Seth Davies (480,000), defending EPT Barcelona Main Event champ Simon Brandstrom (473,000), Gaelle Baumann (408,000), Timothy Adams (387,000), Chino Rheem, Michael Wang (322,000), Julien Martini (217,000), Stephen Chidwick (148,000), PokerStars Ambassador Benjamin Spragg (144,000), Johan Guilbert (127,000), and David Peters (36,000).

In the penultimate level of the day, the bubble burst to send all of the remaining players into the money. The payouts were planned to pay the top 327 finishers, but Emmanuel Rouvet, Daan Mulders, and Oliver Bosch were all eliminated on the money bubble, and the trio split the 326th and 327th place prizes to receive €5,907 each.

Those who found themselves without any chips at the end of the day include PokerStars Ambassadors Alejandro Lococo, Sam Grafton, Jen Shahade, Ramon Colillas, and Andre Akkari. Among others who fell were Adrian Mateos, Erik Seidel, Maria Ho, Patrik Antonius, Mikita Badziakouski, Benny Glaser, Kitty Kuo, Sam Greenwood, Sergio Aido, Jason Wheeler, Sofia Lovgren, Uri Reichenstein, Francisco Benitez, and John Juanda.

The action is slated to resume at 12 p.m. noon on Thursday, August 18. When players return, they will resume play in Level 17 with blinds at 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 big blind ante.

Stay tuned as the PokerNews team continues to provide updates until a winner is crowned, along with coverage of other events from the coast of Catalonia at Casino Barcelona.

Tags: Benjamin Spragg Kayhan Mokri Marcelo Simoes