€10,200 Mystery Bounty | 2024 PokerStars EPT Barcelona

08-27-2024 12:51 UTC+1

Frankland Doubles Up Through Ju

Matt Warburton

Level 13 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Samuel Ju raised to 18,000 from middle position and Mathew Frankland moved all in from late position for 108,000. Ju got the count and then made the call with the bigger stack. Players flipped their cards.

Mathew Frankland: J♥J♦ All in
Samuel Ju: A♣Q♠

The board ran out 6♥3♥9♦3♣9♥ and Frankland held with his pocket jacks to double up his stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mathew Frankland	225,000 95,000	95,000
Samuel Ju	140,000 -11,000	-11,000

Tags: Mathew Frankland Samuel Ju

08-27-2024 12:42 UTC+1

Haverstad Cracks Queens to Win Bounty

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Matt Warburton

Level 13 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Jim Collopy moved all in from late position for 67,000 and Thomas Haverstad flat called in the small blind. The big blind folded and players turned their cards, with Collopy at risk.

Jim Collopy: Q♦Q♥ All in
Thomas Haverstad: 4♦3♥

"Three-four my friend!", said Ren Lin.

The board ran out 5♥A♥4♠4♥3♠ and Haverstad made trips on the turn and a full house on the river to crack Collopy's queens, sending him to the rail and claiming his mystery bounty token.

"What the hell! Three-four hits full house. You are genius!", said Lin.

At other tables, Julien Sitbon and Boris Kolev were forced to surrender their boutnies as well.

Player	Chips	Progress
Thomas Haverstad	540,000 160,000	160,000
Jim Collopy	Busted
Julien Sitbon	Busted

Boris Kolev	Busted

Tags: Jim Collopy Ren Lin Thomas Haverstad

08-27-2024 12:42 UTC+1

Dickerson Shoves Big, Eliminates Lonis

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Frank Visser

Level 13 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Jules Dickerson shoved all in from middle position, covering the entire table.

"Are you serious?" Jesse Lonis asked in the seat next to him before calling off his stack of 250,000 chips. The rest of the table folded as the pair showed down.

Jesse Lonis: Q♦Q♣ All in
Jules Dickerson: A♦2♠

Dickerson spiked an ace on the 3♣8♣A♥ flop to take the lead, besting Lonis' queens on the 7♠6♣ runout.

"So that's why they do that," Lonis laughingly remarked as he handed over his bounty and took his leave.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jules Dickerson	825,000 265,000	265,000

Jesse Lonis	Busted

Tags: Jesse Lonis Jules Dickerson

08-27-2024 12:33 UTC+1

Updated Counts

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Frank Visser

Level 13 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Jules Dickerson	560,000 44,000	44,000

Boris Angelov	460,000 147,000	147,000
Sven Andersson	381,000 61,000	61,000
Thomas Haverstad	380,000 60,000	60,000
Elias Gutierrez	350,000 33,000	33,000

Alexandre Raymond	335,000 172,000	172,000
Fabiano Kovalski	333,000 4,000	4,000
Thomas Lee	330,000 136,000	136,000
Boris Kolev	330,000 128,000	128,000
Aleksei Savenkov	320,000 105,000	105,000
Thomas Fjellheim	311,000 71,000	71,000
Santhosh Suvarna	310,000 165,000	165,000
Andrew Chen	308,000 208,000	208,000
Jesse Lonis	282,000 -38,000	-38,000
Erik Seidel	253,000 53,000	53,000

Pieter De Necker	250,000 90,000	90,000
Marcelo Bonanata	220,000
Sven Stok	205,000 -35,000	-35,000
Dean Lyall	202,000 -48,000	-48,000
Ren Lin	195,000 59,000	59,000

Cristian David	195,000 -100,000	-100,000
Scott Margereson	186,000 -14,000	-14,000
Jareth East	170,000 70,000	70,000
Sam Greenwood	165,000 -10,000	-10,000

Yuan Li	152,000 -39,000	-39,000

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Level: 13

Blinds: 4,000/8,000

Ante: 8,000

08-27-2024 12:14 UTC+1

Hartigan Talks Player Dynamics and "Holy Shit" Moments as The Big Game on Tour Returns

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Sandra Barbour

Level 12 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

It's official. After its return in 2023 following a 12-year hiatus, PokerStars has confirmed that The Big Game on Tour is back again this year, with more episodes to be filmed at the NAPT Las Vegas festival.

Ten episodes of the show were filmed last year, with the likes of Phil Hellmuth, Maria Ho, Lex Veldhuis and Sam Grafton all taking part. The show features a lucky Loose Cannon who receives $50,000 and has to survive 150 hands playing $50/$100 with a table of poker pros, ambassadors, and celebrities.

PokerNews spoke with Big Game on Tour judge and commentator James Hartigan ahead of the show's return, and he says he's thrilled the show is back.

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08-27-2024 12:05 UTC+1

Break to Set Up Bounties

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Frank Visser

Level 12 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

The 38 remaining players have been sent on a 25-minute break, during which the mystery bounty desk will be made ready.

08-27-2024 12:03 UTC+1

Ishibashi Runs Into Overpair

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Matt Warburton

Level 12 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

Thomas Haverstad raised to 12,000 from late position, Samuel Ju three-bet to 55,000 from the small blind, then Dai Ishibashi went into the tank before shoving for around 90,000 from the big blind. Haverstad moved all in over the top for over 200,000 and Ju folded to leave two players to flip their cards.

Dai Ishibashi: 9♠9♣ All in
Thomas Haverstad: J♥J♠

The board ran out 4♠10♠5♦2♥3♠. Haverstad held with his pocket jacks to win the pot, while Ishibashi was eliminated from the tournament.

Player	Chips	Progress
Thomas Haverstad	320,000 120,000	120,000
Dai Ishibashi	Busted

Tags: Dai Ishibashi Samuel Ju Thomas Haverstad

08-27-2024 12:00 UTC+1

Dickerson Grows Lead by Eliminating Kobayashi

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Frank Visser

Level 12 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

Jules Dickerson opened under the gun, after which Hirokazu Kobayashi jammed all in for roughly 165,000 from the hijack. The action folded back to Dickerson, who snap-called.

Hirokazu Kobayashi: 5♠5♦ All in
Jules Dickerson: K♠K♦

Kobayashi caught some bad timing as he was dominated by Dickerson's higher pair. Dickerson made a full house on 3♥3♣Q♦10♠K♥ to send out Kobayashi while Sonny Franco and Elton Ostreni were eliminated on other tables.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jules Dickerson	516,000 103,000	103,000

Hirokazu Kobayashi	Busted
Sonny Franco	Busted
Elton Ostreni	Busted

Tags: Elton Ostreni Hirokazu Kobayashi Jules Dickerson Sonny Franco

08-27-2024 11:52 UTC+1

Payouts Announced

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Matt Warburton

Level 12 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

The payouts for the Mystery Bounty event have been announced. The total prize pool is €413,600 and the top 13 places are set to be paid at least a min-cash of €8,300. The first place prize is €110,400.

Mystery Bounty tokens come into play at the end of Level 13.

Place	Prize
1	£110,400
2	£71,200
3	£50,800
4	£39,100
5	£31,300
6	£25,000
7	£20,000
8	£16,000
9	£12,800
10 – 11	£10,200
12 – 13	£8,300