One Day €25,000 No Limit Hold 'em to Bring Out the High Rollers in Barcelona
It wouldn’t be a PokerStars European Poker Tour Barcelona festival without at least a couple of star-studded single-day €25,000 No-Limit Hold ‘em events on the schedule.
The first of two here at EPT Barcelona gets underway at 12:30 p.m. local time, with another field full of high-rolling crushers expected.
This turbo-structured event will start players with 100,000 chips with opening blinds of 500/1,000 with a 1,000 big blind ante, getting them running with just 100 big blinds to start.
Levels are 30 minutes long, with players receiving a 15-minute break at the end of Levels 3, 6, 10, 18, 22, and 26. A 75-minute break is scheduled at the end of Level 11 (approximately 8:15 p.m).
Registration with unlimited reentry will be available until the start of Level 11 (approximately 6:15 p.m.). Maximum late registrants will start with 20 big blinds.
Shot clocks will be in play from the beginning of this event with players receiving six 30-second time extensions to begin play with. They will receive an extra one every odd-numbered level (3, 5, 7, 9 etc).
Players will have 15 seconds to act on their first decision and 30 seconds for each subsequent decision.
With the shot clock in play, an added caveat of the structure will see players found to be intentionally abusing time, deliberately stalling, or purposely slowing down the game to be subjected to a five-second shot clock for all subsequent decision-making.
Last year’s festival saw Felipe Ketzer and David Yan claim prestigious PokerStars ‘Spadie’ trophies along with nearly €300,000 paydays for their efforts in these speedy events.
A €20,000 version of this event was won Wednesday night by Kayhan Mokri, who defeated Sam Greenwood heads-up to take home his second EPT Barcelona title along with €259,646.
PokerNews will be on the floor to bring you all complete live reporting coverage from this and every event at the 20th-anniversary celebration of the European Poker Tour here at Casino Barcelona, so join us for all the action!