2023 PokerStars EPT Barcelona

€1,100 Estrellas Poker Tour Main Event
Day: 1f
Event Info

2023 PokerStars EPT Barcelona

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
k8
Prize
€676,230
Event Info
Buy-in
€1,100
Prize Pool
€7,102,080
Entries
7,398
Level Info
Level
42
Blinds
1,000,000 / 2,000,000
Ante
2,000,000
Players Info - Day 1f
Entries
936
Players Left
141

Diego Bags Day 1f Lead in €1,100 Estrellas Poker Tour Main Event

Level 18 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante
Petar Kalev
Petar Kalev

Play has concluded for Day 1f of Event #1: €1,100 Estrellas Poker Tour Main Event here at Casino Barcelona during the 2023 PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona with Marcos Diego emerging as the chip leader after bagging 767,000 in chips through 18 levels of play. In a distant second is Aristidis Theodoridis with 595,000 and rounding out the top three is Bulgarian poker pro Petar Kalev, who ended with 518,000.

Kalev is a regular in Europen Poker Tour events and had his largest cash to date after getting seventh place in the EPT Prague Main Event last year for €164,750. Kalev steadily built his stack throughout the day and is well-positioned to make another deep run.

€1,100 Estrellas Poker Tour Main Event Day 1f Top Ten Chip Counts

PlacePlayerCountryChip Count
1Marcos DiegoSpain767,000
2Aristidis TheodoridisGreece595,000
3Petar KalevBulgaria518,000
4Dorin OmilescuRomania512,000
5Vincent PahonSwitzerland504,000
6Lukas HafnerAustria495,000
7Lorenzo SupraniFrance487,000
8John FarrellIreland486,000
9Quentin LaugtFrance470,000
10Anh DoCzech Republic454,000

Play began on Day 1f with 335 entrants, and by the time late registration ended, that number had swelled to 936. As with all starting flights, play concluded for the day after the field was reduced to 15% of the total entrants (141 players). The Day 2 bubble burst in dramatic fashion after Jeongwoo Lee rivered a Broadway straight against Mykola Serhiienko. All the remaining players have secured a min-cash for making it to Day 2, and the amount won (so far) will depend on the total number of entrants across all starting flights.

Team PokerStars Pro Irene Albarran also earned a Day 2 berth. The poker coach and Twitch streamer, who often goes by "Frogy", bagged up a respectable 146,000 and will be looking to secure her largest live-tournament cash to date.

Among the less fortunate were Michael Wang, William Kassouf, Stephen Song, Dan Heimiller, Ren Lin, and Dara O'Kearney -- all of whom busted out before the end of the day.

Any players who didn't make it to Day 2 still have two more flights available on Thursday, August 23 starting with Day 1g at 11 a.m. local time. Day 1h, which is the eighth and final flight, will begin at 6 p.m. All the surviving players from all starting flights will convene for Day 2 on Friday, August 25 at noon.

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Tags: Alberto SupraniAnh DoAristidis TheodoridisDan HeimillerDiego ThielkeIrene AlbarranMichael WangPetar KalevRen Lin