There are more than 40 entries now and the fifth table is almost filled. Among those new faces are Bence Szaszko, Rembert Net and Alberto Flores Trujillo. The latter already cashed in the €220 Opening Event and is looking for another cash here in Casino Barcelona.
Three players invested 3,400 each to see a flop of and among them was also Juan Bautista Mecho Segarra. The Spaniard immediately bet 6,200 when it was checked to him, and that claimed the pot uncontested.
Mecho Segarra is the early chip leader, followed by fellow countryman Samuel Hernandez Ruiz, who forced a fold from Kimmo Kurko in a bigger pot without showdown
888poker ambassador Nicolau Villa-Lobos, Guillem Cusco Bach and Aleksei Istomin sat down over on table 19 and were waiting for players from the other tables to arrive in order to balance the field. The field is growing further and the two biggest names in Patrik Antonius and Michael Mizrachi are yet to register.
On the heads-up turn of , Arturo Espuny Juarez and Catalin Pop both invested 3,000 chips and then saw the appear on the river. That killed off all further action, as both players checked. Pop flashed and Espuny Juarez claimed the pot with for two pair.
Harcharan Dogra Dogra finished 7th in the record breaking and last-ever EPT Barcelona Main Event in August last year, and he sat down over on table 18. 2016 November Niner Fernando Pons joined him there soon after along with Josep Maria Galindo Lopez, and he is also the last of his kind as the November Nine format has been banished after nine years.
If there was any doubt that the guarantee of €50,000, which equals 25 entries, was in doubt, that thought had vanished near the end of level one. With four tables running and most of them full ring, the attendance has grown to 34 entries and another prize pool here in the Casino Barcelona will be far bigger than initially guaranteed.
Joining the action on a flop of , Juan Bautista Mecho Segarra checked out of the big blind and Carl Ohlund bet 1,500. Israel Oliver Carriazo raised to 5,000 on the button and Mecho Segarra, as did Ohlund.
The appeared on the turn and Mecho Segarra immediately bet 10,000. Both opponents folded and the Spaniard claimed the pot.
Table 17 was the first table to open and the following players are on there. This includes Casino Barcelona regular Sergio Alonso Camunas, 888Live Rozvadov Main Event champion Catalin Pop, Ema Zajmovic and William Kassouf.
Peter Jaksland raised from the cutoff and called a three-bet to 1,500 by Gordon Huntly on the button. The duo ended up checking the flop before Jaksland bet the turn for 1,500. Huntly called and then faced a bet worth 3,100 on the river.
That proved to be too much for Huntly and he sent his cards into the muck.