€5,300 Main Event Dia 1b | 2016 PokerStars.es EPT Season 13 Barcelona

2016-08-23 11:34 UTC+2

Francesco Cordua Pressures Thomas Berg

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Thomas Berg three-bet to 1,025 on the button. Francesco Cordua four-bet to 2,550 from the big blind, and Berg called. Berg instantly called a 2,850 bet on the flop and a 5,100 bet on the turn.

On the river, Cordua bet 7,100. Berg snap-decided once again, this time by folding.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Francesco Cordua	42,000 42,000	42,000
Thomas Berg	18,000 18,000	18,000

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2016-08-23 11:51 UTC+2

Sofia Lovgren's False Start

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Sweden's Sofia Lövgren's starting stack of 30,000 has been reduced to just 6,000. According to Lövgren, she saw a multi-way pot with . The flop , with one heart, got checked around. The turn was the . Lövgren's opponent bet 2,000, she raised to 4,800, and her opponent called. On the river, Lövgren's opponent bet 10,000, and she called it off.

Unfortunately for Lövgren, her opponent had rivered a backdoor flush, decimating her stack in the process.

Lövgren is playing in the secondary room, where the following notables also took their seats.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Leo Margets	30,000 30,000	30,000

Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier	30,000 30,000	30,000

Luuk Gieles	30,000 30,000	30,000
Andreas Goeller	30,000 30,000	30,000
Sofia Lovgren	6,000 -24,000	-24,000

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2016-08-23 12:13 UTC+2

Hall Chipping Up

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Here in Barcelona, Cate Hall is making her debut at the EPT circuit. The American lawyer-turned-poker-pro just took a pot off Raoul Refos to chip up some more. On a board, Hall bet 2,200 in a pot of over 2,500, enough to see Refos' hand fly into the muck.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Cate Hall	35,000 5,000	5,000
Raoul Refos	35,000 35,000	35,000

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2016-08-23 12:23 UTC+2

Naoya Kihara Starts with a Smile

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Naoya Kihara is rarely seen without a smile on his face. The jovial member of PokerStars Team Online, who became Japan's first WSOP bracelet winner in 2015 is in the field today and has started strongly.

In this hand Gabor Adam opened to 350 in early position, and picked up four callers. Kihara was seated in the big blind and three-bet to 2,500. Adam muttered something under his breath and folded, followed in turn by each of the four callers. Kihara smiled and double-checked his cards, before exposing the and raking in the pot.

Kihara is up to 40,000 in chips shortly before the first break of the day.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Naoya Kihara	40,000

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2016-08-23 12:31 UTC+2

In The Field

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Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Ondrej Vinklarek	30,000 30,000	30,000
Peter Eichhardt	30,000 30,000	30,000
Mikolaj Zawadzki	30,000 30,000	30,000
Antonio Barbato	30,000 30,000	30,000
Pascal Vos	30,000 30,000	30,000
Pierre Merlin	30,000 30,000	30,000
Johan Gilbert	30,000
Julian Stuer	30,000

2016-08-23 12:38 UTC+2

Break Time

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Players are going on their first 20-minute break of the day. Here are a selection of chip counts from the field.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Gaelle Baumann	62,000 2,000	2,000

George Danzer	42,000 12,000	12,000

Anton Wigg	35,000 5,000	5,000

Darryll Fish	32,000
Shyam Srinivasan	30,000
Luc Greenwood	29,500 -500	-500
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier	29,000 -1,000	-1,000

Xuan Liu	28,500
Jennifer Shahade	28,000

Kitty Kuo	20,000
Liliya Novikova	14,000 -16,000	-16,000

Nível: 3

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 25

2016-08-23 13:22 UTC+2

Chip Counts

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Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Gaelle Baumann	59,000 -3,000	-3,000

David Urban	40,000
Naoya Kihara	40,000

George Danzer	38,000 -4,000	-4,000

Zeus Post	35,000 5,000	5,000
Kees van Brugge	35,000
Dylan Linde	35,000 5,000	5,000
Cate Hall	34,000 -1,000	-1,000
Muskan Sethi	32,000
Thomas Brader	30,000
Raoul Refos	25,000 -10,000	-10,000
Marcin Horecki	23,000
Jonathan Therme	15,000
Sander van Wesemael	15,000 -15,000	-15,000

2016-08-23 13:35 UTC+2

Full House for Dominik Panka

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Polish pro Dominik Panka is seated in the secondary room of the Main Event today and has had an indifferent start. Panka, who won the 2014 PCA and final tabled the inaugural EPT Malta Main Event, was facing a board of . His opponent who was in the small blind checked to Panka, who was in the big blind and the Polish player bet 5,100 into a pot of around 9,000.

His opponent thought for a minute or two before calling, and Panka unveiled for a rivered full house and his opponent mucked.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Dominik Panka	27,000

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2016-08-23 13:49 UTC+2

Players And Counts

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One of the players spotted in the field is Janne "Savjz" Mikkonnen, one of the world's top Hearthstone players. Mikkonen and Jeffrey "Sjow" Brusi, another Hearthstone player, are both invited here by PokerStars.

Although Mikkonen plays with fewer cards than he usually holds in Hearthstone, he is off to a good start and currently sitting on 45,000.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Stieven Razab-Sekh	50,000 50,000	50,000
Janne Mikkonen	45,000 45,000	45,000

Eugene Katchalov	45,000 15,000	15,000
Fatima Moreira de Melo	35,000 2,000	2,000

Steven van Zadelhoff	31,000 1,000	1,000
Jeffrey Brusi	30,000 30,000	30,000

Peter Eichhardt	22,000 -8,000	-8,000

Tags: Janne Mikkonen Jeffrey Brusi