Max Greenwood started the day out with a short stack, and he did not managed to mount a comeback. Byron Kaverman told us how it was Haralabos Voulgaris who had raised from the cutoff seat before Greenwood shoved from the small blind.
Greenwood's all-in shove was for about 55,000, and Voulgaris made the call holding . Greenwood was at risk with , but he couldn't hit and was eliminated.
Igor Kurganov opened from under the gun, and Connor Drinan made the call. Viacheslav Goryachev squeezed to 45,000 from the small blind, and Isaac Haxton picked up queens and shoved all in for about 180,000 from the big blind. Kurganov and Drinan folded, but Goryachev made the call with two kings. Haxton failed to improve and hit the rail.
"What do you think is more likely, that I miscounted five times last night, or that something went wrong today?" Ben Tollerene frustratedly said to the tournament staff.
When we arrived on the scene, a dispute was going on involving the high-stakes poker player and the tournament staff. Tollerene claimed he counted his chips at 647,000 before play started. Last night, according to Tollerene's chip bag, the professional wrote that he bagged up 671,500 in chips, and that created a difference of 24,500 chips.
Before play resumed, tournament dealers and staff put the bags in the correct seats after doing the table draw. Then, a few minutes before play began, every bag was to be opened. Players that arrived on time had the chance to open their own bag, but Tollerene was just a few minutes late. The dealer who was present had opened Tollerene's bag, after which she performed a chip race to get rid of the T500 denomination chips.
After the chip race, the chips collected were placed in the well and were still present when Tollerene arrived at the table. The tournament staff explained to Tollerene numerous times that there was nothing they could do, as no chips had left the table after the bags were opened.
Tollerene kept shaking his head in a bit of frustration, believing he had counted his stack correctly the night before. Martin Kabrhel and Patrik Antonius continuously emphasized that the clock was ticking and action must start. With that, play began at the table and Tollerene started out with less than he thought.
Jason Mercier min-raised the cutoff seat to 12,000, and Hassan Fares made the call in the big blind. The flop came , and Fares check-called Mercier's continuation bet of 13,000.
The on the turn prompted both players to check, then a fourth heart popped up on the river with the . Fares checked again, then tanked for a bit after Mercier first a 37,000-chip river bet. Fares eventually called, and Mercier had to table the for not much of anything. Fares showed the and took it down.
Remko Rinkema and Donnie Peters are in Spain for the start of Season 12 of the European Poker Tour, and discuss the already record-breaking EPT Barcelona.
And don't forgot, fans can call in and leave a voicemail for the crew at 774-77-PNPOD.
Registration is open for just a few more minutes, but we can already confirm some new players.
Yesterday's late-night satellite generated five tickets. Andrey Andreev, Andrew Chen, and November Niner Ofer Zvi Stern qualified and will start Day 2 with 250,000. David Peters and Connor Drinan also won tickets, but they already had stacks in the event from Day 1 (497,000 for Peters, 474,500 for Drinan), so they received €50,000 in prize money.
On top of that, JC Alvarado and Martin Kabrhel have reentered after busting yesterday, and Vladimir Troyanovskiy also joined right before registration closed.